Holy cow, THIS is how I’m masking clips going forward. No more re-tracking, and the techniques for cleaning up glitches… absolutely love it. I’m an old Photoshop guy and a master at building complex masks, so what you showed made perfect sense and is exactly what I was looking for. Nice job sir!
Wow, this is the level I wish more tutorials were at! I love seeing how an actual pro does actual pro things! Your pacing and handling of all the details was spot on, I found it easy to follow for sure. Great work and big thanks!
I see you everywhere and I love it. Been subscribed for a little while now. Hope to get more videos from you soon, maybe some more on anim curves cause i'm just struggling to fully wrap my head around how to actually use it to make the type of camera shake i'm looking for. I know you have a video that touches on it but I would love a deeper break down. Thanks for the content
Bro, I'm only a minute into this video, and I'm already so pumped. The magic mask saver node alone is about to improve my life, everything else is icing!
This was great. I have been looking for solid info on how to paint a mask for sooo long! This is a tutorial that gets into foundation level stuff for making comps that's really important. Thanks!
Perfect timing was just about to search for video that explains masking in Resolve in more detail when this popped up in my subscriptions. Perfect timing! This is the best instructional video on masking in Resolve I have seen yet. Best 40 minutes I have ever spent on RUclips. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
Thank you for the classes, Chad. I'm a film student, and love VFX (been fiddling with Blender and AE for some time now) and made the transition to Davinci for good a couple years ago, it's really good to see well written and put together lessons like yours, specially the extra tips at the end. Would love to see more VFX oriented videos in the future! I'll subscribe and will keep an eye on your channel. Cheers!
Not sure how long I've been subscribed to your channel Chadwick but the content is always 5star but this just peaks even beyond, brilliant work mate thank you.
This just might be the best Resolve/Fusion video I've ever seen. You've answered some questions I had, and also gave me some solutions to issues I ran into. Thank you so much! These detailed and relaxed video's are great!
Incredible that someone has taken the time to explain how the new app works and also gives us a lesson on codecs, explaining why Blackmagic included h.254/h.265 considering how poor they were in the past for editing. But best of all, it's the time you take to generate and correct the subtitles. The automatically generated ones are slow, out of sync, inaccurate and when you want to translate them into your language, everything gets worse... The corrected ones make life easier for non-native English speakers. Thanks for the tutorial, thanks for the channel and thanks for taking the time to explain everything you know!!!
So many questions not just getting answered but also announced early so we know what we're getting in advance 👏 That has to be the most useful intro to a Da Vinci tutorial I've seen yet. Easy sub!
Amazing video. I’m a color page guy and this opens all sorts of solutions to stuff and gave be a way better starting point for how fusion works and then integrates into the color page. Now gonna watch everything else you have.
Thank you so much. You're the only channel that I feel I'm still learning from. Like I learn bits and bobs here and there but when you do one it's a bombshell. I started off watching you when I was a beginner and it seems like your tutorials have just kept up. Love your work thank you.
Hey man your videos are lifesavers! Question and a request - how did you learn all this stuff without people like you on RUclips? Request - a video about what tools you would learn “in order” if you were starting fresh on fusion and trying to get to a good proficiency. The most useful part of this kind of video is it tells me about tools and tips I would never ever think to look for or even know existed. Thanks dude! Keep going.
Hey thank you so much! I spend a lot of time in this software, like a lot more than most folks - I'm a dork that's led me down a lot of rabbit holes with my commercial work. Good suggestion about fusion - there are many fundamentals that are easy to miss when someone just wants to learn a cool effect. I'll be sure to get some of those posted this fall. I'm also in production of a fusion course.
Chadwick, thank you so much for effort you put into this kind of advanced tutorials. This is exactly what I’m especially interested in. Do you have a separate video about a workflow for graphic tablet with Resolve? Looks so exciting! Thanks!
You are very welcome - thanks for taking time to listen to me ramble. A wacom specific video is still in my to do list, and hopefully can have that out in late July or August.
