On your clip, simply draw a little mark on the subject you’d like to isolate and watch the magic happen. Click both of those, and head on over to your clip. Now drag from the grey output of the render node to the yellow input of Media Out. On the top right you’ll see a selection tool icon, and an icon to Toggle Mask Overlay. Just drag from the grey output of the ellipse node to the yellow input of the render node Ultra HD is 3840 pixels horizontal by 2160 pixels. Resolve allows as maximum resolution in your projects Ultra HD (4K), so exporting is also limited to that size. Note: Resolve updates often, so, some of this could change in the future 1.
They should have a yellow connection line between them, but if they don't Here are the most relevant limitations of the free DaVinci Resolve. S Render is basically rasterizing the vector pixels from the ellipse shape node To actually create the circle, right-click the fusion comp and go down to open in fusion page. I just wanted to point out the Shift A command to mark a selected clip, because it's new to me. You can always drag and drop and trim with all kinds of methods. You have just precisely dropped the blank fusion comp on top to fill that whole duration. Now drag the fusion comp to your timeline viewer and choose PLACE ON TOP. Let's place this fusion comp directly above the circle clip on video track three with a three-point edit.Īnd use the keyboard shortcut Shift A to mark in and out points on the timeline. This is going to be super simple.Īnd right-click to create a new fusion compositionĬhange the duration for as long as you'd like. Hang with me if you're a fusion noobie like me. Now we'll add a basic fusion shape to outline the circle with a stroke. If you click on the video tab in the inspector, you can make a tweak underneath the transform mask to center and scale up a face using the position and zoom sliders for a closer headshot. There are so many parameters to this effect, so to see them all, click the dropdown carrot in the upper right to expand the inspector view.Īnd then, under the advanced options, look for EDGE ROUNDING and crank this setting all the way over to one to make a perfect circle. Open the inspector in the upper right of the edit page and click the effects tab property. You'll know it's applied because of the new fx badge on the clip.
Pro tip - select the clip on the timeline first and then double click the effect from the effects pallete.
You can drag this down to your video clip on layer two, or sometimes better yet, Next, you'll add the transform effect to crop the video into a circle.Īnd use the search bar to start typing the word transform