DaVinci Resolve: Professional Video Editing, Start to Finish
Signature Course No. 293 — A Signature AI Socratic Coaching Course.
No experience needed — your coach starts where you are.
A New Kind of Learning
Socratic coaching, delivered by an agentic AI coach.
Not a course you watch. An AI coach you work with.
The Lighthouse Coach begins by discovering how you think about the subject, teaches what is missing, and gives you realistic practice before asking you to prove that you can use it. You may test out of concepts you already understand, while capstones turn the learning into a practical plan, decision, conversation, or other real-world result.
The curriculum is deliberately authored; the AI delivers it through coaching. It is not an AI randomly generating lessons.
A coach that teaches by asking — not by lecturing
The Lighthouse Coach is an AI Socratic coach built on Cognosco Learning's DaVinci Resolve: Professional Video Editing, Start to Finish course, in the Personal Effectiveness & Well-Being category. It does not play videos at you. It holds a conversation: it asks you a question, listens to your answer, names the misconception it hears, affirms what you got right, and asks the next question — the way a great coach works in the room.
Most footage does not fail in the camera. It fails afterwards. Cards copied carelessly and a clip lost forever, an edit that wanders because no one decided what the story was, a grade chased by eye until skin looks sunburned, a mix where the music wins and the words lose, and a final export in the wrong shape, discovered after it has been sent. This course teaches the whole chain, in order, inside one real application — from raw footage to a published file.
You learn the workflow the way professionals run it. Media copied and verified before cards are reused; the project set from its delivery before the first clip lands; Resolve's pages — Media, Cut, Edit, Fusion, Color, Fairlight, and Deliver — worked as stages of one job, each finished once, against its own standard of done.
It works in two movements. First, Module 1 — Build the Edit: Organise, Assemble, and Shape the Story — work through Concepts 1–9, finishing with The Review Cut; then, Module 2 — Finish the Film: Picture, Sound, Delivery, and Proof — work through Concepts 10–18, finishing with The Finished Film.
Both capstones produce real artifacts — the review package, a client-ready cut with the note that states its stage, its open decisions, and its known gaps; and the complete finishing package: the graded, mixed, captioned master, its delivery record, and its archive.
The honesty standard is part of the course. The course teaches craft at principle level through the tool's shared vocabulary — its pages, its timeline, its nodes, its scopes — not as a click-path manual, because menus move between versions and principles survive updates. Platform facts that change are framed verify-current, as published in November 2026. And the course makes no promise about views, virality, clients, or income: a finished, well-graded, well-mixed file is craft; what an audience does with it cannot be promised.
The course is self-paced and always on — roughly 30 minutes per concept, about 9 hours in full, taken in as many sittings as you like. You can type your answers, or talk out loud: the Voice Coach speaks its questions and listens to your spoken replies. Learners who already know the material can test out concept by concept.
DaVinci Resolve: Professional Video Editing, Start to Finish is part of The Lighthouse Signature Series — the online counterpart to the one-day, in-person learning Cognosco Learning has delivered since 2002.
Course Facts
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Diagnose → Learn & Practice → Prove → Capstone
Every learner moves through the same discipline a Cognosco instructor would insist on in the room.
Diagnose
The Coach starts where the course starts: with protection. Before any clip is touched, settle how many verified copies of the footage exist, who chose the project's settings and from what delivery fact, and whether every shot can be found by what it shows. Every concept opens with three questions that locate where you actually stand, and your answers shape how deeply the Coach works the concept with you. Everyone begins with Module 1 — no skipping the foundations you only think you have.
Learn & Practice
Work each concept in conversation with the Coach — spoken or written — then practice it against realistic situations until it holds up.
Prove
Every concept ends in proof: answer the check cold and demonstrate the skill. Know it already? Test out and take credit immediately.
Capstone
Finish with two capstones — The Review Cut for Module 1 and The Finished Film for Module 2 — that pull the whole course together, and earn the certificate.
What You'll Learn
Protect, then build, then prove. Every stage has the same shape: first protect what cannot be replaced — the media, the previous version, the client's trust — then build the work, then prove it with a check: scopes for the picture, meters for the sound, playback for the file.
