After fussing about with Fusion for what seemed to be hours, your quick and clear summary of the Foreground/Alpha layers was EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you, sir!
Over 3 years ago I had switched to Resolve from Premiere, and your channel really surpassed the test of time. Caught myself preferring your tutorials most of my Resolve journey. Super useful tip, as always. Thank you and keep up the great work ✨🕊️
Great job Alex, as always very well presented and easy to understand. Of the sooo many videos I have watched here on Davinci Resolve, I regard yours as the best by a wide margin when it comes to the ability to teach others. There is a big difference in knowing it and being able to teach it effectively, you have mastered both very well. Just don't stop!!!! Cheers
Exactly what I was looking for! I want to display a different video on a TV screen in the back ground of my main video and then switch to that video during the conversation. I think that this would be the best way to do it!
Browsing through your past videos this trick is super handy especially for those of us that remember when After Effects was a CoSa product. Fusion is awesome but when you need a simple mask option the Alex delivers. Thank you.
Большое спасибо за объяснение!!! В интернете очень трудно было найти о этих режимах Foreground и Alpha, поэтому ваше объяснение очень прояснило ситуацию с Composite modes!
a very neat and simple way to do a talking head video picture in picture overtop showing something like diagrams for teaching purposes as well! Thanks so much for this video!
Thank you!! This is just the information I needed in order to figure out how to do greenscreen work when the greenscreen doesn't fully cover the frame. I now understand (hopefully) how to first composite the edges of the shot to also be green before before applying the greenscreen effect. (Which should work so long as the subject stays within the field of the actual greenscreen.)
Omg, yes. These features now exist inside Davinci Resolve. This reminds me of the alpha matte stuff in AE and now I can do this on Resolve too. Thank you!
I love being able to do almost everything in the edit page. Fusion is super powerful but I find myself using almost exclusively the edit page, while being able to do pretty cool and advanced stuff thanks to your tutorials!
This is really brilliant -- thanks for the thorough explanation and runthrough. Great feature -- coming from applications like Photoshop and Illustrator the idea of masks comes really naturally to me, but I could never really figure out an easy way to accomplish this in Resolve outside of some cumbersome efforts in the Fusion page. Thank you!
Hey dude! It is!! It makes doing certain things so much quicker and easier. I also think I can use this method to create some simple Matte files for the Stinger transitions on OBS which will be ace :)
@@MrAlexTech You know you showed something cool when the stream professor himself drops by to praise you! ;) And he's right of course: Great video with useful tips in a super easy to follow structure (as always)!
I have been subbed to your channel for a long time. I often watch your videos and you have helped me so much. This video truly was fantastic. The tips you have were brilliant. You have given me ideas to try that I would never have thought of myself but you explain things so well and get right to the point. You don’t drag it out like others. Thank you for everything that you do.
Wow, that is awesome. I love how Blackmagic Design makes things so much easier. I'm coming over from Premiere Pro/After Effects and Davinci Resolve is a step above in so many aspects.
This is brilliant, thanks Alex. It took me more than a day to figure out fusion and animate the closing credits of CROSSOVER POINT last year 😂 Doing it this way would have taken a morning...!
Thanks, Alex. This is a brilliant video! Exactly what I was looking for, and allowed me to do in minutes something I couldn't achieve after hours using other techniques!
Good Video - I find two types of videos helpful - The "functional" explanations of what different things do and how, as you did in this video and then application of these functions. I've used masks in this and other software, but did not know HOW they work as much as just what they do. Knowing how they work gives me better control and also lets me expand on how to combine other functions to come up with more creative possibilities. Sometimes I don't even realize when my understanding of function is limited until someone who understands the function at greater depths, shares their knowledge and skills... Hope this gives you some food for thought!
Thank you for this video! I think of it as a merge node in the Fusion page. Foreground would pipe the image into the foreground input of the Merge tool. Alpha would be connected to the effect mask input dictating where the Merge takes place.
Need more of these 'explaining XYZ' in human terms videos... As now I kind of understand alphas, foregrounds, backgrounds and how to use them a bit better. Thanks. 👍
MrAlexTech, I am loving this new feature! Thanks for your easy-going nature and teaching skills...i totally got it as a new Resolve user. 🙏😀 Is it possible to do an ink transition type of video using this method? Of course, there are tons of ink transition tuts out there but all they are Fusion-centric. On top of that, some of 'em try to do multiple things such as color correction, gradient etc. ...gets too overwhelming for the new users!
