How to Create a Video Collage in Davinci Resolve 17 (EASY)

when davinci resolve 17 was released it came with a whole bunch of new tools and a whole bunch of new effects and today what i wanted to do was go over one of those effects called video collage which is a super easy to use effect that'll allow you to create as the name suggests video collages and picture and picture and split screens and a whole bunch of other stuff so i've got a project set up in davinci resolve with some clips that we're going to be working with we're going to use this first group right here to create a video collage we're going to use this second group right here to do a picture and picture and this third group here to do a split screen but before we do any of that i want to tell you about today's sponsor cascade cascade is a simple easy to use app that'll allow you to brainstorm ideas manage projects and organize tasks and the process is really easy you just create a new project using one of cascade's pre-built templates or you can create a template of your own 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the clip of our chef selected head over into our effects library if you don't see your effects library just go ahead and click effects library here in the top left and that should pop up we're going to make sure we have open effects clicked and we're going to search for video there we go video collage let's go ahead and drag that onto our clip and what that effect just did was it created four rectangular masks on this clip of this chef so now we can see the clips below it the only problem is because all of these clips of food are full screen right now all you're seeing is this top level clip let's go ahead and change that we're going to go ahead and select this top clip here we're gonna make sure that our transform controls are turned on by hitting this little rectangle and we're just going to resize and move each of these clips so there's clip number one clip number two clip number three and clip number four and now if we play that you'll see we've got a nice little video collage going on but there's a lot more that you can do with that video collage effect there's a whole bunch of controls in the inspector that we can play around with so let's go ahead and make sure the clip of our chef is selected we're gonna head over to the inspector we're gonna click on effects and this is where we're gonna see all of the controls for the video collage effect so starting with the layout section we can add or subtract rows and columns which is really cool we can stagger our rows and columns vertically and horizontally so that looks good right about there we can make them more or less round so if i bring it down you'll see we've got nice sharp corners and if i bring it all the way up now we've got circles now real quick i'm just going to go ahead and move these around so that they're still within the masks let's head back into our effect controls down here in margins and spacing you can do a bunch of stuff again like increasing or decreasing the margins so i can bring these closer together i can bring them farther apart i can do this same thing with our vertical margins keep that where it was in fact let's reset both of these we can do a horizontal offset so i can bring everything over to the left or over to the right same thing vertically it can move everything up and down with the vertical offset and i can change horizontal and vertical spacing as well and then if i come over into our tile settings this is where i can edit each individual tile or add effects to all the tiles at once so for one i can do muting of the tiles so if i wanted to turn tile one off i just make sure this is set to tile one i can hit mute tile i can even keyframe that so as i'm going through i can have the tiles turning on and off let's go ahead and unselect that in tile styling i can create a border around my tiles i can also create a drop shadow on my tile so let's go ahead and drag that up create a little bit of a drop shadow and we've got a whole bunch of drop shadow controls like angle and distance and expand and blur and we've got some really cool tile animations like flying in and out or shrinking or fading all sorts of stuff let's go ahead and do that we can do that two different ways we can either manually keyframe everything which will allow us to set the beginning and the end points or we can do some automated things let's do an automated one we're gonna change this from manually keyframe to intro and outro and we're gonna make this fly in and shrink and let's go ahead and play that and you'll see everything comes in from the right there and i don't really want that i want everything to come from a different direction so what we're going to do is we're going to come up here we're gonna uncheck apply to all tiles now this is only going to pertain to tile number one let's go ahead to tile number two we're going to intro and outro fly left let's go to tile number three we'll do fly up and we'll go to tile number four and do fly down and now if we play that back everything's coming from a different direction and it looks really cool and then at the end it's gonna fly back the way it came so that's video collage really easy lots of customization that you can do with it i i'm a big big fan but that's kind of a very niche situation not a lot of people are going to use that maybe in montages or i don't know it's not something personally i would use a lot but there is something that i would use a lot and that's picture-in-picture especially when i'm doing tutorials or maybe if you do gaming videos and you want your webcam footage to be showing up with the gaming footage or your camera footage to be showing up with the gaming footage then picture-in-picture would be a great way to go so let's do a quick picture and picture right here we've got some food and uh below that we've got our chef and what we want is for our chef to be up here in the corner while we're showing the food being cooked so let's go ahead and reactivate that make sure that our clip of the food is selected we're going to drag video collage onto that clip again we've got our four masks let's go ahead and make sure that this is selected come into our inspector go to effects and this time since we're only doing one in the corner what we can do is bring our columns down our rows down bring our rounding up let's increase our left and right margins we're going to use our horizontal and our vertical offset actually let's go top right corner here that looks good and just for fun let's go ahead and put a drop shadow on here a little bit and maybe a little bit of a let's say blue border okay bring the border up there you go and now let's click on our clip of the chef make sure that our transform controls are on and let's go ahead and resize this so this would be your webcam this would be your game or this would be the tutorial you're doing and this would be your camera footage whatever you want this is a great picture and picture here that's looking really good and now let's move on to our final group i'm going to show you how to do a really easy split screen let's go ahead and move over here once again these are both good to go all right let's go ahead and drag our video collage on top of our top clip again in our inspector we're going to go to effects go one and one this time we're going to bring our rounding all the way down so we have nice sharp corners let's bring our top and bottom margins all the way down let's bring our left and right margins up and let's use our horizontal offset to come over to the side and then we'll click on our second clip here and we'll use our transform controls just to move everything over to the left and if we play that back we've got a nice little split screen here you know now that i think about it you could probably use the video collage effect doing that split screen that i just showed you in order to clone yourself really really easily man there's a lot of different ways to clone yourself in davinci 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Channel: Jay Lippman

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 26 2021