Davinci Resolve Tutorial - The very basics of Davinci Resolve

[@ianbaguley3118]

I made my fist attempt to use the all new version 11 yesterday. I'm truly excited by the things this software can do. This tutorial is so nicely narrated and covers all I need to know to get me started in the simplest and most direct way. Great tutorial. Thanks:)

[@ANigerianPrince]

This is fantastic! How am I JUST now finding your channel. I've been looking at resolve tuts for over a year now. Life fav as. Subscribed!

[@gable]

I've watched this a number of times but this time it all finally clicked! Thank you so much!

[@deleeuwalexander]

Thanks for the tutorial man! Very common for people assume that the viewer knows exactly how to get certain things, even if they are as simple as selecting your media. You made everything very clear. Thanks for that. I hope to be making a lot of short films soon after mastering this software.

[@MAY-st6hw]

Very helpful, thanks. Also, your voice is pleasing. With lots of cool expressions.

[@MrNickHolman]

Great tutorial Theo. I like the self deprecating tone. "Gross" ha. I'm going to binge on these davinci videos. Good work dude!

[@sarahcoeurnelle7642]

Hi! Thanks for this, it's great. One thing though about the noise reduction. Noise isn't only a thing that's there in production (so as you said: if you don't light your image, it's gonna be grainy). But noise also arises while compressing, that's why they have the noise reduction :) Have great day!

[@sahitanand]

Wow. This tutorial should win an Oscar.

[@VoidUnderTheSun]

Your voice is really pleasing to listen to.

[@shawn6170]

UnderTheSun i actually thought it was siri the whole time

[@MEGAMIND23]

I thought it was siri too, no offt

[@MEGAMIND23]

*Offence*

[@mackuss]

Wow, really nice video, dude. I feel like I'm being taught by someone in the business, so to someone like me, it really helps. Thanks for making this. Would love to see tons more of different things to do in Davinci.

[@zechariahwhite1049]

this is one of the most quotable videos ive ever seen

[@phant0mdummy]

This was a great tutorial. All the basics I need to get up and running. I'm going to run some test footage through davinci and do some color grading. Subbing and coming back to see what else you got. Hopefully more solid tutorials. Thanks, dude.

[@3RDEYELOVE]

Thanks.. this vid was very easy to understand unlike the Resolve 12 manual

[@Gallacherboy]

Man that was a clean easy video, thumbs up!

[@briantorsell]

Thank you for the great introduction tutorial for Davinci Resolve. It reminded me a little of a Video Copilot tutorial; humor mixed with learning.

[@obsidianwing]

Thanks for this Helpful tutorial.Iam note total Beginner with viedo software, but this is some kind of porsche for me.But now im thankful i heard of this, i needed a affordable solution for cuting /edit my amature videos and nothing big more, the most programms to big or expensive for my needs , this here is big /Complicated but overall its nice to handle.The most of this i will needing in a hobby video editor way. But on the other hand its good to learn more if i want.

[@jrbadet]

Thank you...thank you for this video..finally...I have understood the basics...

[@pauljacobde]

I love your humor!

[@8o8inSquares]

Thank you man, I am choosing you as my teacher for davinci.

[@simongentry]

works REALLY well with xavc and raw mxf files - and of course importing EDL from premiere - must remember to have all the clips already in the media pool - thx Theo

[@recopilacionessdelomejorde9295]

very nice...i startes soft soft learning.thank you so much....

[@markimoo1446]

I love your voice! Thank you for this tutorial!

[@hestoncrowne5158]

this is f amazing thanks bro. please make more video on creating specific looks

[@Miesnermedia]

Thanks friend! Expect one soon!

[@Miesnermedia]

MiesnerMedia Vintage Look in Davinci Resolve and your request has been granted ;)

[@mathisarnell8351]

Fantastic tutorial thank you so much. I'm grading my next client's project on Davinci for the first time, finally making the switch from AE. Is there any way to export in Prores from Davinci? I'm working on PC like you. And say I have one really long clip with many different scenes in it, how do I make adjustments to just certain parts of the video without it affecting the entire clip?

[@anthonymannwexford]

Thanks for the tutorial. Really helped. Looking forward to more from you..

