Color Track and Isolation In DaVinci Resolve
Using Color Grading Tools to Isolate and Highlight Colors in a Video
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use color grading tools in the color page to isolate and highlight colors in a video. We will start by tracking and isolating the red backpack of a cyclist.
Tracking and Isolating the Red Backpack
- Right-click the first node, choose add node, and add serial to add a corrector after the first one.
- While the second node is selected, open the qualifier palette in the viewer.
- Click and drag the color picker and select the red backpack.
- Enable highlight mode to see the key selected.
- Use pick add tool to add more colors to selection.
- Adjust parameters in matte finesse section or change sliders for best result.
- Use power window to limit key selection to backpack only.
Tracking Motion of Backpack
- Go to tracker palette, click track forward button to start tracking.
- Move playhead back where tracker is lost.
- Select bad tracking data by dragging bounding box over curves, clear selected track data from option pop-up menu in tracker palette.
- Select frame mode so that we can manually keyframe tracker.
- Add keyframe at current point by clicking small diamond icon.
- Move playhead forward where backpack is back in view and trackable again.
- Drag and resize window over backpack; a keyframe is automatically created for current position.
Isolating Blue Helmet of First Cyclist
- Right-click an empty spot on node editor, select add node and corrector.
- Connect RGB input of new node with first node's RGB output.
- Right-click again, choose add node, then add key mixer.
- Disconnect backpack's key output from black-and-white node; connect it instead into one of key mixer's inputs.
- Connect key output of new corrector to the other input of key mixer.
- Connect key mixer's output to black-and-white node's key input.
Conclusion
- We have successfully isolated and highlighted the backpack and blue helmet by keeping their colors and setting the rest to black and white.
- Use viewers toolbar to disable or enable color grades or fusion effects temporarily.
Color Grading Tutorial
In this tutorial, the instructor demonstrates how to use DaVinci Resolve to color grade a video. The tutorial covers topics such as enabling the color grades view, selecting and tracking objects, adding power windows, and changing colors.
Enabling Color Grades View
- Enable the color grades view.
- The backpack is turned to black and white with others in color.
Working on the Helmet
- Select the corrector we just added and open the qualifier palette.
- Click and drag to select the blue helmet in the viewer.
- Switch to highlight mode.
- Add a power window to limit selection as we did earlier.
- Track the helmet using tracker palette.
- Adjust window position and size to create keyframes.
Separating Backpack and Helmet
- Disable grade from node 4 by clicking number label 0 4 temporarily.
- Select node four go to key palette invert key input right away
- Viewer shows backpack and helmet retaining their colors while others are turned into black and white
- Examine result: see that helmet was not fully selected
- Turn on highlight mode for node three
- Choose pick add tool in qualifier palette
- Click and drag to add rest of helmet in matte finesse section
- Adjust clean black and clean what values
Changing Colors
- Label nodes first: right-click on second node select node label enter backpack for node 3 enter helmet as label
- Go to RGB mixer palette for backpack node
- Decrease red output increase blue output turn it into a blue backpack
- For helmet node adjusting RGB value doesn't change its color because RGB output of helmet node is not connected yet
- Right-click open pop-up menu select add node add parallel mixer connect RGB output of helmet to one of mixer's inputs
- Connect node 4's output to the mixer's other input
- Reconnect mixer output to final node tree output
- Go to RGB mixer palette for helmet node
- Adjust sliders of RGB outputs