Overview
Brandon Baldovin
Editor & Creative Engineer
instructorI am a video editor, content strategist, and educator, and my mission is to help creators understand not just how to edit, but why video editing works.
I hold a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and have taught at the college level as an engineering instructor. Over the past three years, I’ve also taught video editing to beginner and intermediate creators, helping them build a stronger foundation and how to edit with more intention.
My engineer’s mindset strongly influences how I approach creative problem-solving. I focus on breaking down complex editing concepts into clear, practical techniques that creators can confidently apply. Over the past five years, my work has centred on visual storytelling, with a deep emphasis on DaVinci Resolve.
I was born and raised on California’s Central Coast, and I create educational resources designed to help others create more.
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Artie crew, we are ready to deliver our video.
Before you do, I recommend on any video edit playing back
the video in its entirety on the timeline.
One more time. It is good to double check
to make sure there's no weirdness, there's no irregularity.
So let's go ahead and do that. Now.
You can either play it back
with the timeline still in frame,
or if you'd like to full screen the entire thing.
The shortcut for that is P.
And now we can hit Spacebar to play. Hey, let's talk about
Some editing mistakes that a lot of
Beginners Make. So a
mistake that a lot of beginning editors make is
that they focus on the spectacle
of the edit over the story of the edit.
When we're talking about what really matters the most,
at the end of the day, it's the message being told in the
video, not
What kind Of effects you can include. Something
Else, a lot of beginning editors do
Opt-in is the overuse of prebuilt in transitions.
Until you're more comfortable with
how you should edit a video, I avoid using some
of those presets.
And one of the last things I wanna talk about
Is focusing on the audio of the video.
The audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit,
so you should spend just as much time working
with your audio as you do working with the video.
Hope this helps and excited to talk more about editing.
Nicely done everybody.
Let's go ahead and save this sucker.
We're gonna venture over into a new
page in Da Vinci Resolve.
Look in the bottom right here, we're gonna go
to the deliver page.
And just like every other page in this program,
it may feel intimidating at first,
but I promise we're gonna click all of two buttons.
What I'd like you to do is go ahead
and direct your tension over to this left column here.
These are our render settings. Now, I'm not a Kodak expert.
I don't have a master's degree in Bitrate.
So when I look over here,
we got a lot of settings that we can
Choose. So
What do we need to do?
Well, I, I have good news for you.
If you go up top here, this upper column, we go
to the right, we have a bunch of presets for us ready to go.
Now, I might spend a little bit
of time in the future talking over some of these settings
and which ones might matter to you moving forward.
But what I'd like us to do to keep things nice
and simple, to scroll on over to the right here,
and we're just gonna click the YouTube 10 80 p preset.
And that's gonna simplify live for us a good bid.
Double check to make sure the resolution is 1920 by 10 80.
'cause that's the timeline that we're on.
By default, it should say timeline frame rate.
If it doesn't, make sure it's set to 30.
And the format, uh, the format, the format, the format.
Now the YouTube preset limits this to MP four and QuickTime.
QuickTime will render to a MOV file.
The difference between QuickTime
and MP four really is not that much.
So what I'd like you to do is go to MP four
and make sure that your video Kodak is set to H 0.264.
Again, do not stress about the rest of these settings.
We'll cover them in future videos.
The next thing that we need to do is choose
where we'd like to save it.
I'm gonna go ahead and save it to my
desktop so that I can find it.
And then we just need to name it.
I'm gonna name ours, BYOL Class Project one.
Bring your own laptop class, project one.
And at the very bottom down here, there's a button
that says Add to render Q.
And before we actually render, one thing I'd like you
to double check is that on your timeline.
So the same controls apply over here on the deliver page.
So I can shift in the scroll wheel to change the zoom level.
Bring this up. Make sure that the in
and out point are set to your videos in an out point.
Sometimes if you've got footage hanging out over here,
it's gonna try to render the entire timeline.
So again, O is out, I is in.
Make sure we're rendering the proper section here.
And if that all looks good, go ahead
and go to the bottom left here and add to render Q.
And then we're gonna click render all.
But we are not quite done yet
because you need to submit the video in order
to receive credit for the course.
So to do that, what I'm gonna recommend everybody do
is use YouTube.
If you don't use YouTube, totally fine.
Remember, you can use something like Vimeo, Behan,
any other streaming or portfolio service.
But a quick reminder, please do not use a Google Drive
or a Dropbox link
or anything where we're gonna have to actually
download the video file to review it.
It's okay if you accidentally goof up and do that,
but just know that in order to receive credit,
we're gonna need some kind of streaming link.
The example that I'm gonna use to demonstrate this
with is going to be YouTube.
Again, totally okay to use something else,
but you're just gonna have to figure it out on your own.
I'd wager the majority
of us all have a YouTube account or a Google account.
But to not make assumptions, I'm gonna go ahead
and walk through the entire process.
You'll need to go to youtube.com. That is step one.
If you don't already have an account,
you're gonna need to create one.
So depending on the current YouTube layout,
there'll probably be an option.
The upper right hand corner that says sign in from there,
you can either log into your existing Gmail account
or create a new one.
Once you've all signed in and created an account, go ahead
and move to the upper right hand corner
where your profile icon is.
Go ahead and click that icon.
And you're gonna want to go to YouTube studio.
I may have a few more options than you here,
but what you're gonna wanna locate is YouTube Studio.
Go ahead and click that. Now, again,
depending on the current iteration
of the YouTube studio user interface,
this icon might be moved around.
But we're gonna wanna locate the create icon.
Go ahead and click that. We've got a few options here.
We're gonna go with upload videos.
That'll give us this big old prompt
to locate our video file.
So you can either go to your desktop
or whatever you saved it, drag and drop the file on,
or hit the button in the middle
and hit select files From there,
locate wherever you have rendered and saved this file
and hit open.
And that'll begin the upload process of this video.
And there's only gonna be a couple things we need
to change here, and then we are good to go.
For one, we should probably rename this to be class, project
one, and then whatever your name is, once you've done that,
there's two important settings that we need
to remember on YouTube for any video, you upload it,
ask if it's kid appropriate.
Now our video is kid friendly, right?
But what this is really asking is, is this video safe
and marketable for kids?
So just be aware in the future, if you were ever
to publish videos,
unless you're specifically making educational content
for children, we're gonna check, no,
this doesn't give it a PG 13 or an R rating.
This just says, Hey, don't market this video
to kids on YouTube once.
That's all said, done, hidden. Next, next,
until you get to the visibility page.
And by default it should say unlisted. This is what we want.
Again, unlisted, do not set this to private.
And unless you want this to be public, don't hit public.
All unlisted means is
that this video is hidden, it's hidden.
Nobody can find this on the internet
unless you have the link, which is what we do want.
Double check, unlisted, not private, not public, unlisted.
And then if you click these two rectangles over here,
it will copy the video link for you and then hit save.
And that will save this video to your YouTube studio.
If for whatever reason you lose the link, do not stress.
It's very easy to find.
Just make sure you're in, again, your YouTube studio.
You can't be on the YouTube homepage.
And then go over to content.
This will list all of the videos
that you've uploaded to your YouTube studio.
And again, ours says Unlisted here, which is what we want.
And if you need that shareable link,
there's these three dots right here that you can click
and it says, get shareable link.
And then again, we will copy the link to your clipboard.
Once you have that shareable link from YouTube or Vimeo
or wherever, go ahead
and go to the course,
project sections in the assignment section
and paste it there and submit it.
Congratulations friends.
You guys have rendered your very first video
inside DaVinci Resolve.