The next step is to add in assets to the video,

meaning music, sound effects, and B roll.

And the art of choosing your assets is almost as big

of a skill as learning how to edit itself.

I think a lot of editors will tell you

that the procurement process of acquiring footage and music

and sound effects can be

more time consuming than actually coming up with the edit.

But lucky for you guys, I've already gone through

and acquired the music

and sound effects that

we're gonna use throughout the course.

Now, with all that said, I'd like to introduce you guys

to the media page inside DaVinci Resolve.

We're not gonna spend too much time on it,

but it is nice to know where it is and how to use it.

So thus far, we have been living over here in the edit page,

but don't you forget we've got all these other tools

here inside Da Vinci Resolve.

So let's go ahead and meander on over to the media page.

Now, depending on you and your workflow,

you might not spend a lot of time in the media page,

or you might spend a ton of time in the media page.

The media page is essentially set up to sort through

and bring in footage, audio assets, images,

et cetera, et cetera.

The bottom half here is our media poll.

So this is everything that we have currently imported into

our working project.

So we can cycle through our folders just like we

could on the edit page.

And if I wanted to, I could double click on some

of the footage and we can preview it here in our media pool.

Quick aside, I have the audio muted here so

that it doesn't I get in the way of me speaking.

If you do ever wanna mute and unmute stuff, you can uh,

just click little speaker icon or you can right click.

And now you have a volume bar.

But I'm gonna go ahead and keep this muted.

Something else that's kind of a fun tool,

and you might have seen this on the edit page,

is this little, uh, circle

with two arrows on the the left and right side of it.

This is your jog wheel. So you've seen me grab my playhead

and move it left and right here

to quickly scrub through the footage.

But if you wanna do a little bit more fine tuning,

you can click and hold the jog wheel

and move your mouse right and left.

And now you have a little bit more fine control,

I guess I should say in your preview here.

This is what, what I really wanted to show you guys.

In the top left corner here, this is where we can preview

and import footage.

In the upper left here are all your connected drives.

You can see I've got a few including, uh, Mr.

Burger, who is somebody I am working with right now.

And if you click on one of these drives,

so if I click on my D drive, which is my media drive,

and I have this nice juicy folder over here in my D drive,

it's called my Stock Media Folder.

And inside this folder is everything I've ever downloaded

to work on a video ever for the most part.

So I've got music, stock footage, uh, visual effects,

whatever, if you can think of it.

And it goes in a video. It belongs right in here.

So just like a file explorer on Windows or Mac can go ahead

and open up your various folders

and I can go find my audio folder

and then we can even click on something like,

uh, sound effects.

And I can go to my save sound effects over here.

And I've got a bunch of folders of

random various sound effects.

And one of the fun ones to look through is the whooshes.

So if I click on my Whooshes folder, we can begin

to preview some of the whooshes that I have saved here.

So if I unmute my audio here,

I can drag my mouse over to preview it.

If you don't like the mouse dragging preview,

Which for me sometimes gets in the way of me just kind

of scrubbing through stuff in your preview window,

there's three dots in the upper right hand corner if you

click those and then uncheck live media preview.

Now you can kind of scrub through things without it

instantly playing, but I can double click on any one

of these to preview it.

And where this is nice is if I have something that I find

that I'd like to use.

So let's say I click here

and I like that little whoosh, what I can do is go

to my pre-created sound effects folder

that we already created.

Click there and I can drag and pull it in.

And so a lot of times in the beginning of edits,

what we'll end up doing is we'll come up with a rough cut

and then we might sort through some of our assets

that we have that we've either been provided

or that we've gone and downloaded ourselves

and try to procure, which we want to use in our video.

Now you guys aren't gonna have access to the sound effects,

so I'm gonna hit Control Z so

that we're all working with the same stuff.

And the last thing that I'd like to call out here

that is personally my favorite feature

of the media pool is there's this little section over here

in the left where it says, favorites.

If I grab this middle bar

and bring it up so you guys can see it a little better,

you can see I have four folders saved here

that I call all the time.

And so for you, you know,

if you have your stuff saved on the C drive, you can see

that sometimes it can be a little bit of a nuisance

to find the right folders.

So if there is one that you use all the time,

you can always right click on that folder

and add folder to favorites,

and then it'll locate it over here.

So now what I can do is I can go over to my audio tab

and then I have all my music and sound effects right there.

So then I can quickly go through, find some

of the different music tracks that I have saved

and preview them on the fly.

Pretty neato, right?

And so again, if I, this is a track that I'd like,

I can just drag and select it

and pull it down into our media pool.

And so the next steps that we're gonna take is we're gonna

introduce some of these audio items into our video.