literally like 20 times while editing a video I go to hit play or stop, accidentally hit that bar and end up 50 minutes into my timeline.

I've been using Adobe, which is great.. but expensive.

I've also been using Pixabay but also limited in terms of it being very expensive, or the free content not quite what I'm after.

Anyone have any recommendations that's going to save me money or any less obvious sites to use/offers or trials that are available.

Thanks in advance :)

I'm a music producer and really enjoy creating music videos for my music.

I've tried restarting the app and the computer multiple times. Left the project on 100% for >30 minutes to no avail. Got a friend to open the project file and they had the exact same bug. Basically, the project opens, gets to 100% instantly, and then Davinci stops responding. Same thing happens with copies of the file. Was editing for about 3 hours, needed to restart the file to get an audio effect to work, so did that, except when I tried to reopen the file, it had this issue. Is it worth trying to fix or should I just redo it? Version 19 btw

I've watched scattered videos across YouTube and tried to power through lengthy free videos but I just get bored with them and haven't found gripping tutorials on it yet.

Does someone know of a great all round tutorial for tips on great shortcuts, timeline editing, using the colour editor and grading as a whole package? Either an in person or online tutorial. Just feel as though I need a boot camp of the essentials to get me through editing music videos, short films and wedding videos (what I do for work).

If anyone has advice or has watched an amazing tutorial lately im all ears! Even if it's a long or expensive one I just need assurance im getting my monies worth :) thanks

I changed the "MacroOperator" to "GroupOperator" in VS Code in order to edit the macro again in Fusion. Now I have a new version of this macro, but when I go back on the edit page, all the clips using this macro are still using the older version.

Is there a way to update all the instances of this macro on my timeline?

Hi.

So I am quite new to all this, but eager to learn. Rather than making a costly mistake I thought.better to ask those who know.

I'm working with 5.6k files created from .360 files.

I normally export from .360 to HVEC files as the CineForm files are massively bigger.

So, I am throwing all these files together into DaVinci, color correcting, bit of yaw, camera angles, sharpening, etc... the usual stuff.

Now my PC.

AMD Ryzen7 5800X 8Core I have 32g RAM

Apart from realizing I need storage, a lot more. My little PCs fans are spooling up after a few mins of exporting from DaVinci (in 3840x2160 Ultra HD).

I want to improve export speeds and a few questions hit me.

Do I need more ram? Is exporting a CPU intense job? Would more ramake a difference?

I am trying to get the best image I can, but that doesn't always rely on hardware, am I missing a trick with software options?

Anyway, any/all comments are helpful. I'm doing this project to help a local group with a mental health project they want to have, so this is coming out of my own pocket before people start shouting £5k components that I need to buy.

Thank you

I bought Resolve studio yesterday, my card was charged but I have yet to receive anything from blackmagic and they don't seem to be too quick to respond to support tickets, anybody had this issue before and if so what was the solution?

Hi everyone,

I've been pondering a question lately about the best ways to ensure my shoot is suitable for grading. I watched Cullen Kelly's video on this topic, but I feel it could delve deeper, especially into how the DP can ensure a smoother process for the colorist in post-production.

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I did an interview where a lady's bra strap slowly started to reveal itself. What is the best way to go magic masking this and removing this from my footage?

Aight so when i use the magic mask it works

But when i render it in place on the timeline the background becomes black instead of clear

(Changing the composite mode to add makes the masked out subject too bright)

How do i fix this????

I'm working with fusion clips because I get this weird sizing when I open videos in the fusion page in vertical resolution. Now, I can't find how to add LUT's as the button isn't there for the fusion clips but is for the raw videos. Any help?

https://preview.redd.it/pze8vmtiwiyc1.png?width=313&format=png&auto=webp&s=4010d7d0a99e393122ff476e2e3dd1c6b92229dd

https://preview.redd.it/j3t1wngkwiyc1.png?width=343&format=png&auto=webp&s=93a1be22462918273467623364155f45cb5429be

First screenshot doesn't have the "LUT >" button

Hey everyone,

For the feature I’m directing, we had an opening sequence planned where a drone flies from a lake to the actual meat of the film, before the real first scene begins. When we shot that opening scene, it began to snow, unexpectedly. Now we’re gearing up to shoot the drone sequence, but where I live there definitely will not be anymore snow. Re-shooting the first real scene is not an option, either. It was lightly snowing when we shot it: barely any on the ground. We have access to some effects work in post, but it’s been difficult to gauge just how in-depth that work will be. Visual effects is not my forte, so my question is this:

How difficult would it be to sell a snow effect on drone footage? Is there anything we can do in the shooting of it to make it easier on ourselves in post? Is it even possible without looking like a cheap garbage overlay?

