Hi Casey, thank you for your hard work and dedication in helping so many people around the world navigate the complex world of video editing. Your videos have helped me a lot. Every time I have an issue, I pray that your name comes up in the search results. And time and time again, it has. For that I'm truly grateful.
Right?! Ive been editing "backwards" this whole time... making the footage what i like, then struggling with timing audio and filling gaps. I think this is the biggest take-away for me!
@@RachelsArtDesk I create video tutorials and they are really perfect only when I start with voiceover. Ideally with the final version and then build everything around it. Maybe @CaseyFaris might do video about different approaches, their pros and cons. I'm still convinced I work "upside down", but it just works for me.
Well this absolutely came out at the perfect time! Will be recording and editing a video when I get home tonight and it'll be my first edit in resolve. Start the good habits right away! Thank you!
Brilliant, I’ve been plodding through DaVinci Resolve for two years and have become passably proficient with the basic fundamentals, but there’s always something that still surprises me when I go through your basic videos. Love the zombie touch by the way.
Casey, your vids are so top notch. Thank you. I've learned a ton from you and know I will continue to learn more. You asked in your video how we'll be using your content. I'm working on a YT channel right now that will feature "modern day treasure hunting" (rockhounding, thrifting, geocaching, natural beauty, etc.) and I feel like your vids are these little (or sometimes huge) gems of treasures that I keep finding in my process. So, thank you for that! I sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks Casey, it's helpful to see how someone else breaks down of the creation process. Interesing to think about building the video around the VO as a base. Definltly going to experiment with that process. Thanks, keep making this kinda content! (along with everything else you do!)
Thanks so much Casey! My channel focuses on breaking down games from a design perspective, and sharing design thoughts after my 20 odd years in the industry. Honestly I’ve used your videos from day one to learn how to edit. Thanks so much.
Great video, I learned a bunch of ideas that I think will speed up my workflow! Previously I was editing the sound and zoom-ins of my videos in one go, but I think it would be faster now to do them in 2 separate passes. I actually wonder if you could make a video explaining a workflow for making this video itself (a screen recording with PIP and zoom-ins). Some questions I have are: - How to record webcam and screen at the same time to different files? Currently I just bake in my PIP to the desktop recording with OBS. - Faster workflows for zooming in on desktop elements - Maintaining resolution when zooming in Thanks!
What is working great is using a sidechain - compressor on the music audio, so it ducks down everytime you talk and the volume is above the given thresshold. It saves a lot of extra work.
I'm a relative newcomer and have got a work flow I've created over the last few months. This video has a load of great tips that I didn't even know about from all the tutorials I've watched! Top notch.
Super helpful and timely; thank you, Casey! I’m a long-time pro photographer only recently venturing into video (after a couple of false starts in years past). I’ve committed to a couple of projects in the next 30 days where I’m going to need to be handling multiple video, audio, and voiceover tracks, and this sensible, intuitive approach that you’ve taught here has me feeling much more confident in my ability to deliver.
Thanks for the helpful video. I've just finished my PC and got DaVinci Resolve finally. Been about 15 years since I did any editing but looking forward to getting back into it with some projects I have planned.
Companion commentary from one who edits non-YT stuff: 2:25 Watch your footage actively with an editors mind. What emotion gets evoked? Where does this fit in the story? In addition to sorting, I tend to start a selection process as well. All the best parts of the B-roll gets cut to a timeline. Another workflow is to use markers on the footage for the juicy parts. 5:56 Rather than bringing the VO to the timeline and then thinning, try putting it into the source viewer and insert the parts via In/Out points. (Edit->"Switch to Timeline after Edit" should be off). J,K,L scrubs. I,O selects, F9 inserts. Save trimming for a second pass in trim mode, for efficient rippling. A lot of time is saved because you won't swap back and forth between listening and trimming. In short: build up, don't thin down. Internalize the VO story by listening to it. 10:10 I'd save sound passes for later and just make some quick adjustments this early in the process. Picture might change a ton of stuff around. 13:24 This is where a selection process helps you recognize/remember which B-roll clips you want. Build the story out of your best takes. This project has VO and Music, so the sound should be a guide on the rhythm and pacing of the video. 16:11 Always move the project forward. If you watch the timeline you already have, you want to do some kind of trimming along the way. Endless rewatching without action adds up, quickly, because your timeline tends to grow. Alternatively: take notes. 18:05 Add a Text+ title as a "cue card" placeholder for the graphics until you can replace it with the real deal. Small cue cards sprinkled throughout an unfinished timeline can help with flow and pacing. 23:21 Expect to spend 50% or more of your work on getting audio right. A lot of editing decisions are driven by audio, either from the VO/Radio-Edit or the Shot itself. Be scientific: use the meters. I tend to dial dialogue at -10dB peak and music at -15 or -18. This gives you a ton of mixing headroom, and resolve can loudness-normalize on delivery. Compression can help level the loudness on a track so it's easier to control. 24:42 Get each track nice in isolation first, then begin focusing on the mix. Dialogue leveler late means you have to redo all your volume manipulation. Same with Compression. You probably want compression on the track rather than the Bus, such that you can adjust the compression individually for each voice.