From Brazil. I don't understand much English. but I always follow your videos. I'm already editing very well after them, I wanted to get away from something paid like Adobe Premiere, I went to Davince and I'm already producing great videos. continue you are amazing. ps I used google translate ... I'm sorry
Certainly makes stacking liquid,splatter,smoke and other elements more fun. Compound-clip your screen-ed layers and you're good to go. Shuffling the timing of material around in Fusion can be a lot more work.
Very very cool Alex. Mahalo. There are only a handful of guys on TH-cam tutting Resolve that I respect… you are right up there, along with Darren, Casey, “Learn Color”… sorry forgot his name and JayRTV.
Hi! Is there a way to draw a specific form of alpha? To place a shaped foreground video in a specific place of the main video, or may be there is some other trick for this? Example - base video - room, foreground - outside view and we look at it from the room through rounded window or irregularly shaped hole. Thanks.
How are you at creating lyric videos and doing some semblance of slightly more advanced than beginner's kinetic typography? i'd love to learn more about that
I can see this alpha masking as a super easy transition with a gradient from black (0% alpha) to white (100% alpha). Not only straight gradient but also shapes containing a gradient and outside of the shape black/white or even another gradient. Or animated alpha mask by using a videos luminance or green channel, or ... you name it. Changing the transition by changing the alpha mask picture/video. Some serious advanced transistions without the need to go into fusion.
Awesome video. maybe you can create a video compilation on how to utilize this effect for future projects. I only use the edit page and not the fusion page since it makes may laptop more laggy.
Awesome! Thanks for this. I'm new to Resolve, and thought I could only mask through Fusion, which seemed like overkill to me. Previously in Vegas Movie Studio, I just had a transparent png for the mask, assign one track as alpha, the other as the child, and boom, done. Nice to know Resolve can do this just as easily without Fusion.
Hi Alex, cool and easy to get tutorial. I am just starting go get my hands around mattes, and I sense your tutorial about alphas is a good starting points - if not the best - at least for me. Did I get it right that the whole principle of mattes and alphas is to use the principle of allowing something (a text, a picture, another video) 'shine through' some sort of a mask with the luminosity of certain areas of the maks determining what shines through and what not. The more white an area of the mask is the more it will let things 'shine through' and vice versa?
After fussing about with Fusion for what seemed to be hours, your quick and clear summary of the Foreground/Alpha layers was EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you, sir!
Very very useful. Thank you for the cool effect ❤️
Great vid. No fluff, straight to the point with clear and simple explanations. Keep up the good work MrAlexTech. 🤜🤛
I'll do my best 🙂 thanks Andy
@@MrAlexTech fr appreciate ur efforts
How about using the effect to display a "thinking bubble/Idea bubble" scene for someone who's just come up with a great idea?
That's a good idea!! Thanks :)
Over 3 years ago I had switched to Resolve from Premiere, and your channel really surpassed the test of time. Caught myself preferring your tutorials most of my Resolve journey.
Super useful tip, as always.
Thank you and keep up the great work ✨🕊️
Great job Alex, as always very well presented and easy to understand. Of the sooo many videos I have watched here on Davinci Resolve, I regard yours as the best by a wide margin when it comes to the ability to teach others. There is a big difference in knowing it and being able to teach it effectively, you have mastered both very well. Just don't stop!!!! Cheers
Excellent Alex, the ability to have PNG masks on the edit page is exactly what I wanted. No more mucking around in Fusion. Thank you Sir!
Learned something again. Thanks 4 that. Cheers and Stay Safe.
Loved it explained that way. Quick show and tell on a feature works great for me. Do more feature quickies like that.
Sure thing, I will do :) Thanks
Your ad-lib Tech tip was ROCK SOLID ! super helpful and it gets those creative ideas going ! Thank you for this Video Alex.
Hey man! Nice videos! And may I say, your videos are the only one I watch from the beginning to the end! Keep the good job! Greetings from Croatia
Awesome, thank you!
Exactly what I was looking for! I want to display a different video on a TV screen in the back ground of my main video and then switch to that video during the conversation. I think that this would be the best way to do it!
Good information on this. 😊
Browsing through your past videos this trick is super handy especially for those of us that remember when After Effects was a CoSa product. Fusion is awesome but when you need a simple mask option the Alex delivers. Thank you.
Super solid tool. Thanks for noticing / sharing
It did help indeed! ❤️ thank youuuuu
Большое спасибо за объяснение!!!
В интернете очень трудно было найти о этих режимах Foreground и Alpha, поэтому ваше объяснение очень прояснило ситуацию с Composite modes!
You are such a great teacher, I didn't know about these features until now! Thanks a lot Alex!
a very neat and simple way to do a talking head video picture in picture overtop showing something like diagrams for teaching purposes as well! Thanks so much for this video!