That was brilliant! I've been doing very similar stuff, isolating people from background with magic mask, blurring parts of the background and then applying the unmasked people over the top, but as someone who has never really got to grips with fusion (or had any training), I've been doing it all in the colour tab, and to say that I get fed up with frame stepping and adding new includes and excludes on the magic magic to fix glitches, would be an understatement! Thank you so much, I learnt lots... BTW, I'm curious about your flicking nodes onto the preview window, I thought pressing 1 or 2 was the shortcut for that (about the only fusion I know! lol!)
thanks so much for watching - regarding seeing before after - watch the part about the A/B buffers - you can load each buffer in the same viewer - then use command and comma to toggle between buffers. 1 and 2 are different viewers, I typically just just viewer 2, and work very zoomed in.
Great stuff as always. This is pretty much how I use magic mask in fusion. If want, you can skip the bitmap node and click ‘use alpha on rbg’ in saver node. Will do the same thing as the bitmap node.
Can you make a video sharing your experience and tips for using a drawing tablet in DaVinci Resolve or for other purposes? Your videos help me a lot, thanks!
You are absolutely right when you say that Magic Mask should not be used on log footage. If I use pre-graded clips, this can of course interfere with the color grading. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply integrate Fusion's own color corrector into the bitmap pipeline and thus save yourself the trouble of pre-processing the clips?
Funny enough I had a longer version of this demo that shows how I sandwich footage between 2 aces nodes, but then it was even longer. If the footage is flat, I convert it with ACES transform (or cst) into linear, do all the fusion stuff, and then reverse it before rendering out to media out.
@@CreativeVideoTips Yes, there are always things that you have to leave out. Ultimately, it also depends on the working conditions under which you work with Davinci Resolve. Small solo creators often want to jump back and forth freely between the pages, constantly design their workflows differently and are then always disappointed with Resolve when it is not completely flexible in certain workflows. (They suffer a lot with multicam audio editing.) Anyone who works with different departments is aware that there always has to be a certain status so that the other departments can continue to work with it. The fusion handles in your video are a good example of this. I really like the fact that more emphasis is now being placed on structured work with DVR, not just on individual techniques. I find channels like those of Chris Roberts or Joshua Kirk - along with yours - very useful.
This is amazing! Finally found a talented creative that is so detailed! I hope someday there will be a tutorial that will teach you how to replace a section and morph the image to the moving shot. Example. A caravan has 2 models, one with a rear spoiler and another with no rear spoiler. How can I add the spoiler to the caravan (wide angle, parallax movement left to right, or wide angle slow punch in). 🙏 Keep up the good work! I'll definitely donate something once I get paid from these projects! God Bless you
you are amazing - thank you. This would be a bit involved but the tool you want to learn all about is called the grid warp in Fusion - it can do so much more then any tutorial i've seen on it.
Very cool and makes my live more easy. Yesterday I worked for a german Broadcast TV Station and I rerender my Fusion Magiy Mask very often 😋. So many thanks for your clip❤🎉
Pleaseee do a video showing tips and tricks for using a pen tablet in davinci, like how you have your shortcuts setup, how do you zoom and do stuff like that you would usually do on a mouse, or just any general info on making your workflow with it more efficient. I haven’t been able to find any good videos that talk about that and I recently just got a wacom one 13 pen display. I love it for a lot of things but do find it slows me down when trying to a lot of common functions. Thank you for the amazing content you always give great advice!
You're awesome, thank you so much for your work on education! I actually follow you using maybe one or two more of my YT accounts, just so I never miss your videos 😅
Hey Chad that was really a helpful video for me! Many days I was looking into the alpha mask node. Heay Chad how to change the fusion timeline to frames, ain't know but accidentally I have changed it to time view. Thank you in advance.
I am experiencing some extreme lag when I load the DWA 256. Just in case this matters, I am a stop motion artist using 8K time sequences on PC. To my knowledge, I am using an efficient workflow with proxy media. The original time sequence file doesn't lag, but when I load the DWA 256, it is not possible to edit. Just found your page and am diving into your tutorials. Thank you for your knowledge!
9:46 wait wait so when working in linear, would it be better to do a CST before the Magic Mask to go from linear to srgb or rec709 better results and deleting that CST when we have our mask saved?
