Hello fellow filmmakers! Imagine you have a breathtaking nature scene in your video. With speed ramps, we can accentuate the most captivating moments, slowing down to emphasize the intricate details and then smoothly accelerating for a dynamic effect. This not only enhances the visual appeal but also adds an extra layer of excitement through the sound. I show you in this video 🎥 3 examples how you can realize them easily in DaVinci Resolve 18.6. I hope you enjoy my simple tutorial and I am always happy when it helps you in your filmmaking journey. Take care and have fun! Happy editing 🫶
Sir, I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm a chef with 30 years cooking experience but only 5 months experience as a cameraman or an editor. I'm starting a series that airs June 1st where I interview artists, musicians, comedians, actors, chefs, or anyone I just find interesting or inspiring, all while cooking them a 10 course meal! I already have 6 guests lined up! Up until now, my format has been single angle cooking videos shot with my phone with voiceover audio and background music. This series will be multiple angles (2-3 stationary and 1 cameraman). I recorded a "practice episode" and everything that could go wrong, went wrong lol. Batteries died on one of the mic packs very early into the 3hr interview (and I didn't notice), one of the cameras kept turning off, another one ran out of memory, etc. Mostly stuff I can fix. But after watching the footage, it made me realize how important lighting really is. I'm starting think I might have bitten off more than I can chew. I've got a professional gaffer coming over to look at my place and my lights (he said I pretty much bought the wrong kind of lights when I talked to him on the phone) and I'm basically going to pay him to stay for like 30 minutes and advise me on where to put lighting, and what lighting (with what I have) to achieve the look I'm going for. The look I'm going for is like a "restaurant scene" in a movie. Or just how you would feel in a restaurant at night in general. Lots of warm soft lighting. He said the lights I bought are blue lights and I need orange lights for the look I'm going for, but he's gonna come check it out and see what we can work with. I'm hoping with a combination of my cheap lights, the phones I'm using to record the series, and editing in davinci resolve, I'll be able to achieve the look I'm going for. I haven't had a chance to go through all of your videos yet, but given all the information I've just given you, could you recommend any videos of yours that could help me? I basically know NOTHING about lighting in davinci resolve. I've never even gone to the color tab at all when editing videos. So if you don't have one, can I please request a Color Tab for Beginners video? And if you do make one, could you keep in mind that I'll be trying to achieve that "restaurant at night" feel? And I know it says you've been doing photography and videography for longer than you've been doing editing, so do you have any lighting videos for beginners with absolute garbage for equipment? lol If not could I request one of those videos as well, also asking you to keep in mind the aesthetic I'm going for? Also any other advice you could give, I'd appreciate it. Like is my smartphone a better camera than say, going out and buying a $350 camera? Or should I invest my money in something else like lighting? I know this asking a lot, but I figured since you're a small channel, you might be looking for video ideas. Thanks in advance for reading this to the end!
So, sorry for my late answer. This was a lot of text to read 😃 so I would say you have chosen not an easy scenario, because the bigger the room or in your case a whole restaurant you need definitiv more lights and stronger ones; with blue light you probably mean that you bought a daylight 5500-5600 kelvin one; so with that lights it is hard to get your described warm lighting. For that you need more a warm one with appr. 4000 kelvin or so. You could also try to use an orange transparent foil and put it infront of your Diffusor. I for my part have been using now an Amran light but also only the daylight version with a lightdome with a honeycomb. I am also experimenting with it; still… my last videos are also a bit too dark for my taste. But back to your scenes. You would need definitely more light when you want to shoot and move from scene to scene in your restaurant; you could also go with only 2 lights but then you have to shoot a scene and cut it, reposition the light and shot the next scene. When you do fluent transitions this would work very well. And shooting with the phone, the sensor is so tiny so you even need more light and you will not get this depth of field. For close up scenes you can use it but again you need a lot of light. I really prefer to shoot it directly in the right color scheme directly in cam without doing a lot in the color tab of DaVinci, it saves you so much time when you configure everything beforehand. And besides that it is hard to get proper colors back afterwards or ‚rescue‘ brighter scenes because when it is overexposed the whites are lost and there are no more details… And tbh better equipment helps for sure and when you know how to use it it looks very professional, but when the content is not entertaining no one will watch; so I would recommend just try it out; when you are satisfied with your result (don‘t expect perfect outcomes after your first videos), but you rewatch it and you think; man this is great content, funny and you think some guys will watch it, upload it anyways and then you will see what your audience thinks about it 🤩 And in regards of lighting and camera equipemnt I‘ve already wrote down ideas but didn‘t produce the videos yet, but they are on my list 💪
@@christianeggbauer THANK YOU for the reply! I haven't read it all yet, because in the first sentence you said I'm wanting to light an entire restaurant. I'm sorry for the miscommunication, I'm just **going for a dimly lit restaurant look** in my home kitchen! It's a VERY small area. I just wanted to clear that up before I finished reading. Thanks again for responding. If you want to get an idea of how my kitchen is set up, it's the video titled "Viewer Request". In that video I pretty much show my entire kitchen. During the interviews, most cameras will be pointed at the kitchen counter where the bar stools are.
