I really like Casey “Ryan Reynolds” Farris. I love Billy Rybka (and that he subtly shares his faith in his videos). JayAreTV is OK, but he puts up too many click bait promos to come pay for his content. And MrAlexTech is really good at explaining things. *You Sir William of the Justice clan, are a Knight wrapped in DaVinci Resolve armor that I didn’t know I needed!* Your style, your articulate cadence of being quick without sounding rushed, depth of knowledge and how easily you explain things to be understood by any level of user - you blow all the test away. I am blessed to have had UA-cam finally put you on my recommended videos. I subbed after the first, and now I’m going back to binge your channel.
Wow... Thanks so much.. .Really appreciate your comments and support. All of those guys are great! I have just been learning, experimenting and making videos as I go. Really glad that you are enjoying them. I have always learned by looking at examples and creating things. I like trying ideas out to see what I can make. Thanks for watching!
Hello? I am a Korean. I am not good at English, but I am learning fusion by watching your tutorial. I am very pleased and grateful with this basic and fundamental education. Other people's tutorials are colorful and wonderful, but they don't convey basic knowledge or principles. I would like to ask for more tutorials to further strengthen the basic skills of nodes in Fusion, Thank you very much.
HI....Your English sounds good. I am definitely planning more tutorials including tutorials on the basics of Fusion. Thanks for watching.... Appreciate your support!
This is an excellant tutorial! I'm learning alot by setting the speed of it to 0.5x and writing it all down in OneNote 😃. BTW, in order to continue to understand what is going on, I had to rename the nodes from the standard names. Maybe this is covered later on as I am only at 5:00 at the present. I have finished this tutorial now and it was beyond excellent. I learned a huge amount!! Thanks so much!!
William, great videos. I appreciate your vast array of knowledge around Davinci Resolve. I am looking to make an effect that involves a thin colored rectangle which opens up as it disappears, to reveal text. Is this possible? and if so, how?
¡Que bárbaro mi chavo! Está picudísimo tu tut. No le das vueltas, lo que dices sirve para hacer cosas de verdad útiles y en doce minutos dejas todo claro y en forma. Resolve vive una oleada importante de gente dando tutoriales y entre todos tu entrega sobresale por efectiva. Ya me suscribí, voy a sacarle jugo a tu esfuerzo. Gracias Saludos desde la mística Xaman Ha.
Excellent video thank you so much!! I am commenting to help bring your vid up higher in the suggested list because this was really eye-opening! Won my sub.
I was struggling for hours before I came across your solution. Thank you for making such a brilliant and in-depth tutorial, even a complete newbie like me was able to follow along 😊
You should have so many subs. Your videos are by far the best tutorials for resolve. I am frantically trying to learn resolve to help my theatre company and you are making that possible! Thank you, so, so much! You are a star!
Appreciate your comments. Glad to hear that you are enjoying my videos! There are always new things to practice and learn. Just trying to get a bit better with each video that I make.
Absolutely amazing. I can follow most things you do, but when you connect a node output to 2 different nodes I struggle to get my head around that. Everything seems so crystal clear & logical to your brain. You remind me of the logical Mr Spock in Star trek. I do tend to watch your videos several times & then create what you have done in Davinci & that makes it somewhat clearer. Please make more of these amazing videos.
Thanks for the comments. Yes, using the output 2 different times is odd, but ends up being very useful. You can have a node and use the output of that node multiple times in different places. Much easier that copying or recreating things. Thanks so much for watching. More videos on the way soon!
During the video I thought how it would be great if you included mask samples along with the tutorial...and then I saw them in description! :) Great effects and great tutorial!
Amazing stuff, I am thoroughly enjoying all your videos so far! I am curious how you created Transition9, is there a video on that by any chance? Cheers
Another amazing tutorial, thanks. I did this fire masking on my own video while I'm talking and it does look fine, but don't get the sound when I play back. Any reason?
Excellent tutorial for a nubie like me. Couldn't get the video in a hexagon video to work without it trimming some of the video, until I downloaded your files and found your hex doesn't reach the top and the bottom of the transparent background. Working in 4K (2160px high), with various shapes, I have found 2000px height of the shape to work well. I tried to colour the background with a ColorCorrector node, but I only seem to be able to get pastel-ish colours. Is there a better node that will give solid colours? RGB adjustments, perhaps?
Hi Jim.... Thanks for your comments.. Yes...my files were in 1080, so they may not have worked exactly how you wanted. Glad you got it figured out. For the background are you wanting to colorize an video or image? Or do you have a background (solid color/gradient) that you are working with. Not sure about the pastel colors or why that would happen. Probably has to do with the background you are colorizing and the settings....What type of adjustments are you wanting to make.
@@JimJimJimJim Got it... Think i understand.... The easiest way to set it up would be to add a background node and color that to the color you want to use. Then drag your mask image into the node area and connect it to the blue (mask input) of the background node. If your hex mask has transparency then the color should only appear where the white part is when you view the background node. If your Hex image is black and when then go the inspector for the background node, click the settings icon and set the channel to luminescence. Basically the background is the color that you want and the mask image is used to set which parts of the background are showing. Hope that helps! Good Luck
@@WilliamJusticeMedia your content is so amazing. I have started learning resolve editing stuff and you have the most comprehensive tutorial that I have ever come across.