[@olusolaadeaga]

Hello theo, I have been a great fan of yours since the first tutorial I watched from you long ago. I have been using resolve for a while but I really like to know how to get grey looking looking grade with some saturation fill on it just like the one blackmagic has on their site. I would have loaded the image if I could send it to you.

[@Harvex]

Thanks so much! Helped me out tons! :)

[@DasalteLagerVFX]

thanks man... helped me to get in to that sugar piece of software!

[@XSquibX]

Could you reexplain a little bit of what you are saying around 16:10 ? I tried rewatching this segment on compression several times and I'm still not sure what you are trying to say haha Maybe I don't know lingo words, but it just didn't make sense to me. What I've been doing is rendering from Davinci in as close to the original format as possible (usually Pro Res). I would then bring that into Adobe Premiere... thoughts?

[@kevini5043]

thanks for the tutorial! i have a shot with a window in a coffee shop. I shot it in raw on the BMPCC and although the highlights are very bright they havnt clipped yet. What is the best way to bring the window down in a natural way without darkening the interior shot of my actress too much?

[@cainKuri]

Thank you so much.... help me to understand the basic, really do the job your video !!! amazing !!!

[@kuttychattan1]

whaoo excellent..thanks for all your videos

[@Verolinens]

Thanks for the instruction. I wanted to ask if you had any thoughts on my issue. When I render the end product has skips in it as well Davinci also messes with the length of the video, my sound track no longer is synced with the video. I have 12 Gig's of RAM so there should be enough horse power. My graphic cards likely sucks I have an Intel (R) HD Graphics 4600 & a NVIDA Gfource GTX 760M - II know nothing about Graphic cards. Thanks in advance.

[@Fernando.Vivanco]

AAAAAAAAHHH YEAAAAHH!! FINALLY, I GET IT... why people makes color correction so damn complicated, this is it!!

[@ChicanoPhotographer]

Is there a video comparing the various (3) versions?

[@AI3Dorinte]

thanks for the video, was really helpful!

[@angkormonkeytour2681]

That's great !!! could you tell me how can I use this programe then I just want to use internet together? if I go to internet or other programe in one time so I have to shut this Davince first... any recommend? Thanks

[@JakeRyanH]

Do you have to use nodes if you just want one general color correction?

[@JevoKitano]

Very entertaining - thank you.

[@amateurtech736]

Very helpful! Thanks.

[@Jamel56]

Thank you very much for this tutorial, really usefull.

[@johnsprague1678]

Great video and thank you for posting. However, why can I not drag my media clips into the timeline in edit? Thanks.

[@SAndSPictures]

John Sprague because you can't. he said that one minute into the video... (1:16)

[@nrnoble]

First off, Thanks for the tutorial video. Love the comment "Its sucks for everything, except...." Which I have verified to be true with the Beta 12 I downloaded. After about 60 minutes I gave up because I could not get the software to see any of my videos.... Too many other decent non-linear editors out there to be spending so much time trying to import clips, and not be successful. Thanks again!

[@garynoble7738]

Solid Surname Neal

[@crazycarmal9792]

im having the same problem

[@cjlin1965cj]

Hi, do you know about processing headroom? when you increase audio I/O processing block size for processing headroom adding.... as new features guide of resolve 15 mentioned...

[@jamesdemitrivideos]

Great tutorials! I wanted to ask. I have some canon 6D footage, that I have imported and color graded in davinci resolve studio 12. also used "color">"output blanking">2.35 option, and it has created the letterbox for that aspect ratio. What I ant to do is export the video edit in 2.35 aspect ratio or size/crop but without the black bars on top and below. How do I do that??? It is driving me crazy! lol! Can anyone help with that?

[@Hexspa]

What mic are you using for voiceover?

[@steffen7084]

Hey! Where you have These nice Clips from ?

[@HazeAnatomy]

great tutorial. hey, my Viewer section of my user interface is so Small. it like it to be the same size as yours of course. that would make my grading so much more simple. Any ideas on what I should do? Im working on a 27 inch monitor...

[@Miesnermedia]

Thanks Bud! In the middle left side of your color workspace there is a little button that looks like a picture frame. Click on this to close your power grades and you will be good to go. You can also click and drag between the viewer and the node editor to change the size of either window. -Theo

[@MicoFromYT]

thanks for the help:D very helpful!

