Objective 1: The student will be able to produce edited talking head videos, including an introductory bumper, a page displaying the course prefix and short description of the class, video clips of you or other faculty member contributions.

You will create a three-to-five-minute video which shows an introductory bumper, a short slide displaying the course prefix and short description of the class, faculty talking head clips, and video fades/crossfades in the timeline view of DaVinci Resolve. 

A fade occurs between the title text box and the beginning of the first faculty member’s video. If there are more than one faculty member videos, fades will start and end with fades between each faculty member’s clips. At the conclusion of the last faculty member’s video clip, the video will fade to black ending the video. If there is only one faculty member’s talking head video, it will fade to black to conclude the video.

Adding Introductory Bumper and Faculty Video(s) to the Timeline:

All videos will be required to open with a video bumper that contains the university logo and intro music. This video bumper is prerecorded and will be provided as a download for everyone participating in the program.

Please follow the written directions to insert media files into the video timeline or watch the detailed video recording below.

1. Insert intro bumper asset

a. Select the “Media Pool” menu in upper left corner to pull up the Master view

i. Here you will see all of the video assets loaded into DaVinci in Lesson One. 

b. Drag and drop the bumper video from the “Master View” into the “Timeline”

2. Insert course title page

a. Select “Titles” from “Media Tools” in the bottom left of the screen

b. Select the “Text” from under the “Titles” menu 

c. Drag “Text” box into the “Timeline View” after the bumper video

d. Adjust the length of the Title “text box” by clicking and dragging the right hand side of the text box

e. Open “Inspector View” in the top right corner of the screen

f. Select the “Title” tab

g. In the “Rich Text” box type the course prefix and number followed by a brief description of the course 

3. Insert talking head clips

a. Locate the “talking head” video within “Media Pool” found in the top left panel

b. Drag and drop the video into the “Timeline View” so that it overlaps the title text for three seconds on to the “Video Line Two”

c. If there are more than one faculty member video alternate each video between video line one and video line two always overlapping the new 

subsequent video by three seconds

Objective 2: The student will be able to edit and apply transitions between each section of the video in DaVinci Resolve to be uploaded to YouTube and Canvas for others to view.

Please follow the written directions to edit by inserting fades into the video timeline or watch the detailed video recording below.

1. Adding fades between video elements.

a. To add a fade between the title text box and first faculty member video choose the title “Text Box”

b. Grab the white handle at the top right of the title text box and drag it to the left to fade out the title text

c. Choose faculty video

d. Grab the white handle from the left hand side of the faculty video and drag to the right to fade into the faculty video

e. Choose the last video in the timeline view to fade to black at the conclusion of the video