All language subtitles for 8. Edit Tab - Smart Reframe Edit Tab Kolder Creative

So probably about

90% of the time
when I'm starting a new project file,

I'm going to edit the main video in a 4K
16 by nine timeline.

Sometimes if I'm trying to make something

really quick, specifically
just for Instagram, I might not start

with a normal 4K sequence and just edit
in an aspect ratio like four by five

for an insta post
or nine by 16 for stories or reels.

Now, most of the time when I'm done
editing my Standard 16 by nine project,

I'm going to want to reformat that video
to be able to share it on other platforms

like Instagram, Twitter,
Tik Tok, LinkedIn,

whatever the kids are using these days.

But now with DaVinci Smart Reframe,
we can rely on the program's

AI capabilities
to do some of the work for us.

Now, this feature isn't
just for when you're

reformatting your videos,
but it can also be used to just quickly

reframe your video to follow a subject
or any point of interest.

So with that being said, let's jump
right into this lesson and talk about

everything that Da Vinci Smart Reframe
feature has to offer.

All right.

So I have my finished
4K 16 by nine project in my timeline.

Let's just view it really quick

and we
can see that that all looks really good.

In a 16 by nine aspect ratio,
everything is framed nicely.

It doesn't look bad,

but if we were to reframe this
for four by five, we could see how,

you know, maybe this shot
the seal wouldn't be in the frame.

Now, DaVinci has a very quick
and easy way to test

if our framing is going to work
for a different aspect ratio.

So let's jump back into the cut
tab over here.

And in the top left of our preview,
we have this button right here.

This is the safe area button.

And if we click the dropdown right here,
we can select what aspect

ratio we want to check.

So if we're doing Instagram four by five,
we can select this one right here.

I'm just going to uncheck

this 1.331 right here under broadcast
and film, because we don't need that.

So four by five
we can see that if we scrub

through this clip,
the seal is barely going to be in frame.

This shot would work for a 16
by nine video,

but for four
by five, it's not going to work.

So we are going to want to

reposition this clip so that it fits
within this four by five frame.

Now, any time I'm going to reformat
my finished timeline, I'm

first going to duplicate it.

I don't want to be making these kind
of modifications to my original timeline.

The original timeline is done.

I want to leave it alone, so I'm
going to duplicate this timeline first.

So let's go up into the media pool

and I don't see the
the folders here to the left.

We can just click this dropdown right here
and we can see everything.

Let's go into the master
and let's go into my timelines folder

and Smart Reframed tutorial.

This is the timeline that we're working
with right here.

So what I'm going to do is right
click and duplicate this timeline,

duplicate timeline,
and I'm going to call this one

four by five.

Now I'm going to open up this timeline.

Now, with our new timeline opened,
we can go to the top

right of our preview window in the cut tab
and select this button right here.

This is the timeline resolution.

If we click the dropdown,

we can select from a bunch of different
resolutions and aspect ratios.

So if we want to make this portrait,
we can click portrait

and we can see that our canvas size for
our timeline has changed.

Now there's an issue here,
the scale of our actual clip

hasn't scaled to the size of the canvas.

Now, obviously we wanted to automatically
scale to the size of the canvas.

Otherwise we're going to go in
and have to change each clip individually

or, you know, we can still batch, select
and scale everything at once,

but that's still an extra step.

So what we can do is go into custom
timeline settings over here

and select scale full frame with crop.

We're going to click okay
and we could see that

all the clips have scaled
to the actual size of the canvas.

Now, this canvas is not the size
that we want.

This is for Instagram stories
or maybe reels.

In this case, what I want is the four
by five aspect ratio.

Now that's not given to us here
in the dropdown menu.

So again, it will go into the custom
timeline settings over here

and we're going to put in custom
measurements for a four by five video.

Now if you do a quick Google search

to see what resolution
you should be using for a four

by five aspect ratio, Instagram video,
you'll learn that it's 1080 by 1350.

That is a four by five aspect ratio.

But a lot of the time
I like to work with a bit more resolution.

So I'll make it 2000

by 2500.

That is also a four by five aspect ratio
and we can click okay and now we can see

that our canvas has changed to that four
by five aspect ratio.

Okay,
So now that we got that out of the way,

we can jump back into the edit tab
and start

playing with the Smart Reframe feature.

So let's go in here

and now we can see that the Smart Reframe
feature is located in our inspector.

It's right underneath
our transform section right here.

If we click it, it gives us some options.

Now when you're working
with Smart Reframe,

the dropdown here is only available
when you have one clip selected.

If you have multiple clips selected,
that dropdown feature is going to go away,

but we're going to dive into that
a little bit later.

So let's start off by just selecting
all of our clips in our timeline

and just pressing
reframe in the Smart reframe section.

You can
see it's analyzing all of our clips

one by one relatively quickly,

and now it has reframed our image.

We could see that the clip
that our play had was over has moved.

If I press undo, we can see the original
framing of this specific clip right here

and then reframe has reframed it
to find the seal and center it.

So let's preview our clip now
and see how well it's done.

Okay.

First,
two clips are questionable for sure,

but it looks like it nailed

the last couple of clips over here.

This last one as well.

If we hit Command Z, undo
the reframe feature, we can see that

the original framing of this clip,
the seal is a little bit to the left,

but with reframe on smart reframe

on, we can see that
that seal is pretty perfectly centered.

Now, one thing to take note

of as I'm scrubbing through
this clip is the position in of the clip.

We can see that as I'm scrubbing through,
the position up here is changing.

That's because Smart Reframe
has keyframe the position of the clip

at different points to make what it thinks

is the point of interest,
the center of the frame the entire time.