I want to make travel vlogs. It’s going to be my first time using Davinci Resolve. Your video is so helpful. Now.I am intrigued with fusion too . Thanks a lot!
hey @casey you should definitely try sidechaining in your audio workflow. it fully eliminates the need for cutting and ducking the audio. what it does is basically listen to the channel of your voice and the more amplitude it receives the more it silences the music. you can do this with compression and even with selective frequency. for instance automatically lowering the high and mid frequencies the music depending on what frequency yyour voice takes up, so that it allows for the music and your voice to blend masterfully letting each one to be perceived at full volume. if ou already knew about sidechaining and prefer to do it by cuting and manual ducking thats also cool. love your videos.
Fusion scares me! I hope you can make me understand it. I'm a very basic and beginner video creator. I'm going to check out some more of your videos. Thank you!
What a great video! I was going crazy with the dialog vs music volume - until you went into Fairlight. That was when it became listenable (for my 66yo ears that have issues with frequencies above about 800hz). It seems to me so many Movies and TV shows have the background music far to loud to allow the dialog to be easily heard - at leas5 for me.
Hey Casey, great video and your kids are so cute!! I was just curious if you knew that you could sidechain compress your dialogue to the background music in the dynamics section. This will duck the music every time you talk. You’ve taught me SO MUCH so just tryna give back haha
I plan on making some gaming videos and videos in general as well all on my UA-cam channel going to be watching your channel and positing and learning thanks for the tips appreciate it!
So much great info in this video. Could have done without the zombie stuff but the rest of the video is fantastic. Thanks for all the info you give us, Casey!
This. Amazing video. I will be taking away so many points from this video. My workflow has been so ass about and janky I will be making many changes. Thanks so much for the help. Awesome video as always.
Great tutorial, Casey. I've been editing for a while so most of this was just a refresher, but there were a couple of things I didn't know. Also, I would love to see a video on multicam workflow in DaVinci. Last year I used DR to edit an entire 90-minute multicam recording of a musical and while it started off good, it eventually got to be a mess and took me twice as long as doing a similar project in Premiere Pro. Thanks!
@CaseyFaris if you were doing a traditional YT video, like this one, would you just add your Aroll with the audio track, then go through cutting it up as if it were a VO track?
First & foremost i'd like to just say I love your Channel, Everything is Always Easy & Straight to the Point while remaining in Depth Thanks for all your work! I Am creating DIY Music Channel for Artist who don't know where & how to start, while also teaching them the Music business side of things to get them started as Professional as one can Present themselves when getting started ! & Lastly a Small Tip, I'd Recommend Looking into the Cameras Lens instead of your Second Screen to Connect with Us fans better it'll definitely go a long way ( A TIp I Picked up from the UA-cams Gods Aka those who Teach The Subject Matter ) Hope this helps & again Thank you for the Great & Valuable Information you always provide us with ! 💎
I would definitely NOT delete all the empty spaces in those voice overs. Those empty spaces are just a good way to know where a take begins/ends. When it's all bunched together it's much harder to tell. Deleting the empty spaces just seems like a huge waste of time. Keep the empty spaces, work backwards on the timeline; your last take is usually the one you want and you can delete any previous/repetitive takes
This highly depends on if you do one take per recording or if you do all your takes at once. By the time it gets to the timeline, I already know it was my best take or have a note on which two or three takes I am combining. I find that having the takes cut up makes it easy to splice in the better take than wasting time. It's like creating lego pieces you can snap together instead of tying knots. Really, I think it depends on your workflow leading up to that point and that both methods have their merits.
Hello! Thank you for sharing. I need your help with creating a B-roll. I have filmed everything in 100fps, but now I want to add some parts of the video that are at normal speed, as well as some parts that are in quick motion. Could you please guide me on the best way to achieve this? Specifically, I need to know how to blend all of the different speeds from one clip that was recorded in 100fps. Your expert advice on this matter would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Just a simple and fair question about the audio. Why not use sidechain ducking between music and other tracks vs raising and lowering the volume manually? Is there some benefit to doing it manually?
How do you start out with your clips? If I have an hour of footage but only need five minutes sprinkled throughout would you cut that up into clips export then bring it in? Or Are you clipping the video in this same project?
Hi Casey 👋 Thanks for the informative video. With regards to making proxy’s, am I correct in thinking this isn’t necessary if media was shot in 1080p and between 30-120fps? Apologises if this is a silly question, I’m still pretty new to the editing game. Thanks!
