Best YouTube Editing Workflow in 2024! - DaVinci Resolve Video Editing Tips!

—

—

FUSION: ZERO TO HERO - The Ultimate Blackmagic Fusion Course (Great for Beginners!)

- Learn to make motion graphics and visual effects in DaVinci Resolve!

—MORE RESOLVE COURSES—

Pro Compositing & VFX in Fusion Course:

Pro Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve Course

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want some great Video and Music/SFX? Check out Artgrid and Artlist for some amazing royalty free assets:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lighting provided by GODOX
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In this video, I’m going to go over the best workflow tips to make editing your YouTube videos as streamlined as possible!

Whether you’re just starting to make YouTube videos in 2024 and trying to figure out what a workflow even is, or you’re a seasoned creator looking to up your game this year, these workflow tips are perfect to up your content creation game!

#GroundControl #DavinciResolve #DavinciResolve18

[Relativizor]

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.

[MangoSlow]

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.

[TerrasTreasure]

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.

[Tinnituss]

action blockbuster actor AND a fantastic resolve teacher? What can’t this man do?

[peterlyonsphoto]

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.

[mcelroyoh]

Thanks for the basic overview and what I got out of it was a good intro to story telling by starting with the voice over. By the way I have been watching your videos for about 2 years and recently bought the studio version. And creating a coherent story has been my biggest problem. Love your stuff. Thanks.

[stuartsimmons]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've captured a ton of footage, now I'm ready to create the video 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.

[HandreTaljaard]

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 :)

[TIMNFYA]

I like the way you built everything around the voice over. Now it makes perfect sense.

[CarlNelsonScience]

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!)

[SpencerOReilly]

Splitting audio and just doing a crossfade is brilliant for simplifying volume control.

[csharpdotnet]

This is truly exceptional piece of tutorial in youtube. Glad I've found you from one of Kevin Startvert video. you are my first teacher in DaVinci Resolve. You are awesome man! 🥰

[Behnam_Moghaddam]

this video compresses in the Essence what took me years to get.. in 30 minutes... Chapeau Monsieur. May be not much new to me but boy, what a gift if one is getting into this 🙏

[tonybrownie]

Watched this video twice, amazed how much we forget or overlook.. thanks great video

[salmanahmad]

how did this guy know what I have been looking for!? this is it! thank you casey.

[malindukumaradasa]

Just starting out with video editing for the first time and came here from a video by Kevin. I'm really glad I found DaVinci Resolve and found this channel this soon. I'm sure I'm gonna get really good with video editing pretty soon just from the boost of confidence that you've given me. Thank you so much!

[BobbyNorman]

I so appreciate your thorough and seemless learning experience you gave thru this video. Thank you Casey😊

[skiddlybatch]

Another great video! You’re my YouTube find of 2024. 🎉

[Simon_Cartwright]

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.

[BMWMike]

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.