Is there any way to cut out all unneeded spacing from a dialogue recording at once? I end up with a lot of spacing between my breaths when dialoguing or when I start talking again from not talking for a second or 2. Is there a plug in to cut that out all at once from a timeline?
Man I really wish I found this last night when I encountered a problem. I used magic mask in the color page, and went back to the edit page to use the transform tools and mess with positions x and y and rotation of the mask, but every time I tried to keyframe the transform, I’d have to go back into color page and track the mask all over again. I couldn’t even see how I was adjusting the clip with transform, I had to guess. Can I use a saver node on the color page too? Or should I just select the clip and render in place?
Lol dude I'm just 56 secs in and you already cleared a problem I had with exr files. I was ready to say : why can't we just use the saver node with JPEG or PNG... You mentioned the bitmap node and I have a feeling that you can have light exr files by only storing the alpha matte? Now I'll finish the video and see if it's correct lol.
Love the technique! Im having some trouble, though. As soon as I add the mask paint node and flick it to, the preview screen, everything turns solid white. How do i fix that so i can start painting my alpha matte??!
I made a request on the Resolve forum a while back to be able to manually save the Magic Mask data to a location and file name of our choosing instead of only saving it to the cache folder (my request thread is called "Magic Mask Data Export/Import"). While I feel this would be best, your method is a very nice work around in the mean time. Thank you!
Sorry, but the saver folder creation is tough to follow. Did you make a folder, name it, and then literally name it again to add "..exr"? And is adding that a feature that will line it up on any system? Or would it be prudent for most of us to just name it the same as the media file and add the frame range in the name?
When using Dual Screen layout (as I do), Mid-Flow Vertical is not available. Are you aware of any way to induce a vertical workflow when in the dual screen layout??
Excellent stuff again from Chadwick. Multi-outputtting from source clip, a resource saver. I see others calling their tutorials Hollywood style VFX and it is a bloody cartoon cat. Fusion can do some amazing stuff. Look at Rony Soussons' walkthroughs of the effects he did on the movie Anonymous. But we get pieces of toast, Star Wars recreations in a field. I don't mean to denigrate people, but we could do with the next level Andrew Kramer for Resolve/ Fusion without his corny jokes. 😁
Hey man! I've been wanting to set up Fusion the way that you have it for the longest time just didn't think it was possible! How can I shift the windows around like that?
Great breakdown. Learned some golden nuggets on this one. Question why is tracking and magic mask twice as fast in the color page when compared to Fusion? Also any downside to exporting a ProRes 4444XQ with alpha instead of an EXR sequence? Thanks for your hard work making Fusion something less than Greek.
Love that feedback. I'm not sure about the speed between Fusion and Color. I haven't tested that. However, I did notice it faster in Resolve 19 than 18. It also could be if you have a lower res timeline, and that the color page is working on your timeline resolution? possibly? Regarding ProRes - that is a good method too, especially on macs with prores encoders. For ProRes I would render on the delivery page, and make sure to check the box at the very bottom of the advanced dropdown to disable sizing from the edit page. The deliver page retains timecode, vs render in place and saver doesn't support .MOV
@@CreativeVideoTips thanks for the reply. Nice to know that 19 is a little bit faster. In my speed test, it was same resolution same clip and the color page took half the time, but I’ll test again in 19 once we go live with it in our production. lately, I’ve just found it easier to generate my magic masks, and mattes inside of Color then render those out and bring them into Fusion just because of the speed of the mask tracking. Keep up your hard work. I’ve benefited a ton from your Tuts. Thanks heaps.
Instead of using the Garbage Matte input on the Clean Plate, I use the "Ranges" mode. My saved default uses Ranges and has Fill checked, so whenever I pipe something into a Clean Plate, it fills any transparency instantly and automagically. So far it has save me dozens of seconds and that amount is just ticking up. The good life.
What do I need to connect to the MediaOut node if I want only the masked person to appear on edit page? If I connect MaskPaint or Bitmap nodes I just get the black and white masks appearing.