So if I hit command shift
C on my keyboard,

it'll show me the keyframes for this clip.

And we can see that it's made a position
keyframe here, here, here and here.

So if at any point auto reframe
did mess up and one of the key frames

doesn't feel right to you,
you can simply select it and delete it

and change it
and position it however you want

and you can manually correct it
in that way.

In this case, on this last clip,
it did a great job.

So I'm going to leave that alone.

Same with the clip before it as well.

But at the beginning over here,
we can see because there's a lot of stuff

going on in these two clips,
it kind of struggles

and it gave us this like weird emotion

over here towards the end where like it
didn't really know what to focus on.

So to me,
that just doesn't look that good.

So I'll do command shift C
and just delete these last key

frames over here.

Even these two over here,

they don't look too good to me.

That looks fine to me.

And same with this second clip.

I feel like it

didn't do the best job at figuring out
what should be in the center of the frame.

In my personal preference,

I would want the splash over here
to the left to be more centered.

Instead,
it pushed everything over to the left.

So let's hit command shift.

C Let's look at those keyframes.

Let's just actually
just reset this completely so we can hit

command shift X to remove attributes
and let's select position

and the scales over here,
click apply and it'll reset it.

And I think this scene doesn't

really even need to be like keyframes
left and right.

We can probably just shift everything

over to the left over here a little bit,
and that's good enough for me.

I like that a lot more.

And let's see this third clip.

Third clip looks alright.

I feel like there's like a bit of
like a stutter here at the end.

And that might be because of the way
the motions keyframes.

So let's hit command shift.

C Let's view this
and I'll probably just delete

the last keyframe

and it looks a bit smoother to me.

That looks good.

That clip looks okay and awesome.

That looks great.

It looks like a smart reframe.

Got most of the shots right,
But some of them,

it didn't really do the best job.

And that's the thing.

You can't 100%
rely on the Smart Reframe feature

to know exactly what it is
that you want to be the point of interest.

So the reason I chose
these clips is to show you guys,

you know, where this feature does
well and where it doesn't.

The clips of the seal
are a bit more straightforward.

We can see that

there is a subject that's kind of isolated
from the rest of the scene,

but I can do a better job at figuring out
that that is the point of interest.

Whereas these shots at the beginning,
it would be harder for the eye

to know what it is
that you want to be the point of interest.

So that is something to keep in mind.

You can't always rely on this 100%,
especially at this stage of editing,

where A.I.

is just slowly being introduced
into the world of video editing.

I'm sure in a couple of years
it's going to be even better.

But for now, it could still be hit
and miss in some situations.

Now, Smart Reframe also gives us
another tool that we can use to help

let it know what it is
that we want to be the point of interest,

and that is this little
tracker tool right here.

Let's pretend

that it didn't do a good job
and it was kind of off frame.

It didn't know what it was that
we wanted to make the point of interest.

Well, Smart Reframe gives us a tool
to help us give input to the

AI to let it know what it is
that we want to be.

The point of interest.

So that is this little tool right here.

It's the little tracker.

And if we click it, nothing's
going to show up.

That's because we need to change this
dropdown from auto to reference point.

Now, with reference point selected,
we can select

this little tracker right here
and it's going to give us this box

and now we are able to move this box
overtop of our point of interest.

So in this case it's
the seal. Let's move it over there.

And now what we can do

is select, reframe,
let it analyze the clip,

and we can see that it has now reposition

the seal to be perfectly
in the center of our frame.

You can do this
in a lot of different situations,

but it's important to remember that
the tracker is going to do better in areas

where the subject stands out
from the background,

whether that's, you know, higher contrast
or it's a specific color,

different color from your background,
the tracker is going to do better.

There isn't really a specific point
that we can lock the tracker to

and rely on that.

So, you know, there's
going to be situations

where you

can't really use the tracker either

and you're just going
to have to manually reposition the clip.

So now let's say that you've rendered out
your full red 16

by nine 4K video and you don't have access
to the original project file.

So you can't easily just select each
clip and, you know, use smart reframe

or even manually reframe the clips left
and right to fit the aspect ratio.

There's a solution for that in DaVinci
that allows you to cut up each

clip of your rendered video and manipulate
the position of each one individually.

So let's say that you have your finished
16 by nine export,

but you don't have access
to the original project file

and you want to reframe your video
for four by five, just like we did here.

Obviously, because you

don't have the original project file,
you can't see each clip individually.

You're just going to see the entire
project as one big clip in your timeline.

So normally what you would have to do
is go into your timeline and cut out

each clip individually, and then you can
separately reframe each clip.

But that's obviously very time consuming.

So let me show you guys a quick shortcut.

So up here in my media pool,
I have the rendered version

of what
we were just looking at right here.

So it's all just one clip.

So what I could do is right
click and create a new timeline.

With that selected clip, click okay.

So if we were
to try to use Smart reframe on this clip,

it wouldn't know what to do because it's
going to think that this is all one clip.

And there's one point of interest
throughout all of this.

And it's just going to go crazy.

So the first thing that I'm

going to want to do is just separate
each clip from this one main clip.

So with our clip selected,

we can go up into the timeline
and select detect scene cuts.

It's going to analyze the clip.

And just like that, it's cut up our clip

into the individual clips
that it is actually made up of.

Now, with all of these clips selected,
we can go through that same process

that we just did.

We can go into the cut tab, change this

to another aspect ratio that we want,
let's say Square, for example,

make sure that

scale full frame with crop is selected,
click okay.

And now we can do the same thing
with smart reframe

or manually reframe
each clip however we want.