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From iMovie to Davinci Resolve
The Absolute beginner’s guide to Davinci Resolve. From someone who has been using iMovie for years.
I am not a professional video editor. I only occasionally edit video so I don’t have to ask my team to do it. That’s why I have been using iMovie. It’s free, and it’s easy. It got the job done.
Recently, I have started to push training video online and found myself editing more. My requirements are very basic so iMovie works, except for two little things.
- I cannot place TEXT in an arbitrary position
- I cannot freely overlay pictures in an arbitrary position
Notice I say arbitrary position. iMovie has title and Picture-in-picture functions. The title function allows you to place titles (or sub-titles) in pre-defined locations. There are many pre-defined locations, but you cannot freely move the text to a location that you want.
It’s a similar problem for picture-in-picture. You can overlay a picture or video on top of your base video. However, since’s it’s defined as picture-in-picture, the overlay must be 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio. You cannot overlay a transparent icon.
I did not want to move to Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro as they cost money and they are for professionals.