Great video! I have a GPU error message that appears whenever I try to use magic mask in the color page, I haven't tried in fusion yet... Anyone know why this happens? I have the latest version of resolve Studio and a good PC so I don't get it
How do you put the node tree on the right ??? I really need to use nodes vertically because it’s so hard for me to read them, especially because I come from After Effects
@@TransformXRED instead of having to use nodes like Saver/Loader, you can just click "Freeze" and it freezes the mask, no matter if you close the program, delete cache or whatever, it doesn't DELETE the mask like in fusion
Can you do easy to follow tutorials ( Ideally for noobs ) on Removing Background, Blurring background, Replacing Background, Darkening or lightening background on Combat sports fighters? They tend to strike/move quick and basic magic mask will fail most of the time. It would be great if you could do tutorials magic masking on Boxers , Kick-boxers, Muay Thai fighters, MMA fighters, Lethwei fighters, Karate fighters, etc. Thanks.
you could do the same method with a saver node - however you don't really need to, they don't store much data like magic mask. Is there a use case I haven't covered here?
@ I think Imit was because the folder name didn’t match exactly the exr name. 🤷🏽♂️. But then it became a “WARNING Last render did not complete” situation. I ended up making an Apple ProRes 4444xq render of the mask and using that instead. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I’m learning so much.
If I had you as a teacher for everything, I might have gotten into MIT. I don't know how you're doing that. It's uncanny. I'm learning like a normal person what the hell is going on
fyi: what you refer to as the "double erode trick" is a known morphological operation (closing/opening, closing in your case): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_(morphology)
This is the most detailed, constructive, advanced, full of tip fusion tutorials out there. Plleeeeeeease keep posting new lessons they are incredible
Holy cow, THIS is how I’m masking clips going forward. No more re-tracking, and the techniques for cleaning up glitches… absolutely love it. I’m an old Photoshop guy and a master at building complex masks, so what you showed made perfect sense and is exactly what I was looking for. Nice job sir!
My thoughts exactly - first time have visited this channel - fantastic!
Stop lying, you're not a master of anything!
Yay! Me too! Saving alpha masks in PS and reload saved masks! This tutorial rocks!
no one is gonna say he is filming this at 5:50 am lol
Wow, this is the level I wish more tutorials were at! I love seeing how an actual pro does actual pro things! Your pacing and handling of all the details was spot on, I found it easy to follow for sure. Great work and big thanks!
Wow, thanks! This feedback helps me know that I don't need to rush through things.
So many great small tricks you shared in this vid as well as a very beginner friendly explanation, great stuff
I see you everywhere and I love it. Been subscribed for a little while now. Hope to get more videos from you soon, maybe some more on anim curves cause i'm just struggling to fully wrap my head around how to actually use it to make the type of camera shake i'm looking for. I know you have a video that touches on it but I would love a deeper break down. Thanks for the content
Bro, I'm only a minute into this video, and I'm already so pumped. The magic mask saver node alone is about to improve my life, everything else is icing!
Glad to hear it!
you're a freaking doctor of fusion! watching this is like reading philosophyy for the first time...mind blowing!
This was great. I have been looking for solid info on how to paint a mask for sooo long! This is a tutorial that gets into foundation level stuff for making comps that's really important. Thanks!
Perfect timing was just about to search for video that explains masking in Resolve in more detail when this popped up in my subscriptions. Perfect timing!
This is the best instructional video on masking in Resolve I have seen yet. Best 40 minutes I have ever spent on RUclips. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
wow thank you for the kind words, I will be sure to do more on masking in the future
The node you drew is really beautiful.
Thank you for the classes, Chad. I'm a film student, and love VFX (been fiddling with Blender and AE for some time now) and made the transition to Davinci for good a couple years ago, it's really good to see well written and put together lessons like yours, specially the extra tips at the end. Would love to see more VFX oriented videos in the future! I'll subscribe and will keep an eye on your channel. Cheers!
Not sure how long I've been subscribed to your channel Chadwick but the content is always 5star but this just peaks even beyond, brilliant work mate thank you.
This just might be the best Resolve/Fusion video I've ever seen. You've answered some questions I had, and also gave me some solutions to issues I ran into. Thank you so much! These detailed and relaxed video's are great!
Incredible that someone has taken the time to explain how the new app works and also gives us a lesson on codecs, explaining why Blackmagic included h.254/h.265 considering how poor they were in the past for editing.
