Video Editing: A Guide for Beginners

Welcome to Video Editing for Beginners!

In this class, students will learn how to edit and create their own videos using the free video editing software, Davinci Resolve.

This software has all the tools needed to create dynamic and visually exciting videos, and you will learn how to use the basic functions in order to build up your video from start to finish.

More and more young people are getting into video editing, creating projects for home, school, for youtube, and for many other reasons. Having the right software is important, but it can be confusing when you don't know where to begin.
This course will take you step by step through creating a video project from scratch.

Here's what you'll learn over the 8 weeks:
Lesson one: Tour of DaVinci, inserting media, and basic editing.
Lesson two: Inserting audio, sourcing free music, and basic audio editing. Please note, learners will be directed to an external website to download free music. No account or sign-up is necessary. 
Lesson three: Inserting and animating text, using basic colour shapes.
Lesson four: Editing the timing of our video clips - slow-mo and speeding up.
Lesson five: Editing the colours in our clips - back and white, blurring, and brightening.
Lesson six: Introduction to the FUSION page
Lesson seven: Special effects #1 - dynamic zoom, advanced shapes, and overlays
Lesson eight: Special effects #2 - in-built special effects

Each lesson you will follow along with me as I edit a video, using your own video clips to create a project of your own.
Over the 8 weeks, each student will complete a video project, putting into practise the skills learned each week, and submit this at the end of the course.

In this class we use DaVinci Resolve, a free video editing programme. DaVinci is extremely memory-hungry and some computers struggle to get it running, so please ensure you have the software downloaded and tested before class starts so that any issues can be resolved.