Setup & Use Smart Reframe In DaVinci Resolve 17

today we're taking a look at a tool that does use the davinci resolve neural network and from my understanding all of the neural network tools are exclusively for the studio version if you don't have studio it might be worth watching this video because if you do make content for multiple platforms let's say youtube and instagram or something that has vertical video this is something that might be beneficial to speeding up your workflow if you do do this over multiple projects so without further ado let's jump into it how to use the smart reframe tool in davinci resolve studio 17. before we get started for those who haven't seen my content before i do have a website that's fully dedicated to everything davinci resolve you can go there and take a look at a ton of different tutorials i have as well as pre-made assets so the first thing we're going to do is just have a project set up i already made one here and this is just going to be our initial project that we're going to be working on this project we're going to do everything until we have a final video we're going to go through we're going to add our audio we're going to do any type of adjustments to this video we're then going to color grade all of that and then before we actually go to the render so you want to make sure that you have everything done uh up until this point because the way in which you have to set this up unfortunately i went through the struggle of learning that davinci resolve crashed a lot if you don't do this correctly we're going to be making a copy of our timeline and we can't use the current timeline that we built upon and then just use that in let's say a nested sequence timeline within a timeline so initially i wanted to set this up so that the subject was constantly in different positions on the screen and see how this worked if it was per shot or if it was going to try to make all of the keyframes for changing up the position of where we currently have everything reframed so it's just people multiple people some people like here the kid is going from the right side of the screen to the left side of the screen i just wanted to see how it worked so my initial idea was i was going to make a timeline and then because if i make a timeline here i do some color grade i add some music in let's say i want to change the color grade at some point in time if i just take the timeline and put it into another timeline i would you know you would see everything reflect it because it's just referencing a different timeline so that's what i initially did i made one timeline and then i made my second timeline let's switch this up and i put the second timeline on here right and what i quickly tried to do once i did this is i tried to come into reframe and every time i would hit reframe it would start and it would instantly crash it didn't matter how every any setting i changed it would crash every single time maybe that's not a good thing um but again we're still in beta but it crashed every single time so then i had to uh look into how you were how they recommend to set this up and how they're recommending setting it up was making a duplicate of your timeline and then changing a couple parameters so i would go into my main timeline we would open this up and here are our timelines going to the main timeline we're just going to right click and then we're going to go to duplicate and then once we have it duplicated let's go like this we can see it i do have two copies so we'll just this is the duplicate that i just made once we have it duplicated the next thing we're going to do is right click on it go into timeline timeline settings there's a couple of things we want to change here obviously we want to change the resolution instead of wide we want tall video so we're just going to switch these numbers so 1080 and then 1920 and then the other thing that we want to do is come down here and we want to scale full frame so what that means is uh actually let me go back so i can show you what this would actually let me open this one up so this is how our video would currently be shown they're showing the whole clip within um the resolution right so that's not exactly what we would want so in the settings after we change the resolution we're also down here in mix match resolutions we're going to set this to scale full frame so that means that the whole frame has some part of the image but it's going to be a cropped so obviously it doesn't squish everything in there and make the video tall it's going to keep its aspect ratio but it's just going to crop off some of these sides so we're going to click that and then click ok and now we have everything so or everything um full frame or full screen now and as you can see some stuff is kind of chopped off we don't have the kid in this image or this clip so the next step that we would do is we would highlight everything and then clip or click reframe i don't know how that would interact with my computer here but let's go through and do that so there we are we're going to do that and one thing that i noticed is once this gets going the graphics card is going to shoot up so it's obviously accelerated by gpu which is amazing so that's just going to shoot all the way up it'll go through everything obviously depending on the hardware you have depending on the size of the resolution and so on so once that's done then we can go through and we can kind of view everything and see what has happened so if i click on this first clip here and we're looking here in the position what it's doing is just uh obviously the top and bottom are gonna be the top and bottoms of the frame but it's just going to take that full uh uh wide shot and it's going to move it around based on what is in the frame that it believes is the subject and i'll get into if it didn't pick the correct subject how we would fix that one thing that's cool to note here is that what it's doing is it's adding in keyframes so if any point in time if something is a little off you can go in and you can adjust the keyframes so as you can see the keyframes are here and if i open this up to actually see the uh how the keyframes are laid out oops that zoom will go into position we can see that it's making slight adjustments as it goes through the shot so you can go in and at any point in time change those up or completely clear them like you could say okay this shot maybe i just wanted it to be the female and not the male so i could simply come in having this shot selected reset this then i could you know bring this over so it's her and then we'll hit