Hi Casey and thank you for all your brilliant tutorials. I did a 3 weeks trip last year in French Polynesia and ended up with hundreds of footages and then realized my 3 cameras were not at all aligned on the same time (one was Paris time, one on summer hour and the last on local time !). Quite hard then to build a linear story ... Any trick you would know to go around this situation once the dammage in done ?
When I use ripple cut, it's only usable when I only have one track. If there are more tracks like video+audio, it affects both, even if I don't have them marked. Am I setting something wrong somewhere?
No thats a thing. I usually lay things out in one track to do the ripple cutting. After all that is done you can throw the clips on different tracks etc.
Hi. Very nice video. Im trying to learn so have a question. Why you did not do the color grading before aranging the video? I'm planning to use videos from 3 different video sources like gopro,sony cam and iPhone on raw format. So should I be color grading before or after arranging everything and finishing the cuts and pastes ? Also I'm trying to do the sound last but you started first vith the sound. I'm also trying to understand the reason. Thanks for your ,ind answer in advance. (I'm trying to edit cooking videos by the way)
You could do that, but when you get more detailed you may find you're fixing things in color that you eventually cut out of the edit. Otherwise... If it's just overall grades, sure you could do it first. Sound too, you can do that at any point I guess, but it's nice to do it at the end when things are mostly there. Same reasoning actually. Only get detailed on things towards the end of the workflow or you may polish thing a that eventually don't make the edit. ;)
I like what you did but I wish you would have shown a talking head video example. Something where you have to sync the audio and video together, put Broll on the talking head etc. I’m coming from FCPX so DVR is a new animal to me.
@@CaseyFaris Yes but I meant your workflow that includes syncing. Coming from FCPX DVR has a completely different workflow. I usually color grade at the beginning before cutting. Audio I do in Logic Pro then transfer to FCPX….its so different with DVR. It would be nice to see basic workflow for talking head videos.
@@CaseyFarisI had this exact question - if the VO comes from a talking head with video, do you still do the same audio-based cut workflow? Maybe marking bad faces as b-roll needed? Does anything else change? Love your stuff.
I wish Davinci had a quick way of making in and out points and hitting a key to make it a favorite and store it under "favorites" or a Bin like FCPX does. That is like one of the only things always holding me back from moving to Davinci. I can blaze through my clips hit I/O hit F with out even stopping and then review or see just those clips I chose and then make my timeline off those "selects". How it is with Davinci there are too many extra steps to do that. Does anybody have a good work flow or tutorial to get as close as possible to doing something like that? I cannot find any good tutorials explaining that kind of workflow. Most people just hit I/O and throw it on the timeline which seems so backwards and clustery. Thanks
shame about the audio quality in the zombie scenes ... what about some echo cancellation? Everything else looks so professional, and then the zombie scenes just seem meh ... despite amazing acting by the Zombies of course :)
Lol, "proxies are a little tiny video" um, no lol, my original footage is 491 MB, the proxy generated is 3.91 GB, doesn't sound so tiny to me lol Edit, the original is a short 4K clip, the proxy is reduced to 1080p so not sure what the heck happened in the proxy generation to gain that much data
Preset fps to match the fps u shot ur video in BEFORE u import ur clips into the media pool. Its just easier that way i find lol. But im a noob... so stop reading this and listen to someone who actually knows something
I rarely watch videos with music in the background when there are vocals. I can understand it if you're doing vlogs, but tutorials, no. It's just lazy and causes issues for people who have hearing/audio problems.
Interesting take. I don't make very many "real" tutorial videos, but when I do, I still include music like my other content. Not because I think it's obligatory, but because it's stuff I genuinely like as a musician and strive to use it as an enhancement rather than a distraction. I totally agree with you on hating the super generic mind-numbing crap some people use, especially if it's too loud or used at inappropriate times. THAT is absolutely just lazy filler material and I usually click off. But I think when done right, it can be quite classy! UA-cam's auto subtitles have got really good lately for Deaf audiences, and when you use proper volume and especially frequency carving with EQ like he mentioned, the vocals remain crystal clear for HOH viewers.
