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0:00if you want to edit shorts and reals but
0:01aren't sure where to start then this
0:03video will guide you through the exact
0:05step-by-step process inside Da Vinci
0:07resolve I'll show you how to set up your
0:09project format your clips for vertical
0:11video add captions and Export with the
0:13best settings let's dive in you got to
0:16just press record hey welcome back to
0:18think media so to start off we want to
0:19make sure we have all of our footage in
0:21one place and organized anytime that I
0:24start a new edit I like to create a
0:26folder for that specific project so here
0:28I have this title ulanzi lm19 which is
0:32this little LED light that I will be
0:34creating a short about if I click inside
0:36of this I have a footage folder clicking
0:39inside of that again I have an a roll or
0:42my talking head video and then my b roll
0:45it's important to have this organized
0:46from the get-go as it's going to make
0:48our editing process a lot easier which
0:50brings us to the second step and that is
0:52to open D Vinci resolve and set up our
0:54project so go ahead click on the D Vinci
0:56resolve icon and wait for this to load
0:59with that opened up we now want to
1:00create a new project for our videos so
1:02we'll go down here click new project and
1:05we're going to give our project a name
1:07and I'll just type in the same ulanzi
1:10lm9 short and I'll click create now that
1:13we created a new project inside the
1:15Venture resolve want to turn your
1:17attention to the bottom of the screen
1:18where there are these different tabs
1:20there is a media folder go ahead and
1:23click that and from this page we can
1:25actually import the footage for this
1:27project and the easiest way to do this
1:29is just to to go down to your finder and
1:31we're going to bring in this footage
1:33folder right over here into this left
1:35corner underneath the master and if we
1:37do that that keeps all of our footage
1:39nicely organized in the folders we
1:41previously created next we want to go
1:43down to the edit page and click on that
1:46and now we can start importing our
1:47footage into our timeline on top left
1:50corner of the screen we have our footage
1:52folder and then inside of that we have
1:54our a roll and b roll I'm going to start
1:56clicking on the a roll and we're going
1:57to edit our a roll first before we even
2:00bother with b roll just yet so what
2:02we're going to want to do is drag in our
2:04a roll into our timeline just by
2:07clicking here and we'll just drag and
2:09drop and now we have our video in the
2:12timeline as we can see I recorded this
2:14for about 10 minutes or so and we're
2:18going to want to chop this down to be
2:19around 60 seconds but before we start
2:22chopping up our video because we are
2:24making a vertical short we want to
2:27adjust our timeline settings to create a
2:29vertical video you'll notice that this
2:31little timeline one icon has appeared
2:34and this is our timeline file and we
2:36want to adjust the timeline settings so
2:39what we're going to do is right click on
2:41that icon go down to timelines timeline
2:44settings and this is where we can change
2:46our timeline settings to be vertical so
2:49what we want to do is go down here to
2:50the bottom and uncheck use project
2:53settings and then the next thing we want
2:56to adjust is go right under timeline
2:58resolution and click on use vertical
3:01resolution go ahead and press okay and
3:04as you can see in our little preview
3:05window this will give us a vertical 9
3:08by6 aspect ratio again organization is
3:12key with any project so what I'm going
3:13to do is put this little timeline box
3:16into its own timeline folder to do that
3:19you can click anywhere here on the
3:20folder right click click new bin which
3:23is just resolved way of saying new
3:25folder and we can call this timelines
3:28and just drag and drop that into there
3:30and I can even move this timeline folder
3:33right under master and so if I click on
3:35the master folder I got my footage my
3:37timelines all nicely organized with our
3:40project now properly set up we can now
3:42begin to edit our short or real and to
3:45do that we want to go down here to the
3:47timeline and we want to cut out all my
3:49bad takes all my mistakes I make during
3:52this reel so we get a nice concise video
3:55playing back this video there are three
3:57times I make a mistake before the last
3:59take is actually good so we want to cut
4:02everything else up to that point and
4:05what I can do is just kind of go down
4:07here to the end until this little icon
4:08appears I can click on that and I can
4:11trim right up to that top corner now I'm
4:15going to undo this because we're so
4:17zoomed out it can be hard to tell when
4:19we actually want to begin so we can
4:21actually zoom into our timeline using
4:23this icon just kind of scale that up and
