Welcome! We are stoked to have you here.

Before you begin:

• Make sure you have the latest version of DaVinci Resolve installed. We're using the studio version but most of the features we demonstrate are found in the free version. We DO demonstrate studio features, but we always show you an alternate technique you can use in the free version.

• Download the source media.

• Grab a drink and get comfy.

Can You Tell us a little bit about your Course Design Philosophy?

Sure!

• Firstly - Different people have different learning styles but we find most people learn best with a mix of watching and doing. Why? There are two really important ingredients in skill. Knowledge and Experience. When you watch our lessons, you'll gain knowledge. When you put that knowledge into practice on your computer using our practice media, you'll gain experience.

• Secondly - We've chosen to base the entire course around a real-life project. Instead of discussing theoretical topics in isolation, each lesson contributes towards the overall goal of making an awesome video. Discuss topics in the context of an actual creative objective makes those lessons more memorable and impactful.

We want you to work with real media, the kind of rushes you'd get on from a professional yet attainable shoot. That's why we invested time and money to shoot a project specifically to work in this course. We organised time with an incredible dancer from the English National Ballet. There's interviews, visuals, footage from red cameras, blackmagic cameras, even 35mm film. The footage contains a variety of realistic problems that gives us the opportunity to teach you how to problem solve.

How to use this course?

This course is broken into logical bite-size chunks. We'd recommend you go through this course 1 lesson at a time. Watch the lesson all the way through without pausing to get an overview of the topic. Then open Resolve and use those brand new skills and techniques to build your edit. Re-watch the lesson as needed to remind yourself of key details.

Naturally some subjects are more complex and require more time to cover. Sometimes subjects are really quick to demonstrate but the homework of building your edit will still take considerable time!

Move through the lessons as quick or as slow as you want.

Most lessons are 'practical workshops', where the end product moves us closer towards our finished video. Some lessons are what we like to call 'sandbox lesson' where we play around in a temporary timeline experimenting with the tools, but without making a direct contribution to our finished video.