I think this great! Definitely using everything in this thank you! but i really just wanted to know how to move an imagen or video clip inside of a mask and i find it very confusing to do something so simple it took 5 seconds to do it in PrePro. as soon as you went into bitmap and your own pre made white template square image i got so lost. I'm very slow and not smart but am always on a time crunch with edits. Sorta new to Davinci and am aggravated a lot with fusion. Any vid recommends of yours that just cover that type of masking and key frame movement?
This was really well done... I have struggled with masking so many times, and so easy go for the luminance channel... brillinat. Thank you. Glad you took the time to share this
Thanks for the tutorial! I really want to move to Resolve but things like this are so frustrating! I'll keep trying but man, I never thought something like a simple mask could be so complicated.
Thanks for your comments. This video was a little bit more advanced... Using black/white/gray scale images as masks. There are definitely quicker/easier ways to setup masking in Resolve. The fastest is to go into fusion and use any of the shapes on the toolbar rectangle, circle....to mask portions of a clip. If you let me know what type of masking you are wanting to do, I can try to help you figure out the most efficient way to set it up.
the issue is not that it is complicated. he said he was moving slowly but assuming you he has made a previous video that goes in depth and slower... this looks like you explaining to me something you have pat down and i first time. i know a bit and was like @.@
Can we create a ''prebuild'' mask like the hexagone one. What I mean by that is everytime I want to started a project, I just can go take my ''crop mask'' already save and just drag it into the project and boom the ''mask file'' is already done. No need to crop every time, and do the same thing over and over again. Sorry for my bad english btw I'm french canadien haha
Hi, The quickest way to do this would be to create a hexagon shape, and move it into the power bins area (this is the area of the media pool that you can use across different projects). When you want to mask something you could bring the clip into fusion, drag in the shape from the power bins and connect it as a mask.
What about something as simple as wanting to mask out a part of an image. I'm just trying to black out a small white light in an image. Been away from Resolve for a while so rusty on everything again.
Thank-you for this... I'm walking away as a new Fusion user with a better understanding of using any sort of external image file as a mask.. I didn't even realize that Fusion's masks were not exactly just black to white grey scale images but actually incorporate an alpha channel. This sort of well thought through, relatively slow paced exploration of how they work was just what I needed. It's sparking some thoughts on some options for creating unique effects - Heading over to Adobe Illustrator to create some components!
This is cool! But now the "ultimate" challenge: can you make half-transparency (as at 3:40) work in Edit page? Seems like it should work out of the box, but in DaVinci it doesn't. Simplified set-up: place empty fusion composition on top (on track above) of some other video on the timeline, add one background node, set it's color to pure red and then color's alpha to 0. Expectation: because alpha = 0, it should be completely invisible and not affect the video below it. Reality: Video is tinted red. Trying to figure this out for a couple of hours already...
Oh, I figured this out minutes after posting a comment. Your setup will (likely) work on the edit page, but simple background node for some reason doesn't and it's still a mystery! The workaround I found is too set color on one background node (with alpha = 1) and then mask it with another background node (with alpha = 0). This setup works on edit page as expected. Still, if you know any better solutions or why it doesn't work as expected, it would be cool to hear. Once again, cool content: more or less advanced stuff is rare here on UA-cam
For the gradient transparency you would definitely need to use fusion,,,,But its possible to get a similar effect directly in the timeline using cropping. In the timeline inspector, enable cropping, Crop your image and then adjust the softness to blend where the crop is happening.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia The question was not about the specific effect, but about the fundamentally weird unexpected behaviour of DaVinci Fusion. I set alpha to 0, so I expected it to be invisible, but it tinted the video underneath it instead. Since posting the question and workaround, I tracked down the problem to alpha-premultiply thing - super confusing part of DaVinci Resolve which doesn't make sense.
Very good tutorial William, I've been following your videos for a while now and you are always improving. I didn't know about those options in the merge node either. I'm so glad you brought that up. Just one consideration about this video, I've noticed you fasten the video most of the time, probably to avoid a long tutorial but in some points was difficult to follow up and I had to come back a few times to understand the process. Keep up the good work. Congratulations.
Hi Ricardo...I really appreciate your feedback. I have been making videos as I learn, seems like are always new things to know. I agree.. I ... I do go though thing too fast sometimes. I am trying to make sure the videos are not too long. I might try making more focused videos that don't include quite as many different things. Anyway,,, my goal is to keep working and get better with each video I make. Thanks for watching and you comments!
Coming back to this video a year+ later and it's still gold. I finally started editing more you have some of the best introductions to topics and you always sprinkle in little things nobody else really mentions. Definitely going to try to make that hexagon animation for a stream background/transition.
Thanks so much. Also.. for the hexagon shape .. .in the latest version of resolve you can use the shape nodes in fusion to create hexagons and other shapes. A bit easier and more flexible....than working with external image files.
Love your videos Bill but have a question on this one. When you used the hexagon & lowered the size to create a white border around your picture it made a perfect border. When I do this, that doesn't work unless my picture is already a hexagon shaped picture. I had to add a merge node after the original merge node and modify the size of this second merge node to get the border like you did. Was your original pic hex shaped?
