All language subtitles for 7. Windows (masks) Color Tab Kolder Creative

So the Windows palette
can be found right here in the middle.

So the reason you'd want to use Windows
within the color correcting process

is to limit
where certain color corrections, color

grades
or effects are applied to your image.

So typically, the first note in our note
graph is used for our primary adjustments.

So let's say we wanted to change
the tint of this, maybe

make it a bit more pink because I think
it's a little bit too green

and then maybe we can make it
a bit more blue as well.

A little cooler.

Now for this example,
I want to eventually create a window

for my goggles over here
so I can brighten up just the goggles.

So what I'm going to do
is create a new node.

Now I'm going to rename this
first node over here.

It's going to call it primaries

and this second
node is going to be our window node.

This is the node
that we're going to make that window in

and make those changes specifically
just to our goggles over here.

Now, before we start drawing a window
around the goggles, I want to show

you guys the interface here
within our window panel.

So right away, we're given some default
windows over here to choose from.

If we click on the first one over here,
which is a linear window,

we can see that we are
given a rectangle over here.

Now, with our window node selected,
we can enable highlight

by pressing
shift H or shift a on Ravenclaw.

And that will allow us to see a grayed out
version of everything

except for what is inside of our window.

Now, down here in the window panel
next to the window, we just enabled.

We have two buttons over here.

The first one
allows us to invert the window.

So if we click on this,
it inverts the window.

So now the outside of the window
is being selected.

The inside isn't.

So this can be very useful
in some situations.

So remember that this option is here.

So I'm going to invert it again
to bring it back to where we started.

Now, next to our invert button,
we have mass control and this basically

allows us to change the way
that our mask interacts with other masks.

So if we click on this, we can see that
we no longer can see through our window

and it looks like our window
isn't actually selecting anything.

So let's add
another linear window over here.

So now we have two of them, one up here
at the top, one down here at the bottom.

And I'm going to turn this off here.

Let's grab

our top window, move it over to the left,
and let's grab our bottom window.

Move it over to the right.

Now, with the top window selected,
if I hit this mass control

button, let's see what happens.

We could see that it's subtracting
the selection within this window.

So this can also be useful
in a lot of situations

where, let's say you have one object

entering another object
and you want to remove that object.

Well, you can create a window

around that other object
and track this mask to that other object.

And that way you can get a selection
around the interfering object

and remove it from your original selection
here in the first window.

That way you can remove whatever is in
this window from the second window here.

It's for reasons like that that we would
want to enable this mask control button.

So I'm just going to disable this
top window over here.

Let's go to our bottom window
and start playing around

with some of these settings.

So to the right over here,
we can see we have transform in softness.

So transform allows us to actually
transform the shape of this window.

So we can scale it
up, play with the size aspect.

We got pan, we got tilt, we got rotate.

We can rotate it left and right,

and we can also change the opacity as well
if we choose to.

Now, down below that we have the softness,
which is basically like the feather

of the edge of our window.

So if we bring this up,
we can soften the left side.

We can soften the right side.

This is really cool
because it's not like a global softness

that affects every single side.

We can really easily apply this softening
only to the sides that we want.

And if we ever want to reset,
we can just double click on the word here

and we'll bring it back to the default.

Same with any of these settings
over here as well.

Now, most of the time
when I'm creating windows,

I'll have highlight turned off
so that way I can actually see everything.

Otherwise that gray area blinds
you from the rest of the image

and that can make it a little bit harder

when it comes to actually
shaping your windows.

So by default, there's a bunch of
different windows in this panel over here.

And right now, we created an extra one.

With this extra one selected,
we can hit delete and it'll delete it.

But with any of these other windows
selected,

if we select one of these
and try to delete it,

we won't be able to.

And that's because these are defaults

we could basically enable
and disable them.

And if we want to reset it.

So let's say we move this window
and we just want to reset it.

We can't delete it.

So what we can do is go up here
to the top, right,

these three dots over here,
and we can select reset selected window,

and it will bring it back to its default
form.

Now, I want to go over some shortcuts
with you guys to create new nodes

with some of these default windows
already created on those nodes.

So I'm just going to disable this one here

and let's delete our second node over here
with our first node selected.

If we hit option C,
we can see that we've created

a new node
with a circle window on it already.

I'm going to delete that
if we hit option queue.

We've created a new node
with a linear window on it.

Now the way that the linear window works
is it's basically like a rectangle.

It has four corners and that's it.

We can't add any more corners to these,

but we can select and drag
each one of these corners

so we can completely change the shape
if we wanted to.

But we can also grab these handles on
the sides and move them around like this.

And we can also rotate it
right here in the middle as well.

So this is how the linear window works.

The next one is option G.

And by doing that,
we've created a new polygon window.

Now, the polygon
window is different from the linear window

because we can add points to it
anywhere that we want.

So we can really customize it by adding
those extra points however we want.

