Hey Jay - This is something that I would bet a lot of new users are definitely confused about, so you picked a great topic. I see people in the facebook forums that ask about this stuff all the time. Anybody that frequents those forums and likes to help other people, should copy and store the shortcut link to this video, and when the topic comes up, they can just link to your video. The little things I would have mentioned, are that probably the most used example of using mattes - especially for users of the free version of Resolve is for “ Film Grain“. The no mention of it for new users might lead them to think that this technique is different and there is some other way of adding film grain ( in Resolve there always is other ways to do everything ). There are tons of free 4k film grain of all types where you can add the matte to the timeline node and be done. It is also way less computer processing. There are a lot of pros that still use that method in their workflows. The other question I see in the facebook forums is “How do I render alpha”? I have only had to actually save clips with alpha a few times ever, but it seems other people want to do that, and they have no idea which codec or settings are required to do so. Also the composite mode on video tracks , might be a tutorial all on it’s own. Most people I think without prior Photoshop or graphics background don’t really know what and why the list for composite blending modes are for - and have a tendency to just put a layer node on and play with it. The blending modes actually are designed with some of the same similarities as the mattes - where it is sectioned to use by affecting below middle grey or above middle grey etc. Good job explaining this stuff here - You have probably given some insight to a lot of people - and of course that is the point of it all. Cheers - chat with ya at the next live event.
Thanks so much Jim! I definitely should have grabbed some film grain mattes and used those. Total missed opportunity there! But theres still a chance for a composite mode video, so thanks for that great idea! That's going on the list for sure!
This is great. Thank you. Regarding Adding Mattes in the colour page: Now I see how it's done, it's easy. But supposing I'd never seen this tutorial and I tried to figure it out from scratch by using the manual... what would I be looking up? If you have time, please go to the manual and see if you can find where the information is (you probably will, I didn't). This is why I'm so grateful for these RUclips tutorials. Many times I've search through the manual, done keyword searches, but still can't find what I'm looking for. Which is why I'm interested to know if you can find the relevant information directly in the manual. Looking forward to getting some responses of _found_ manual pages (the one's I missed).
This is THE tutorial everyone needs when dealing with Magic Masks! I thought I was going coo-coo-bananas because I kept losing my tracks!!! Thumbs way up ! Good job my man! Really, extremely helpful!
Great to see the channel growing, Jay. Been following since well under 10k subs. Just wanted to say, had it not been for all these excellent tutorials, I'd have never had the balls to make the jump to Resolve Studio. Been with it for so long now, I find working in Vegas to be more of an uphill battle, despite using it for 10+ years, lol. Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work, man!
Great video man. I’m trying to find way to remove all the black from an image so that I can print that image on a black tshirt and the black tshirt will fill in the black parts of the image. Can I do this with davinci resolve? Can you point me in the right direction on how this is done?
This video was so helpful! I didn't know how to do this in Davinci. thanks Jay! HOWEVER… I have some discrepancies regarding the terms you use in this video 😬. As far as I know the bigger concept is Track matte. And then Track mattes are divided into Luma matte (creating an alpha channel taking the luminance values from other footage) and Alpha matte (applying the alpha channel from a footage into another footage, like making text windows). The UFO example is a Luma matte, because you're creating an alpha channel using the luminance values from the runwayml clip. Now, if you want to create an alpha channel with an alpha matte, you could use (for example) the alpha channel the UFO footage already has to mask out the rest of the image. Take this comment as a contribution I make to your channel. I love your content and I don't want to sound disrespectful, I just think that this information might help you in the future. Cheers.
@@JayLippman or maybe concepts change according to the environment. I was "raised" inside After effects 😂 anyways, thanks for taking the time to read my comment and reply.
I was searching on youtube for color grading tips to get the image to look "matte" kinda like yours but this is a totally different thing lol. But since im here i might as well just ask. How do you color grade your videos to achieve that "soft" look? Thanks.
great video and thank you for posting, I have a question about alpha mattes that aren't aligned to TC. We created our alpha mattes during filming and recorded them to a Hyperdeck, which was supposedly time code synced. However looking at the clips, I can see none of the alpha mattes received the TC. The problem now is that our tech was hitting record prior to camera recording, and so in Resolve when I add the matte in the Color page, the matte doesn't actually line up to the playback. (This was where time code sync was SUPPOSED to solve this issue) Is there a way I can adjust the ins and outs of these mattes on the nodes in the Color page? Any suggestions on best way to work through it? Thanks!