@@WilliamJusticeMedia My main clip is not a full sized clip - it is about twice as tall as it is wide. When I change the size on the merge a portion of the hex shows, but not an even border around the image as you have in your video. And just now I tried it with a full sized main clip -- same result - The white border shows at the top and bottom but not at the sides. I am using davinci resolve version 16 on Windows 10 PC by the way.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Although I had to go about it a little differently, I did make a small video to play with using your hexagon for masking & the pathing from your animation videos. Since I'm fairly new at this it's slower than I'd like, but fun retirement hobby. Here are two vids I made using your ideas. Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/51JSFptDcgo/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/-lzBwc469Xc/v-deo.html
this eased up so much of my workflow. i've previously been doing matte controls and polygons. but one thing i noticed is that i have to crop all my video/images to the exact size that i want at the edit page BEFORE i go into fusion. because once i did the steps (8:10-8:21 mark in your video), and try to edit the video size/position, parts of my video are cut off, leaving a blank space. i tried adding a transform node but did not help. what node do you recommend to add in after the second video? (example, i added in a square image. then my video. my video is masked to the square image. but it is not at the position i want. so at the merge node, i made some adjustments, but it is stagnant at the original video image size and position. i can only make it size up and size down but cant move the video to fit into the mask shape- sorry dont think i'm explaining it well enough)
Hmm, trying to follow but not exactly sure what you are wanting to setup. I do know that if the shapes images dont match the composition size things an be messed up. BUT you can load any shape into fusion and merge it with a background image, to get the image to match the composition size. Once the size matches you an use it as a mask on another clip that has the same dimensions. I usually try to keep everything set in the composition size... Makes things easier to deal with. Thanks for the question!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia hmmm so the key is matching composition sizes... cos for my example, i would like my video to be in a bubble shape. when i did the method in your video, it masked well but it masked the tree instead of the person. so i added a transform and tried to move the video around so that the person fits into the mask but it did not work. only the original mask of the tree was transformed. so what i did was align and resize everything in the edit page before going into fusion and it solved the problem i guess. thank you so much for this video. helped alot
Hi William, First time here! This video has everything I am looking for. I am trying to mask my video in a png rectangle image with a border-radius I created. I am following your exact steps, but the video couldn't mask inside the shape. It stays on top of it. I am literally crying right now. 😂 Please, what could I be doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks! This will help a bunch with a fractal geometry project I have :) Not only are your videos great but on top of that Davinci Resolve is crazy flexible!
Are you referring to the black and white matt/transition clip> Dont remember where that came from, think i did a search for free matte transitions or something like that.
please do more masking tricks and animation effects! I'm still very new to editing and i'm planning to do gameplay videos while finding myself struggling with how i might do a certain effect, even when i have it sorta visualised in my head. your channel has some pretty interesting tutorials that i may make use of someday,so thanks so much, ya got a new sub.
Hi... Thanks for your comments. Really appreciate it. i have lots more videos planned. Just have to find the time to make them. I should have one out tomorrow. Hope it gives you a few ideas and shows some new things.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Looking forward to them, sir! can i ask, this is probably something that is really simple but i just can't figure out a way to make it work, and that is to mask a certain area of an image and then make a copy of that to be dragged around. I guess you can say it's using a mask to crop out something from an image or a still/frozen frame from a video??
Thanks... the grid warp was just a quick way to make the circle change a bit a bit irregular. Would have probably used the spline mask and animated it, but that would have taken longer. Appreciate your feedback!
Can you please suggest how to isolate or track a sitting peson similarly with ready to use OpenFX color FX (effect heat predator fx) in Davinci ? Heat vision must be only on human body and not on background objects. What is best tool for projecting a color Openfx filter on human budy ? I want isolate budy (Openfx) from background and table on foreground. Thanks.
There are probably a lot of ways to do this. In davinci resolve 17 studio they have a magic mask feature that could help. If there is a lot of contrast between the subject and background you might be able to use that to mask out some things. Worst case, you could go into fusion and manually mask out everything and animate the mask to move with the motion of your clip.
He is best in presentation and teaching Unfortunately less subs count. I never saw a video editor who present stuff like him. He is awesome. Soon ull have 1 m subs
Sounds like you could do that in fusion. If you add the transparent png and then add each video under the png. Use transforms and masking tools to adjust the video size/position and crop where needed.
Yessss I had been searching for this solution for ages! Had been trying to key out white and was getting a ton of glitches using the delta keyer. This is absolutely the better way of doing things! Thank you!
Thanks William, any chance you can share the media (drive, Dropbox) so I can work alongside your tutorial. Just saves going on a bit of a hunt! Many thanks for the great concise easy to follow tutorials.
Sure thing!!!... In the video description I have add a link to download a .zip file with the basic mask images as well as links to the sample videos I used to create the effects. Thanks for watching... Good luck following along with the tutorial. Going through it will definitely help you see how everything is working!
I did not create the mask transition. It was just a black/white clip that I used as a mask. If you search google for matte transitions you should be able to find different black/white images that work the same way.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Oh ok thank you. I may make some in Blender. I would make them in AE but I terminated my subscription when I bought Resolve studio lol
Hi William...wha a channel huh, opeople just love it!! question, how do I transform a 2d logo into a cinematic 3d logo...it is for a jewlery firm...Regards
Thanks so much for your comments and your question. I will add this to my list of ideas for videos. I would need to do a bit of research to find the best way to do it.