But best of all, it's the time you take to generate and correct the subtitles. The automatically generated ones are slow, out of sync, inaccurate and when you want to translate them into your language, everything gets worse...
The corrected ones make life easier for non-native English speakers.
Thanks for the tutorial, thanks for the channel and thanks for taking the time to explain everything you know!!!
So many questions not just getting answered but also announced early so we know what we're getting in advance 👏 That has to be the most useful intro to a Da Vinci tutorial I've seen yet. Easy sub!
No more Magic Mask Re-Tracking, and the glitch cleanup techniques are great. I found the method you showed me to be exactly what I needed. Thanks
Amazing video. I’m a color page guy and this opens all sorts of solutions to stuff and gave be a way better starting point for how fusion works and then integrates into the color page. Now gonna watch everything else you have.
So cool to hear this opened up some possibilities for you. Creating accurate masks is a specialty for Fusion - more to come soon.
I was trying to figure out how to do a lot of this last week and wasn't successful, really glad I came across this video, great tutorial!
Its been a struggle for me too since the magic mask came out - glad this helped.
man you always show me so many things i had no idea i could do, and i been using resolve for 4 years now. keep em coming, i always watch.
You rock
The quality of this lesson and your willingness to put it together is astounding. Thank you!
Thank you so much. You're the only channel that I feel I'm still learning from. Like I learn bits and bobs here and there but when you do one it's a bombshell. I started off watching you when I was a beginner and it seems like your tutorials have just kept up. Love your work thank you.
Hey man your videos are lifesavers!
Question and a request
- how did you learn all this stuff without people like you on RUclips?
Request
- a video about what tools you would learn “in order” if you were starting fresh on fusion and trying to get to a good proficiency.
The most useful part of this kind of video is it tells me about tools and tips I would never ever think to look for or even know existed. Thanks dude! Keep going.
Hey thank you so much! I spend a lot of time in this software, like a lot more than most folks - I'm a dork that's led me down a lot of rabbit holes with my commercial work. Good suggestion about fusion - there are many fundamentals that are easy to miss when someone just wants to learn a cool effect. I'll be sure to get some of those posted this fall. I'm also in production of a fusion course.
Thanks for education! your videos are always very informative!
My pleasure!
Chadwick, thank you so much for effort you put into this kind of advanced tutorials. This is exactly what I’m especially interested in. Do you have a separate video about a workflow for graphic tablet with Resolve? Looks so exciting! Thanks!
You are very welcome - thanks for taking time to listen to me ramble. A wacom specific video is still in my to do list, and hopefully can have that out in late July or August.
Oh wow, this is a masterclass 😮 thank you 😊
Thank you!
That was brilliant!
I've been doing very similar stuff, isolating people from background with magic mask, blurring parts of the background and then applying the unmasked people over the top, but as someone who has never really got to grips with fusion (or had any training), I've been doing it all in the colour tab, and to say that I get fed up with frame stepping and adding new includes and excludes on the magic magic to fix glitches, would be an understatement!
Thank you so much, I learnt lots...
BTW, I'm curious about your flicking nodes onto the preview window, I thought pressing 1 or 2 was the shortcut for that (about the only fusion I know! lol!)
thanks so much for watching - regarding seeing before after - watch the part about the A/B buffers - you can load each buffer in the same viewer - then use command and comma to toggle between buffers. 1 and 2 are different viewers, I typically just just viewer 2, and work very zoomed in.
This is awesome Chadwick. Not too fast, absolutely perfect. Give us more ;)
Great stuff as always. This is pretty much how I use magic mask in fusion. If want, you can skip the bitmap node and click ‘use alpha on rbg’ in saver node. Will do the same thing as the bitmap node.
Can you make a video sharing your experience and tips for using a drawing tablet in DaVinci Resolve or for other purposes? Your videos help me a lot, thanks!
SO many great tips. Thanks Chadwick!
Thank you so much.
You are absolutely right when you say that Magic Mask should not be used on log footage. If I use pre-graded clips, this can of course interfere with the color grading. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply integrate Fusion's own color corrector into the bitmap pipeline and thus save yourself the trouble of pre-processing the clips?