Hi Casey.. I need your help..I just came back from a trip recorded myself and found out that few of my video clips have a terrible audio peaks which sounds like robots..Can you please send me your email so that I can share a sample so that you know what I am talking about.. I have been trying to find a fix on internet but unable to do so..Currently I use Davinci resolve 18.6
I do about 90% of that. Nice to see that I am doing it right. Regarding pauses in audio...I do not get rid of as much because I do highly technical videos and the pauses I do have allow folks to ponder a technical term, formula, ...letting the point sink in for a moment before pressing on. I do not want to "steam roller" my viewer with too much, too quickly.Oh ... and the color card in this video is in the wrong place. It pops in some seconds after you announce it. Just sayin'
Hey Casey, There at 23:40 where you start cutting the music to dip with the voice over. That can be automated by sidechaining the Compressor under the dynamics section of the mixer. Press the send button on VO compressor and listen button on the track. Set the threshold and there you go. Everytime the VO track plays it triggers the compressor of the Music track. There is a lot of tweeks that can be done to dial it in. Hope that helps :)
Yeah, and if you want the music to be held at a consistent level you can increase the hold on the compressor so the music doesn't keep jumping up in between slight pauses. However, one feature that is missing from Resolve's dynamics is a range limit so you could have the compressor turn the volume down the same amount every time. If you want the music turned down the same amount during each section, you'll probably have to do it the way Casey showed. Unfortunately, Resolve also doesn't allow VST sidechaining, otherwise you could use another compressor plugin that has these features.
Yes, in theory you could sidechain except resolve doesn't allow VST sidechaining but yeah, it could work if there was sidechaining in resolve. I use my DAWs "detect/remove silence" for the voice overs
@@bestkoreanjesus Resolve does technically have sidechaining, but it's extremely limited as you can only use Resolve's dynamics effect and you only get one sidechain buss. For a basic voice over this may not be a problem, but if you need to sidechain more than one thing in a different way, you can't. A while back I made a feature request for VST Sidechaining on the official Resolve forum and hopefully they'll add it in. It would open up so many possibilities, like multiband sidechaining, which are currently not possible in Resolve. This is one of the big reasons why I render all audio out of Resolve and mix in Reaper.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've captured a ton of footage, now I'm ready to create the video aaaaannnnnndddd freeze. How to start, where to begin, quit just staring at the screen like a dummy. These editing tips are awesome and give me a place to start and some additional fusion ideas to add to the ones I have in mind.
Hey Casey! Man, this was amazing! Thank you so much for bringing this content! By the way congratulations on your entire journey and dedication! Man, that 'Voice Isolation' feature freed me from a Ghost Radio Station haha Thank you Casey!
I know this sounds really stupid (I freely admit I am a newb) but this video was a very big lightbulb moment for me (and I have watched many DR videos to learn processes). I never realized the correct approach is starting with your dialog and bringing in the video based on that. In my naivety, I thought it was the opposite!
The secret part of video editing is that it is often based on audio. The term "radio edit" gets thrown around because a lot of video is amenable to a workflow, where you ignore picture at first, and try to get the audio in the right place. This lets you set the pace via the audio which is going to be a massive helping hand.
Hi Casey, I created a Fusion component for some letter animation, but I want to add some effects to the clip that goes behind the letters. So I select the clip to play with it but all the nodes from that component are there. I'm confused... You clicked the clip with the fish and all came ready for you. Not my case... 😥
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Hi Casey, thank you for your hard work and dedication in helping so many people around the world navigate the complex world of video editing. Your videos have helped me a lot. Every time I have an issue, I pray that your name comes up in the search results. And time and time again, it has. For that I'm truly grateful.
Wow, thank you!
I like the way you built everything around the voice over. Now it makes perfect sense.
Yay that's awesome!
Right?! Ive been editing "backwards" this whole time... making the footage what i like, then struggling with timing audio and filling gaps. I think this is the biggest take-away for me!
@@RachelsArtDesk I create video tutorials and they are really perfect only when I start with voiceover. Ideally with the final version and then build everything around it. Maybe @CaseyFaris might do video about different approaches, their pros and cons. I'm still convinced I work "upside down", but it just works for me.
action blockbuster actor AND a fantastic resolve teacher? What can’t this man do?
I can't play Street Fighter very well.
Well this absolutely came out at the perfect time! Will be recording and editing a video when I get home tonight and it'll be my first edit in resolve. Start the good habits right away! Thank you!
The most important thing when editing is key binds. I work with 300% faster than I used to due to setting them properly.
Brilliant, I’ve been plodding through DaVinci Resolve for two years and have become passably proficient with the basic fundamentals, but there’s always something that still surprises me when I go through your basic videos. Love the zombie touch by the way.
Great to hear!
Casey, your vids are so top notch. Thank you. I've learned a ton from you and know I will continue to learn more. You asked in your video how we'll be using your content. I'm working on a YT channel right now that will feature "modern day treasure hunting" (rockhounding, thrifting, geocaching, natural beauty, etc.) and I feel like your vids are these little (or sometimes huge) gems of treasures that I keep finding in my process. So, thank you for that! I sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks Casey, it's helpful to see how someone else breaks down of the creation process. Interesing to think about building the video around the VO as a base. Definltly going to experiment with that process.
Thanks, keep making this kinda content! (along with everything else you do!)
