Why you need to check this out.
Hey Professionals!
I’ve decided to write this article, as learning Resolve is hard.
But, bad education is making Resolve EVEN harder to learn! I’m seeing few channels (some with hundreds of thousands of subscribers) who teach a lot of small stuff wrong. So you will spend:
- 1 day learning bad habits
- Spend another day unlearning the bad information.
- And another day learning the actual good stuff.
Or simply put, what should take 1 unit of time to learn, just took 3 😡.
So as someone who’s been using DaVinci Resolve for over 7 years now. I wanted to:
- Make your learning experience easier and faster.
- Show the creators who actually do a good job.
- Stop letting bad education, thrive.
To take this as seriously as possible, I won’t be sharing any of my own content, to completely eliminate my own Biases.
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The best (and most reliable) creators to follow
Here are my top 3 favourite educators, in every category of learning Resolve
Black Magic Updates and News
Patrick Stirling
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Black Magic (Yes, them)
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The Fundamentals of editing
Mr Alex Tech
Daniel Batal
Team 2 Films
Fusion (and animations)
(Okay, I had to include 5, there’s some weapon of teachers, and we all need as much help as possible with Fusion 🙃)
Wampus
Casey Farris
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Jake Wipp
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William Justice
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PeeJ ENT
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Color Grading
Darren Mostyn
Frenchie Color Grading
Sound Design
Unfortunately, we only have one dedicated sound design channel for Resolve, BUTT… we only need one thanks to the incredible work of…
Jason Yadlovski
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Edit Like A Pro
Creative Video Tips
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Team 2 Films
Other Creators who are awesome!!
So these creators cover a bit more of everything, I recommend checking them out to see if they suit you 🫵
Dunna Did It
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PeeJ ENT
Asher Roland
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Be a BETTER EDITOR
95% of beginner editors don’t even think to ask these questions, but these where the kind of lessons that allowed me to charge higher prices without doing technically complicated edits.
In short - THESE ARE ESSENTIAL FOR EVERYONE!
Get some popcorn, enjoy the show and learning, it’s just a good experience.
What gear do I need?
TOTALLY NEW to editing?
Your Objective - Learn Resolve, without getting lost, so you can get your video done ASAP.
✅ Go from 0 → to doing it.
✅ Rock solid teaching, no matter which program it is.
Learn Higher Level Editing Techniques
Little note - Higher level editing techniques are universal to all applications. There core fundamental skills that make YOU 🫵 a better editor. So some of these videos aren’t Resolve specific, but are important!
Edit Faster
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Edit for comedy
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Learn Color Grading
Get your color grades done right, quickly
So if you edit content like me, it’s a pretty fast paced turn around, we need a workflow to create color grades, that look great, without spending days perfecting each pixel.
If you fit into this camp, I would recommend checking out these videos here.
Learn a simple, replica-table color grading technique
✅ Build your color grade once, replicate forever.
✅ Achieve a quality that’s perfect for 95% of editors
✅ I watched this video nearly 2 years ago, and still use it on every project today.
Advance Color Grading
If you’re wanting to learn advance color grading because your type of videos demand it, from Movies, to product commercials. Than there isn’t a silver bullet answer.
You’re best solution is to check out
Learn Sound Design
Learn Fusion
Moving From After Effects To Resolve
If you’ve done animations, motion graphics or compositing in After Effects, it’s just straight up confusing. And it’s not because you’re wrong
Moving from After Effects to Fusion is like learning to ride a bike backwards, you’re going to have to unlearn a lot of built in habits, you don’t even realise you have.
Thankfully, you only need to watch 1 video, to fix this!
This video covers:
✅ A clear breakdown of how Node’s are different from layers.
✅ Un-stuck your mind with things you didn’t know you have.
Motion Graphics taking too long to animate?
Magic Animate was the first addon I purchased for Resolve, and it’s still the most commonly used tool.
This tool ELIMINATES the need for keyframes…
Don’t know what to learn next with Motion Graphics
Wampus does an incredible job helping YOU understand, what skill level your motion graphics are at. This has a HUGE side effect, when you know what level you’re at, you become clear on what the next level is!
✅ Understand where your skill level is, compared to other motion graphic artists
✅ Get clarity on what skill level of animation, you want to aim for.