4:27this will allow me to get a lot more
4:29specific specific with how I want to
4:32where exactly I want to start the video
4:34so that is the perfect start to the
4:36video now this is the point I want this
4:38clip to end so we want to actually make
4:41a cut so I can go down here to this
4:43blade tool and then click on right there
4:46on the video right where my timeline
4:48header is and that will perform a cut
4:51right there now you also want to click
4:53on this Mt Gap and go ahead and press
4:55delete and that will actually make it
4:57start with the video rather than it
4:59being on a black screen so I'm going to
5:01go through this video Until I make
5:03another good take which is right here I
5:05want to make another cut again you can
5:07click the blade tool and select it or
5:10you can use command B the shortcut and
5:12it'll make a cut right there then you
5:15can reach down and press this video clip
5:17on the left press delete and then press
5:20a delete again on that empty Gap and now
5:23I can play these two clips together and
5:25it will be relatively seamless without
5:27all that empty mistakes in the middle so
5:29I'm going to do this throughout the
5:31entire video cut out all the mistakes in
5:33my video and we should get a nice video
5:36that is roughly 60 seconds long if you
5:38find this process super tedious I don't
5:40blame you it does take a long time
5:43that's why I'm super thankful for
5:44today's sponsor gling with gling I can
5:47take any video that I am talking to the
5:49camera drop it in and it's going to
5:52automatically process and remove all the
5:55bad takes and silences in my video so
5:57right here on this screen you can choose
5:59whether whether you want to cut silences
6:01bad takes remove filler words I like to
6:03leave these three things selected and I
6:06click enhance and edit once the video is
6:08finished processing this is what it
6:10looks like in all this gray area is
6:12where it automatically detected a
6:14mistake I made and cut it out just
6:16leaving the good takes the other thing I
6:18love about gling is I can edit my videos
6:21kind of like I would edit a Word
6:22document so there might be a few
6:24mistakes that gling didn't catch I can
6:26just go over here click this scissor
6:28icon and boom I've made an edit so
6:30having done very little with the actual
6:32editing of the a-roll I am ready to
6:34export out this video so I clicked on
6:36the export button and we could export
6:38this as an mp4 if you want to go that
6:41route I like to make a few additional
6:43edits inside the Venture resolve so
6:45let's click on resolve XML from here
6:48we're going to give our file a name so
6:49I'm just going to type in ulzi short and
6:51put gling in parentheses and we'll go
6:54ahead and save that into our project
6:56folder as you can tell I'm a pretty big
6:58fan of gling I love how it's speeds up
7:00my workflow and if you want to get
7:01started for free I'll leave a link in
7:03the description down below where you can
7:04sign up in order to import that file we
7:07saved from glean let's go ahead to file
7:10import timeline and we're going to go
7:13here to our file which has all of our
7:15projects in it once that's imported we
7:17want to give our timeline a name so I'm
7:19just going to type in ulanzi short
7:23gling import that so as you see we have
7:26a new timeline here and this is all the
7:28cuts made for is giving us a 42 second
7:31short again because I decided to record
7:33this as a horizontal video that I'm
7:35going to turn into a short we want to
7:38change our timeline settings again again
7:41we want to uncheck to use project
7:43settings click on use vertical
7:45resolution and press okay and if your
7:48footage is showing up like this instead
7:50of filling up the entire vertical video
7:52we can click on the inspector Tab and we
7:55can go over to zoom and we can just
7:57scale this up until we fit the full
7:59frame here I can then click command C to
8:03copy that effect and I can select all
8:06the other Clips press option V and click
8:09on this video attributes all of them
8:12will be just fine for this click apply
8:15and that will apply the effect to every
8:16single clip in our timeline and if you
8:19happen to be slightly off frame like I
8:21am for this clip again you can adjust
8:23the position settings I can just move
8:25that over to left so I get nice and
8:27centered this is one benefit about
8:29shooting in a horizontal and making it a
8:32vertical later you do have that
8:34flexibility to move it around okay now
8:36that we finished editing our a-roll we
8:38can now begin placing our b-roll the
8:40first step in placing your b-roll is
8:42listening through your a-roll footage
8:45and if you have a section where you have
8:47shot b-roll or need to go shoot b-roll
8:49what I'm going to do right here I talk
8:51about if you don't have enough light
8:52when you're filming with your phone I