Funny enough I had a longer version of this demo that shows how I sandwich footage between 2 aces nodes, but then it was even longer. If the footage is flat, I convert it with ACES transform (or cst) into linear, do all the fusion stuff, and then reverse it before rendering out to media out.
@@CreativeVideoTips Yes, there are always things that you have to leave out. Ultimately, it also depends on the working conditions under which you work with Davinci Resolve. Small solo creators often want to jump back and forth freely between the pages, constantly design their workflows differently and are then always disappointed with Resolve when it is not completely flexible in certain workflows. (They suffer a lot with multicam audio editing.) Anyone who works with different departments is aware that there always has to be a certain status so that the other departments can continue to work with it. The fusion handles in your video are a good example of this. I really like the fact that more emphasis is now being placed on structured work with DVR, not just on individual techniques. I find channels like those of Chris Roberts or Joshua Kirk - along with yours - very useful.
@@CreativeVideoTips Is there anyway you could elaborate on this or show it, It's a huge part of the workflow
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
This is amazing! Finally found a talented creative that is so detailed! I hope someday there will be a tutorial that will teach you how to replace a section and morph the image to the moving shot. Example. A caravan has 2 models, one with a rear spoiler and another with no rear spoiler. How can I add the spoiler to the caravan (wide angle, parallax movement left to right, or wide angle slow punch in). 🙏 Keep up the good work! I'll definitely donate something once I get paid from these projects! God Bless you
you are amazing - thank you. This would be a bit involved but the tool you want to learn all about is called the grid warp in Fusion - it can do so much more then any tutorial i've seen on it.
Very cool and makes my live more easy. Yesterday I worked for a german Broadcast TV Station and I rerender my Fusion Magiy Mask very often 😋. So many thanks for your clip❤🎉
Pleaseee do a video showing tips and tricks for using a pen tablet in davinci, like how you have your shortcuts setup, how do you zoom and do stuff like that you would usually do on a mouse, or just any general info on making your workflow with it more efficient. I haven’t been able to find any good videos that talk about that and I recently just got a wacom one 13 pen display. I love it for a lot of things but do find it slows me down when trying to a lot of common functions. Thank you for the amazing content you always give great advice!
No problem - this has been requested all year - It's the next video I'll post - hopefully out by next Friday at the latest.
@@CreativeVideoTips Thank you so much can wait to see it!
These are some great tips. Thanks!
You're so welcome!
Awesome. Thanks. Sharing this on the Fusion forum tutorials section. So I can reference it when people ask about Magic Mask and cache.
You're awesome, thank you so much for your work on education! I actually follow you using maybe one or two more of my YT accounts, just so I never miss your videos 😅
Excellent tutorial I will have to watch this a couple of times to take it all in.
Glad it was helpful! I hope the chapter marks make it easy to navigate.
Excellent! There’s tons of value here. Well done!
Thank you kindly!
Hey Chad that was really a helpful video for me! Many days I was looking into the alpha mask node. Heay Chad how to change the fusion timeline to frames, ain't know but accidentally I have changed it to time view. Thank you in advance.
Great to hear! Frame to Timecode display is in the Fusion Settings. It takes getting use to, but frames makes a lot more sense for compositing.
ay man thanks so much taking your time to make this tutorial.
I am experiencing some extreme lag when I load the DWA 256. Just in case this matters, I am a stop motion artist using 8K time sequences on PC. To my knowledge, I am using an efficient workflow with proxy media. The original time sequence file doesn't lag, but when I load the DWA 256, it is not possible to edit. Just found your page and am diving into your tutorials. Thank you for your knowledge!
Thank you for this gold! RUclips is like Goldilocks and Three Bears and these video are “just right” 🙌
I took away so much from this, incredible work!
Amazing tutorial. suited for nerds like me. There were may tricks I learned from this. Thanks!
This was such a useful video. Thank you so much for this. 🙏
thank you so much, for this video you saved me a lot of time and stress, you are incredible
Great tutorial, really useful stuff
9:46 wait wait so when working in linear, would it be better to do a CST before the Magic Mask to go from linear to srgb or rec709 better results and deleting that CST when we have our mask saved?