HI WOW this is amazing. Thank you for these tips. I just try to get a video in a mask like the hexagon you show in your tutorial. The only thing I can't do is I always have a black background ... so I can't put my video over an other one... Maybe I miss a thing ???
Yeah it sounds like something is not setup correctly. Make sure you check to make sure all the node connections are in the right place. Ex if you add an input into the background when it should be the foreground. that can mess things up depending on what you are doing. Hope you figured this one out.
Hi Will! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge here. Really appreciate your tutorials. I have one question about shapes. I'm trying to create a trapezium with specific angles of the corners. Do you know if there is any way to control the corners with such precision?
Hi Tobias... That's a good question.... Not sure how to get the angles set to specific values. If you had a reference image you could put that into fusion and draw the lines on top of the reference image to get them close, but... if you had the image you would probably not need to draw it!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia thanks for the reply. It would have a been a nice feature to have, at least if there was a way to control 90 degree corners. Anyway, keep up the great work :)
I really like Casey “Ryan Reynolds” Farris. I love Billy Rybka (and that he subtly shares his faith in his videos). JayAreTV is OK, but he puts up too many click bait promos to come pay for his content. And MrAlexTech is really good at explaining things.
*You Sir William of the Justice clan, are a Knight wrapped in DaVinci Resolve armor that I didn’t know I needed!*
Your style, your articulate cadence of being quick without sounding rushed, depth of knowledge and how easily you explain things to be understood by any level of user - you blow all the test away. I am blessed to have had UA-cam finally put you on my recommended videos. I subbed after the first, and now I’m going back to binge your channel.
Wow... Thanks so much.. .Really appreciate your comments and support. All of those guys are great! I have just been learning, experimenting and making videos as I go. Really glad that you are enjoying them. I have always learned by looking at examples and creating things. I like trying ideas out to see what I can make. Thanks for watching!
It is a crying shame you don't have more subs! Some of the best Davinci Resolve tutorials on UA-cam. Love the insights. Keep em coming!
Thanks for the support. Just working to try to get better with each video. I should have new videos coming out soon!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia u should have more subs .the best tutorials ever
I guess it is kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to watch newly released series online?
@Justus Jaziel I would suggest Flixzone. Just google for it :)
Hello?
I am a Korean.
I am not good at English, but I am learning fusion by watching your tutorial.
I am very pleased and grateful with this basic and fundamental education.
Other people's tutorials are colorful and wonderful, but they don't convey basic knowledge or principles.
I would like to ask for more tutorials to further strengthen the basic skills of nodes in Fusion,
Thank you very much.
HI....Your English sounds good. I am definitely planning more tutorials including tutorials on the basics of Fusion. Thanks for watching.... Appreciate your support!
Finally got best davinci resolve tutorials... Thankyou
This is an excellant tutorial! I'm learning alot by setting the speed of it to 0.5x and writing it all down in OneNote 😃. BTW, in order to continue to understand what is going on, I had to rename the nodes from the standard names. Maybe this is covered later on as I am only at 5:00 at the present.
I have finished this tutorial now and it was beyond excellent. I learned a huge amount!! Thanks so much!!
William, great videos. I appreciate your vast array of knowledge around Davinci Resolve. I am looking to make an effect that involves a thin colored rectangle which opens up as it disappears, to reveal text. Is this possible? and if so, how?
I should rephrase - if this is possible, what is the quickest and most efficient way?
Thanks!
Thanks for the IMAGE & Video MASKING Effects much appreciated!
¡Que bárbaro mi chavo! Está picudísimo tu tut. No le das vueltas, lo que dices sirve para hacer cosas de verdad útiles y en doce minutos dejas todo claro y en forma. Resolve vive una oleada importante de gente dando tutoriales y entre todos tu entrega sobresale por efectiva. Ya me suscribí, voy a sacarle jugo a tu esfuerzo. Gracias
Saludos desde la mística Xaman Ha.
¡Muchas gracias! Thanks for your support!
Oh wow! So many hours of other tutorials and learned exactly what I wanted and so much more in 10mins of your tutorial. Brilliantly done sir.
thanks so much, glad you enjoyed the video.
Excellent video thank you so much!! I am commenting to help bring your vid up higher in the suggested list because this was really eye-opening! Won my sub.
started to learn davinci and really amazed what da vinci can delivered. you are amazing basic tips and tricks for davinci superb.
Thanks so much.. Glad you are liking the videos. Appreciate your support!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia 👍
I'll have to watch this about 10 times to learn all that is done.
Thanks for the comments. Hope this video helps you out!
I was struggling for hours before I came across your solution. Thank you for making such a brilliant and in-depth tutorial, even a complete newbie like me was able to follow along 😊
Hey Amy... Awesome.. Glad the video helped you out!
Really good and cool work! Thank you very much fir sharing your experience and talent!
Thank you very much!
Wow I learned a lot. Thank you! I hope to see some new videos soon.
Thanks.. should have new videos coming out soon!
You should have so many subs. Your videos are by far the best tutorials for resolve. I am frantically trying to learn resolve to help my theatre company and you are making that possible! Thank you, so, so much! You are a star!
