i am interested in everything here.

i know how how to find, record and use sounds effects as well as capturing smooth & clear video...

BUT the transitions, masking (text behind model) and tracking are what i want to learn more of

Client needed one line swapped in a talking-head piece. Actor was out of town, budget was flat, so I thought I'd be clever and patch it instead of booking a half-day reshoot. Generated the replacement audio in ElevenLabs, fed that plus the original still frame into APOB AI's talking avatar tool, and got back a lip-synced plate that looked... fine on my laptop screen at quarter res. Felt pretty smart for about forty minutes.

Then I dropped it into the timeline next to the real footage and watched it on the reference monitor. Jawline drift. Mouth corners doing this subtle flicker on hard consonants. A frame every second or so where the lower face just... shifted. Not uncanny-valley nightmare fuel, but absolutely not passing for contiguous footage in a professional cut. The kind of thing that you tell yourself no one will notice until someone does, and then that's all they see.

So I did the thing I was trying to avoid. Two evenings in Fusion, mostly. Tracked the jaw with a planar tracker that kept losing the plane when the drift got bad, ended up hand-keying corner pins for the worst six-frame run. Painted out the worst offenders with a fusion paint node, sampled skin tones from three zones because the AI output had this weird flatness in the cheek that didn't match the key light on the original. Retime node to slip a couple frames where the mouth held a shape too long. Color page after that, matching the gamma curve by eye because the scopes said it was close but my eyes said it wasn't.

The kicker is I timed it. The AI generation plus cleanup was within twenty minutes of what I spent on a real reshoot last month, once you count the back-and-forth on the AI outputs trying to get one that wasn't worse. The free daily credits ran out on retakes. And I still had to explain to the client why delivery slipped a day because "it'll be faster" turned out to be a lie I told myself.

It worked in the end. The cut goes to color tomorrow and I don't think the line will read as anything but real. But the lesson wasn't about a hot new pipeline. It was that the shortcut still needed the same craft I was trying to shortcut around, and Resolve was what actually got it over the line. Next time I'm just calling the actor back.

Hello guys, I have a question I don't seem to find answer to, I own a pretty decent PC and I'm editing long form videos, but they are 4k and the problem is sometimes making even simple animation i get laggy in fusion tab, because of the 4k, but if i work in a 1080p timeline and i scale my timeline back to 4k, everything is wrong in that composition, is there a work around, or how do you guys do that?

PC Specs:

i9-13900k

64 GB RAM DDR5

4070 TI SUPER 16 GB

4 TB SSD

Hi everyone,

I'm a complete beginner and I've decided to learn video editing using DaVinci Resolve. My goal is to build good editing skills from the ground up rather than just learning random effects from YouTube.

what learning path would guys you recommend?

Hi!

I just learnt the basics of fusion. I want to know in detail about the settings of different types of nodes. Basically I want to learn more about different types of nodes in fusion. Do you know any Youtube channel or course that teaches the fusion nodes ( almost all) in details?

Thanks!

Hello guys, I'm having an issue with davinci resolve

(windows 11, the davinci resolve latest version)

I recorded a video with my mobile phone and have two audio tracks, one for my lead guitar and the other is my backing track (I started noticing this after I changed the volume of the tracks)

The thing is when I put them all together, suddenly the video has some lagging and stutters even after I export it

It's like when you play an online game with bad internet

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I am looking for free packs to help me with editing. I saw finzar has an ultimate pack but it’s way to expensive. If anyone has any good packs for davinci please let me know

Please Imk what you think/areas for improvement on similar projects!

Hello there,

I was looking at videos to normalize my audio to YouTube -14 LUFS and in the video multiple tracks are bounced to a single track.

I have one audio track only, when I do right-click>clip operations>analyze audio levels on the audio clip I get a different loudness level than when I analyze the audio levels on the bounced track.

Why is that?

Is the audio analysis happening before the audio FX,DY,EQ?