8:54want to show off an example of what that
8:57would look like in a dark scenario so
8:59I'm going to go down here to my Boll
9:01setting and I have a clip right here and
9:06let's scroll through this I kind of
9:07recorded it all at once so right here is
9:10when I talk about not having enough
9:12light so in order to just import this
9:15section into our timeline what I'm going
9:18to do is Click I on the part I want to
9:20start the
9:22video I turn my head I'm going to click
9:24o and now down here I have two different
9:27options to import this I can just click
9:29anywhere on the screen and that will
9:31bring in its video and audio that might
9:35be helpful in some cases but for this I
9:37just want the video cuz I have my good
9:39audio on my aoll so let's go down here
9:42and click this video only clip we'll
9:44just drag and drop it right where we
9:46want it again we can scale this up using
9:48this slider and now we can get a little
9:50bit more fine-tuned on where we want to
9:52place this only to realize that you
9:53don't have
9:55enough with your phone only
9:59let's say only to realize your phone
10:02only to realize that you don't have
10:04enough
10:05light I can extend this a little bit
10:07more I can bring this back again I'm
10:09just using the trim tools a video with
10:11your phone only to realize that you
10:13don't have enough light well that's
10:15where this ulanzi magnetic selfie light
10:17comes in handy and I think that's
10:19perfect for our first clip now this
10:21first Boll shot was using my phone and I
10:23was filming that vertically so it all
10:25lines up perfectly however for this next
10:27b-roll shot I actually have it
10:29horizontal so again we want to just
10:31scale this up right so we don't see any
10:34black bars and you can actually adjust
10:36this little viewfinder too I notic a lot
10:39of people will kind of not fill the
10:40frame you see like these little skinny
10:42black bars at the top so just make sure
10:44that is nice filled in like so and then
10:47you can always reset this by clicking
10:50fit and I can play this back but if your
10:53phone doesn't have mac safe they
10:54actually come with a little magnetics
10:56and that's perfect as you notice where
10:58I'm placing these be is usually at the
11:00junction between these two separate
11:02Clips if you can hide that jump cut seam
11:05it's going to make it feel a lot more
11:08professional as if you did it in one
11:10take by some miracle so as you can see I
11:12have a jump cut right here so I'm just
11:14going to grab my next b-roll example and
11:17right here just click
11:19i o drag that video right on top of that
11:23and go ahead use that as well the cool
11:26part is you can use it for both filming
11:27with the back cameras or flipping and I
11:29want to show this a little bit longer
11:32cameras are flipping out to get some
11:34great selfie lighting and then when I
11:36mention the selfie lighting again I want
11:38to see that example and I'll do the same
11:40thing drag and drop flipping out to get
11:43some great selfie lighting so as I'm
11:45going through and placing Boll I
11:47actually want to show two different
11:49clips at the same time and kind of do a
11:51split screen effect so here are my two
11:54different shots I have one with no
11:56lighting and one with lighting what I'm
11:58going to do is just kind of drag these
12:00one on top of the other and what I can
12:02do is select the clip up top and I
12:04canjust my position by grabbing up this
12:07y slider and I can adjust the height
12:11then if I go down here to the cropping I
12:14can actually open up this tab and I can
12:16crop the bottom off it's about the
12:19Midway point there select on the other
12:22clip and just drag the positioning down
12:24a little bit lower and I'll just go back
12:27and forth and adjust it till it's about
12:30right and that is a very easy way to do
12:33a split screen effect if you want to
12:34show multiple frames at the same time so
12:37that is my b-roll plac one thing you'll
12:39notice is right here I actually don't
12:40have a b-roll shot covering this but one
12:43thing you can do is if you do have a
12:45jump cut is you can go to the next clip
12:48and you can actually just scale this up
12:50a little bit more and this will kind of
12:52make it feel like you're shooting with
12:54multiple camera angles so if I play this
12:57back handy this thing is super these it
12:59just flow a little bit better it also
13:02helps too that I have a product I'm
13:03showing and if I cut away doesn't really
13:05feel too jarring all right so we got our
13:08a roll in our b roll place this is
13:10basically what I would classify as a
13:12rough cut now it's time to add some of
13:14that special seasoning what I mean by
13:16that is adding some text so for this
13:18shot in particular because I have a
13:21split screen showing two different
13:23options side by side it'll be important