Appreciate your comments. Glad to hear that you are enjoying my videos! There are always new things to practice and learn. Just trying to get a bit better with each video that I make.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia You are doing amazing! Thank you! I am subscribed and basically watching all of your videos now! Happy, Happy Holidays!
Absolutely amazing. I can follow most things you do, but when you connect a node output to 2 different nodes I struggle to get my head around that. Everything seems so crystal clear & logical to your brain. You remind me of the logical Mr Spock in Star trek. I do tend to watch your videos several times & then create what you have done in Davinci & that makes it somewhat clearer. Please make more of these amazing videos.
Thanks for the comments. Yes, using the output 2 different times is odd, but ends up being very useful. You can have a node and use the output of that node multiple times in different places. Much easier that copying or recreating things. Thanks so much for watching. More videos on the way soon!
Really useful video, and you communicate and teach so well. Thanks!
Thanks .. appreciate your comments.
During the video I thought how it would be great if you included mask samples along with the tutorial...and then I saw them in description! :)
Great effects and great tutorial!
Yeah should have some samples down there. If you use them and try a few things out you can see how everything works. Thanks for the comments.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia I'm already experimenting with hexagon mask from the samples! Thank you once again!
This is maybe the best mask explication on how to use them. :))
Thanks... hope the video was helpful.
You are making the best Fusion tutorials in UA-cam. I am learning a lot from them. Thanks!
Hey.. Appreciate the feedback... Thanks for watching!
Amazing stuff, I am thoroughly enjoying all your videos so far! I am curious how you created Transition9, is there a video on that by any chance? Cheers
Perfect , it helped me a lot to understand the main concept of masking and alpha channel 🙏👍
thanks so much. glad this was helpful
you are making our lives easy. thank you and please continue your work.
Thanks... Definitely have more videos on the way.
You are simply amazing!!
Friend, you just made me learn and love Fusion i a 10 minute video! Amazing tutorial! Masking is the perfect beginning to learn Fusion
Awesome. Glad the video helped you out. Once you try a few things out, it gets a lot easier to understand.
This was a fantastically helpful and informative video. Thank you very much!
Glad the video was helpful.
Where can I get the videos at 9:05? I would like to get those or something similar. Love your tutorials! They are great!!!
Another amazing tutorial, thanks. I did this fire masking on my own video while I'm talking and it does look fine, but don't get the sound when I play back. Any reason?
0:43 and 7:40 this is exactly what I was looking for. It took me like 6 videos for finally finding yours. It's perfect, thank you so much.
Thank you. First video I found answering how to use an image mask.
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much, searched for something like this everywhere and couldn't find it! (using blackwhite image as mask)
yes .. once you understand it, there are so many things you can do with masking.
Thank you. Just what I needed.
This is what I have been looking for! It was a great help, Subbed.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate you support!
Excellent tutorial for a nubie like me. Couldn't get the video in a hexagon video to work without it trimming some of the video, until I downloaded your files and found your hex doesn't reach the top and the bottom of the transparent background. Working in 4K (2160px high), with various shapes, I have found 2000px height of the shape to work well.
I tried to colour the background with a ColorCorrector node, but I only seem to be able to get pastel-ish colours. Is there a better node that will give solid colours? RGB adjustments, perhaps?
Hi Jim.... Thanks for your comments.. Yes...my files were in 1080, so they may not have worked exactly how you wanted. Glad you got it figured out. For the background are you wanting to colorize an video or image? Or do you have a background (solid color/gradient) that you are working with. Not sure about the pastel colors or why that would happen. Probably has to do with the background you are colorizing and the settings....What type of adjustments are you wanting to make.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks for your reply. I am using a white mask. I just wish to colour that..
Are you referring to a shape mask in fusion? Like the rectangle or circle? or is it a video or image that has white in it?
@@WilliamJusticeMedia A white PNG mask such as the Hex mask you used in this video.
@@JimJimJimJim Got it... Think i understand.... The easiest way to set it up would be to add a background node and color that to the color you want to use. Then drag your mask image into the node area and connect it to the blue (mask input) of the background node. If your hex mask has transparency then the color should only appear where the white part is when you view the background node. If your Hex image is black and when then go the inspector for the background node, click the settings icon and set the channel to luminescence. Basically the background is the color that you want and the mask image is used to set which parts of the background are showing. Hope that helps! Good Luck
I like your videos. Super helpful even as a beginner like me. Thank you.
Thanks... Glad to help you out. It just takes practice... When you go in and start playing with the different options, you can learn a lot.
The BitMap trick! OMG!!! Thank you
Yes.. you can do so much with bitmaps.
Thanks for fire, its burn me. Awesome
glad you liked this one
Wow. You're my new favourite UA-camr! Best style of making videos I've seen. Destined to become a legend!
thanks so much. really glad you like my videos.
Masterfully concise without being intense.. some other channels almost bully you with information!
This is amazing Sir 👍🏼
Thanks a lot!
Very detailed and easy to follow. nice thanks!
Thanks ... glad you liked the video.
How am I not subscribed to your channel? This video was really cool 👍
thanks so much, glad you are enjoying the videos
fantastic, I learned A LOT thanks to you! 🙏🙏🙏
why aren't you having enough subscribers? You deserve at least a million imo
Hi.. thanks so much for your support. Would love more subscribers.. Just learning and making videos as I go.. Thanks for the comments!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia your content is so amazing. I have started learning resolve editing stuff and you have the most comprehensive tutorial that I have ever come across.
