Louay Zambarakji

Overall the course is pretty much exactly what I was looking for... DaVinci Resolve can look intimidating when you don't know what all the different pages do. Louay does a good job of providing an overview of how to use these pages, and the most common use cases for each of them. This includes an overview of the fairlight audio and the fusion motion graphics systems. He also goes into quite some detail for the color correction and grading. If you have not used DaVinci Resolve but want to become proficient in video editing, this is a good option to get the basics under your belt and gain comfort using the system (yes, you will need to follow along and do the work to get the most out of the course). It took about a week for me to get through the material... A few notes about some of the other review comments. When I took it, a good half was still in DaVinci 19 (or perhaps older even?), but I didn't have any major issues using DaVinci 21 - the changes were only minor. Is the instructor hard to understand? No, I don't think so... at times he talks fast, sometimes his explanations were not as detailed (on occasion I would just google/AI for some more information), and perhaps some of the technical parts he glossed over once or twice, but I think that's forgivable on occasion. In some areas I was a bit concerned regarding the instructors knowledge (e.g., some parts he was just changing things and guessing), while others it was clear that he does know a lot and has some tricks to share - picking up some of these little tricks along the way is invaluable, and is a much bigger positive than the minor negatives, which is why I still give 5 stars here (also, Udemy rating system is ... not the best). Regarding content being moved around - yes it is clear that some of it is older material, and there were a few repeats of material, which again is okay to reinforce... I think the order was okay. For me since I make notes on each section, I do have ... 264 titles for the videos I had to type out for sometimes 1 or 2 minutes of video. I think that perhaps some of these could have been combined but the short clips do make it easy to digest little parts. It is a pity he didn't get a chance to cover the photos page since this is likely something that would be useful for my first project, but it only came out recently, so difficult to fault for new features. For the audio I would have liked a bit more information on how to work on clips specifically for things like panning, etc. which I would want to do dynamically, but I think I can probably figure it out from where I am now... so I'm where I need to be. Thanks for a great course, Chris B.
- Review by Chris Bennett on DaVinci Resolve Mastery: The Complete Video Editing Bootcamp