And just like before, we can rotate it
here in the middle as well.

So we can delete that node.

And finally, we have option
B, which is the one that I use the most,

which is our polygon window.

So we can see that nothing's happened
here.

And that's

because with the polygon window,
it requires us to actually draw

the window ourselves.

So in this case, we're going to want to
draw a window around my goggles over here.

So let's do that.

So let's zoom in middle
mouse click to move over

and we can start clicking and

dragging around here
to create a new window.

I'm going to try to go just outside that

white edge in the mask.

I'm currently masking a mask

mask ception,

except it's not called the mask here in

Da Vinci, they're calling them windows.

And it took me a little bit of time
to get my brain

to start calling them windows,
because I'm used to calling them

masks.

Cool.

So we have created a custom window
by using the polygon window tool.

So if we hit Shift
A, we can see our selection.

So we've selected only the inside
of the goggles here, only the glass part.

So now we can start making changes
to just that one part of our image.

Now, I'd want to feather out the edge

a little bit because we're going to have
a really hard line there.

And a lot of the time
that doesn't look good.

But let's just see what it looks like
right now.

So if we go to Curves
and we bump this up, doesn't look too bad,

but we can see on the edge right here,

it looks a bit weird.

Let's see what it looks like
if we feather it out.

So we'll go to the softness area
here under our Windows panel,

and let's bump up that softness here.

Now, you can see,
because we're using the polygon window,

we only have one of these parameters
available to us right here.

Whereas before,
if we were using the linear window,

we have all of these to adjust.

But right now with the polygon window,
we only have this first one here.

So this is kind of like a global feather
adjustment to our entire window.

So if I press shift A to enable highlight,
we can see

how much we're feathering it out.

So just a little bit
will do the trick for this.

That looks good.

So I wanna show you guys something cool.

If there is a custom window,
you find yourself making a lot.

Even if it's just for like one project,
you can actually save a preset.

So if you go up here to the top right,

hit these three dots
and we select Save as new preset.

We can give it a name,
so we can call this goggles.

Click enter.

And now down here,
if we press those three dots again,

we can see that
that goggles preset is right here.

So if we were to go to another clip,
so let's say this one over here.

What we could do is select

the goggles preset
and it'll show up right here on this clip.

Now, in this case, doesn't really
make much sense, but it's a quick way

to get access to that same window
without having to recreate it again.

Now, the cool thing about the polygon
window is

you can actually create
bounding boxes around more than one point.

So if I hold Chef down on my keyboard,

you can see my cursor
has that little box next to it.

And if I click and drag,
I can select a bunch of other points.

So in this case, I can reshape this
to fit this mask for this clip.

I can also scale it up like this too,
which is really cool.

This is a feature that I wish
I had in other programs.

This just like is a huge, huge deal here.

This is awesome.

And I could do the same thing
for the other side here too.

So I'll hold shift, create another box
around all these points over here.

Move them over,

scale them up,

move that whole thing over.

I can even rotate this if I wanted to.

How cool is that?

That's a pretty insane feature
and allows me to very quickly.

You make modifications to my mask.
This is huge.

I love it.

And if at any point we feel like
we have too many points within our polygon

window, what we can do is actually hover
our cursor over top of a point.

And when we see that little minus, we can
middle mouse click to delete that point.

I'm going to hit Command Z.

So this was a pretty quick way
for us to transfer

that mask from our first clip
to this other clip.

I'm going to go back to the first clip

and we can see that the window we created
doesn't line up with our footage.

And that's just because

we are at the start of our clip
and we created that window later on.

So let's just scrub through and find
the point where it matches right there.

There it is.

Perfect.

Now, one last thing
I want to show you guys for this lesson is

we can actually start off
with any one of these default windows.

So let's make another node option S
and let's make a circular window here.

And we can adjust this however we want.

And if at any point we felt like, hmm,
maybe we need more points

on this thing to kind of
get it to the shape that I want.

Unfortunately,
you can't add points like this.

So what you can do

is go up to these three dots over here
and select convert to busier.

By doing that, we've basically turned this
into like a polygon mask

and we can now add points anywhere
that we want and freely move this mask

to any shape that we want,
which is really cool.

And this works with all of these defaults
here, not just the circular window.

So keep that in mind.

So to delete this node and I'm going
to go back to our Gogol's window here

and now it's time
to start tracking this to the footage,

because right now, this window
only makes sense for one frame, right?

If we go to the beginning,
it doesn't make sense now to manually

keyframe this over time
to cover the goggles for the entire clip.

This would normally take a very long time.

But thankfully,
DaVinci has a very powerful

built in tracker,
which we're going to be using

to track this to our footage,
But that is in the next video.

This video is just the foundations
on how to create windows

and just exploring all the functionality
that we have within this window panel

before we jump into any kind of tracking.

But that's it for this video.
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I hope you learn something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.