13:25to label them so people know what
13:27they're looking at so to add text to
13:28your video video we're going to go all
13:29the way to the top here and click on the
13:31effects panel and we're going to type in
13:35text and we can just pull in this simple
13:37basic text and just drag it right on top
13:41we can trim this up to the side so it
13:43fits nice and neat in this text box we
13:45can type in let's say no light and then
13:48I can adjust the font the size the color
13:52anything I want to I'm basically going
13:53to scroll down and find our think media
13:57font which is helvetica with our font
14:00selected we can adjust the sizing and
14:03then we can scroll down here and adjust
14:05the positioning so that appears right
14:08where we want it so I think that looks
14:10pretty good now I want to create a new
14:12text file for the bottom clip and one
14:15quick way we can actually just save some
14:17time is to duplicate this so I'm going
14:19to hold down option and select and drop
14:22this and that will duplicate that clip
14:25and now I can change this text so I'm
14:26just going to type in eloni lm9
14:29and again let's adjust that positioning
14:32be right around here one thing that is
14:35super important when you are creating
14:37reels or shorts is making sure that you
14:39don't have any text that's being cut off
14:42because a lot of these platforms have
14:44tons of little icons that appear on
14:45screen so I found this YouTube short
14:48overlay just on Google so I'm going to
14:50use this to make sure I don't cut
14:53anything off so I'm going to make a
14:54little bit of room here I'm just going
14:56to reach down for this middle bar so I
14:58can have a little bit more room up top
15:00click this drag it above everything and
15:03let's just stretch that out as you can
15:06see with that overlay sure enough the
15:08ulanzi text is a little bit cut off so I
15:12actually want to adjust this and maybe
15:15I'll even put the text slightly above or
15:19I might even have to just fully adjust
15:21my image that's why it's really good to
15:24know what platform you're on and what
15:27are the overlays that might affect your
15:29video now at any point in editing you
15:31might actually want to get rid of this
15:33so you can actually see what your video
15:35will look like so one thing you can do
15:37is just right click on this file and we
15:40can actually click enable clip if I
15:43uncheck this it will disable it so this
15:45will show what the video looks like
15:47again you can have a keyboard shortcut
15:49for this mine is set to D so I can just
15:52toggle that on and off so I know that my
15:54text is not going to be cut off or I can
15:56turn it off and see what my video will
15:58look like all right so we added text for
16:00that specific shot but you might
16:02actually want captions throughout your
16:03video well fortunately denture resolve
16:06Studio has a great caption feature in
16:08order to create captions what we want to
16:10do is go all the way up here to select
16:13timeline create subtitles from audio and
16:16I'm just going to leave this at the
16:18default settings click create it's going
16:20to take some time to initialize and
16:22transcribe our video so take a cup of
16:25coffee get a little break before we come
16:26back to this
16:29[Music]
16:30all right so now a subtitle track has
16:32appeared above our video and if I play
16:34this back as you can see the text
16:36appears on screen so we can actually
16:39dial this in a bit further because
16:41chances all their default doesn't quite
16:43look good so one thing we can do is we
16:46can go over here to the subtitle and I
16:49like to adjust this by the track because
16:52I want to get all my text in the proper
16:55position so I can adjust the scale of
16:58this I can change the font perhaps and
17:02that's going to apply to every text File
17:05versus if you were left on caption it's
17:08only going to change that specific one
17:10so now if I play my video back have you
17:12ever gotone to film a video with your
17:13phone only to we have some very basic
17:16captions on screen and I think these
17:18work really well in a pinch one thing
17:20you might notice is all these empty gaps
17:22one thing I do like to do is just kind
17:24of extend those out so there's always
17:27captions on the screen you can always go
17:29in here and adjust each caption
17:31depending on how many words you want it
17:34so you can really get exactly what
17:36you're looking for but I think for
17:37pretty much default settings these look
17:39pretty decent with the a roll the b roll
17:41and now our captions on our video the
17:44next step is to add in some music for
17:46this video I pulled a song I liked from
17:48epidemic sound I'm just going to ahead
17:50and drag that into our project again I
17:53can create a new bin called music drag
17:56that in there keep it all nice and and