[@danielfadavi]

Seems like the perfect editer

[@KhalidAlShammiry]

no excuse from not using it.... beside ignorance hahaha

[@ipresent]

+Khalid Al-Shammiry (SeeKay) And then he says it sucks for everything except color grading and exporting.

[@Miesnermedia]

+ipresent resolve 12 has actually fixed a lot of my complaints :) It's pretty neat. -Theo

[@UPSBHenryS]

+MiesnerMedia I was wondering, since i'm using the free version of Resolve, so i think it's more than likely the same right? While using Resolve, i've found out that some of the editing panels goes beyond of my screen and i really cannot reach that or preview anything at that preview, can you tell me how do i let Resolve fit to my screen so that i could see everything about my project? Thanks for even reading this btw, thanks

[@navidfiroozanimation]

Hi, what is your computer's config?! Its working well! I have a good imac but still lot of problems. Please write your config down

[@zoranmacakanja8034]

ty for really nice tutorial!

[@Avidcomp]

What version of Resolve is this? I noticed you said that the Edit is not as good as PP/Avid/FCpro. Regarding the latest version of Resolve 11.x What are the areas where Resolve Edit is "not as good" as the other leading NLE's? Genuine question as I'm just starting out on this one.

[@hanscharles]

Hey Theo, this is a great tutorial. But I can't seem to add a timeline in the Edit window. I have no "+" button. I've looked everywhere. I've reset the UI, changes the resolution on my monitor and still nothing. Any suggestions? I can send you screen shot if need be.

[@Miesnermedia]

Thanks! Good question. The newest version doesn't have that handy plus button, so I just use the keyboard shortcut "Control N" on windows or "Command N" on a mac. -Theo

[@richc7191]

btw how do you adjust the sizes of the window inside resolve? its anoying that your workspace is limited specially on color panel cant move the panels

[@arnaudvanloo750]

Quick question! At 5:54 you change it so that the image is larger, but I don't know how to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[@XSquibX]

+Arnaud van Loo I don't know if this helps, but if you hover your cursor over the image and then scroll your mouse wheel in or out, it zooms in or out. Also, if you go up to "view", you can find a few different modes which make the image window bigger (or full screen). I'm using Davinci 11 Lite, so hope this is helpful for you..

[@karl-filipkarlsson7329]

Hello! iam looking for the best export setting to premiere. iam trying different and it give me color shift or loosing cotrast. what is the best RAW export setting you recommend after a finished Color grade in DaVinci Resolve? :) thanks in advance!

[@AkaLuuk]

I like the sound you make with your tongue when you are searching for something 3:43

[@nicklaytonUK]

Like a wedding thing.....love it

[@tinanguyen1963]

Thanks for a really great tutorial (y)

[@repasiv]

1:10 already made my day "the software basically sucks for everything except coloring and rendering"

[@deleeuwalexander]

Question: You said that you may have to convert certain video files. Would AVCHD fall under this too? or is that a whole different thing? Thanks!

[@Miesnermedia]

Great question! Yes AVCHD would be something that you would want to convert to prores or DNxHD in order to get the best performance out of Davinci Resolve. Thanks! Theo

[@RandallsRestRelaxation]

Thanks THeo!

[@josecasper8717]

I find the best compromise between size, quality and compatability in davinci resolve (im using v.14) is mp4. With the software I end up using the .mov container, but as long as the format is mp4 it works like a charm...fast, good quality as long as you don't recompress over and over. The final format can be h264 to upload to youtube, but h264 is not great for working inside of davinci. (dnxhd...and the others are just way to big of files).

[@Allthingslife101]

You sound Exactly like Jonathan Morrison! Like EXACTLY.......

[@Miesnermedia]

Looked him up. you just blew my mind

[@Allthingslife101]

lol... wait ... you mean to tell me you aren't him!!!????

[@finnknappe2488]

+Tzvika Wasserman LOL HAHAHA

[@datukevznwede6043]

What video card do you suggest for reslove 11?

[@hzqsyhmi]

im search for simple edit just cut and put some music.what sofware you prefer?

[@fintuspoops526]

In your opinion, do you think it is more difficult to use than Sony Vegas and Premiere Pro?

[@glennsak]

Spot on Dick Cavett impression!

[@shubham5565]

I just wanted to know what is your pc configuration and specifically gpu

[@Erzhil]

Awesome! Great thanks!

