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DaVinci Resolve is full of effects yeah

even the free version so it's actually

quite easy to miss some of the

surprisingly useful ones now one or two

of these are Studio only effects but

don't worry I make it super clear which

effects are limited to the paid for

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first up we've got the transform tool

now I'm not talking about the transform

controls within the inspector there's

actually a dedicated effect within the

edit page called transform and it's

really useful and it can do a bunch of

really handy things so let's take a look

so first thing we need to do just open

up the effects Library top left hand

corner and then we're going to come down

to open effects we're going to spend

most of our time looking at open effects

within here now we've got our full list

of all of our effects here if you didn't

know there's a little magnifying glass

at the top you can give that a click to

get this little search bar and you can

search for effects so we're just going

to Simply type in transform and we're

going to find add transform effect and

we're going to drop that onto our

timeline like so once that's been

applied give the clip a click on the

timeline open up the inspector and go to

the effects tab within here you'll see

your transform controls the first thing

you can do is distortional perspective

warping or Corner pinning whatever you

want to call it simply change this

control mode from Sliders to interactive

canvas

and then underneath your preview window

you've got your little drop down right

here give that a click and then go to

the open effects overlay and this

overlay will appear if we click in the

middle box we can just drag this around

and if we click in any of the top four

boxes we can actually just change the

perspective do all the things that we

want to do it's a really useful handy

way of doing this rather than trying to

mess around with pitches and yours and

doing all this sort of stuff just apply

the transform change it to interactive

canvas and off you go but that's not all

let me just reset this if we keep it as

slide as this time around scroll down to

image adjustment and expand that and

then within here you've got Edge

rounding if we just drag that all the

way to the top we can mask this out as a

circle it's the fastest way that I know

of of masking something into a circle

within DaVinci Resolve we can then just

use the transform tools so let's Zoom

this out and change the position to put

this wherever we want if you need to

change the image within the circle

itself you just need to jump back over

to the video tab within the inspector

and then you use these controls to move

it around within the circle but to move

the circle itself you go to effects and

then use the controls within here but

that's still not everything let me just

reset this once again scroll down until

you get to the advanced options and then

you've got an edge Behavior we can

change this to reflect wrap around or

replicate so if I just go to reflect and

then I'm going to zoom this out

it's going to reflect the edges like so

so we can have this as small as we like

and it just makes this infinite sort of

background really handy if you've got an

image you've got a background you just

need to zoom it out but you want it to

fill the entire frame come in here

change it to reflect and off you go you

can also change it to wrap around and

then rather than reflecting it's just

going to duplicate it as many times as

you need to fill both the horizontal and

the vertical the transform tool is great

not many people seem to know it's there

so definitely check it out next up

camera shake so we're going to find our

camera Shake within here there it is now

this shot here if we just play is

completely locked off it's just a locked

off tripod shot sometimes that's what

you want but sometimes you just want to

add a little bit of movement to it so if

you grab a camera shake and we can just

apply it on here hit play and we've just

got this camera movement there are lots

of controls within here so get stuck in

and have a play the main three to use

though at the top motion scale dick

takes how much it moves sort of the

actual distance it moves it's speed

scale is the speed that it moves and

then you can also apply some motion blur

so I want it to move a little bit but

also really slowly and now we've just

got this real subtle camera movement so

it doesn't look like it's on a locked

off tripod chart anymore it looks like

it's handheld Next Up filmed

film deck anything look a bit vintage

like this film damage is the answer now

that's not to be confused with analog

damage which is a studio only effect the

film damage effect is available in the

free version and it's incredibly simple

so all we're going to do same thing open

effects find the film damage drag it

onto our footage like so and it's going

to give it a sort of sepia tone it's

going to add a bit of a vignette to the

corners it's going to make it a little

bit blurry and add a scratch and some

dirt as well you can control all of that

within the effects area so you can turn

the dirt on and off you can change the

amount of film blur the temperature and

the tint shifts as well as the vignette

we can also disable or enable up to five

scratches so just go in here have a play

there's loads of little settings to mess

around with and it's quite good fun to

create a vintage style effect now on a

similar theme we've also got jpeg damage

which is something I like to create

retro style effects so same again let's

just find this one within here it's

simply called JPEG and we're going to

drop it onto this background here so

this is sort of a gamey style thing but

I want it to look a little bit more

retro so I'm going to grab the jpeg

damage and just drop it on there like so

open up the effects we've got all of our

controls within here it's really simple

we've got quality we can increase that

we'll decrease it to change the amount

of sort of compression we've also got

the resolution so if we drop this down

we get way more pixels and we can change

the frequency scale now of course that's

very similar to this Mosaic style effect

you're seeing on my face now that also

exists within the free version same

place just search for Mosaic and it's in

there but the main thing you want to use

the Mosaic effect for is blurring

someone's face like this and that's

quick and easy to do as well we've got

this clip here and we need to blur this

person's face now what a lot of people

forget is that all of the effects that

sit within the effects Library are also

available from the color page so I'm

going to hop into the color page and in

the top right hand Corner we've got

effects and we've got essentially the

same list as we had before it's not

totally the same but pretty much

everything which exists on the edit page

also exists within here so if I was to

grab the Mosaic blur which is right at

the top drop it on this node which is

how you apply these effects within the

color page and it's going to apply the

Mosaic to the entire clip which is not

what we want so let me just undo that