Duuuude! That is exactly what I need! Thanks, man, You are the Greatest explainer about masks!
Hey Darius, Thanks so much... Glad you liked it!
you are a fusion GENIUS!
THanks for the comments.. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Awesome ! Super cool ! Thank You!
Thanks for watching... Glad you liked it!
I think this great! Definitely using everything in this thank you! but i really just wanted to know how to move an imagen or video clip inside of a mask and i find it very confusing to do something so simple it took 5 seconds to do it in PrePro. as soon as you went into bitmap and your own pre made white template square image i got so lost. I'm very slow and not smart but am always on a time crunch with edits. Sorta new to Davinci and am aggravated a lot with fusion. Any vid recommends of yours that just cover that type of masking and key frame movement?
Thanks! This was driving me nuts.
Glad it helped!
nice 😊 pls make more tutorials like this
Thanks.. Yes... I am looking and doing more masking videos.
Great tutorial. Thank you for deep explanation of masking effects. Very informative and usefull.
Thanks for your feedback. Glad you liked the video. I am just trying to go through and explain things as I learn them. So much more to learn!
This was really well done... I have struggled with masking so many times, and so easy go for the luminance channel... brillinat. Thank you. Glad you took the time to share this
Thanks... .There is so much that you can do with this type of masking. Took me a while of playing with the options to figure it all out.
Thanks for the tutorial! I really want to move to Resolve but things like this are so frustrating! I'll keep trying but man, I never thought something like a simple mask could be so complicated.
Thanks for your comments. This video was a little bit more advanced... Using black/white/gray scale images as masks. There are definitely quicker/easier ways to setup masking in Resolve. The fastest is to go into fusion and use any of the shapes on the toolbar rectangle, circle....to mask portions of a clip. If you let me know what type of masking you are wanting to do, I can try to help you figure out the most efficient way to set it up.
the issue is not that it is complicated. he said he was moving slowly but assuming you he has made a previous video that goes in depth and slower... this looks like you explaining to me something you have pat down and i first time. i know a bit and was like @.@
Now , that s how a teacher should teach like , great content ! Keep up the good work !
Thanks... Appreciate your feedback!
Can we create a ''prebuild'' mask like the hexagone one. What I mean by that is everytime I want to started a project, I just can go take my ''crop mask'' already save and just drag it into the project and boom the ''mask file'' is already done. No need to crop every time, and do the same thing over and over again. Sorry for my bad english btw I'm french canadien haha
Hi, The quickest way to do this would be to create a hexagon shape, and move it into the power bins area (this is the area of the media pool that you can use across different projects). When you want to mask something you could bring the clip into fusion, drag in the shape from the power bins and connect it as a mask.
What about something as simple as wanting to mask out a part of an image. I'm just trying to black out a small white light in an image. Been away from Resolve for a while so rusty on everything again.
Thank-you for this... I'm walking away as a new Fusion user with a better understanding of using any sort of external image file as a mask.. I didn't even realize that Fusion's masks were not exactly just black to white grey scale images but actually incorporate an alpha channel. This sort of well thought through, relatively slow paced exploration of how they work was just what I needed. It's sparking some thoughts on some options for creating unique effects - Heading over to Adobe Illustrator to create some components!
Hi Brain... Thanks so much for your comments. There are so many different was to create/use masks. Glad you got some good ideas out of it!
Dude, you are excellent!
Thanks! 😃
Great video! Thanks for that.
Thanks
This is cool!
But now the "ultimate" challenge: can you make half-transparency (as at 3:40) work in Edit page?
Seems like it should work out of the box, but in DaVinci it doesn't.
Simplified set-up:
place empty fusion composition on top (on track above) of some other video on the timeline,
add one background node, set it's color to pure red and then color's alpha to 0.
Expectation:
because alpha = 0, it should be completely invisible and not affect the video below it.
Reality:
Video is tinted red.
Trying to figure this out for a couple of hours already...
Oh, I figured this out minutes after posting a comment.
Your setup will (likely) work on the edit page,
but simple background node for some reason doesn't and it's still a mystery!
The workaround I found is too set color on one background node (with alpha = 1) and then mask it with another background node (with alpha = 0).
This setup works on edit page as expected.
Still, if you know any better solutions or why it doesn't work as expected, it would be cool to hear.
Once again, cool content: more or less advanced stuff is rare here on UA-cam
For the gradient transparency you would definitely need to use fusion,,,,But its possible to get a similar effect directly in the timeline using cropping. In the timeline inspector, enable cropping, Crop your image and then adjust the softness to blend where the crop is happening.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia The question was not about the specific effect, but about the fundamentally weird unexpected behaviour of DaVinci Fusion.
I set alpha to 0, so I expected it to be invisible, but it tinted the video underneath it instead.
Since posting the question and workaround, I tracked down the problem to alpha-premultiply thing - super confusing part of DaVinci Resolve which doesn't make sense.
Hello, thank you for your tutorial. How can i get the video bigger in the hexagon. I want only to make the video bigger and not also the hexagon.
When using the hexagon as a mask you should be able to use a transform node on the main media to scale it to be larger.
