Davinci Resolve 16 and up convert to 4K (Mavic Mini)

[mraroid]

Hello folks....

I am totally green when it comes to drones. I have a new Mavic Mini and I am learning how to fly.

I do have a background in motion picture film - Super8, 16mm and 35mm. But being old school like I am, I am not up to date on digital.

I have a powerful, modern, windows 10 computer. I am running a Nvidia 1080 video card, 32 GBs of RAM and modern fast Samsung solid state hard drives.

I was looking around for software to edit the 2.7K video from the mini. I am intrigued by the You Tube videos where film makers have up converted the 2.7K video to 4K. After some looking around I found Davinci Resolve 16. I down loaded and installed it. It came with a color pdf manual that is slightly over 3,000 pages. Yep, that is not a typo - slightly over three thousand pages.

Do we have any Davinci Resolve 16 users here? If so, can anyone point me to a You Tube video on the basics of importing my mini's 2.7K video and up converting it to 4K?

I was going to have the manual printed out, but it is quite costly (45 cents for one double sided color print of each page), so I went to Amazon and just ordered this book for $38 (and free shipping if you have prime):

Amazon.com

I hope the book will be helpful.

If anyone here knows of videos, or help pages for Davinci Resolve 16, could you post them?

Thanks so much.

mraroid, Salem Oregon, US

 

[Edward Knight]

Check this site out. The free Davinci Resolve courses from this site are very good. He also has many YouTube instructional videos. I exclusively use Davinci Resolve 16.x Film Simplified

 

[mraroid]

Wow! What a great resource Edward! Thank you so much for the link. I have installed Davinci Resolve , and started watching You Tube videos. The learning curve is steep, but it looks like it will do what i want.

Thanks again.

mraroid

 

[DronePilotNH]

DaVinci Resolve also has its own training series. You can find it here: DaVinci Resolve Traning
If you scroll down to Training Books you can download the book and the lesson files.

 

[mraroid]

Thanks!! Very good info.

mraroid

 

[bushie]

I have been using DV for nearly 12 months now. Watched dozens of videos. Every time I do an edit I seem to spend more time looking at UTube than actually editing. There is just soooo much in there. I will watch a TV program and see some effect I like and wonder "How do they do that?" Then end up spending too much time trying to duplicate in DV. As for good video I find JayAreTV good and also Casey Faris

 

[mraroid]

Hello bushie.... Thank you for the helpful feedback and the links. I think I might spend most of today watching the videos which seem quite good!! I have watched so many that my mind is spinning around in circles. I think I need to import some footage and see how far I get. Maybe after a few more videos.

My end product will be a 4K Ultra blu-ray. My thoughts at this time (with the limited knowledge I have so far) is to edit in Davinci Resolve 16, and then import the video into cyberlink powerdvd 19 ultra. I have not used any cyberlink software for over 5 years. But version 19 ultra is suppose to be able to import 4K and then burn a 4K Ultra blu-ray.

Thank again for all the help.

mraroid