Thanks in advance,

A very stressed out first-time feature director.

Hi, im new to video stuff and have simple question. I have a footage with 4:2:0 CS. Let's say i did some editing and export it to H264 4:2:0 file. Then uploaded to YouTube and it also re-encoded it to VP9 4:2:0. So my question is - did the chroma subsampling process reduced color information after every encoding?

I hope i explained it well. Thanks!

I am a super super beginner. This is literally my first time using Davinci Resolve. I'm using Davinci Resolve 18 on MacOS Big Sur.

I tried editing my first video on there today and the videos are all laggy. I shot them in 59.94 fps. I tried a few methods I found on youtube, but i was confused by the jargon & methods.

If someone could explain how to do this in simple terms that'd be really appreciated. Thanks! (:

can u imagine a reseller selling DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor ‑ $395 + resolve studio licence for 766.01 United States Dollars. . .

it's insane

DaVinci Resolve 18.6 app for iPad

I make videos using a green screen while reading colorful children’s books for my toddler grandchild. I then use a fun background and chromakey the green out.

I’ve had issues with the green screen bleeding through because the books will always have some green or blue in the illustrations. Or when correcting the spill it will change or mute the color in the illustration.

I was having lighting issues but resolved those and there’s no bleed when it’s just me in the shot.

Is there any fix for this? Can I mask out the area where I hold the book so it’s not picking up the colors on the pages?

I’ve used iMovie in the past and had the same problem but just lived with it. I was hoping DaVinci Resolve would have a fix or workaround for this.

Thanks for any help!

Hey guys,

i created a short video of a drone shooting.

Im not sure about the effects and the coloring. Did i overuse it?

Nürnberg von oben (youtube.com)

Thanks in advance.

https://reddit.com/link/1ckas1i/video/drzoq4t77hyc1/player

I'm looking for a way to keep added text still as the video plays on. I don't know if this is possible with the free version, but if it is then I'm open to any and all ideas. Any help is welcome! If I need to provide any more information then please let me know and I will provide it for you.

I have the following two layers: A layer with glasses that move in and zoom in as the video progresses and a layer with various background footage.

I would like to have everything around the glasses blurred, but when you look through the lens you will see the unblurred image.

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https://preview.redd.it/ux97bgll6hyc1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=87891f5f45c53c8476d4421b63df387086299980

In the color tab, I made two separate windows, and tracked both lenses through the duration of the clip.

https://preview.redd.it/py4dr1em6hyc1.png?width=1916&format=png&auto=webp&s=e29336cd9b2bc040f2a6e6428e9f24e04c5f96d7

What I am stuck on now is how to apply the blur effect. I can't seem to get the tracking data to link to the clips. Any help would be appreacited

I am wondering how I can make my video look likes this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdpWTLB0Y4I

I've been working on a new project and my app becomes unresponsive and I run out of application memory. Using a MBP M1 Max 64Gb of memory. I'm new to DVR but this project is the only one where this is happening.

I upgraded to the Beta 19 build 2 today, but now all of my primary grading wheels only affect gain. I downgraded to the beta build 1 again and the issue was still happening. Has anyone else experienced this? I will try to downgrade to the 18 version next, but I find it to be a very strange bug and even more strange that no one else has mentioned it (I don't know how something so significant could only affect one installation.

EDIT: downgraded to 18 and my color wheels are working as expected now.

If anyone here knows how to contact the dev team to report this on the beta...

Hi, I'm having trouble with using the Reflect Node. I'm texturing a bottle and I also want it to be reflective but don't know how to combine the textures and reflections together. I'm putting all of my textures into a Cook Torrance node, and then connecting it to my model. 

Then I have my reflection map, which I'm putting onto SphereMap, and together with the Blinn Node, I'm connecting it to the Reflect Node. Then I'm putting everything into a 3D scene etc. 

But I can't figure out how to combine it into a single tree, I'm always getting either reflections or textures. Can anybody help me?

just reflections

just textures

I think prism blur is a pretty neat effect, and wanted to use it on my videos. However, it gives me a purple green fringe as opposed to the red blue fringe I desire (like the fringes on the mirror in the attached image). How do I do that?

https://preview.redd.it/9k0v65emggyc1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=46a262c33352573815b62d0727e5f099fc60ddba