I just used magic mask a few minutes ago,- I got stuck so I went up to your channel to get help,- and there you have it. you just uploaded what I needed. thanks

you don't know how HELPFUL this video was for me, I was always using magic mask on the color tab and always wondered why my tracking "went away" as soon as I changed something in the edit page, I didn't know it's just the preview that disappears so a lot of times I would find another workaround and not use magic mask at all, thank you so much for this alex, you are a lifesaver

@tommymejiaen

6 ай бұрын

X2

Man you just made my day.... Have been watching different magic mask tutorials but nobody mentioned what I needed to know, the huge difference in between color and fusion page🙏🏻 you earned a new subscriber!!

This was probably the best magic mask tutorial ive watched! Thanks Alex!

Nice. I just got my studio license yesterday. Can't wait to be able to sit down and see what kind of trouble I can get into with the magic masks.

Love your live demos... real life examples are gold to see... thanks for your work and effort!

The best tutorial on magic masks... I looked for hours, until I came across this video. Thanks so much.

Great tutorial! But I wish you talked about the " Refine Range " slider thats next to the Quality option for the track on the color page. It's automatically set to 30. If you turn that down to 1, you will almost always get a better track. I've used magic mask for hundreds of shots and setting it to 1 has saved me much more time. 🙂

Alex I would love to see a breakdown vid of your PC build. 🖥 💪

I didn't know Magic Mask in fusion was that easy , Thankyou for another very useful tip.

I literally checked out magic mask for the first time today and now this video pops up. You are also one of the reasons I got studio lol. Great stuff Alex!

Hands down best tuts on magic masks and also explaining the main difference between fusion and color page inputs. Thanks

great job, love that you explain why, not only how!

Really helpful, thanks. I was looking for whether you could track two objects at the same time with Magic Mask and you answered that. 😊

Thank a lot for this , as always , great tutorial . And thank you SuperEliasTM , been struggling forever to get that precision.

I love that you're getting sponsored by awesome products like Nvidia. So on point with your content. Well played

Helpful as always!

A series I didn't realize I needed. I'd love to get one of these for the tracker feature. Would love to hear your insight. Thank you for everything you do!

Thank you, Alex! Very useful video!

Love your channel mate.💪🏼

Fantastic as always

Thank you for the in depth tutorial

awesome tutorial, thank you

Massively helpfull, once more!!!

Thank you for this!

It is a great tutorial for beginner like me. Thanks

Brilliant video, thanks.

Great tutorial on magic masks! Currently still on the free version, but planning to upgrade later on the way.

This explains a lot of my failings with Magic Mask. Thank you.

Fantastic as always, perhaps Santa will bring me the full version. I have been good, well mostly anyway. 👍👍

Blackmagic really need to fix the fact that the Preview get's lost so quickli! You look at it wrong and already it's gone. Now if you use it for crazy things like cutting someone out entirely, you will probably notice, but if you try do a subtle color change on someones face, you might not reallize notice it again not being corrected later and then use a new node to fix it (maybe with something like the depth map). When you export you suddenly have the effect twice which might ruin your export!

omg this is so much better than premiere pro, I think I should change to davinci resolve

Thank You! 👍

Thank you!

Brilliant 👏👏

You are underrated

Perfect. 👌

you do a great job

Good little walkthrough, I should start using it more. You are the master of shortcuts😜 I once saw a trick to get an adjustmentclip the same length as the clip under - can’t remember if though. Do you know it?😊

Nice one Alex, is a 👍 from me

Nice video

Thanks for this man! Was so frustrated always losing my maks in the color page. Do you know if you delete render cache if the fusion tracking will stay as well? That would be a game changer for me.

Cheers!

THX

Excellent Mr. Alex, the other day I edited a video of a sports car and used the planar tracker centered on the wheel to stabilize the shot, unfortunately the wheel changed perspective and at one point it was lost and I was left with some final frames without tracking, the problem is when I went back to the edit page, in the no tracked frames it said Offline Media, do you know why that happens or how I can fix it? thank you very much (although I had to cut the clip before the untracked sections come) Ps. Someday I will buy my RTX 4090, Meanwhile I continue to suffer with my GTX 1650(4g) LoL

Nie mam studio ale warto czegoś nowego się nauczyć. Fajne filmiki i wartościowe.