Thanks so much Casey! My channel focuses on breaking down games from a design perspective, and sharing design thoughts after my 20 odd years in the industry. Honestly I’ve used your videos from day one to learn how to edit. Thanks so much.
Dang that's so coool! Glad my vids are helpful!
Another great video! You’re my UA-cam find of 2024. 🎉
Watched this video twice, amazed how much we forget or overlook.. thanks great video
Great video, I learned a bunch of ideas that I think will speed up my workflow! Previously I was editing the sound and zoom-ins of my videos in one go, but I think it would be faster now to do them in 2 separate passes.
I actually wonder if you could make a video explaining a workflow for making this video itself (a screen recording with PIP and zoom-ins). Some questions I have are:
- How to record webcam and screen at the same time to different files? Currently I just bake in my PIP to the desktop recording with OBS.
- Faster workflows for zooming in on desktop elements
- Maintaining resolution when zooming in
Thanks!
Casey - You're a gem 💎
No U
What is working great is using a sidechain - compressor on the music audio, so it ducks down everytime you talk and the volume is above the given thresshold. It saves a lot of extra work.
Did you know I needed this video right now more than anything? Because thank you.
Legit same 😊
I'm a relative newcomer and have got a work flow I've created over the last few months. This video has a load of great tips that I didn't even know about from all the tutorials I've watched! Top notch.
Glad it was helpful!
Super helpful and timely; thank you, Casey! I’m a long-time pro photographer only recently venturing into video (after a couple of false starts in years past). I’ve committed to a couple of projects in the next 30 days where I’m going to need to be handling multiple video, audio, and voiceover tracks, and this sensible, intuitive approach that you’ve taught here has me feeling much more confident in my ability to deliver.
Thanks for the helpful video. I've just finished my PC and got DaVinci Resolve finally. Been about 15 years since I did any editing but looking forward to getting back into it with some projects I have planned.
Companion commentary from one who edits non-YT stuff:
2:25 Watch your footage actively with an editors mind. What emotion gets evoked? Where does this fit in the story? In addition to sorting, I tend to start a selection process as well. All the best parts of the B-roll gets cut to a timeline. Another workflow is to use markers on the footage for the juicy parts.
5:56 Rather than bringing the VO to the timeline and then thinning, try putting it into the source viewer and insert the parts via In/Out points. (Edit->"Switch to Timeline after Edit" should be off). J,K,L scrubs. I,O selects, F9 inserts. Save trimming for a second pass in trim mode, for efficient rippling. A lot of time is saved because you won't swap back and forth between listening and trimming. In short: build up, don't thin down. Internalize the VO story by listening to it.
10:10 I'd save sound passes for later and just make some quick adjustments this early in the process. Picture might change a ton of stuff around.
13:24 This is where a selection process helps you recognize/remember which B-roll clips you want. Build the story out of your best takes. This project has VO and Music, so the sound should be a guide on the rhythm and pacing of the video.
16:11 Always move the project forward. If you watch the timeline you already have, you want to do some kind of trimming along the way. Endless rewatching without action adds up, quickly, because your timeline tends to grow. Alternatively: take notes.
18:05 Add a Text+ title as a "cue card" placeholder for the graphics until you can replace it with the real deal. Small cue cards sprinkled throughout an unfinished timeline can help with flow and pacing.
23:21 Expect to spend 50% or more of your work on getting audio right. A lot of editing decisions are driven by audio, either from the VO/Radio-Edit or the Shot itself. Be scientific: use the meters. I tend to dial dialogue at -10dB peak and music at -15 or -18. This gives you a ton of mixing headroom, and resolve can loudness-normalize on delivery. Compression can help level the loudness on a track so it's easier to control.
24:42 Get each track nice in isolation first, then begin focusing on the mix. Dialogue leveler late means you have to redo all your volume manipulation. Same with Compression. You probably want compression on the track rather than the Bus, such that you can adjust the compression individually for each voice.
I'd love to see a video on how you created the map animation in Fusion. Thanks for the great content!
I want to make travel vlogs. It’s going to be my first time using Davinci Resolve. Your video is so helpful. Now.I am intrigued with fusion too . Thanks a lot!
hey @casey you should definitely try sidechaining in your audio workflow. it fully eliminates the need for cutting and ducking the audio. what it does is basically listen to the channel of your voice and the more amplitude it receives the more it silences the music. you can do this with compression and even with selective frequency. for instance automatically lowering the high and mid frequencies the music depending on what frequency yyour voice takes up, so that it allows for the music and your voice to blend masterfully letting each one to be perceived at full volume. if ou already knew about sidechaining and prefer to do it by cuting and manual ducking thats also cool. love your videos.
Amazing Casy ... which talent of actor...... !!!!!
Fusion scares me! I hope you can make me understand it. I'm a very basic and beginner video creator. I'm going to check out some more of your videos. Thank you!