with the control Z the benefit of

applying things on the color page is the

fact that you can mask and you can track

so with nothing applied on this node

here we're going to come down to this

little toolbar in the middle and this

round circle with the four dots this is

called power window now you can grab

windows and you can choose the things

that you want your effect to be applied

to so I'm going to give the circle a

click and in my preview window I'll see

this circle I'm just going to change

this and put it on this person's face

like so roughly about there then we need

to track it so next to this little

circle in the menu bar there's this sort

of Bullseye icon give that a click and

this is our tracker now generally I turn

off 3D for this sort of thing 3D can

really make things look a bit weird we

don't need to track it in 3D space so

we're just going to toggle that off now

I'm actually not at the beginning of my

clip you can see my playhead is about

here so to make it play forwards and

backwards so it does the full track you

just hit this icon which says track

forwards and reverse so we're going to

give that a click

and it's going to track this person's

face it doesn't matter if it's 100

accurate it just needs to be roughly in

the right area

now if we grab the Mosaic blur and we'll

drop it on there it's just going to

apply that blur to that person's face

within the effects area which is

basically like the inspector on the edit

page you've got all of your controls so

we can change the pixel frequency and

the cell shape and the aliasing do all

that sort of stuff and job done we've

blurred this person's face with a mosaic

blur now for you Studio users out there

don't forget there's actually a bunch of

Studio only effects hidden within this

effects list on the color page and

there's some really really clever stuff

hidden within here you've got things

like the face refinement effect which

allows you to pick up on subjects faces

and it will isolate that eyes and their

brow and their lips and the cheeks so

you can change the color of their makeup

you can brighten their face remove

Shadows do loads of really clever stuff

or if you're me you just give everyone

really Rosy Cheeks then there's the

object removal tool which does exactly

what it says on the tin and it allows

you to really quickly remove objects

from your footage and it will

automatically fill in the blanks and

then there's also the depth map tool

which is a DaVinci Resolve 18 feature

only recently released which allows you

to isolate background and foreground

elements so you can put fog into your

scene in front of some people but behind

others it's really clever and it's well

worth checking out I actually made a

dedicated video about the depth map tool

so you can check it out down in the

description below cool next up we've got

a fake anamorphic effect we're back to

the free version now by the way because

you can use the glow effect which again

is available in the free version so

let's take a quick look at that one

we're going to find glow within our

effects library and we're going to drop

it onto this footage here now by default

you just get a little bit of extra glow

it won't do too much at all it won't

look anamorphic we won't get those

horizontal lens flares so all you need

to do give your footage a click in the

effects area you've got glow the only

one you need to change initially is this

HV ratio this is your horizontal

vertical ratio so if we increase this

drag it right up to the top top you can

see we now start to get these horizontal

lines this is sort of a barge it's not a

real anamorphic effect but it kind of

gives it the right look we can then mess

around with the spread to increase or

decrease the size of this glow and then

we can also change to the shine

threshold to make it brighter or darker

have a play with all the controls in

here there's also gain gamma and

saturation down here so you can increase

those to get it looking exactly as you

want it it's a fun little tool and in a

pinch I think it does a pretty good job

now this one is a studio only feature

once again but I always forget it's

there and it's not talked about all that

often so I wanted to mention it and it's

the smart reframe tool and that's it on

the edit page so within the inspector if

you're using the studio version

underneath transform you've got smart

reframe if you just expand that you've

got some really basic controls within

here so what does it do well this video

is this Surfer and it's going left to

right so what we're going to do we're

going to do right in so now what's

happening is he's passing in

and out of the frame rather than having

to keyframe it to keep him within the

shot we're simply going to click on

reframe now once again this is using AI

is going to pick out the subject and

it's going to automatically keyframe the

position so now if we hit play it's just

going to track a little surfer man as he

goes left and right like so I didn't

have to do anything else it just kind of

works next up we've got Optical flow

this is again available within the free

version now Optical flow allows you to

slow footage down even if it wasn't

recorded at a high frame rate let me

show you how it works so we've got this

footage here this has actually already

been slowed down and it's this guy doing

a trick on a skateboard but we want to

slow it down even more so we're going to

come on down to our inspector in our

speed change and let's change this to

let's just go with about 40 percent now

if we hit play because we don't have

enough frames it's going to look really

really choppy so we can see all the

individual fans it's sort of stuttering

if we come down to this re-time and

scaling in the retime process change

this to Optical flow

and now hit play what it's going to do

is basically smudge the frames together

so it doesn't look perfect you can see a

bit of artifacting going on but it looks

a hell of a lot better so if we play

this again this is with it on

and this is with it off so you can just

slow this footage down even more and

still make it look pretty smooth now if

you're a DaVinci Resolve Studio user you

can take that effect one step further by

using speed warp what speed warp does is

it will try to actually create the

missing frames which means that the slow

motion will look even better the

downside it is a bit of a monster to run

you do need a very powerful PC to get

this to run quickly so let me show you

how it works so we've already got our

Optical flow set in the retime process

in the motion estimation we give that a

click we can change this to speed warp

and now if we hit play you can see that

that looks almost perfect what it's

actually doing is recreating the missing

frames rather than actually smudging

them together it's recreating them to

give us some really really good looking

fake essentially slow motion footage we

can keep this going all the way

like so

let me just give you a demonstration of

that turned on that's with speed warp on

if we toggle the whole thing off

really janky

it's a buttery smooth slow motion how

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for watching take it easy I'll catch you

next time