[@ken444444]

For covering the very basics, the video blows through the edit screen. There is no mention of transitions or navigating the timeline or things like that.

[@Kendallrxss]

for some reason I can't see the "edit" button at the bottom of the screen, its driving me crazy!!!!! I can't get pass any steps beyond 3:10. it looks like the bottom of my screen cuts off????? and Im using my 15'' macbook pro

[@Miesnermedia]

Try going into "windowed mode" view > user interface layout > show window frame

[@DAS-Videos]

How do I get my .MTS videos to appear in media pool?

[@ericknorpp8238]

Anybody know how I can move the image around when zoomed in on a video? Is there any kind of Hand tool or something like the peace bar in photoshop when your zoom in on a video clip? I read on a 3 button mouse you hold the button down but I have a Magic mouse from apple? Would appreciate any help. Thanks!!

[@imdoingajourney]

Hi I have a problem. When I start to watch the preview of my clips from my Media Pool, they don't play in original speed but with the audio and speed haltingly. Why? What can i do? I can't edit the video if I can't watch properly the preview

[@ZeekStreet]

Pietro Comes I'm having the same problem my friend it's freaking annoying ugh

[@eduardoherrera1974]

Can I draw doodles on each frame of the animation?

[@maidxxxxxx]

Hey, I can't find any of the files in need to import in the media storage ;-;. I'm using .avi and .mp3 files, which I doubt wouldn't be supported, but they just don't show up and the inability to drag into Resolve means that I can't just put them in. Have you any ideas as to what to do?

[@maidxxxxxx]

UPDATE: I'm now using .mov and .wav. It recognises .wav, but for some reason the .mov file doesn't show up even though it did for you.

[@albertovazquez7065]

how do I get the V1 preview videos ? upper level on the wheels? mine does not show.

[@aboalsof2530]

Hello, I worked the same way because the videos and pictures are not visible in the folders. What should I do? Thank you

[@UserName_Enter]

"There is no excuse to not use besides ignorance" ily

[@rnbsteenstar]

Hey, is a black magic camera required for this? Or not?

[@ishankmahale5393]

Laura Guerro No,its not required. :)

[@yesfilmfestival]

Thank you very much.

[@alex123888]

I didn't know Mr Robot was making DaVinci tutorials

[@SilentSparck]

how do I add music?

[@theanimator108]

can you load image sequences into resolve instead of video and then export as video when done editing?

[@Miesnermedia]

Yes you can!

[@ChinweOkorie]

MiesnerMedia HOWWWWW

[@theanimator108]

***** Its really easy! Of course you have to have all the images of your image sequence in a folder, then load the folder into the library of your Resolve project, and then just double click on the folder!

[@TheResonating]

what do you mean macbook pros dont like it? So if I downloaded the lite version, would it not work well with my 2014 MBP and final cut 7? Cause this would be a great solution to make my videos look nice without having to spend tons of money on camera and lenses that I cant afford

[@XSquibX]

I don't know if this is helpful to you at all, but I have a 2014 mbp retina (as I assume you do) and I had a really annoying time setting up davinci. I just installed it today.. The issue is with the sizing of everything. The program was essentially unusable with my screen's resolution set to anything other than the max resolution. If it was anything other than the max resolution, the program hung off the sides of the screen, which was only fixable by fiddling with some silly settings. However, that only let me resize the program to fit my screen, but then everything inside the program was still oversized. areas in the program were hidden because they didn't fit and all that was there was extremely huge and annoyingly, I wasn't able to resize it. I changed my resolution to the max size and it seems to have fixed everything. Moral of story: only use max resolution on your retina when using Resolve.

[@XSquibX]

ps: some things are still annoyingly large and the size is unchangeable, but no features seem to be hidden when in max resolution.

[@TheResonating]

i see what you mean, sorry for the stupid question haha

[@XSquibX]

Not stupid in the slightest :) Just hope what I said was helpful and made sense...

[@JudihWeinsteinHaggai]

thanks. Getting close to the bird looking at the iceberg!

[@nishatsayyed8326]

how to eliminate noise from screen recorded videos????

[@CardfightEmpire]

So if I'm recording video on my iPhone 7 and the original file is at 32 Frame Rate /s before putting it in Davinci Resolve, the video changes inside of Davinci Resolve to 30 frame rate / s which throws off the sync of my video and sound. Any way to fix that?