Very good tutorial William, I've been following your videos for a while now and you are always improving. I didn't know about those options in the merge node either. I'm so glad you brought that up. Just one consideration about this video, I've noticed you fasten the video most of the time, probably to avoid a long tutorial but in some points was difficult to follow up and I had to come back a few times to understand the process. Keep up the good work. Congratulations.
Hi Ricardo...I really appreciate your feedback. I have been making videos as I learn, seems like are always new things to know. I agree.. I ... I do go though thing too fast sometimes. I am trying to make sure the videos are not too long. I might try making more focused videos that don't include quite as many different things. Anyway,,, my goal is to keep working and get better with each video I make. Thanks for watching and you comments!
Coming back to this video a year+ later and it's still gold. I finally started editing more you have some of the best introductions to topics and you always sprinkle in little things nobody else really mentions. Definitely going to try to make that hexagon animation for a stream background/transition.
Thanks so much. Also.. for the hexagon shape .. .in the latest version of resolve you can use the shape nodes in fusion to create hexagons and other shapes. A bit easier and more flexible....than working with external image files.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia I'll try it out. I assume if I do a hexigon shape mask, I'll need to use the "wrap" attribute to multiple it out right?
Best video on masks I’ve ever seen. Thank you.
Hey John.. Thanks for your feedback.. Glad you liked it!
Love your videos Bill but have a question on this one. When you used the hexagon & lowered the size to create a white border around your picture it made a perfect border. When I do this, that doesn't work unless my picture is already a hexagon shaped picture. I had to add a merge node after the original merge node and modify the size of this second merge node to get the border like you did. Was your original pic hex shaped?
The main clip was a full sized clip... .the hexagon mask is a hexagon graphic....What happens when you try to create the border?
@@WilliamJusticeMedia My main clip is not a full sized clip - it is about twice as tall as it is wide. When I change the size on the merge a portion of the hex shows, but not an even border around the image as you have in your video. And just now I tried it with a full sized main clip -- same result - The white border shows at the top and bottom but not at the sides. I am using davinci resolve version 16 on Windows 10 PC by the way.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Although I had to go about it a little differently, I did make a small video to play with using your hexagon for masking & the pathing from your animation videos. Since I'm fairly new at this it's slower than I'd like, but fun retirement hobby. Here are two vids I made using your ideas. Thanks! ua-cam.com/video/51JSFptDcgo/v-deo.html
and ua-cam.com/video/-lzBwc469Xc/v-deo.html
Very helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
this eased up so much of my workflow. i've previously been doing matte controls and polygons. but one thing i noticed is that i have to crop all my video/images to the exact size that i want at the edit page BEFORE i go into fusion. because once i did the steps (8:10-8:21 mark in your video), and try to edit the video size/position, parts of my video are cut off, leaving a blank space. i tried adding a transform node but did not help. what node do you recommend to add in after the second video? (example, i added in a square image. then my video. my video is masked to the square image. but it is not at the position i want. so at the merge node, i made some adjustments, but it is stagnant at the original video image size and position. i can only make it size up and size down but cant move the video to fit into the mask shape- sorry dont think i'm explaining it well enough)
Hmm, trying to follow but not exactly sure what you are wanting to setup. I do know that if the shapes images dont match the composition size things an be messed up. BUT you can load any shape into fusion and merge it with a background image, to get the image to match the composition size. Once the size matches you an use it as a mask on another clip that has the same dimensions. I usually try to keep everything set in the composition size... Makes things easier to deal with. Thanks for the question!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia hmmm so the key is matching composition sizes... cos for my example, i would like my video to be in a bubble shape. when i did the method in your video, it masked well but it masked the tree instead of the person. so i added a transform and tried to move the video around so that the person fits into the mask but it did not work. only the original mask of the tree was transformed. so what i did was align and resize everything in the edit page before going into fusion and it solved the problem i guess. thank you so much for this video. helped alot
Hi William. Your tutorials and your skills in Davinci Resolve are awesome! What GPU did you use 2 years ago to create fusion animations like this?
Subbed... Awesome work, thanks!
Thanks for the sub! appreciate your support
Hi William,
First time here!
This video has everything I am looking for. I am trying to mask my video in a png rectangle image with a border-radius I created.
I am following your exact steps, but the video couldn't mask inside the shape. It stays on top of it.
I am literally crying right now. 😂 Please, what could I be doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
thats awesome thats exactly what i was looking for. thank you so much
Awesome, glad it was helpful!
Thanks! This will help a bunch with a fractal geometry project I have :)
Not only are your videos great but on top of that Davinci Resolve is crazy flexible!
Glad to help! thanks for the feedback. hope your project project is good
Thank you. please have a detailed tutorial on fusion. New subscriber here...
Thanks... will look at some different fusion tutorials.
Hi, sooo great . . . I offered a coffee . . . . . Can you please tell me were can I get the footage from about starting 8:23 ?
Are you referring to the black and white matt/transition clip> Dont remember where that came from, think i did a search for free matte transitions or something like that.
Keep the great vids coming!
Thanks... lots more videos in the works....
Thank you for this amazing video, I have subscribed
Excellent, thank you
Glad you liked the video.
ur, the best William !!!
Thanks for watching!
please do more masking tricks and animation effects! I'm still very new to editing and i'm planning to do gameplay videos while finding myself struggling with how i might do a certain effect, even when i have it sorta visualised in my head. your channel has some pretty interesting tutorials that i may make use of someday,so thanks so much, ya got a new sub.