I'd definitely appreciate a video about how you made the map with Fusion. Your practical examples are super helpful.
Really needed this, thanks!
U won me over today Casey. Brilliant video, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is so much great information in this video that I can use to practice with.
Discovered Davinci Resolve yesterday, and today I’m blessed with this tutorial?! THANK YOU!!!!
Happy to help!
Yes! I would definitely like a video on how you made the map in fusion
Nice tips scattered around. Render setting tip is gold.
just watching right now i think this video will come in handy thanks
Thank you very much for your videos Casey, means a lot to me
Very helpful! Thank you again.
Thank you for the vid.
Wow this was great!
What a great video! I was going crazy with the dialog vs music volume - until you went into Fairlight. That was when it became listenable (for my 66yo ears that have issues with frequencies above about 800hz). It seems to me so many Movies and TV shows have the background music far to loud to allow the dialog to be easily heard - at leas5 for me.
Can't believe this has only 47k view. This video added value to my workflow thanks!
thanks casey, its very helpful, and also i like the style of zambie version, its amazing man, i love it
Hey Casey, great video and your kids are so cute!! I was just curious if you knew that you could sidechain compress your dialogue to the background music in the dynamics section. This will duck the music every time you talk. You’ve taught me SO MUCH so just tryna give back haha
I plan on making some gaming videos and videos in general as well all on my UA-cam channel going to be watching your channel and positing and learning thanks for the tips appreciate it!
So much great info in this video. Could have done without the zombie stuff but the rest of the video is fantastic. Thanks for all the info you give us, Casey!
This. Amazing video. I will be taking away so many points from this video. My workflow has been so ass about and janky I will be making many changes. Thanks so much for the help. Awesome video as always.
Great tutorial, Casey. I've been editing for a while so most of this was just a refresher, but there were a couple of things I didn't know. Also, I would love to see a video on multicam workflow in DaVinci. Last year I used DR to edit an entire 90-minute multicam recording of a musical and while it started off good, it eventually got to be a mess and took me twice as long as doing a similar project in Premiere Pro. Thanks!
Thank you bro!
Great content and tips. Thanks. Please do share how you made the map animation.
Agree, I do hiking and backpacking videos and animated maps tell the viewer a lot.
Amazing tutorial
Would like to learn more about rendering .
@CaseyFaris if you were doing a traditional YT video, like this one, would you just add your Aroll with the audio track, then go through cutting it up as if it were a VO track?
With Casey i will never be lost again.
You are awesome! I have an overwhelming urge to buy you a coffee.. of your choice! Love your channel mate :)
Thank you
First & foremost i'd like to just say I love your Channel, Everything is Always Easy & Straight to the Point while remaining in Depth Thanks for all your work!
I Am creating DIY Music Channel for Artist who don't know where & how to start, while also teaching them the Music business side of things to get them started as Professional as one can Present themselves when getting started !
& Lastly a Small Tip, I'd Recommend Looking into the Cameras Lens instead of your Second Screen to Connect with Us fans better it'll definitely go a long way ( A TIp I Picked up from the UA-cams Gods Aka those who Teach The Subject Matter ) Hope this helps & again Thank you for the Great & Valuable Information you always provide us with ! 💎
I would definitely NOT delete all the empty spaces in those voice overs. Those empty spaces are just a good way to know where a take begins/ends. When it's all bunched together it's much harder to tell. Deleting the empty spaces just seems like a huge waste of time. Keep the empty spaces, work backwards on the timeline; your last take is usually the one you want and you can delete any previous/repetitive takes
This highly depends on if you do one take per recording or if you do all your takes at once. By the time it gets to the timeline, I already know it was my best take or have a note on which two or three takes I am combining. I find that having the takes cut up makes it easy to splice in the better take than wasting time. It's like creating lego pieces you can snap together instead of tying knots. Really, I think it depends on your workflow leading up to that point and that both methods have their merits.
Awesome as always ❤
Hello! Thank you for sharing. I need your help with creating a B-roll. I have filmed everything in 100fps, but now I want to add some parts of the video that are at normal speed, as well as some parts that are in quick motion. Could you please guide me on the best way to achieve this? Specifically, I need to know how to blend all of the different speeds from one clip that was recorded in 100fps. Your expert advice on this matter would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Nice. Kudos to the zombie. Emmy award winning.
As always a great vid! Thanx man!
Just a simple and fair question about the audio. Why not use sidechain ducking between music and other tracks vs raising and lowering the volume manually? Is there some benefit to doing it manually?
You can totally do that. It's a good way to do it, but more complex than I wanted to get into for this vid.
Hey, Thanks for the great number of Zombie tips in this video.🧟♂
Epic.
7:51 what id the tool that you can use to remove the empty spaces?
