All language subtitles for 5 Little Video Editing TRICKS that make a BIG Difference! - Davinci Resolve Tutorial

How many times have you heard the saying

it's just the little things that matter
the most?

Well, I don't know about that
in terms of video editing, but I do know

five little tricks
that when you add them to your videos

will make a big difference
in the overall quality of your video.

So all of that. Stuff and more coming up.

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But let's get into it.

So the first trick I have for you.

Guys is all about making.

Your titles and your logos and brand names
that are overlaying.

Footage stand out and look awesome.

So this example.

Right here, I have.

My normal text
overlaying this footage of a beach.

Now they both look really cool
and all that jazz, but it's not clear.

You could go ahead.

And add stroke to the.

Title so that it just pops out. More.

But it just doesn't look as nice.

What you can do
instead is go up to the effects library

and click on the open effects.

Menu right here.

Then we're going to grab that.

Gosh and. Blur
and drag it onto our video layer.

So now you can see that it actually.

Blurs the background.

Ever so slightly,
but you can also see that it creates.

This black border.

Around the edges of her footage.

And we really don't want that
because it looks ugly.

So to fix this in our Inspector tab,
you'll see that there's an open effects

tab that popped up.

Click on that
and you can see the different settings.

For the gosh and blur.

So go down to border type and change.

It from black to replicate.
And then I'm going to.

Increase the strength of the blur.

By using these. Sliders right here.

So that done.

It helps the total stand up better.

But if you just want to really focus in
and make that title

look all kinds of beautiful,
then I got you.

So what we're going to do
is switch back to the video.

Tab right here and drop the.

Opacity down to about 75%.

This is going to darken
the footage behind the text.

So now our text stands out way more.

And if.

You really just want to add
that glassy look.

To your text.
You can click. On your text layer and.

Then in the video tab, change
the composite mode from normal to overlay.

And this is going to make that text
look all glassy and stuff.

So the second trick that I.

Have for.

You is all about adding some life to video
that is either locked off

and not moving at all.

Or if you.

Want to use a picture in video making that
look lively because let's all be honest.

Here.

Looking at a video
with no movement is so boring.

So what we're going to do.
Is image inspect or tab.

We're going to go down to the dynamic zoom

and we're going to open it up by double
clicking it and then just hit this little.

Switch right here. Which enables it.

So now you can see that
we have two options here.

We have dynamic zoom ease
and we have swap.

So when we hit swap.
It's going to reverse the way.

That the movement is going. Right now.

It's actually zoomed in
and slowly moving backwards.

Then when we hit swap, it's
going to go from wide angle to zoomed in.

So you just have to choose the direction
that you want to move.

In this example, I want to move
from a wide shot to a more zoomed in shot.

Then we have this. Other.

Option called dynamic Zoom Ease.

Once we've picked the.

Direction of our.

Movement, I'll go ahead under dynamic,
zoom ease, and I'll hit ease out

because I want it to be fast
in the beginning,

but then slow down and ease out
so it looks all smooth and stuff.

Now let's just say you just don't like
how far it zooms into the shot.

We can fix that.

So right here. On the.

Left,
we're going to hit this dropdown arrow.

And we can go and select dynamic Zoom.

So this green box is where Zoom begins,
and the red box is.

Where our zoom. Ends.

So I can change the overall zoom
distance. By grabbing. The.

Corner tabs right here and dragging them
out or in or whatever the heck.

You want to do with it.

So for me, I'm just going to make this
a really subtle movement

by taking the square and making it just a
little smaller than the beginning square.

So this works for all. Kinds of. Shots.

It works for video, picture,
whatever you want.

Just adding subtle
camera movement like this can take a.

Boring picture.

And make it look just better.

Now, moving on to.

The third trick that I.

Have for you,
which is a pretty common one.

Reframe your shot.
If you have bad. Framing.

This will make. Your.

Video just look so much worse.

But we can also use reframing

to hide jump cuts to make our video
look a little more seamless.

So in my timeline,

you can see that I have a relatively wide
shot of these two girls.

Who are about to take. A selfie.

Now, it's not a bad shot. It looks good.

But if I really just want to focus
the viewer's attention on these two.

People right here, rather than.

Anything else going on in the background,
I can go ahead and reframe the shot

by clicking on the inspector tab,
and then I'm to go ahead and zoom in more

so it creates a. Tighter frame.

Then use the position X and Y to recenter
the shot and frame it better.

