Resolve Lesson 6 - Resize, Crop & Transform Video Clips

This video was created using following free software:

OBS - Screen recording and audio capture
Davinci Resolve - Video and Audio editing
Natron - Animated intro splash screen
Inkscape - Art for thumbnail, splash screen and outro screen

[activemotionpictures]

What most amazes me about your video tutorials is that there is always a 1-click hidden away from view solution button!! Your demystifying of this UI makes the tutorials so worth to watch from beginning to end. Thank you!! Keep it up!

[melaniejones]

Thanks for the help! I finally managed to crop part of an education video I made with the advice you give here.

[JeffBourke]

is there a way to do the scaling after crop automatically? just automatic, centre then fill?

[catclub]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[cmqjapan]

Great job. Your explanation was clear and easily understandable.

[carlosdias]

Helped instantly, even trimming the whole display. Cheers

[jamesbryan]

So, when you crop, and or crop and zoom, etc, and you still want a 16:9 aspect ratio, doesn't that mess up your ratio? I JUST want to crop a video of wife painting so we don't have a lot of background junk in view and want to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio, but cropping out the outer sides a bit makes the video appear in a more square or 4:3 ratio. How can that be corrected? Just want to trim a bit off the bottom, left, and right, but keep the same aspect ratio. Sounds simple but can't get a simple answer yet.

[JTG]

Omg thank you so much I feel like this website so confuswd

[altarockerinamusicalmood]

Hey, TJ. This was great. One question, though. I'm trying to fit an image at a severe angle on a small screen within the clip. Yaw and pitch decay the image. How do I rotate the image on its axis?

[shinybrain]

How do you do the animation where you go form big image to a smaller image in the corner of the screen

[MaxProgramming]

Please also make a video on how can we change the rectangular shape of a video to circular shape in resolve

[DrawTaken]

Please help when I resize and crop my video it comes out wrong when exporting

[smacko]

Hey TJ I followed what you did, but when I cropped my facecam clip, the parts that I cropped off the top and side didn't actually delete, they became like an opacity shade? It didn't fully remove the parts I cropped

[roadkama]

thanks man . this is really useful . just downloaded it. i was using the imovie but this way better and also free

[NowyKurs]

What about larger clip size? For example 6 K square footage dropped to 4 K timeline? From my expectations I thought I should easily downscale this to 4 K timeline, but it looks that the clip automatically become adjusted to timeline and I still need to readjust the frame size when black borders are on the sides of a square anamorphic footage.

[lordtengen_]

Thanks for the content! Helped a lot. Question though, if I edited a video on my phone on Kinemaster (free version 720hd), would I be able to finish the video on DaVinci Resolve for a better resolution for YouTube content?

[stevenshackelford]

Once you have the video cropped - do you have to hit/click... apply or save somewhere?

[Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

I want to know to use window option and resize it so that only part of the screen is more visible and other part part is under the dark. I basically do coding tutorial videos. I want to highlight the screen where I am doing the live coding, and partially darken other unimportant parts of the screen. I hope I was able to describe what I have in my mind.

[JeffBourke]

2:40 this step here. Can you get resolve to automatic centre and fill? Manually zooming and adjusting is so slow and unco method.

[eddiep]

Hey folks - I am still quite new to Davinci - when I used Premier Pro, if I cropped an image, and had an image "behind it" (as in an image I was overlaying on a green screen) the area that had been cropped was now revealing the background layer - I have tried this in Davinci, but when I crop the "lead" image - all that happens is that part of the screen is black, and I cannot see the image behind it.

Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a way to make this work like it does in Premiere Pro?