Thanx for video) Some time ago i figured out, that if you need to cut some object in color page and then transform it - then firstly you need to precompose this clip, then inside this precomp do the magick mask track. And then, go to main timeline and do precomp once again for correct transform this clip :) yes, sounds silly and strange, but it works)

Another great video but I have a question for you cause think you have a good knowledge of Nvidia. In my laptop I have the studio driver RTX 2060. Is it worth me updating??

Or you can create compound clip from your video 😊 open it on time line,then do magic mask tracking 🙈 and then you can manipulate size, position, rotation etc 🙈

@saiyanfpv5358

6 ай бұрын

This should get some recognition! This is a really good tip! Let’s you do all the editing without losing the mask. I think you can render in place on the timeline also.

Bought Studio version in like September. but MMs were so slow because old system and the 1080Ti has no tensor cores. Well finally got a new system last week. Can't wait to try them now with a 4090. Also excellent video as usual. Good info, good pace and no bs....

@ShalowRecord

2 ай бұрын

Even with the 4090. The Fusion version of MM is slower than the Color tab version if it’s a long clip track. The solution I found is to use the color tab version, render it out and bring it back in

Radical!

Thanks.

What a great video thank you can i ask you something, i have a piece of footage that has a runner that runs past the guys in one of the films scenes and the director wants the runner removed he doesn't overlay the actors in the scene so makes it a lot more simpler but to remove him can i use the magik mask to select him and some other removal tool in DaVinci 18.5 ( i would have 18.6 but i am not a fan of upgrading mid project ) to get rid of the runner.

Thank you for the video. Really helpful. With the fusion version like you say it gets rid of anything that isn't part of the mask, but that makes it tricky for me if I want to add anything else in the frame to the mask because i can no longer see them... is there anyway to get around this?

Is it possible or do you know if you can add overlay on your masking ??

A question for the DR experts. How can we apply Magic Mask to a still image, a photo? It would be really useful for the Ken Burns parallax effect on photos and other images, but I fail to make Magic Mask work on an image. Thanks for the video. As always, super useful tutorial. Congratulations on the Nvidia sponsorship.

@dr.gregoryf.maassen2637

6 ай бұрын

I found the hack to make it work. Place a still (photo) on the timeline. Render the still as a video on the Deliver page and import the video of the still image into the project and add it to the timeline, replacing the original still. DR can now track the video of the still and apply the Magic Mask. You will need to use Magic Mask on the Fusion page if you want to change the size of the mask etc. Alex, back to you for a great tutorial on the parallax effect with Magic Mask.

@TynkaTopi

6 ай бұрын

@@dr.gregoryf.maassen2637 You can Magic Mask an image the same way than video clip, nothing is different. An image can be on timeline or on Fusion page: Loader node or MediaIn node.

Hey M.A.T. what is your PC set up, at the start of the tutorial you mentioned that you’re running the RTX 4080, what are the rest of the specs? I have to purchase a new PC mine died…Thanks

Thank you for the video. I have a new top of the line computer with best NVIDIA graphic card, and have watched multiple videos including yours how to make it work faster with cache, proxy, resolution…. The thing is still very slow even after all lines are blue, still the playback is slow and interrupted. What is wrong?

😮 yo, I can do magic mack in fusion......thanks that really helped me out a lot🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

Hi Alex. In your first example, where and how did you add the background?

Hi Alex, thanks for this video that was the inspiration to purchase Studio. I think I might have some issues with it. When I track a 20 sec clip it takes 5 minutes. Is that normal ? I have 32 GB RAM an i7 intel, all should be up to speed right ? What can be the problem ?

You can also revitalize tracking data before the export so you have your preview back again.

@mistertommy

6 ай бұрын

Ooh! How?

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So you're saying... It's not the size of your squiggle?

