Use These 6 Davinci Resolve Effects to Bring Your Photos to Life!

one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to watching videos on youtube or really anywhere else is when somebody is showing a still photo in their video and they do absolutely nothing to make it more interesting they just drop a still photo in the timeline it it drives me nuts there's no movement there's no there's just nothing they don't even do anything to fill the frame so i i can't stand that so today what i'm gonna do is share with you six quick tips for bringing some life to those photos and making your videos just a little bit more interesting and the best part about this is you can do all of these tips in the edit page in davinci resolve you don't have to go to color or fusion or anywhere else all within the edit page and and i've got a quick little bonus tip at the end of this video so make sure you stick around for that but before we get into any of that i'd like to tell you about today's sponsor reshot reshot is a completely free resource for stock photos that you can use 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looking over a city i think she's in an infinity pool or something we've got a nice little portrait going on right here we've got a wedding photo we've got some coffee because of course coffee and we've got a nice foggy forest but all of these are still frames there's no movement whatsoever if i were to throw these into a timeline in a video it would just be boring so let's bring some life to these let's come back to our very first photo make sure that's selected and the first thing we're going to do is just use our basic transform controls in the inspector in davinci resolve you can use that to keyframe your position your zoom your rotation all sorts of different stuff today what we're going to do is just a quick little left to right pan to get this photo moving a little bit so we've got our photo selected let's come into our inspector if you don't see your inspector just click on inspector up here in the top right now i need a little bit of room to work with here so what we're gonna do is take this zoom and we're going to increase it to 1.05 and now let's set up our pen we're going to use our x position here and we're going to select that we're going to type in 50. that's going to shift our photo over to the right a little bit i i chose 50 uh because i did some time you know experimenting when i was preparing for this video when it comes to you it really just depends on how far you zoom in you'll have to drag left and right to find the right numbers for me 50 works so let's go ahead and set a keyframe by hitting this little diamond right here and now let's come to the end of our clip come back to our x position type in minus 50. that will automatically set a keyframe and we can come back to the beginning play this through we've got a nice little left to right pan and if i really wanted to get fancy with it i could actually keyframe my zoom as well let's go ahead and do that we're going to punch in a little bit more maybe 1.15 or maybe actually let's not do it that much let's go ahead with 1.1 set a keyframe there come back to our last frame we're going to set this to 1.05 and let's go ahead and play that again so now we've got a left to right pan and a zoom out going on at the same time that's not bad we're moving a little bit now it's a little more interesting a little bit more engaging now let's move on to our portrait now the big problem with this portrait other than the fact that there's no movement we will fix that but the other big problem is the fact that it's just black on either side of here if you were watching this it was a typical 16x9 video this would all just be blank you would just have this boring portrait here let's fix that let's fill the frame using an effect in davinci resolve called blanking fill now blanking fill can be found in our effects library if you don't see your effects library just click effects library up here at the top left and we can quickly find blanking fill by typing in blank in the search bar there it is blanking fill let's go ahead and drag that onto our photo and now you've got your photo right here in the middle you've got a stretched out version of the photo behind it and it's blurred and now the photo is it fills up the entire frame which we like we it it just looks better although i'm not a huge fan of how they stretched the photo to fill the background so we're gonna fix that by going into our effects control once again coming into our inspector and this time clicking on effects you'll see blanking fill here and we've got a bunch of stuff to do so first let's do our zoom mode let's go ahead and do zoom to timeline that looks a lot better i think if you wanted you could blend the edges of the video but i'm not a huge fan of that we'll just keep that down you can increase or decrease the blur of the background you can fade the background a little bit you can change the color of the fade so let's go ahead and maybe do some kind of teal now we don't like that let's go and let's bring the color down a little bit you could do something like that we're gonna cancel that and just keep it the way it is we can also add a drop shadow to our foreground photo so we can do shadow strength increase the strength a little bit now it's popping out and it looks a lot better you can change the drop angle if you want let's bring that back to the beginning and you can change your drop distance that's looking good right about there now as far as movement on here we can come up to our source drop down and here we can crop left and right we can crop top and bottom and we can also do the zoom so let's go ahead and make sure we're at the beginning of this clip we're going to increase our zoom to right about there set a keyframe come to the end bring our zoom down it'll automatically set a keyframe and now if we play that back that looks so much better than it did before so by now you see kind of the punch line we want to fill the frame and add a little bit of movement those two things on their own are gonna bring a whole new life to your still photos when you add them into your video's timeline but that's just like two effects right there we've got four more to go so let's move on to our