This complete DaVinci Resolve 20 video editing tutorial shows you how to edit your first video from start to finish!
DaVinci Resolve 20 is one of the most powerful video editing tools in the world today — and it’s completely free.
What you’ll learn
- How to download, install, and set up DaVinci Resolve 20 on your computer — ready to edit your first video, even with zero prior experience..
- How to cut, rearrange, and organize clips on the timeline — using the same essential editing techniques professional editors use every day..
- How to add text, music, animations, transitions, speed ramps, zoom effects, and freeze frames to transform raw footage into polished, professional-looking video.
- How to remove green screen backgrounds, stabilize shaky footage, and crop or rotate clips to match any creative vision..
- How to resize and reformat your videos for YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, and any other platform — so one piece of footage works everywhere..
- How to export your finished video, audio, screenshots, and individual clips — ready to upload and share anywhere..
- By the final lecture, you’ll confidently open DaVinci Resolve 20 and edit any video from start to finish — completely on your own..
Course Content
- Getting Started –> 3 lectures • 5min.
- Practice Resources –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Video Editing Basics –> 6 lectures • 15min.
- Text, Transitions & Music –> 4 lectures • 16min.
- Video Effects –> 9 lectures • 50min.
- Exporting Your Video –> 4 lectures • 11min.
Requirements
DaVinci Resolve 20 is one of the most powerful video editing tools in the world today — and it’s completely free.
This course will teach you how to use it, step by step, from the very beginning.
No video editing experience needed.
You may have heard that DaVinci Resolve is too complicated for beginners.
But the truth is — you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn the right things, in the right order. That’s exactly what this course does.
With this beginner-friendly video editing course, you’ll go from never having edited a video before to being able to edit and export complete videos on your own. Every lecture teaches you one specific skill, shown clearly so you can follow along and do it yourself. No long theory sections. No unnecessary complexity. Just practical, hands-on learning from the first lecture to the last.
Here’s exactly what you’ll learn:
- Getting started: The first three lectures walk you through downloading, installing, and setting up DaVinci Resolve 20 on your computer. Step by step, no guesswork.
- The essentials of editing: You’ll learn how to cut your footage, remove the parts you don’t need, delete the gaps left behind, add new clips, rearrange everything, and build a clean video from start to finish. These are the core skills you’ll use in every single video you ever edit.
- Making your videos look good: Once you’re comfortable editing, you’ll learn how to add text and text animations, apply transitions, drop in music, remove green screen backgrounds, stabilize shaky footage, zoom, crop, rotate, and freeze frames. You’ll also learn how to control the speed of your footage — slow it down, speed it up, create speed ramps, or reverse it entirely. And you’ll learn how to resize your video for any platform — YouTube, Instagram, TikTok — so one piece of footage can go everywhere.
- Saving your finished video: When you’re done editing, I’ll show you four ways to export: the full video, audio only, a single frame as a screenshot, and individual clips. Whatever the situation calls for, you’ll know exactly what to do.
About DaVinci Resolve 20
DaVinci Resolve is used professionally across film and television. The free version gives you everything you need to edit great videos — no subscription, no watermarks, no time limit. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
By the time you finish, you’ll be able to sit down, open DaVinci Resolve 20, and edit any video from start to finish — completely on your own.
Enroll now and start editing today.