And as I said earlier, another thing
that we can do with reframing is hide cut.

So what I'm going to do
is make a cut. Right here.

And then move forward a few seconds
and make another.

Cut here.

Delete this middle section
and put our clips back together.

Now, when we watch, you can see. That
there's a pretty hard. Jump cut.

So to hide that, I can go ahead and.

With this first part selected,
if I just reset to.

Zoom and reset to position
and I want to watch it over, you can see

by changing the framing,
it actually just hides that cut so much.

Better. And makes it look.

Overall more. Seamless as if. There was.

Just a second camera. There.

So now your fourth trick to improve
your videos.

Has nothing to do with video.

But rather.

Audio, because audio plays a huge part
in video with sound.

You have music. Background.

Noise, you might have voiceovers and all
of the other stuff that could be in there.

So what we're going to.

Do is something called sound ducking.

So the overall idea of sound ducking
is being able to smoothly adjust volume

at multiple points in a single audio clip.

So to do that on any audio clip
that you have,

there's this little line
you can see right here.

And when I hover over it, my cursor.

Becomes these little two. Arrows
right here.

This line can control our volume.

Find the point that we want
audio change to.

Start.
We're going to hold. All and just click.

Now you can see that a little dot appeared
and that's a.

Keyframe right there.

And now move forward a little

and drop another keyframe
where we want the volume change to end.

Now what we'll do is
grab this second ending.

Point right here and drag or audio. Down.

And you can see that between those two key
frames.

It gradually.

Fades the volume. To the right level.

If you really just want to fine tune
your volume,

you can go up here to the inspector tab
and under clip volume

you'll see that right now
we actually have a keyframe selected.

So if I hit this arrow button, it's
going to just move to the next.

Keyframe and.

Then you'll see that it's at -17 decibels.

We can grab our number
and just drag it around.

And really fine tune
that audio transition.

And now if we want to bring the volume
back up, we can do the same exact thing.

We can also just hit the diamond bond
right next to the clip volume and add.

A keyframe.

At the beginning point
and then move forward a little and.

Bring it. Back to zero.

And you can see that it auto keyframes.

So this works really well
for making sure that your music.

Doesn't get too loud.

Or if you're doing a voiceover,
making sure that your.

Volume is low enough to where.

The voiceover is not. Lost in the music.

Another thing you can
do is if you listen. Here,

you can hear that our volume.

Comes in and. Starts right out.

Full blast and kind of like in your face.

So we.

Can grab this little tab right here
and drag. It in to add a little fade.

And then we can also do the same thing
at the end.

Here.

So that it really just lets them down
gentle, you know?

And honestly,
I would just do this for the video too,

because it just looks nicer to have the
video and audio fade out simultaneously

and so now moving on to

my fifth and final trick, and honestly,
this one is not little at all.

We're just going to dip our toes
into sound design.

Now, sound
design is a huge topic in and of itself,

so we're not going to go
super deep into it right now.

But for those of you who don't know,
the idea of sound design is adding

sound effects to your video clip
that weren't originally there.

It just. Enhances.

The way your video.

Looks, it enhances the way it sounds.

And it just it just it's so nice to hear.

So on the timeline, you can see that
I have a waterfall

and there is no sound at all.

But in my media pool I downloaded a few
sound effects from art list.

And if any of you are interested in an art

list, I have some links in the description
that give you two free months

with a one year subscription,
so just check that out.

So anyway, I'm just going to drag down
the waterfall sound effect that I.

Have right here. Onto the timeline.

And if you listen to.

What you're going to hear.

That it is definitely a. Waterfall.

But it is pretty loud.

So we can go ahead and drag
down the volume to about -19.

And that just makes it sound.

Better and more natural.

And secondly,
this video clip also shows a forest.

So now I'm going to go ahead and grab

the sound effects that it has, like,
you know. Forest.

Sounds and.

Birds and.

Bugs and all the other stuff and add it.

Below our first. Sound effect.

And once again, I'm
just going to go ahead and quiet this down

because you don't want sound effects
to take.

Priority over your video.

They should be subtle so that they don't
take the attention off the video.

Anyway, there you have it.

Five little tricks that will make a big.

Difference in your videos.

So if you have a trick

that I didn't mention in this video,
let me know in the comments below.

And also,
if you thought this video was helpful,

give it a like and also share it
with your friends so that they can.

Improve their videos. Too.

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