"Recut" is the bomb. I have a vid on it somewhere
@@CaseyFaris You are the absolute GOAT Casey Thank you. Ive been a supporter since you about 50,000 subs. You are awesome.
How do you start out with your clips? If I have an hour of footage but only need five minutes sprinkled throughout would you cut that up into clips export then bring it in? Or Are you clipping the video in this same project?
Wait, where can I get this GoPro lut?
thankyou！
Hi Casey 👋
Thanks for the informative video.
With regards to making proxy’s, am I correct in thinking this isn’t necessary if media was shot in 1080p and between 30-120fps?
Apologises if this is a silly question, I’m still pretty new to the editing game.
Thanks!
Hi Casey and thank you for all your brilliant tutorials. I did a 3 weeks trip last year in French Polynesia and ended up with hundreds of footages and then realized my 3 cameras were not at all aligned on the same time (one was Paris time, one on summer hour and the last on local time !). Quite hard then to build a linear story ... Any trick you would know to go around this situation once the dammage in done ?
nice!
Watching this made me realize how little I know about editing 😢
21:55 is this Luts Pack for free?
When I use ripple cut, it's only usable when I only have one track. If there are more tracks like video+audio, it affects both, even if I don't have them marked. Am I setting something wrong somewhere?
No thats a thing. I usually lay things out in one track to do the ripple cutting. After all that is done you can throw the clips on different tracks etc.
Thanks man!
No need for the Studio version for the H.265 Codec though ;-)
Cheers Christian
Thank you SO MUCH!!!
You're welcome!
Hi. Very nice video. Im trying to learn so have a question. Why you did not do the color grading before aranging the video? I'm planning to use videos from 3 different video sources like gopro,sony cam and iPhone on raw format. So should I be color grading before or after arranging everything and finishing the cuts and pastes ? Also I'm trying to do the sound last but you started first vith the sound. I'm also trying to understand the reason. Thanks for your ,ind answer in advance. (I'm trying to edit cooking videos by the way)
You could do that, but when you get more detailed you may find you're fixing things in color that you eventually cut out of the edit. Otherwise... If it's just overall grades, sure you could do it first. Sound too, you can do that at any point I guess, but it's nice to do it at the end when things are mostly there. Same reasoning actually. Only get detailed on things towards the end of the workflow or you may polish thing a that eventually don't make the edit. ;)
I like what you did but I wish you would have shown a talking head video example. Something where you have to sync the audio and video together, put Broll on the talking head etc. I’m coming from FCPX so DVR is a new animal to me.
Hmmm yeah. I do have a couple vids on syncing audio workflow in resolve.
@@CaseyFaris Yes but I meant your workflow that includes syncing. Coming from FCPX DVR has a completely different workflow. I usually color grade at the beginning before cutting. Audio I do in Logic Pro then transfer to FCPX….its so different with DVR. It would be nice to see basic workflow for talking head videos.
@@CaseyFarisI had this exact question - if the VO comes from a talking head with video, do you still do the same audio-based cut workflow? Maybe marking bad faces as b-roll needed? Does anything else change? Love your stuff.
I wish Davinci had a quick way of making in and out points and hitting a key to make it a favorite and store it under "favorites" or a Bin like FCPX does. That is like one of the only things always holding me back from moving to Davinci. I can blaze through my clips hit I/O hit F with out even stopping and then review or see just those clips I chose and then make my timeline off those "selects". How it is with Davinci there are too many extra steps to do that. Does anybody have a good work flow or tutorial to get as close as possible to doing something like that? I cannot find any good tutorials explaining that kind of workflow. Most people just hit I/O and throw it on the timeline which seems so backwards and clustery. Thanks
You seem like you'd like the cut page actually. Lots of lil shortcuts like that. For instance the source tape is pretty cool.
@@CaseyFaris Thanks, Source tape? Got any cool tutorials about that?
That Fairlight part about Bus1 and DIA was so “con-fusion” that I missed the “bus.” 😅
shame about the audio quality in the zombie scenes ... what about some echo cancellation? Everything else looks so professional, and then the zombie scenes just seem meh ... despite amazing acting by the Zombies of course :)
Lol, "proxies are a little tiny video" um, no lol, my original footage is 491 MB, the proxy generated is 3.91 GB, doesn't sound so tiny to me lol
Edit, the original is a short 4K clip, the proxy is reduced to 1080p so not sure what the heck happened in the proxy generation to gain that much data
Preset fps to match the fps u shot ur video in BEFORE u import ur clips into the media pool.
Its just easier that way i find lol.
But im a noob... so stop reading this and listen to someone who actually knows something
I rarely watch videos with music in the background when there are vocals. I can understand it if you're doing vlogs, but tutorials, no. It's just lazy and causes issues for people who have hearing/audio problems.
