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!
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!
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!
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 CZcams. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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❤🎉
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.
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 😅
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.
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.
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!
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. 😁
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.
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.
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??!
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?
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.
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 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
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.
@@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
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
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?
is there anyway to cut up audio in fairlight like adobe audition? where cutting the audio doesn't create new clips???? I want 1 long clip for each voice over section like adobe audition. Please help!
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!
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.
you're a freaking doctor of fusion! watching this is like reading philosophyy for the first time...mind blowing!
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!
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!
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 CZcams. 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
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.
The node you drew is really beautiful.
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
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.
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.
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
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❤🎉
The quality of this lesson and your willingness to put it together is astounding. 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.
Thank you for this gold! CZcams is like Goldilocks and Three Bears and these video are “just right” 🙌
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
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 😅
Oh wow, this is a masterclass 😮 thank you 😊
Thank you!
Amazing tutorial. suited for nerds like me. There were may tricks I learned from this. Thanks!
SO many great tips. Thanks Chadwick!
Thank you so much.
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.
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.
This is awesome Chadwick. Not too fast, absolutely perfect. Give us more ;)
Awesome. Thanks. Sharing this on the Fusion forum tutorials section. So I can reference it when people ask about Magic Mask and cache.
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.
thank you so much, for this video you saved me a lot of time and stress, you are incredible
Very Helpful, thank you so much😃
Glad it was helpful!
Very good. I knew some of it, but repetitionlearning is the way to go on my side of the 40 year old fence.
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!
havent watched it yet but it is amazing!!!!
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. 😁
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.
@@CreativeVideoTips Is there anyway you could elaborate on this or show it, It's a huge part of the workflow
This is such useful stuff, thank you!
Great tutorial, Thank you!
You are welcome!
What a useful video! Thanks!
Amazing. Thanks so much!
Thank you. amazing value here.
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.
Great tutorial as always... 💯👌
Thank you! Cheers!
These are some great tips. Thanks!
You're so welcome!
no one is gonna say he is filming this at 5:50 am lol
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.
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.
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??!
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?
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.
How do you get the fusion page to display the colors the same way as the "color" page in Resolve 19?
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 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
Great Great Video! thank you
Thanks!
Tell me, where can I buy a pen with a notepad for Win like yours?
YOU ARE THE GOAT
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.
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.
Wouldn't cashing to disk save the magic mask?
Круто, спасибо!
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 have my abo and my like
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 🙏🏾
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.
is there anyway to cut up audio in fairlight like adobe audition? where cutting the audio doesn't create new clips???? I want 1 long clip for each voice over section like adobe audition. Please help!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!