

There are tons of stock footage sites that will provide footage like this. This could be something like an overlay effect – such as snow falling that you want to put over top of your footage. This section goes over how to deal with elements that have basic black or white backgrounds.

Specifically, this is meant to help remove simple backgrounds, such as when you have an object on black or white or on a green/blue screen. Jordan from Motion Array Tutorials walks us through a few methods of quickly removing backgrounds from images. It also can be a lot of fun.įortunately, thanks to software like DaVinci Resolve becoming very, very accessible to filmmakers practically anyone can remove backgrounds easily. This is due to the prevalence of green screens and overlay effects that require this knowledge.

More info can be found on the Blackmagic Design Media site.Among the first effects many video editors learn is how to remove backgrounds. There are also new markers with on-screen annotations, subtitle and closed captioning tools, auto save with versioning, greatly improved keyboard customization tools, new 2D and 3D Fusion title templates, image stabilization on the Edit page, a floating timecode window, improved organization and metadata tools, along with IMF, H.264 and H.265 mastering presets. New stacked timelines and timeline tabs let editors see multiple timelines at once so they can quickly cut, paste, copy and compare scenes between timelines. DaVinci Resolve 15 has dramatically improved load times so that large projects with hundreds of timelines and thousands of clips now open instantly. The Fairlight page now has a complete ADR toolset, static and variable audio retiming with pitch correction, audio normalization, 3D panners, audio and video scrollers, a fixed playhead with scrolling timeline, a preset library for equalizer, dynamics, plugins and global track properties, shared sound libraries, and built in cross platform plugins such as reverb, hum removal, vocal channel and de-esser. FairlightFX plugins run natively on Mac, Windows, and Linux programs with Davinci.ĭaVinci Resolve 15 has been specifically improved and designed to make cutting, trimming, organizing, and working with large projects more simple. The new Fusion page gives users a true 3D workspace with over 250 tools for compositing, vector paint, particles, keying, rotoscoping, text animation, tracking, stabilization and more.ĭaVinci Resolve 15 also features a large update to the Fairlight audio portion of the software.

Fusion was previously only available as a stand alone application and is the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software. DaVinci Resolve 15 features an entirely new Fusion page for feature film quality visual effects and motion graphics animation.