Interesting take. I don't make very many "real" tutorial videos, but when I do, I still include music like my other content. Not because I think it's obligatory, but because it's stuff I genuinely like as a musician and strive to use it as an enhancement rather than a distraction.
I totally agree with you on hating the super generic mind-numbing crap some people use, especially if it's too loud or used at inappropriate times. THAT is absolutely just lazy filler material and I usually click off. But I think when done right, it can be quite classy! UA-cam's auto subtitles have got really good lately for Deaf audiences, and when you use proper volume and especially frequency carving with EQ like he mentioned, the vocals remain crystal clear for HOH viewers.
did I just witness a murder?
I make dog videos over @thewrinklesquad. You're videos have helped a ton!❤
Hi Casey.. I need your help..I just came back from a trip recorded myself and found out that few of my video clips have a terrible audio peaks which sounds like robots..Can you please send me your email so that I can share a sample so that you know what I am talking about.. I have been trying to find a fix on internet but unable to do so..Currently I use Davinci resolve 18.6
Id check out Jason Yadlovskis videos, he's an audio genius.
@@CaseyFaris Thanks..will check out his videos
Thank you
Splitting audio and just doing a crossfade is brilliant for simplifying volume control.
I do about 90% of that. Nice to see that I am doing it right. Regarding pauses in audio...I do not get rid of as much because I do highly technical videos and the pauses I do have allow folks to ponder a technical term, formula, ...letting the point sink in for a moment before pressing on. I do not want to "steam roller" my viewer with too much, too quickly.Oh ... and the color card in this video is in the wrong place. It pops in some seconds after you announce it. Just sayin'
Hey Casey, There at 23:40 where you start cutting the music to dip with the voice over. That can be automated by sidechaining the Compressor under the dynamics section of the mixer. Press the send button on VO compressor and listen button on the track. Set the threshold and there you go. Everytime the VO track plays it triggers the compressor of the Music track. There is a lot of tweeks that can be done to dial it in. Hope that helps :)
Yeah, and if you want the music to be held at a consistent level you can increase the hold on the compressor so the music doesn't keep jumping up in between slight pauses. However, one feature that is missing from Resolve's dynamics is a range limit so you could have the compressor turn the volume down the same amount every time. If you want the music turned down the same amount during each section, you'll probably have to do it the way Casey showed. Unfortunately, Resolve also doesn't allow VST sidechaining, otherwise you could use another compressor plugin that has these features.
Yes, in theory you could sidechain except resolve doesn't allow VST sidechaining but yeah, it could work if there was sidechaining in resolve.
I use my DAWs "detect/remove silence" for the voice overs
@@bestkoreanjesus Resolve does technically have sidechaining, but it's extremely limited as you can only use Resolve's dynamics effect and you only get one sidechain buss. For a basic voice over this may not be a problem, but if you need to sidechain more than one thing in a different way, you can't. A while back I made a feature request for VST Sidechaining on the official Resolve forum and hopefully they'll add it in. It would open up so many possibilities, like multiband sidechaining, which are currently not possible in Resolve. This is one of the big reasons why I render all audio out of Resolve and mix in Reaper.
I find that color grade changes, messes with my fusion text and stuff. how do I prevent that from happening? (Total newb question)
That looks really good for GoPro. Is that the new 12?
Great video, but the first rule is ALWAYS Cardio!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've captured a ton of footage, now I'm ready to create the video aaaaannnnnndddd freeze. How to start, where to begin, quit just staring at the screen like a dummy. These editing tips are awesome and give me a place to start and some additional fusion ideas to add to the ones I have in mind.
Map animation! Show us!!
Hey Casey!
Man, this was amazing!
Thank you so much for bringing this content!
By the way congratulations on your entire journey and dedication!
Man, that 'Voice Isolation' feature freed me from a Ghost Radio Station haha
Thank you Casey!
I know this sounds really stupid (I freely admit I am a newb) but this video was a very big lightbulb moment for me (and I have watched many DR videos to learn processes). I never realized the correct approach is starting with your dialog and bringing in the video based on that. In my naivety, I thought it was the opposite!
Glad that was helpful! Yeah this is the way for sure!
The secret part of video editing is that it is often based on audio. The term "radio edit" gets thrown around because a lot of video is amenable to a workflow, where you ignore picture at first, and try to get the audio in the right place. This lets you set the pace via the audio which is going to be a massive helping hand.
this is AWESOME. more like this please 💪😎
Just starting with Davinci Resolve. Great video👍 Thank you❗
Great video! .... Your "zombie stomp" in the garage was hilarious hahaahaa
Hi Casey, I created a Fusion component for some letter animation, but I want to add some effects to the clip that goes behind the letters. So I select the clip to play with it but all the nodes from that component are there. I'm confused... You clicked the clip with the fish and all came ready for you. Not my case... 😥
You have a like just for the zombie in the beginning! So creative!