Better Blurring In DaVinci Resolve: Part 2

Advanced Paint and Blur In Fusion

This series is all about adding value for your clients, by taking blurring and paintwork to a higher level of quality. In Part 1, I focused on color page techniques. These work great for a lot of shots – for almost every shot I encounter, I can usually do a really solid blur or logo removal right on the color page.

Bringing In A Bit More Power

While most shots can be handled on the color page – every so often a blur or logo removal proves to just be too difficult or complex for it. That’s when Resolve’s node-based compositing environment – Fusion – can be brought in for more power. In this Insight I’ll show you:

• Why it’s good to do blurs/paints underneath of a grade
• How to use 4 point gradients to make color-matching patches
• Masking with polygons to precisely place the patch
• How to combine multiple masks and blurs together to customize softness
• A way to combine masks and patches so they can be moved/tracked together easily
• How to connect a patch to a tracker’s unsteady position to match camera motion

Keep in mind – this Insight focuses on some pretty advanced usage of the Fusion page, so If you aren’t familiar with Fusion it may be a good idea to go over some of our earlier Fusion Insights for an introduction.

As always – leave me any comments or questions below!

Thanks!

Joey

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• August 9, 2020 at 2:00 am #32381
  
  Joey D’Anna

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  This is the discussion thread for the Insight: Better Blurring In DaVinci Resolve: Part 2

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  Evan A

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  August 9, 2020 at 4:02 pm

  Nice job!
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  Greg Greenhaw

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  August 9, 2020 at 4:16 pm

  Would it be easer to just add a color fill filter in the color page and a gradient mask to darken half then just make a compound node from those and mask/track the compound node and layer it over the main video?
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  Joey D’Anna

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  August 9, 2020 at 10:08 pm

  I like the 4 corner gradient because it can help capture the more subtle variations in color on things like labels or signs or license plates. Plus fusion will always have more flexibility – for example if i wanted to go even deeper with painting out that label, I could have mocked up some text to make it look like the second bottle, and put it on a 3d cylinder and tracked that in as well.

  but in general – yea i would rather do it on the color page, but some shots just need a bit more horsepower
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  Jamie Dickinson

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  August 22, 2020 at 10:43 am

  Don’t forget, another way to get variable softness for your mask is the Make Double Poly (‘D’ icon) to get an outside softness spline to get an inner and an outer. Use Tab to toggle which spline you want to select when they’re very close together.
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  Joey D’Anna

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  August 24, 2020 at 10:22 pm

  Oh snap, now I feel dumb! Didn’t know that was in there. I do in general prefer to use multiple simple shapes instead of less, but more complex shapes. But thats a nice option to have.
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