DaVinci Resolve started as color grading software, and one (the?) standard for color grading in Hollywood. Over the last decade, they apparently got bought by Blackmagic, who then added in all the other video editing functionality. The latest version, 16, has a new tab called "Cut" which is designed for very fast video editing (they also have a tab called "Edit" with other video editing tools). It'll do things like take in a single video and split it into individual videos for each shot (as color grading requirements can change quite a bit from each shot due to lighting), if you use multiple cameras, it'll sync them all up with either industry standard timing doodads or via audio in each track. It lines everything up by timing so you can easily drop other clips in with the correct timing, etc. As I mentioned, I'm a newbie on video editing (well, I have about a month of experience), but this does everything I'll need for quite some time. It even has noise reduction, and other nice features. I used to use NEAT with Photoshop for photo and astroimaging noise reduction (with a lot of other techniques as well) but seeing some of the work online with professional video editors using Resolve, even noise elimination is built in. Very nice. And I'm still learning the tool, it's very deep.
It also has a bunch of LUTS to give video more of a professional cinema look to videos, but I haven't been as interested in checking those out as of yet, I'm still learning the basics. I DO have one video I worked on a bit primarily for contrast but a touch of color work that I'll post sometime soon. I did the 2nd week I had my
Mavic 2 Pro, my friend convinced me to fly (high) over water as i was still a bit fearful of the drone dropping out of the sky. I circled a small island where the lighting became absolutely wonderful. I really lucked out, as you'll see when I post it (perhaps tonight). I also have a very nice precision landing at the end, good thing too as I was 2 feet from water, lol! I had the controller ready JUST in case, however, but as it landed precisely at home, I did trust this, perhaps a bit foolishly, lol.
So, audio is easily manipulated, AND they have an advanced 3D surround sound audio editor, but I don't use that (it's resource hungry). I DID grab the audio from my phone recording of my
M2P video, and it was trivial to remove the empty audio track I had and replace it with the track from the video in the phone. I figured out how to do this myself in about 1 minute, so it's pretty easy.
Check out this announce video for Resolve 16, it shows how CUT can be used for doing very fast video editing...it blew me away as it was a far more complex scenario than I'd need (4 camera), but very cool:
This guy is great for color grading with Resolve, though some is pretty advanced. He's also pretty entertaining:
Learn professional color grading techniques by a working commercial colorist.
www.youtube.com
And the DaVinci tutorials are also great, this is what I got started with:
Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
www.blackmagicdesign.com
Since it's a free download, I highly recommend downloading it. If you check my posts (I think my first here), I have a couple of videos at the end of the thread that I thought were very useful for grading HLG as I'm hoping to play with HDR a bit with HLG, theoretically possible. However, the 2nd video of those two is the more practical, grading HLG video for normal Rec.709.
