If unwanted objects are in the shot, masks can track and remove them. The program can key your footage so you can remove the green screen background and whisk your actor away to Delaware or somewhere else. The path is displayed in the program, so you can easily make adjustments and have the text start and stop smoothly. DaVinci Resolve 12 can also animate the text with motion paths. Creating text is easy, and you can do all of the things you would expect from an editing program, such as scrolling text and drop shadows. If you have a beautiful sunset shot and a clip shot during the day, the shot matching capabilities do a great job of making the non-sunset shot look like golden hour.Ĭhances are your video will need titles. If it isn’t perfect, you at least have a great starting point for making additional color correction adjustments. Now you can just select the clips you want to look the same, and Resolve will analyze the clips for you and make them match. Imagine if you had multiple scenes that took place in the same location and time, but they didn’t look the same. When matching shots is necessary, you can save a lot of time with Resolve’s automatic shot matching capabilities. Masks apply color correction to select portions of the image.
If you need to make manual adjustments to the tracking, you can switch to the keyframe mode. The tracking is automatic and does an amazing job. Plus, the program can track a mask off screen. Objects such as a person’s face rotating or a camera panning used to throw a tracked mask off - not any more. Many times, masks are used to help color correct only part of the shot. Resolve’s motion tracking is in a league of its own, and it just got better with 3D tracking capabilities. Resolve’s ability to fix footage that wasn’t shot right is one reason it has become a go to program for many professional editors. At first glance it might feel overwhelming, but it’s worth investing the time to learn because it can do so much more than the color correction filters in an editing program. Color CorrectionĭaVinci Resolve 12 is a Hollywood-caliber program for color correction. If you want to color correct the video clips in their original format, you can switch them back over to the original files in seconds. You can now convert every clip you are working with to proxy files with little effort, even if you already have clips edited in your timeline.
Editing with proxies has never been easier thanks to DaVinci Resolve 12.
If you’re working with large file sizes such as 4K or 6K video clips, don’t worry. Although proxy files aren’t exciting, Resolve’s proxy workflow is.