Thank you!! This is just the information I needed in order to figure out how to do greenscreen work when the greenscreen doesn't fully cover the frame. I now understand (hopefully) how to first composite the edges of the shot to also be green before before applying the greenscreen effect. (Which should work so long as the subject stays within the field of the actual greenscreen.)
Omg, yes. These features now exist inside Davinci Resolve. This reminds me of the alpha matte stuff in AE and now I can do this on Resolve too. Thank you!
Very good video, Alex! Enjoyed the more “rambly” approach! 👍🏻
Brilliant!! Using this for my Promo Video project
MrAlex, thank you for this. Really easy to understand and well put across. Clear teaching style, many thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Steve :)
This is awesome. Thanks Alex. Always enjoy your tutorials.
I love being able to do almost everything in the edit page. Fusion is super powerful but I find myself using almost exclusively the edit page, while being able to do pretty cool and advanced stuff thanks to your tutorials!
this is about to save me so much time. thank you so much!
Thanks Alex - very useful - short and sweet.
Very good explanation. Keep up the good work!
This is really brilliant -- thanks for the thorough explanation and runthrough. Great feature -- coming from applications like Photoshop and Illustrator the idea of masks comes really naturally to me, but I could never really figure out an easy way to accomplish this in Resolve outside of some cumbersome efforts in the Fusion page. Thank you!
Thanks Alex. I really enjoy your tutorials, and they're helping me produce way better content. I will be trying this out on my next Video!
This could be some useful, simple stuff to add to videos. Thanks Alex
This is HUGE!
Hey dude! It is!! It makes doing certain things so much quicker and easier. I also think I can use this method to create some simple Matte files for the Stinger transitions on OBS which will be ace :)
@@MrAlexTech You know you showed something cool when the stream professor himself drops by to praise you! ;)
And he's right of course: Great video with useful tips in a super easy to follow structure (as always)!
Great video. It's so helpful to find another technique for creating visual effects without having to turn to Fusion for the end result. Good job.
Something I really really needed to know. Thank you!
I have been subbed to your channel for a long time. I often watch your videos and you have helped me so much. This video truly was fantastic. The tips you have were brilliant. You have given me ideas to try that I would never have thought of myself but you explain things so well and get right to the point. You don’t drag it out like others. Thank you for everything that you do.
another good one! thanks Alex. further down, I really like the idea bubble application. your channel just rocks.
Wow, that is awesome. I love how Blackmagic Design makes things so much easier. I'm coming over from Premiere Pro/After Effects and Davinci Resolve is a step above in so many aspects.
This is brilliant, thanks Alex. It took me more than a day to figure out fusion and animate the closing credits of CROSSOVER POINT last year 😂 Doing it this way would have taken a morning...!
Thanks, Alex. This is a brilliant video! Exactly what I was looking for, and allowed me to do in minutes something I couldn't achieve after hours using other techniques!
This video alone is worth my subscription. 🤯
Ha thanks Curtis! And welcome :)
Really good explaining and useful tips. Thanks a lot 👍
Good Video - I find two types of videos helpful - The "functional" explanations of what different things do and how, as you did in this video and then application of these functions. I've used masks in this and other software, but did not know HOW they work as much as just what they do. Knowing how they work gives me better control and also lets me expand on how to combine other functions to come up with more creative possibilities. Sometimes I don't even realize when my understanding of function is limited until someone who understands the function at greater depths, shares their knowledge and skills... Hope this gives you some food for thought!
Can you do a video on the other composite modes like screen, multiple... etc
Yeahhh sure thing!
Super useful I am very happy you explained this FINALLY !! Thank you 💚
Excellent tutorial Alex as always. Very useful information especially for someone like me who is very much a learner with DaVinci Resolve.
Great job . Mr Alex
Thank you for this video! I think of it as a merge node in the Fusion page. Foreground would pipe the image into the foreground input of the Merge tool. Alpha would be connected to the effect mask input dictating where the Merge takes place.
Yeah that's a good way of thinking of it 🙂👍
lol I was also doing some merge soup in Fusion... and then I found this ! 😍
That was very useful to know, Thank you.
Your explanation make things easy to understand
👍👍👍
Excellent explained!
Thank you! :)
Need more of these 'explaining XYZ' in human terms videos... As now I kind of understand alphas, foregrounds, backgrounds and how to use them a bit better. Thanks. 👍
This has sparked ideas! Thank your for the great explanation!
MrAlexTech, I am loving this new feature! Thanks for your easy-going nature and teaching skills...i totally got it as a new Resolve user. 🙏😀 Is it possible to do an ink transition type of video using this method? Of course, there are tons of ink transition tuts out there but all they are Fusion-centric. On top of that, some of 'em try to do multiple things such as color correction, gradient etc. ...gets too overwhelming for the new users!