Module 1 builds the edit. Setup that makes media safe and findable; the pages as stages; assembly from selects; trimming, structure, and dialogue craft; honest cover, titles that earn their place, and multicam synced as a verified fact.
Module 2 finishes the film. Scopes as referee; correction before any look; a dialogue-led mix measured against a stated loudness; captions and versions built as edits; delivery by arithmetic; revisions without chaos; and the finishing ceremony that checks the file, not the timeline.
And it holds its thread throughout. Dialogue is the spine: the structure follows what is said, B-roll illustrates what is said, the mix protects what is said, and captions carry what is said to viewers who cannot hear it. When two goods compete at the timeline, protect the words first.
What you will learn
- Set up and organise a Resolve project so media is protected, named, and findable from first import to final archive
- Edit with judgment: assemble, trim, structure, clean dialogue, cover, title, and sync multicam into a cut that holds attention honestly
- Finish the picture and the sound: correct and grade with scopes as your referee, and mix dialogue-led audio to a stated delivery specification
- Deliver like a professional: choose export settings by arithmetic, caption and version the film, run revisions without chaos, and pass a final quality check before anything leaves
Everything in the course
- All 18 concepts of DaVinci Resolve: Professional Video Editing, Start to Finish, in 2 modules
- A starting-point check first — the Coach finds where you actually stand before teaching
- Learn, Practice, Prove for every concept — no passive video watching
- A test-out on every concept: prove you know it and move on
- The Voice Coach: talk with the Coach out loud — it speaks, listens, and replies
- A personal Learner Record of your work across the course
- Two capstone exercises: The Review Cut and The Finished Film
- A printable session summary whenever you pause
- The Lighthouse Coach completion certificate (Signature Series)
- Your progress is saved as you go — stop anytime, resume where you left off
Built for the people who finish films in Resolve
Freelance and in-house producers and editors who have chosen Resolve and want one complete, disciplined workflow instead of a pile of disconnected tricks; and creators and communicators — for businesses, schools, charities, and their own channels — who shoot real footage and need finished films, not almost-finished timelines.
Editors moving to Resolve from another application — who know what a cut is and need Resolve's way of organising the work: its pages, its bins, its nodes, its delivery logic.
Small-team video leads — who take client notes, manage versions, and hand over files that must play correctly everywhere they are sent. This course assumes you can operate a computer confidently and have footage — yours or a client's — that you want to finish. It assumes no prior grading or mixing experience, and it does not assume the paid Studio edition.
Prefer to learn live and in person? The same material anchors Cognosco's one-day programs — browse the in-person catalog.
Start with The Review Cut
$195 — introductory price. One payment. No subscription, no password to manage.
Here is exactly what happens when you enroll:
- Pay securely with Stripe — you are taken straight into the course
- Create your learner profile and begin the Module 1 starting-point check
- Save the access key you are given — it restores your enrollment on any device
- Learn at your pace; your progress is stored in your browser on your device
For the full voice experience, use Chrome and allow the microphone when asked. Typing your answers works everywhere, all the time. Questions before you enroll? Email hello@cognoscolearning.com.
Before you enroll
What is a Socratic coaching session?
A conversation, not a video. Your coach asks a question; you answer — out loud by voice, or by typing — and the coach responds to what you said: naming the misconception it hears, affirming what you got right, and asking the next question. You advance only when you have mastered each concept, so a finished course means the learning held.
How long does it take — and how long do I have?
About 30 minutes per concept. Learn in sittings of any length; your progress is saved as you go. You have a full year from purchase to finish, and you can revisit and retake within that year.
What does the certificate verify?
That you completed every concept and both capstones of this course. Anyone can confirm a Cognosco certificate online — enter its certificate ID on our verification page.
What if it isn't for me — what are the refunds?
If you have not started, cancel for a full refund within seven days of purchase. Once you have started, there is no cash refund — stop before finishing and we credit the full amount you paid toward any other course in the library (credit valid one year from your original purchase). Once you complete the course, no refund or credit applies.
More Signature Courses are coming
DaVinci Resolve: Professional Video Editing, Start to Finish is Signature Course No. 293. Leave your email and we'll send you news of future Signature Courses and Lighthouse updates as they are announced — nothing else.