Hello, thank you for your very well produced and very explicit videos. I have a problem with Davinci resolves, I can't track down a Magic Mask sequence. I have to do it manually frame by frame. When I start tracking, it is displayed but only the first frame is cut out. I have an I7 PC with 32 GB of Ram and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. I even reinstalled an old version 18.5 because I used the Magic Mask before and it worked. The result is the same under fusion or color page. Do you have an idea? THANKS.

Thanks for the excellent instructions. I do, however, have a problem: once I learned that the magic mask on the COLOR page will not HOLD if you try any transformation, I made my Magic Mask on the FUSION page. yet, once the mask was created, and transformed, it did not HOLD on. Namely, I quit DVR Studio 18.6, and the next day I loaded the same project, the masks were not there - instead, I would see the whole image and not only the selected by MagicMask area (Actually, the clip is made of stuck images and each image (5 of them) was edited with Magic Maskon Fusion page). It behaved the same way as I previously got on the COLOR page. Is the problem actually stucking of several clips (still images)? Also, as my clip is a still image (photo), how do I avoid trucking in MagicMask? I do not need trucking, but as the MagicMask only works on the selected FRAME of the clip, I am forced to lose time by applying trucking at the still image. Thank you very much

Magic masks made switch from Final Cut to the BigDavinci and this vid was the final straw

If i copy the magic mask in the color page from one clip to the next, the color grade of the mask doesn't seem to copy over until i add the squiggle again... will it be fine when i render, or is there a better way to do this?

DaVinci Resolve Studio Have 2 Magic Mask , First one in Color and othe rone in Fusion , which is is better for remove background from Video ?

Here's a tip if you keep losing your work on the Magic Mask, put the clip in a Compound Clip or Render it in Place. This way, the tracking won't be lost & you won't have to redo the tracking.

Hey Alex, do you think using the window+tracker or magic mask is the best way to go about bluring somebody's face that moves around frame and behind other objects throughout the clip? Even just bluring eyes?

@flipnap2112

6 ай бұрын

probably just use a power window in the color page. its super fast and tracks amazingly well

You can use Color page magic mask to track it, make white color generator, mask it, render it ad h264 so u can use luma key for masking in fusion page, so your key way smaller than alpha mask.

@flipnap2112

6 ай бұрын

I wouldn't use h264 for alphas. stick with prorez, TIFFs or DNxHR HQX

@doughnut5286

6 ай бұрын

@@flipnap2112 no need alpha.... we can just go LUMA matte way... Alpha channel video does have waayy huge files... Just make Luma Matte, then in fusion you can use luma mask...

@flipnap2112

6 ай бұрын

@@doughnut5286 if youre using luma mattes to generate a final h264 file with a transparency channel, that is an alpha channel. When you are in the color page and you need transparency you need to route to an alpha node. masking creates alphas. An alpha is simply a transparency channel.

You're the best thanks

is it better to colorgrade the footage first or after?

Alex, 1st thank you for your videos, they help so much as DaVinci Studio is extremely frustrating and non-intuitive./We keep hitting a quite frustrating wall when trying this after we add the squiggles we try to hit the Forw-Back button and it does nothing??! Help please! Why does it not scan clip? 😢

Hi Alex, is it possible to provide me the clip used at 2:09? I have an RTX 3080 and I'm curious how fast it is compared to your RTX 4080.

@KittichaiinThailand

5 ай бұрын

Actually, I found the clip in 1080p. And from I tried replicating your test. My 3080 got about 22fps and it's done in 27 seconds (Faster preset). For reference, this was done on DVR 18.5. I have Ryzen 5950X with 32GB 3600 RAM. RTX 4080 is twice as fast or more compared to 3080! Gotta save up for the next generation of NVIDIA!

What do you do if the tracking button doesnt do anything? I dont even get a failed to track, i just press it and nothing happens

Ive had this problem where my magic mask tracking dissapears when i close and reopen the project so I have to retrack any fusion magic masks I have any project which can get kinda tedious. Any ideas as to why?

I noticed in Fusion that when I made one stroke the rest of the image disappeared. No red selection shown. Is there a setting, or would I simply have to go to a second window?