Magic Mask, and tracking seem to work better on "display" images so 709, sRGB vs "scene" images like linear, log etc...
havent watched it yet but it is amazing!!!!
What a useful video! Thanks!
Fabulous tutorial Chad, thanks
Thank you!
Great tutorial as always... 💯👌
Thank you! Cheers!
This is such useful stuff, thank you!
Is there any way to cut out all unneeded spacing from a dialogue recording at once? I end up with a lot of spacing between my breaths when dialoguing or when I start talking again from not talking for a second or 2. Is there a plug in to cut that out all at once from a timeline?
Great tutorial, Thank you!
You are welcome!
Man I really wish I found this last night when I encountered a problem. I used magic mask in the color page, and went back to the edit page to use the transform tools and mess with positions x and y and rotation of the mask, but every time I tried to keyframe the transform, I’d have to go back into color page and track the mask all over again. I couldn’t even see how I was adjusting the clip with transform, I had to guess. Can I use a saver node on the color page too? Or should I just select the clip and render in place?
Lol dude I'm just 56 secs in and you already cleared a problem I had with exr files.
I was ready to say : why can't we just use the saver node with JPEG or PNG...
You mentioned the bitmap node and I have a feeling that you can have light exr files by only storing the alpha matte?
Now I'll finish the video and see if it's correct lol.
Love the technique! Im having some trouble, though. As soon as I add the mask paint node and flick it to, the preview screen, everything turns solid white. How do i fix that so i can start painting my alpha matte??!
Very Helpful, thank you so much😃
Glad it was helpful!
I made a request on the Resolve forum a while back to be able to manually save the Magic Mask data to a location and file name of our choosing instead of only saving it to the cache folder (my request thread is called "Magic Mask Data Export/Import"). While I feel this would be best, your method is a very nice work around in the mean time. Thank you!
Thank you. amazing value here.
Sorry, but the saver folder creation is tough to follow. Did you make a folder, name it, and then literally name it again to add "..exr"? And is adding that a feature that will line it up on any system?
Or would it be prudent for most of us to just name it the same as the media file and add the frame range in the name?
When using Dual Screen layout (as I do), Mid-Flow Vertical is not available. Are you aware of any way to induce a vertical workflow when in the dual screen layout??
Excellent stuff again from Chadwick. Multi-outputtting from source clip, a resource saver. I see others calling their tutorials Hollywood style VFX and it is a bloody cartoon cat. Fusion can do some amazing stuff. Look at Rony Soussons' walkthroughs of the effects he did on the movie Anonymous. But we get pieces of toast, Star Wars recreations in a field. I don't mean to denigrate people, but we could do with the next level Andrew Kramer for Resolve/ Fusion without his corny jokes. 😁
Hey man! I've been wanting to set up Fusion the way that you have it for the longest time just didn't think it was possible! How can I shift the windows around like that?
you literally mention how to do it in the video. I just got excited and commented befre you got there. DISREGARD
@@HeadKanon yeah its the best. Go to workspace. Layouts presets. Fusion presets. Mid Flow Vertical.
Amazing. Thanks so much!
Very good. I knew some of it, but repetitionlearning is the way to go on my side of the 40 year old fence.
Show the nuances of working with a temple with an uneven background and how to properly get rid of flaws.
Great breakdown. Learned some golden nuggets on this one. Question why is tracking and magic mask twice as fast in the color page when compared to Fusion? Also any downside to exporting a ProRes 4444XQ with alpha instead of an EXR sequence? Thanks for your hard work making Fusion something less than Greek.
Love that feedback. I'm not sure about the speed between Fusion and Color. I haven't tested that. However, I did notice it faster in Resolve 19 than 18. It also could be if you have a lower res timeline, and that the color page is working on your timeline resolution? possibly?