17:59organized now we're going to bring this
18:01music into our timeline so I'm just
18:03going ahead and drag and drop and the
18:06first thing we'll notice if I play this
18:07back well that's where this ulanzi
18:09magnetic selfie the music is just a
18:12little bit too loud so we want to do is
18:15click on our music track go up here to
18:17the volume if you don't see this page
18:19make sure the inspector is clicked on
18:22and we want to go down here and lower
18:24the volume way down I recommend starting
18:27at -30 for this particular track I set
18:30it to -37 and this is a good volume so I
18:33can hear myself clearly but adds just a
18:36nice little bit of ambient so we have a
18:38nice flow to our video when you're
18:40editing a short or real one thing you
18:42want to keep in mind is the fact that
18:44shorts and reels Loop so having the
18:47right music that is nice and will loop
18:50on its own or there is one trick that I
18:53do like to use one thing I'll do is grab
18:55onto the music kind of bring this first
18:59section in like so and then let's cut
19:02the end off our video right
19:05here just click command B delete I will
19:10duplicate this
19:12track right next to it so it just fits
19:15right on the other side I'll bring this
19:17clip
19:18forward and we'll fade this on both ends
19:23what will happen is the track will fade
19:25out and it will introduce the beginning
19:28of the the video so you have a much more
19:31seamless audio Loop in your video and if
19:34you want D Vinci resolve to preview your
19:35video as a loop what we can do is Select
19:38o on our timeline at the end of our
19:40video select o and then I'll go and
19:43press this little icon right here if I
19:46play this back we should get a nice loop
19:48our favorite gear for making better
19:49content have you ever got to film a
19:51video with your phone not too bad with
19:53the music now set at the right volume
19:55and giving it a little bit of a loop we
19:57are now reached the last last and the
19:59final step and that is to export our
20:01video now before we go to the deliver
20:04tab one thing we want to make sure we
20:06have set in the edit tab is our in and
20:09out points so I like to make sure that
20:12the out point is Right aligned with the
20:14last bit of the video you can just
20:16select o on your keyboard and that will
20:18create an outpoint and then at the
20:21beginning of your video just make sure
20:23it starts at the very beginning that way
20:26you don't have any empty space before
20:28before and after your clip now you don't
20:30want to skip this step because there are
20:32some very important settings that we
20:34need to change before we save our video
20:37let's go ahead and run through these up
20:39top we have the file name so again let's
20:42just type in eloni
20:44lm9 short and then I'm going to choose a
20:48location and I recommend saving this to
20:50the exact folder that we created earlier
20:52but I like to create a new folder called
20:55exports click create and we'll go ahead
20:57and Save you want to double check and
20:59make sure that the render is set to
21:01single clip for the format I like to
21:03leave this at quick time in the codic
21:06h.264 for Mac you can also do MP4 if you
21:10are on Windows as we go down to
21:12resolution you can see this is set to 4K
21:15in vertical you could change this to
21:161080p if you prefer that you just want
21:19to make sure that you have used vertical
21:21resolution set and for the frame rate
21:23you want to make sure this matches what
21:25you recorded on camera so for me I was
21:27shooting 23 3976 or 24 frames per second
21:32if you are shooting on your phone
21:33chances are you're probably shooting at
21:3530 frames per second for the rest of
21:37these settings I'm going to leave by
21:38default now there is one really sneaky
21:41setting that I often Overlook and I
21:44wonder why does my video have no
21:46subtitles if you have the same issue go
21:48down to subtitle settings export
21:51subtitle and change the format to burn
21:54into video this way your subtitles
21:57actually appear on on your video just
21:59take you a moment to double check and
22:01make sure that all your settings match
22:03what is on screen the very last step we
22:05want to do is Select add to render q and
22:07then click render all and
22:10congratulations you edit a short inside
22:12to Vinci resolve I hope you guys enjoyed
22:14this video and if you're interested in
22:16learning how to speed up your workflow I
22:18highly recommend checking out the gling
22:20tool again I've used it for every single
22:22think media video that saved me a lot of
22:24time so click the link in the
22:26description if you are interested in
22:27learning more advanced tops topics when
22:28it comes to editing like color grading
22:30and sound design then check out this
22:32video right here

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