wedding photo here again it doesn't fill the whole frame it's not moving it's kind of boring so what we're going to do is we're going to kind of create a solid color frame using solid color let's go ahead first thing we want to do is select this clip and what we're going to do is bring that up to track number two and then we're going to come back over to our effects library let's clear this search bar and we're going to come up to our generators go down to solid color and we're going to drag that into our timeline directly below our photo and let's select our solid color make sure generator is selected i'm going to click on color we're just going to lighten this up not pure white but maybe a light gray there go ahead and hit okay and that's looking better it's looking a little bit more you know wedding bookish except we still just have these gray stripes on either end it doesn't really look like a frame so let's just select our photo here and bring down our zoom maybe 2.85 and that already looks a lot better but i want to i want to do some more stuff here let's go ahead and add an effect let's come back into our effects generator and this is the next effect i want to show you the next tip and that is drop shadow so it's top type in drop there's nothing in generators obviously so let's come down to open effects here we go drop shadow let's go ahead and drop that onto our photo and now we've got a nice little drop shadow underneath our photo it kind of pops out it looks a lot better than it did before and if we come over to effects in our inspector you can see we can change the shadow strength the drop angle the drop distance the blur the color all of that stuff we're actually going to come back to that because what i want to do is add some motion into that and we're going to do that using zoom so let's go ahead and come back to the beginning here we're going to come back into our video settings in our inspector and we're going to set our zoom to 0.95 set a keyframe come to the end change our zoom to 0.85 and now if we play that back we've got a little bit of movement there but let's let's add this drop shadow into the mix because it's just i think we can bring a little bit more realism to it so let's go ahead and come into our effects and go into our drop shadow effect and we're going to go to drop distance and we're going to change this to 0.15 set a keyframe and we're going to come to the end change it to 0.05 that'll automatically set a keyframe and now if we play that back we've got a shadow on the photo it's getting closer as the photo gets closer to the white background it just it looks really really nice now up until now all of our movement has been with the zoom and the position and all of that stuff but your movement in your photos doesn't necessarily have to be the position of the photo itself it could be with the color and that kind of brings me to the next effect i want to show you which is color compressor let's move on to our photo of this coffee being made what we're going to do first is we're actually going to kind of do the same thing here we're going to bring this up to track two let's just go ahead and hold down alt and drag our solid color underneath that photo let's select our photo and bring our zoom down to 0.85 add a little frame maybe add drop shadow again just so it looks nicer and now what we're going to do is actually make this photo go from black and white to color and in order to do that we're going to use the color compressor effect so once again let's come back into our effects library clear that search bar go to color and take color compressor drag it onto that photo make sure our playhead's at the beginning of the clip come into our inspector go to effects double click on color compressor and we've got compressed hue compressed saturation and compress luminance we're going to work with saturation here what we're going to do is we're going to take our saturation or compress saturation bring it all the way up that's going to turn this into a black and white photo and we're going to move our playhead to maybe the middle of the clip oh actually we need to go back to the beginning set a keyframe on our compressed saturation and let's go ahead and move to the middle of the clip bring our compressed saturation all the way down and now if we play that you can see our photo is coming to life all right almost there i've got one more effect to show you and then my nice little bonus tip i hope you're sticking around for that because it's a good one let's take a look at our forest now this one is filling the frame but once again there's absolutely no movement and we're not really going to add movement maybe we will maybe we'll do a little bit of a zoom or something like that but first let's go ahead and do our effect so what we're going to do is select that photo we're going to come back into our inspector or into our effects library clear that search bar and we're going to type in lens we're going to grab lens blur and drag that onto the photo come into our effects menu in our inspector we're going to come down to blur size let's go ahead and set a keyframe come to the middle bring our blur size all the way down that's going to set another keyframe and if we play that back you can see it's like our photo is coming into focus and i guess just to make that a little bit interesting let's come back to the beginning let's go to our video control we're just going to change the zoom here from 1.05 set a keyframe come to the end and make that one add a little bit of movement add that blur there you go now all of the position changes the zooms and everything was done with the basic transform controls in davinci resolve but there's another way to do that and that's with my bonus tip which is using dynamic zoom which is also found in the inspector i actually did an entire video on how to use dynamic zoom and davinci resolve if you want to check that out click here and for more tools tips and tricks that'll make you a better video editor make sure to subscribe to the channel and hit that bell so you don't miss anything thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Jay Lippman

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Length: 15min 53sec (953 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021