Regarding ProRes - that is a good method too, especially on macs with prores encoders. For ProRes I would render on the delivery page, and make sure to check the box at the very bottom of the advanced dropdown to disable sizing from the edit page. The deliver page retains timecode, vs render in place and saver doesn't support .MOV
@@CreativeVideoTips thanks for the reply. Nice to know that 19 is a little bit faster. In my speed test, it was same resolution same clip and the color page took half the time, but I’ll test again in 19 once we go live with it in our production. lately, I’ve just found it easier to generate my magic masks, and mattes inside of Color then render those out and bring them into Fusion just because of the speed of the mask tracking. Keep up your hard work. I’ve benefited a ton from your Tuts. Thanks heaps.
what is the sweet mouse pointer thing your using? i really like the little zoom funtion it has
its an app called cursor pro - glad you like it
Instead of using the Garbage Matte input on the Clean Plate, I use the "Ranges" mode. My saved default uses Ranges and has Fill checked, so whenever I pipe something into a Clean Plate, it fills any transparency instantly and automagically. So far it has save me dozens of seconds and that amount is just ticking up. The good life.
Mindblowing, thank u so much
What do I need to connect to the MediaOut node if I want only the masked person to appear on edit page? If I connect MaskPaint or Bitmap nodes I just get the black and white masks appearing.
Thank you very much, best explanation 👍
Thanks for the kind feedback.
Where can I find the video used in the movie?
Blackmagic must put clear buttons for submenus, instead of right clicking in areas you would never thought of.
Great video! I have a GPU error message that appears whenever I try to use magic mask in the color page, I haven't tried in fusion yet... Anyone know why this happens? I have the latest version of resolve Studio and a good PC so I don't get it
How do you put the node tree on the right ???
I really need to use nodes vertically because it’s so hard for me to read them, especially because I come from After Effects
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@@jensgeumann7564 Damn lol i totally missed this ! Thanks 🙏🏾
Im getting an issue where the saver always misses the first frame of my clip.. do u know why this is?
Resolve really needs to come with a "Freeze" button as in After effects
please .
What's that
@@TransformXRED instead of having to use nodes like Saver/Loader, you can just click "Freeze" and it freezes the mask, no matter if you close the program, delete cache or whatever, it doesn't DELETE the mask like in fusion
Fusion already comes with something like that which is the "Cache do disk" option that every node has.
@@rano12321 I have already tried it, it still doesn't save the mask
you won my heart.
Can you do easy to follow tutorials ( Ideally for noobs ) on Removing Background, Blurring background, Replacing Background, Darkening or lightening background on Combat sports fighters? They tend to strike/move quick and basic magic mask will fail most of the time. It would be great if you could do tutorials magic masking on Boxers , Kick-boxers, Muay Thai fighters, MMA fighters, Lethwei fighters, Karate fighters, etc. Thanks.
Great Great Video! thank you
Epic. Thanks.
Wouldn't cashing to disk save the magic mask?
Thanks for sharing when you don't have to, cheers mate.
You bet - I'll always keep sharing if cool people still want to learn.
Is there way to save regular masks?
you could do the same method with a saver node - however you don't really need to, they don't store much data like magic mask. Is there a use case I haven't covered here?
@@CreativeVideoTips my apologies, found out it was power windows that I wanted to save . Which I did but for the life of me I cant get them to apply .
YOU ARE THE GOAT
My "Render al Savers" is disable, I cant make it work, any sugestions?
I think this is a new bug in 19.1.1 - are you on the newest version? If so can you post on the bmd forum?
@ I think Imit was because the folder name didn’t match exactly the exr name. 🤷🏽♂️. But then it became a “WARNING Last render did not complete” situation.
I ended up making an Apple ProRes 4444xq render of the mask and using that instead.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I’m learning so much.
@ I learn just as much from the comments. Glad it worked. Thanks
If I had you as a teacher for everything, I might have gotten into MIT. I don't know how you're doing that. It's uncanny. I'm learning like a normal person what the hell is going on
Круто, спасибо!
you have my abo and my like
Great video! But the instructions got a little confusing and now I'm blue, naked under a bridge looking for a magic mask.
Just wasted DAYS with magic mask errors !!!! and i should have done this. For next time :)
I feel ya. Good luck on the next one.
fyi: what you refer to as the "double erode trick" is a known morphological operation (closing/opening, closing in your case): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_(morphology)
Thanks!
Thanks!