Hi... Thanks for your comments. Really appreciate it. i have lots more videos planned. Just have to find the time to make them. I should have one out tomorrow. Hope it gives you a few ideas and shows some new things.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Looking forward to them, sir! can i ask, this is probably something that is really simple but i just can't figure out a way to make it work, and that is to mask a certain area of an image and then make a copy of that to be dragged around. I guess you can say it's using a mask to crop out something from an image or a still/frozen frame from a video??
Hi, nice tutorial. I like the grid warp on the mask effect, simple but effective.
Thanks... the grid warp was just a quick way to make the circle change a bit a bit irregular. Would have probably used the spline mask and animated it, but that would have taken longer. Appreciate your feedback!
Can you please suggest how to isolate or track a sitting peson similarly with ready to use OpenFX color FX (effect heat predator fx) in Davinci ? Heat vision must be only on human body and not on background objects. What is best tool for projecting a color Openfx filter on human budy ? I want isolate budy (Openfx) from background and table on foreground. Thanks.
There are probably a lot of ways to do this. In davinci resolve 17 studio they have a magic mask feature that could help. If there is a lot of contrast between the subject and background you might be able to use that to mask out some things. Worst case, you could go into fusion and manually mask out everything and animate the mask to move with the motion of your clip.
Excellent videos thank you!!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comments!
Man you are a Rock Star ! ! ! Is this a free version of Davinci Resolve?
Thanks... appreciate your feedback. Yes.. all my videos have been made using the Free Version of Resolve.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks man. I appreciate your efforts. Keep up the good work.
He is best in presentation and teaching
Unfortunately less subs count.
I never saw a video editor who present stuff like him. He is awesome. Soon ull have 1 m subs
HI... thanks so much... Really appreciate your support!
how about if i wanna add 2-3 videos on single transparent png (shaped like comic book panel) ? thank you
Sounds like you could do that in fusion. If you add the transparent png and then add each video under the png. Use transforms and masking tools to adjust the video size/position and crop where needed.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia thank you so much!!! i'll try it
Yessss I had been searching for this solution for ages! Had been trying to key out white and was getting a ton of glitches using the delta keyer. This is absolutely the better way of doing things! Thank you!
Hey Taylor. Glad you found this useful. There are so many different ways to use masking. Lots of ways to use them. Thanks for watching!
Thanks William, any chance you can share the media (drive, Dropbox) so I can work alongside your tutorial. Just saves going on a bit of a hunt! Many thanks for the great concise easy to follow tutorials.
Sure thing!!!... In the video description I have add a link to download a .zip file with the basic mask images as well as links to the sample videos I used to create the effects. Thanks for watching... Good luck following along with the tutorial. Going through it will definitely help you see how everything is working!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks, That's great. Really helps when you're on the go..(and sometimes offline)
What method did you use to animate your mask transitions?
Awesome video also.
Got some ideas for some transitions.
Thanks!!!
I did not create the mask transition. It was just a black/white clip that I used as a mask. If you search google for matte transitions you should be able to find different black/white images that work the same way.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Oh ok thank you.
I may make some in Blender. I would make them in AE but I terminated my subscription when I bought Resolve studio lol
You are the greatest !
thanks
Hi William...wha a channel huh, opeople just love it!! question, how do I transform a 2d logo into a cinematic 3d logo...it is for a jewlery firm...Regards
Thanks so much for your comments and your question. I will add this to my list of ideas for videos. I would need to do a bit of research to find the best way to do it.
Thanks a lot for the videos keep up and am sure you will be in the top of resolve channels
Thanks for the comments. Really appreciate your support!
Great tutorial William! Easy to follow but very informative
Appreciate your feedback. Thanks for watching!
Can you please create a tutorial for some awesome 10 sec. animations
Sure, I can try... Sounds like just about anything would work as long as it is awesome.
HI WOW this is amazing. Thank you for these tips. I just try to get a video in a mask like the hexagon you show in your tutorial. The only thing I can't do is I always have a black background ... so I can't put my video over an other one... Maybe I miss a thing ???
Yeah it sounds like something is not setup correctly. Make sure you check to make sure all the node connections are in the right place. Ex if you add an input into the background when it should be the foreground. that can mess things up depending on what you are doing. Hope you figured this one out.
how do you scale the image within the mask, thats still so difficult
Hi Will! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge here. Really appreciate your tutorials. I have one question about shapes. I'm trying to create a trapezium with specific angles of the corners. Do you know if there is any way to control the corners with such precision?
Hi Tobias... That's a good question.... Not sure how to get the angles set to specific values. If you had a reference image you could put that into fusion and draw the lines on top of the reference image to get them close, but... if you had the image you would probably not need to draw it!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia thanks for the reply. It would have a been a nice feature to have, at least if there was a way to control 90 degree corners. Anyway, keep up the great work :)
If the video inside the hex is too big how do i zoom out to make it fit?
I was waiting for the last one. You saved my day
Thanks... Hope this helps you out!
Wow. I'm super impressed with this vid.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
wow...thank you so much. I was looking for this all of youtube. Hope you will do more like this one
Thanks.. appreciate your feedback.