Motion Array has an excellent DaVinci Resolve Green Screen & Chroma Keying Tutorial

As always from Motion Array it is in depth and really a good tutorial, so check it out. This is for Chroma Keying with the color page, which is very powerful. Of course I have been going further with the Fusion page (necessary for some of the keying i am doing for my next short), but that is another step ahead.

Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 1 at NAB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ed-zXtG8oQ&t=957s Amazing how fast they move, adding in AI based trasncription editing and subtitles, a new relighting OFX plug in that works with the color panel and per timeline color management. The freight train of Davinci Resolve Updates is mind blowing how quickly they add new features and make this program better and more stable.

Blackmagic Design raised the price on the Speed Editor, but drops price on keyboard and some of it’s color panels

Blackmagic Design has announced reductions on the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard and some panels, but a price raise on the Speed Editor. DaVinci Resolve $Free.DaVinci Resolve Studio $295.DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor $395, an increase of $100.DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard $595, a saving of $400.DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel $795, a saving of $200.DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel $1995, a saving of $1000. Now the Speed Editor was $295 and included Resolve Studio, so that is going the wrong way, but $595 is getting better for the Editor Keyboard (down $400_ and $1000 off the mini panel is great, though I will stick with my Tangent. The thing is I know that Blackmagic Panels are better built than Tangent, but they also only work with DaVinci, and even with the price drop are still so expensive. And I only work with ergonomic keyboards so the editing Keyboard is useless to me, so I was interested in the Speed Editor, but it's focus on the Cut Panel turns me off. Honestly I know you aren't reading this Blackmagic, but I would love a smaller panel with basically the dial and a few other buttons, but I know it wouldn't have customizable buttons or work with other software, so... And the customability is the weird thing, since DaVinci doesn't let you customize the buttons nor let them work with anything else. And the buttons on the Speed Editor are too focused on the Cut Page, which I do not like and do not use, I would much rather have it based on the edit page, but would also want it to work with Premiere Pro, so...

Blackmagic Design updated DaVinci Resolve to version 17.4, anyone else annoyed by forced full screen mode on mac, took me a minute to figure out how to turn it off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CUWtTs0kM Blackmagic Design has upgraded DaVinci Resolve to 17.4, with support for the M1 Pro and M1 Max and a ton of new features. Unfortunately they have gone Full Screen as default and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it the hell off, but when I did it fixed a big complaint which was DaVinci hiding my damn dock. I love DaVinci, and I love all the free updates at a rapid pace, but my biggest complaint about DaVinci is it's lack of customization, and I find forcing full screen mode to be another customization annoyance. My big complaint with Final Cut Pro (x) is that it feels designed by engineers who want to force you to use a program how they want to, and not how you want to. I have always felt AVID and Premiere allow you to set things up how they work best for you, and I always customize allot, with DaVinci you are forced to work how they want to, down to being forced to hide my dock, and now being forced into full screen mode. And honestly my biggest complaint of this is the menus. i want the menus there all the time, not dissapearing and coming back when I put my mouse there, that loses efficiency! OK anyway, to turn it off, you have to bring up the menu, then when you see the stop sings, hit the green one. Full Screen Mode in Davinci with Hidden menus When you put your cursor in the menu, the dots come up under the menu and the green turns off full screen. Exit Full Screen And even better once I exited Full Screen mode, DaVinci added something new, for the main screen I can now resize the window and it even shows my dock! WOOHOOO. I have never liked Full Screen nor having my dock go away, as I leave it up always on my main monitor, so actually I think this is great. Now if only the second screen worked like this as well, this is how the second monitor works in Final Cut Pro and I hate it there as well. And there is a ton more to like in the new update, look at all these features: What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4 Key Features• Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.• Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS Monterey.• Native HDR viewers and 120 Hz playback on supported MacBook Pros.• Native Dropbox and Dropbox Replay integration with render presets.• Sync markers, comments, annotations with Dropbox and Dropbox Replay.• Export timeline markers as YouTube video or QuickTime chapters.• Steinberg VST3 support with access to even more audio effects.• Simplified auto color management settings with SDR and HDR selection.• Improved 3D keyer and matte finesse controls.• New Resolve FX including film halation and custom mixers.• Text+ support for combined glyphs, right to left text and vertical layouts.• Subtitles can auto resize backgrounds and…

Updated version of Sofi Marshall’s Ultimate Real-Time Workflow for those with a video output box

So I have written about Sofi Marhsall's Ultimate Rea-Time Editing Workflow (That Won't Break the Bank) and just wanted to give a little Update on how i have updated that workflow because of my setup, and the difference for me is that I run a older Blackmagic UltraStudio 4k as my video out, which I run to a Samsung HDTV. I followed her instructions and got a BlackMagic Web Presenter, but got the UltraHD version so I can do 4K video, and it does seem to work just fine with either the front or back USB C unlike the older version she used. And because I am not using USB-C to HDMI cable for my setup, which is also going to eat up a more of your video ram (displaying as a second monitor. Instead I ran a BNC Cable from my UltraStudio 4k into my BlackMagic Web Presenter, while my Samsung is running out of the HDMI out of the UlraStudio 4k. Sofi's version is setting up the web presenter as a second monitor, but I am already using a second monitor on my computer, and would rather run the direct output from my UltraStudio from Premiere (or DaVinci or AVID) into my Web Presenter, and you don't need to setup the web presenter as a second monitor. My Web Presenter lives on top of my UltraStudio 4K (the Emotive is a DAC I use for listening to music off my computer) someday I will get a rack mount to put them in. Whatever you are playing back shows up on both monitors for me, and I can see on my TV, which is the black line at top with the power cable running down the wall, and the usb cable to the computer allows the web presenter to act as a USB web cam. Premier Video Output Settings Premiere Pro Menu > Preferences > Playback My playback settings set to Blackmagic Playback with Disable Video Output when in background disabled! And the Blackmagic playback setup settings for my UltraStudio 4K So in Premiere I am playing back through Blackmagic playback via my UltraStudio 4K, and I have disable video output when in background (which I usually have checked, disabled, so the signal keeps going to the webcam constantly. Now again differing from Sofi Marshall here I have the audio setup differently, as she is using Loopback to send the audio to the Web Presenter, but I am using Premiere Pro directly. I am still using Loopback, but differently as I will show. So for Premiere Pro I go to Premiere Pro > Preferences > Audio Hardware to setup direct audio to the UltraStudio 4K. Premiere Pro Menu > Preferences > Audio Hardware Audio Hardware Preferences, default output to Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k and Map Output to Blackmagic Playback Default Output selections, I actually usually use Edirol UA-1D which I have an optical cable coming out of to my Edirol and an Emotica AMP for my Speakers as well as…

Chadwick Shoults of Creative Video Tips on the Take Selector in DaVinci Resolve

I have to say Chadwick's videos are quickly becoming my favorite videos on DaVinci Resolve, I literally always learn something watching his videos, so they are really worth checking out. I have liked this feature in Final Cut Pro X, and honestly didn't even realize it was available in DaVinci. Now Premiere needs to add it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRj5ZoiQEs0