Very helpful. Thank you :) I appreciate how your three examples build up. Repeating the core process and adding new things each time. Feeling more confident for an impending work project now.
@@christianeggbauer Thank you :) It's been ok so far, an internal thing for work. I sometimes confuse backspace and delete though. What keyboard shortcuts do you use the most?
Thank you so much, this was the plan 🤩 no seriously I wanted to guide you through the basic settings and level it up until you can do a transition as well. Happy you liked it and thanks for watching 👍
Hello fellow filmmakers! Imagine you have a breathtaking nature scene in your video. With speed ramps, we can accentuate the most captivating moments, slowing down to emphasize the intricate details and then smoothly accelerating for a dynamic effect. This not only enhances the visual appeal but also adds an extra layer of excitement through the sound. I show you in this video 🎥 3 examples how you can realize them easily in DaVinci Resolve 18.6. I hope you enjoy my simple tutorial and I am always happy when it helps you in your filmmaking journey. Take care and have fun! Happy editing 🫶
Sir, I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm a chef with 30 years cooking experience but only 5 months experience as a cameraman or an editor. I'm starting a series that airs June 1st where I interview artists, musicians, comedians, actors, chefs, or anyone I just find interesting or inspiring, all while cooking them a 10 course meal! I already have 6 guests lined up!
Up until now, my format has been single angle cooking videos shot with my phone with voiceover audio and background music. This series will be multiple angles (2-3 stationary and 1 cameraman). I recorded a "practice episode" and everything that could go wrong, went wrong lol. Batteries died on one of the mic packs very early into the 3hr interview (and I didn't notice), one of the cameras kept turning off, another one ran out of memory, etc. Mostly stuff I can fix. But after watching the footage, it made me realize how important lighting really is. I'm starting think I might have bitten off more than I can chew.
I've got a professional gaffer coming over to look at my place and my lights (he said I pretty much bought the wrong kind of lights when I talked to him on the phone) and I'm basically going to pay him to stay for like 30 minutes and advise me on where to put lighting, and what lighting (with what I have) to achieve the look I'm going for. The look I'm going for is like a "restaurant scene" in a movie. Or just how you would feel in a restaurant at night in general. Lots of warm soft lighting. He said the lights I bought are blue lights and I need orange lights for the look I'm going for, but he's gonna come check it out and see what we can work with.
I'm hoping with a combination of my cheap lights, the phones I'm using to record the series, and editing in davinci resolve, I'll be able to achieve the look I'm going for. I haven't had a chance to go through all of your videos yet, but given all the information I've just given you, could you recommend any videos of yours that could help me?
I basically know NOTHING about lighting in davinci resolve. I've never even gone to the color tab at all when editing videos. So if you don't have one, can I please request a Color Tab for Beginners video? And if you do make one, could you keep in mind that I'll be trying to achieve that "restaurant at night" feel?
And I know it says you've been doing photography and videography for longer than you've been doing editing, so do you have any lighting videos for beginners with absolute garbage for equipment? lol If not could I request one of those videos as well, also asking you to keep in mind the aesthetic I'm going for?
