AI Editing in Premiere and DaVinci

Use a free generative-AI assistant to produce hook and reel-structure options from a content brief.

Configure a 1080 × 1920 vertical DaVinci Resolve project with suitable timeline and frame-rate settings.

Organize footage, audio, graphics, and exports in bins using a reusable project structure.

Generate proxy or optimized media settings suitable for editing efficiently on a 16 GB RAM, 4 GB GPU Windows computer.

Navigate the Media, Cut, Edit, Fairlight, Color, and Deliver pages for a short-form workflow.

Review source footage and mark usable hook, value, reaction, and payoff moments.

Build a 15–30 second vertical rough cut from selected source moments.

Use ripple, roll, slip, and blade edits to tighten timing without creating timeline gaps.

Remove pauses, repetitions, and weak openings while preserving natural speech.

Use J-cuts and L-cuts to smooth transitions between spoken segments and supporting visuals.

Evaluate a rough cut against a simple retention-focused pacing checklist.

Write a constrained AI prompt that turns a topic or transcript into a short-form script.

Evaluate AI-generated hooks for specificity, curiosity, credibility, and fit with the reel’s payoff.

Revise an AI-generated script so it sounds natural and can be delivered within a target duration.

Use an AI assistant to convert a script into a shot list and timeline-ready edit plan.

Generate alternative visual-pattern-interrupt and B-roll ideas with an AI assistant.

Identify factual, privacy, copyright, and brand-safety risks in AI-generated editing suggestions.

Reframe landscape and mixed-resolution footage for a vertical canvas while protecting the main subject.

Create purposeful punch-ins and position changes with keyframes.

Apply speed changes and speed ramps without obscuring the reel’s key message.

Place B-roll and cutaways to clarify speech, hide edits, or reset viewer attention.

Create a clean split-screen or picture-in-picture composition for vertical video.

Use adjustment clips to apply reusable visual treatments across multiple shots.

Choose transitions based on narrative function rather than novelty.

Set dialogue clip gain to create consistent levels before adding effects.

Reduce common background noise using free tools and basic Fairlight controls.

Improve speech clarity with equalization, compression, and a limiter.

Choose copyright-safe music that supports the reel’s tone and pacing.

Mark musical beats and align important cuts or visual changes to them.

Duck music beneath dialogue using volume keyframes.

Layer sound effects to emphasize hooks, transitions, and visual actions without overcrowding the mix.

Check a reel’s final audio for clipping, inconsistent loudness, and poor phone-speaker intelligibility.

Generate a timed subtitle file with a free speech-to-text workflow and import it into Resolve.

Correct AI transcription errors, timing, punctuation, and line breaks against the spoken audio.

Format captions for fast mobile reading using appropriate size, contrast, placement, and line length.

Keep essential captions and graphics inside platform-safe areas.

Create word-emphasis caption effects using Resolve text controls and keyframes.

Build a reusable title style for hooks, labels, and calls to action.

Create a lightweight animated call-to-action graphic without overloading the computer.

Verify that captions remain understandable when the reel is watched without sound.

Use scopes to identify exposure and white-balance problems in a shot.

Correct exposure, contrast, white balance, and saturation with primary color controls.

Match the basic brightness and color of adjacent shots.

Create a simple stylized look while preserving natural skin tones and readable text.

Use a free AI assistant to write precise search terms or prompts for supporting visual assets.

Evaluate AI-generated or stock assets for relevance, visual defects, usage rights, and disclosure needs.

Integrate a supporting image or graphic so its scale, timing, and movement fit the reel.

Copy and adapt a basic color grade across similar clips efficiently.

Run a pre-export quality check for pacing, spelling, safe areas, audio, color, and asset rights.

Export a high-quality vertical H.264 file with appropriate resolution, frame rate, and bitrate.

Check an exported reel on a phone for compression, caption readability, and audio translation.

Create two hook variants from one finished reel without rebuilding the full edit.

Interpret basic retention, completion, replay, and engagement metrics after publication.

Use performance data and an AI assistant to form one specific improvement hypothesis for the next edit.

Build a reusable DaVinci Resolve reel template containing bins, tracks, titles, and export settings.

Produce a complete reel from raw material using the course’s AI-assisted planning, editing, captioning, polishing, and export workflow.