this little drop down go to smart reframe once it's enabled we can come in here and pick our reference and then just pick on wherever the subject matter is that we want to have reframed now that we do that we'll click reframe it will then analyze only the clips you have selected because since i only have this one clip selected it's only going to reframe this one shot and now if i play this let's turn that off if i play this it's keeping her reframed throughout that whole shot even though it's moving as you can see the keyframes that were there to change that up so it's pretty cool um now i'll go into as you can see now the the kid is there the whole thing even though it started with him off the screen when you go and you have the smart reframe uh begin it'll look at the whole shot even if it's cut off within the program monitor so i just wanted after i did that i then started to play around and there was a couple of other shots that i wanted to see for like subject matter and people i get that right and then i also tried animals and it did pretty well but now i wanted to see how it would do with random elements here so this shot here is a jet fighter and as you can see for the most part it's in but then different parts it's cut off like there it's cut off here it's cut off let's just see how it does without doing anything else all right so now if we take a look at this it's keeping that fighter pretty much centered and that's another thing to keep in mind here depending on what you're actually framing it's going to try to frame everything center typically when you're shooting a film or something like that you want something to not be completely in the center but then you have to remember that you typically have more you know to work with if it's a wide shot compared to a vertical video and so most in most situations for social media you're going to want to have whatever the subject is in the middle so as we seen there it kept that pretty much in the middle now there are a couple issues sometimes when it won't keep it in the middle is when obviously it might be for a wide shot it might be the subject is all the way to the edge and it'll butt the video all the way up to the edge but we don't want to ever see black so it'll go all the way to the edge where it can and then if the subject goes off obviously we don't have footage to continue going over that way but it does its best for the most part and like i said you at any point in time you can go in and change the keyframe uh here is another one i was like okay i don't know if i can tell that that's a person it doesn't have like normal person um like structure but it does follow him all the way across and obviously it can only go so far to the edge here was another one what was this one about okay so this was an interesting one there really aren't any people in this right there might you could say that's a guy there but then it's like oh this is moving the camera's kind of following it but it didn't follow it it jumped back to this one why did that i don't know so let's go back let's go back to that shot and let's go and set this up for something different so i'm just going to reset that and i'm on the wrong one we're going to reset that and i'm going to bring it over for this helicopter now you don't have to do this but obviously i want to be able to pick the correct thing we're then going to turn this on oh we gotta switch this wait where is this thing [Music] oh hello okay there it is so i'm gonna pick this as the focus right to follow this and reframe so now it got that in the middle and now it's just following that helicopter the other one doesn't matter i thought that that was really cool right till it gets to the edge and then it can't do anything more um and then this one was pretty cool it kept it right in the middle the whole way down um as you can see the keyframes it's constantly moving and i was i thought that this because this has a lot of different things that are going on the shape that i was tracking is continuously moving maybe it tracks with color as well because that i guess is the one thing that's similar there and then here so as you can see it's all over the place again it's pretty simple you just track it it tries to find the right thing and then all the way through this whole video we got them right in the middle of the frame so overall i think this is a pretty cool tool but like i said at the beginning because this isn't linked to another timeline i would say go through everything color grade everything right before you go to deliver then you can go in and set this one up reframe the whole thing at a different aspect ratio then you can um if you know how to you can then go into deliver page and set both timelines up in the deliver page as jobs and then render out both at the same time one thing that i kind of don't like about doing it this way is it at any point in time let's say you are building something for a client and they didn't like a color grade you would have to go into both timelines and fix that color grade obviously there's a bunch of stuff within the color page that you would be able to reference back and forth but because they aren't linked in any way and it's just a duplication of a timeline you won't get the complete copy from one to the other with some type of like linking so that that is the one downside to this but outside of that i think that it's pretty cool i've in the past have made promo videos where i made it for youtube and then i wanted to put it on instagram and i couldn't put it on there without having to go through and reframe everything by hand which kind of sucks so this is definitely going to speed up the workflow for a lot of people that uh create content on multiple platforms um but yeah this is a studio only thing kind of sucks for people that don't have studio or you know haven't made the leap into studio maybe for some people this will be the thing that jump you know that they'll then go over to studio for i think overall it's a pretty cool tool so it's got the thumbs up in my book that's pretty much it for this tool uh in the comments let me know do you make stuff on multiple platforms would this be something that you see as a benefit or do you have a workaround where you you know on the top and bottom maybe put something let me know in the comments and uh yeah that's pretty much it stay safe guys my name's jr thanks for watching have a good one i'll see you guys in the next one [Music] hmm

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Length: 13min 46sec (826 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020