Also any other advice you could give, I'd appreciate it. Like is my smartphone a better camera than say, going out and buying a $350 camera? Or should I invest my money in something else like lighting?
I know this asking a lot, but I figured since you're a small channel, you might be looking for video ideas. Thanks in advance for reading this to the end!
So, sorry for my late answer. This was a lot of text to read 😃 so I would say you have chosen not an easy scenario, because the bigger the room or in your case a whole restaurant you need definitiv more lights and stronger ones; with blue light you probably mean that you bought a daylight 5500-5600 kelvin one; so with that lights it is hard to get your described warm lighting. For that you need more a warm one with appr. 4000 kelvin or so. You could also try to use an orange transparent foil and put it infront of your Diffusor. I for my part have been using now an Amran light but also only the daylight version with a lightdome with a honeycomb. I am also experimenting with it; still… my last videos are also a bit too dark for my taste. But back to your scenes. You would need definitely more light when you want to shoot and move from scene to scene in your restaurant; you could also go with only 2 lights but then you have to shoot a scene and cut it, reposition the light and shot the next scene. When you do fluent transitions this would work very well.
And shooting with the phone, the sensor is so tiny so you even need more light and you will not get this depth of field. For close up scenes you can use it but again you need a lot of light. I really prefer to shoot it directly in the right color scheme directly in cam without doing a lot in the color tab of DaVinci, it saves you so much time when you configure everything beforehand. And besides that it is hard to get proper colors back afterwards or ‚rescue‘ brighter scenes because when it is overexposed the whites are lost and there are no more details…
And tbh better equipment helps for sure and when you know how to use it it looks very professional, but when the content is not entertaining no one will watch; so I would recommend just try it out; when you are satisfied with your result (don‘t expect perfect outcomes after your first videos), but you rewatch it and you think; man this is great content, funny and you think some guys will watch it, upload it anyways and then you will see what your audience thinks about it 🤩
And in regards of lighting and camera equipemnt I‘ve already wrote down ideas but didn‘t produce the videos yet, but they are on my list 💪
@@christianeggbauer THANK YOU for the reply! I haven't read it all yet, because in the first sentence you said I'm wanting to light an entire restaurant. I'm sorry for the miscommunication, I'm just **going for a dimly lit restaurant look** in my home kitchen! It's a VERY small area. I just wanted to clear that up before I finished reading. Thanks again for responding. If you want to get an idea of how my kitchen is set up, it's the video titled "Viewer Request". In that video I pretty much show my entire kitchen. During the interviews, most cameras will be pointed at the kitchen counter where the bar stools are.
Hey Christian, you do a great job with sound design. Would you consider a video on sound design?
Sure, thank you so much for your feedback; that is a great idea I put it on the list for a future video how i do it 😅👍
Outstanding, can't wait!
Very helpful. Thank you :) I appreciate how your three examples build up. Repeating the core process and adding new things each time. Feeling more confident for an impending work project now.
Thank you so much for your feedback and I am really happy that it helped you 🤩 this is awesome and all the best for your projects 👍
@@christianeggbauer Thank you :) It's been ok so far, an internal thing for work. I sometimes confuse backspace and delete though. What keyboard shortcuts do you use the most?
Again another educative and easy to follow video
Thanks mate
Happy you liked this one as well 💪 have fun with your edits!
What a great video. I think that this video contains all I will ever need to know on speed ramping. Thanks
Thank you so much, this was the plan 🤩 no seriously I wanted to guide you through the basic settings and level it up until you can do a transition as well. Happy you liked it and thanks for watching 👍
Thank you!
Sure 👍 happy you liked it!
great video.
Thank you so much 😎
DaVinci 18 mastery … being able to edit for more than an hour without a crash 😂 👏
Yea I had the issues appr. 1 year ago with the free version and saved the project every minute. But after an update it worked fine again for me 😄
Question: WHYY can’t we click and drag and select multiple speed points and apply the curve to multiple , we have to select one by one, WHYY?
We can do that.