[@Miesnermedia]

Hey Cardfight, You can change your frame rate by going to the media pool: right click your clip>clip attributes> video frame rate. Just curious. Why are you shooting at 32 frames per second? -Theo

[@joshgamehead]

MiesnerMedia I'm cardfight but idk I shoot videos on my iPhone for youtube and I don't know any better. Could you possibly teach me how to not shoot at 32 fps. When I import videos from my phone to computer davinci it changes them to 30 fps and then the video and sound aren't synced. How do I fix this lol. It's very frustrating not knowing video editing at all

[@Miesnermedia]

Good news! Apparently this was a known issue and is addressed in the Davinci Resolve 12.5.4 update. -Theo

[@FlyingPotatoesTV]

What are your specs? I'm pretty curious xD

[@SaminColour]

Hi, I can't seem to access any of my hard drives or disks when I open Resolve so can't access or import any media - and have no idea how to import a new library so I can browse for files. Any tips on what the problem might be?

[@ThaiXiongXiongvfx]

you have to restart resolve for your library to update :)

[@SaminColour]

I've closed/opened multiple times. How do I restart Resolve (if that is the issue)?

[@Miesnermedia]

Sam_inColour have you taken the steps at 1:39 in the video to add drives?

[@KkunalShinde]

thank you sir....

[@lakmal1st]

thanks. best one

[@mohamedtoubal8041]

Is it possible to download this software from the Internet?

[@greenp9389]

yacine toubal yeah they have a free light version on their website

[@winstonchurchill8300]

What are your background-cubes symbolising in a postmodernist sense?

[@Miesnermedia]

Great question Winston, I'm glad that you asked! To me it was a material personification of the dualistic struggle between being and the consciousness of being specifically exploring the possibility of a self nihilation in the relation of the "is" and the consciousness of "is". There is also a clear undertone of the psycho-phenomenological-parallelism a needs hierarchy, but that is really more of a subset of the overall act of minimalist expression. -Theo

[@Vivily12]

I added my file and nothing come out only that stupid "master" and "smart bins" WHAT ARE THOSE!?!

[@dhruvgajjar4953]

Can a Dell Inspiron laptop or Dell XPS 15 laptop be able to run it

[@daoquang900]

XPS 15 runs this like a beast though, it won't even use half of the laptop power lol

[@channo786]

Need your thoughts: Picked up your great workflow Tips. Q: When Exporting to High Quality Back to Premiere OR FCPX, What Render settings would you choose? Let's say I use 5D Mark II camera that Recordings were 1856 x 790 24fps? Should you choose QuickTime ProRes 422(HQ) Or Tiffs Or QuickTime RGB 8b OR DNxHD 720p xxxxxNumbers I'm not even sure which one to choose from? What are the differences? Please Note: My Target location of video is only Web to Vimeo or KZbin. So I only shoot at 24fps or 25fps PAL. Further, At what point do you integrate After Effects into your pipeline workflow? Do you use Dynamic linking for that? Also, If you ARE going to use AE for final touch up, Do you mainly Export for web from this application instead of Premiere? Thanks Awaiting for your thoughts and suggestions.

[@Miesnermedia]

Hey there! I typically choose DNxHD 8bit 175 for my export settings. Since you are delivering for web I would recommend QuickTime RGB 8b. You can then render with your interesting pixel dimensions. The differences in the codecs are kind something that I would recommend testing for yourself, but pretty much when you get something that works well for you you stick with it. Especially if it isn't your final render and you are shooting with the same camera. For the web workflow you should re import your exported clip from resolve into premiere or FCPX and use that for your final render since resolve's lossy compression renders (h.264 and mpeg which are what you want to upload) are garbage. Then also you can have your graphics and mixed audio in premiere and don't have to deal with them in resolve. For the After Effects workflow I render out from AE and bring that into premiere (i am not a huge fan of dynamic linking for visual effects and when i do mograph stuff i don't want those to clutter my color workflow) then export my xml of the locked edit from premiere into resolve. Soon I will have a whole series where I go through a real world music video project that covers editing, some small visual effects, coloring, and graphics. That will have my entire workflow covered. All the tutorials are recorded and I am just waiting for the agency to release the music video before I upload the tutorials so be sure to subscribe in order to be able to get your questions answered in depth. Thanks! Theo