If you copy and paste a clip that has a magic mask on it, the properties of the magic mask are not copied to the duplicate. Duplicating a timeline with magic mask clips on it, has the same effect. Is there a workaround for this? Thanks for the great video!

@MrAlexTech

6 ай бұрын

11:26 see this bit here. It's the same when you copy the clip, so it does lose the actual track but all your settings and strokes will be there. If you were to render the clip, it would automatically go through and do the tracking again before it renders.

Hi Alex. Having problems with keeping the tie and handkerchief from flashing. Any help? TIA!

I'm having trouble with my glasses. When I turn my head, I still see the original background through the glasses. I guess I have to remove the mask over the glass in those instances. Masking someone with strong glasses prescriptions must be difficult because you can often see the background warped through the lenses.

LETS GO

is magic mask only available in the studio version? i don't seem to have the magic mask icon????

I got so close for what I needed. How do you get rid of the black background with the magic mask in fusion? That's the only part I feel you didn't cover here.

Great to know the fusion version doesn't drop out the way the colour page does.

It seems that when i use magic mask, it's inconsistent across the clip. I end up getting very flickery images after removing the background. Like the ai struggles to find out whats real or not even with the minus dropper.. really frustrated this is happening after the large purchase.

For the iPad Pro version too right?

cool

I actually constantly need to retrack magic mask when using in fusion. Pretty much every time I return to a project, I have to go in and retrack because all of the masking data has been lost. It's resulted in me using it wayyyy less than I would like to.

Hi, can you say me If Magic mask ans deth map in da Vinci resolve also function with insta360 footage ?

I have had a problem with the magic mask. I apply the mask through the fusion page amd it works pretty much perfectly and i combine it ith another clip using a compound clip. Everything still working as intended however when i closed davincie resolve and opened it the next day it shows that it now only masked the reference frame and nothing els is masked. Is there a workaround to this?

@flipnap2112

6 ай бұрын

id be careful with compound clips involving fusion. a lot of people keep their work flows very clean until the end. many will render out the fusion clips with an alpha if theyre good to go. magic mask is always kind of "live" if you know what I mean. fusion is a bit more stable but... you know

Hey hey!

in a few years time this will all be real time.

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Is Magic Mask available in the free version of DaVinci?

I have to ask... You are getting 45 fps while using magic mask... What kind of footage are you working on? I'm working on 4k xavc-s filesi and my shiny new m3 max is only getting 13 fps while using magic mask. Is this laptop that bad or is something else going on?

@MrAlexTech

6 ай бұрын

When using 4k 10bit 4:2:2 I can get in the region of 30 ish fps so it will depend on footage etc. The Macbooks are fantastic honestly. 13fps for 4k MagicMasks is still solid! The 'Hype' and Apple-ness will have you believe they're the most powerful things on the planet and unfortunately that's just not the case. They can't compete against full blown GPU's (generally!) however... While its not as powerful as my full fat GPU, you can get 13fps from anywhere in the world and do it for several hours on a single charge, where as I'm stuck to a wall! That's the real benefit of the Macbooks.

hi bought studio 3 weeks and well magic mask not working as should i must be missing something done as you show but in object for some reason it will only tack the first frame then loses it any idea whats happening have i mist something

@GreatYarmouthbeach

2 ай бұрын

sorted thank you my mistake

Oh how badly I need this to work... For me, it has something to do with magic masks created on the colour page. During export as the render attempts to process them, a box appears saying: 'Magic Mask... Trackiing'. It doesn't work. I even waited overnight, but nothing. When I click 'Stop', it says export failed. Any help there? Resolve forums and KZread not helping so far.

Hello Alex, when I use magic mask in Fusion, it is much slower than in the Color tab. About 25 times slower. I have an RTX-4080 graphic card in my computer with 64 Gbyte internal memory and 13 generation Intel I7 processor. In the color tab the speed is about 29 frames per seconds on a 4K 30Hz. footage. Is this normal?

@flipnap2112

6 ай бұрын

whats your settings on your clips? what codec, Rez, etc. have you tried transcoding the clip first?