You can use rotoscoping and/or colour selections to isolate the man in a Davinci colour node. Roll off set until your selection is white. Create an outside node and drag offset until the background is completely black. Refine using the key cleaning tools e.g. clean black, soft. Export the black and white clip. Then import this new b/w clip as a matte and continue as he shows here
@@JayLippman Do you remember during your late night live stream that I mentioned about having a nightmare trying to match shots on different days before and after sunset, for my first time? I'd be most honoured if you took a few moments to watch it. Three days of my life went into editing just 13 minutes.😂
@@JayLippman Unfortunately, I have never signed up to any of the main social media platforms. Its just RUclips and Flicker for me. That may have something to do with fact of having tens of subs after having a RUclips channel for 15 years. 😂 Doh! If you get a moment, its the most recent episode on my channel.
This is garbage. not your vid, but resolve. there is no "add matte" when I right click. Thats not even the issue. Why is this so difficult. FCP 2 had a luma matte key you would drop on the footage and tell it which piece of footage was the matte. why does it need to be this difficult.
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thank you for this lesson! I watched a few ones and couldnt understand but your lesson really helped me, thank you!
Thank you! I'm italian and i'm looking for a good DaVinci Resolve teacher: you're perfect 'cause your speech is really easy to understand!!!
Jay you have no idea how your video saved my butt!
Why does Davinci make things so complicated?
A huge thank you to you
It's like you read my mind--I was just trying to figure out how to do these exact things! Thank you for another AWESOME video, Jay!
Now problem! Thank you so much for watching!
Hey Jay -
This is something that I would bet a lot of new users are definitely confused about, so you picked a great topic. I see people in the facebook forums that ask about this stuff all the time.
Anybody that frequents those forums and likes to help other people, should copy and store the shortcut link to this video, and when the topic comes up, they can just link to your video.
The little things I would have mentioned, are that probably the most used example of using mattes - especially for users of the free version of Resolve is for “ Film Grain“. The no mention of it for new users might lead them to think that this technique is different and there is some other way of adding film grain ( in Resolve there always is other ways to do everything ).
There are tons of free 4k film grain of all types where you can add the matte to the timeline node and be done. It is also way less computer processing. There are a lot of pros that still use that method in their workflows.
The other question I see in the facebook forums is “How do I render alpha”? I have only had to actually save clips with alpha a few times ever, but it seems other people want to do that, and they have no idea which codec or settings are required to do so.
Also the composite mode on video tracks , might be a tutorial all on it’s own. Most people I think without prior Photoshop or graphics background don’t really know what and why the list for composite blending modes are for - and have a tendency to just put a layer node on and play with it. The blending modes actually are designed with some of the same similarities as the mattes - where it is sectioned to use by affecting below middle grey or above middle grey etc.
Good job explaining this stuff here - You have probably given some insight to a lot of people - and of course that is the point of it all.
Cheers - chat with ya at the next live event.
Thanks so much Jim! I definitely should have grabbed some film grain mattes and used those. Total missed opportunity there! But theres still a chance for a composite mode video, so thanks for that great idea! That's going on the list for sure!
Thank yo so much 😭
This is great. Thank you. Regarding Adding Mattes in the colour page: Now I see how it's done, it's easy. But supposing I'd never seen this tutorial and I tried to figure it out from scratch by using the manual... what would I be looking up? If you have time, please go to the manual and see if you can find where the information is (you probably will, I didn't).
This is why I'm so grateful for these RUclips tutorials. Many times I've search through the manual, done keyword searches, but still can't find what I'm looking for. Which is why I'm interested to know if you can find the relevant information directly in the manual.
Looking forward to getting some responses of _found_ manual pages (the one's I missed).
Needed this, thank you sjr
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Hi Jay, Many Thanks for sharing your knowledge, really important topic thanks !!!!
This video was really helpful, however my matte when I add in colour doesn't animate. It's just the first frame from my matte video.
This is THE tutorial everyone needs when dealing with Magic Masks! I thought I was going coo-coo-bananas because I kept losing my tracks!!! Thumbs way up ! Good job my man! Really, extremely helpful!
You should clarify that this is ONLY for color page. What about Matte in fusion page
Wow that's really amazing. I hope I have time someday to sit down and figure out how to do that
Thanks Dave! Yeah learning how to mattes opens up a whole new world of options!
Great to see the channel growing, Jay. Been following since well under 10k subs. Just wanted to say, had it not been for all these excellent tutorials, I'd have never had the balls to make the jump to Resolve Studio. Been with it for so long now, I find working in Vegas to be more of an uphill battle, despite using it for 10+ years, lol.
Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work, man!
I appreciate that! Thank you so much!!
Great video man. I’m trying to find way to remove all the black from an image so that I can print that image on a black tshirt and the black tshirt will fill in the black parts of the image. Can I do this with davinci resolve? Can you point me in the right direction on how this is done?
This video was so helpful! I didn't know how to do this in Davinci. thanks Jay!
HOWEVER… I have some discrepancies regarding the terms you use in this video 😬.
As far as I know the bigger concept is Track matte. And then Track mattes are divided into Luma matte (creating an alpha channel taking the luminance values from other footage) and Alpha matte (applying the alpha channel from a footage into another footage, like making text windows).
The UFO example is a Luma matte, because you're creating an alpha channel using the luminance values from the runwayml clip.
Now, if you want to create an alpha channel with an alpha matte, you could use (for example) the alpha channel the UFO footage already has to mask out the rest of the image.
Take this comment as a contribution I make to your channel. I love your content and I don't want to sound disrespectful, I just think that this information might help you in the future.
Cheers.
I spent the weekend looking into this, and I think you might be right lol. I was always taught differently! Thanks for the heads up!
@@JayLippman or maybe concepts change according to the environment. I was "raised" inside After effects 😂 anyways, thanks for taking the time to read my comment and reply.
Thanks man!
this will probably be useful
Good stuff. 👍👍
How would you use a matte in the fusion page?
Look for that video in Week 2 of 2024!
What if i have a sequence of png that i need to import like matte, they import like split image
Thank you
I was searching on youtube for color grading tips to get the image to look "matte" kinda like yours but this is a totally different thing lol.
But since im here i might as well just ask.
How do you color grade your videos to achieve that "soft" look? Thanks.
Actually nevermind i found your tutorial video from your playlist. Super super helpful. Thanks a bunch. Subscribed :D
Wait how did you cut, I thought you can only use the split tool inside of the cut page to cut
How do I add an alpha node? I righted clicked but the option didn't show up
Is there any way to use parallax to automate rotoscoping?
How did you make the Luma matte tho? you kind of already had them ready before showing how u made those base layers
Those I made in RunwayML in the previous week's video. This video was about working with them, not making them.
i should really start naming my compound clips..
great video and thank you for posting, I have a question about alpha mattes that aren't aligned to TC. We created our alpha mattes during filming and recorded them to a Hyperdeck, which was supposedly time code synced. However looking at the clips, I can see none of the alpha mattes received the TC. The problem now is that our tech was hitting record prior to camera recording, and so in Resolve when I add the matte in the Color page, the matte doesn't actually line up to the playback. (This was where time code sync was SUPPOSED to solve this issue)
Is there a way I can adjust the ins and outs of these mattes on the nodes in the Color page? Any suggestions on best way to work through it? Thanks!
I'm going to be matte if I don't see a UFO whenever I'll be in NYC
Bwahahahahahaha best comment ever
@@JayLippman thank you for loving my dumb jokes
@Lila thank you for telling them
How did you get that silhouette alpha matte of that man
Can I do it in Resolve?
You can use rotoscoping and/or colour selections to isolate the man in a Davinci colour node. Roll off set until your selection is white. Create an outside node and drag offset until the background is completely black. Refine using the key cleaning tools e.g. clean black, soft. Export the black and white clip. Then import this new b/w clip as a matte and continue as he shows here
You are definitely getting 'value for money' with the man walking in the park 😂
🤣🤣🤣 he's becoming a constant companion lol
@@JayLippman Do you remember during your late night live stream that I mentioned about having a nightmare trying to match shots on different days before and after sunset, for my first time?
I'd be most honoured if you took a few moments to watch it. Three days of my life went into editing just 13 minutes.😂
Hahaha absolutely man! Shoot me a DM on Instagram, Twitter, or Discord!
@@JayLippman Unfortunately, I have never signed up to any of the main social media platforms. Its just RUclips and Flicker for me. That may have something to do with fact of having tens of subs after having a RUclips channel for 15 years. 😂
Doh!
If you get a moment, its the most recent episode on my channel.
would u do a video on vegas stream
Maybe!! I kinda want to. Ill see if I can get my hands on a copy.
@@JayLippman thanks
This is garbage. not your vid, but resolve. there is no "add matte" when I right click. Thats not even the issue. Why is this so difficult. FCP 2 had a luma matte key you would drop on the footage and tell it which piece of footage was the matte. why does it need to be this difficult.
chummma baby............