Good one Alex. As usual, this will definitely help me on my future projects. You are my savior when it comes to editing in DR.
This is great, so many possibilities here. Thanks mate!
From Brazil.
I don't understand much English. but I always follow your videos. I'm already editing very well after them, I wanted to get away from something paid like Adobe Premiere, I went to Davince and I'm already producing great videos. continue you are amazing.
ps I used google translate ... I'm sorry
Certainly makes stacking liquid,splatter,smoke and other elements more fun. Compound-clip your screen-ed layers and you're good to go. Shuffling the timing of material around in Fusion can be a lot more work.
Haha I think it was my phone interfering with my mic! There were a few strange noises in this one 😄 Noted for next time: turn off phone!
Very very cool Alex. Mahalo. There are only a handful of guys on TH-cam tutting Resolve that I respect… you are right up there, along with Darren, Casey, “Learn Color”… sorry forgot his name and JayRTV.
Great, Alex. Clear, simple and smart, as always
Super cool Alex! 🥹👍🏻👍🏻
Amazing! Thanks😁👍
Amazing job!!
Thanks for the extra info. I wonder how it would work if I needed two masks at the same time. Maybe compound clips would be needed.
A compount clip would work I think, not tried that actually :)
As usual great video Alex!
Hi!
Is there a way to draw a specific form of alpha? To place a shaped foreground video in a specific place of the main video, or may be there is some other trick for this? Example - base video - room, foreground - outside view and we look at it from the room through rounded window or irregularly shaped hole. Thanks.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing! 🤩
Really cool stuff! Thanks for great walkthrough!
Great vid, simple and easy to understand
very Useful Mr Alex. Thank you so much for the tip
How are you at creating lyric videos and doing some semblance of slightly more advanced than beginner's kinetic typography? i'd love to learn more about that
Okay I think I've gone too far with the Panda on this thumbnail 😂 Edit: Changed to something slightly more relevant!
Very helpful and easy to follow. I'll not take a look at the other video you mention in this one :)
Great info mate
thanks for the video, very helpful.
Great explanation!
Would be cool to also show how you can make transitions using this instrument :)
MOST AWESOME DAVINCI VIDEO ON THE INTERNET IN A WHILE!!!
This helped a tonne ! Need to go try this now.
This will be handy in the future!
I can see this alpha masking as a super easy transition with a gradient from black (0% alpha) to white (100% alpha). Not only straight gradient but also shapes containing a gradient and outside of the shape black/white or even another gradient. Or animated alpha mask by using a videos luminance or green channel, or ... you name it.
Changing the transition by changing the alpha mask picture/video.
Some serious advanced transistions without the need to go into fusion.
Awesome video. maybe you can create a video compilation on how to utilize this effect for future projects. I only use the edit page and not the fusion page since it makes may laptop more laggy.
so cool, thanks. I´m trying never going back to PP, this one is useful
Awesome! Thanks for this. I'm new to Resolve, and thought I could only mask through Fusion, which seemed like overkill to me. Previously in Vegas Movie Studio, I just had a transparent png for the mask, assign one track as alpha, the other as the child, and boom, done. Nice to know Resolve can do this just as easily without Fusion.
If you could do a free form shape you could use that to mask in frame screens and the like with new content. Cool stuff as always! Thank you!
Appreciate this video, this helped a lot and will be very useful in my future vidz.
Excellent; concise and simple.
So helpful! Thanks bravo for sharing it!
Best Lumberjack on TH-cam 😉
Ha I bet there's an actual Lumberjack TH-camr that's very upset right now 😜😆
Amazing, thank you!
Awesome explanation, thank you!
Loved it man...this will help a lot :)
Creative Mind ❤🧠
I'm also learning Pixelmator and masks are a fascinating thing!
Hi Alex, cool and easy to get tutorial.
I am just starting go get my hands around mattes, and I sense your tutorial about alphas is a good starting points - if not the best - at least for me.
Did I get it right that the whole principle of mattes and alphas is to use the principle of allowing something (a text, a picture, another video) 'shine through' some sort of a mask with the luminosity of certain areas of the maks determining what shines through and what not. The more white an area of the mask is the more it will let things 'shine through' and vice versa?
this is very useful... keep it up
Thanks Wai 🙂👍
You are the BEST! I appreciate you!
Muchas gracias por el tutorial!
The contours fusion generator as the alpha provides some interesting options.
Ohhhh I'll take a look :) Thanks Chris.
@@MrAlexTech è
Awesome. I'll try it right now.
Edit page.... Pah! 🤣 Seriously, great job, very interesting... Thx!
Haha I knew you'd like it 😜😄