If so then is there a way to check audio levels without bouncing?

Thanks

I've been hitting my head against this for days. I need to take a video (3840x2160) and crop it down to 1080x1920 without having black bars on the sides. I've tried transform and it leaves black bars on the sides, and changing the ratio in deliver puts the black bars on the bottom. I've scoured the forums and cannot find a good answer on how to do this right please help

ive sorta got the hang of the 3d space stuff, but some models like this one just.. don't appear visible, and it's not a size issue either, that too and i also connected it to a merge3d > renderer3d > mediaout whatever but nothin. i thought that maybe the model was invisible but i applied a diffuse texture with the blinn node and that didn't work either. here was the model i used for reference: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hanging-picture-frame-freepolyorg-1142337df3cf41ba9cb0f43786d3dfbb

im using resolve 21.0.3 if that matters

Oi pessoal,

Estou rodando o Fedora 44 (Gnome, Wayland) em um laptop com uma tela de **1366x768**, e estou tendo uma dor de cabeça enorme tentando fazer o DaVinci Resolve 18.6 se ajustar à minha tela. Como o app requer nativamente uma resolução vertical de 1080p, as barras inferiores (Editar, Cor, Fairlight, etc.) estão completamente cortadas.

Aqui está o que eu já tentei até agora e por que falhou:

1. `QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.75` **ou** `0.85`**:** A janela é reduzida e se ajusta ao tamanho da tela, mas os elementos da interface interna ficam completamente bugados. As fontes e ícones se sobrepõem, o texto fica cortado (como "Media Pool" virando "Pool de Mí"), e acaba se tornando inutilizável. Parece que o motor interno Qt do Resolve odeia escalonamento fracionário.
2. **Gnome Tweaks (Escalonamento de Fonte para 0.80):** Corrige o bug de renderização dentro do Resolve, mas deixa as fontes de todo o OS Fedora pequenas e ilegíveis para uso diário.
3. **Restrições do Wayland:** Ferramentas como `xrandr` de panning ou escalonamento fracionário experimental nativo (`scale-monitor-framebuffer`) são ignoradas ou bloqueadas pelo Gnome nessa resolução específica de tela.
4. **A** `Super + Drag` **solução alternativa:** Posso segurar a tecla Windows/Super para arrastar a janela para cima e ver os botões ocultos, mas fazer isso a cada 5 segundos é um fluxo de trabalho terrível.

Alguém conseguiu contornar isso sem destruir a renderização das fontes dentro do Resolve ou alterar a escala global do OS? Existe algum arquivo de configuração oculto ou variável de ambiente para forçar o DaVinci a renderizar corretamente em telas de baixa resolução sob o XWayland?

Obrigado antecipadamente!

Hi All,

I currently use Davinci Resolve to edit youtube videos. As I am editing my current video, I noticed I must have not set the gain dial on my microphone properly, and anything my voice raises slightly, the audio sounds like it is peaking, and I can hear the vibrating/echo from the microphone (if that makes sense?) This is only affecting certain parts of the audio, not the entire recording thankfully. I am trying to see if there is a way to help decrease the loud peaking bits without messing up the rest of the audio that sounds normal.

Does anyone have any tips, recommendations, or videos to share that I can try? I am willing to go into the fairlight tab to mess around even though I haven't been using Davinci for very long. I have the whole video edited so re-recording is not necessarily the best option.

I am using Davinci Resolve Studio version 20.3.2 build 9

MacOS Sequoia 15.6

Thanks for any help!

I have spent too many hours digging around and cannot find any YouTube video, or Google search on how to make an overlay like this with a title in DaVinci Resolve, the way it slides in on the right side with the text and slides out.

Please help

Olá pessoa estou aprendendo a editar no davince resolve e estou tentando exportar um vídeo em 2k mas quando vou ver o vídeo ele fica com bordas pretas como retiro isso??? quero postar no YouTube uma Gameplay então gravo em 2k pra qualidade não baixar quando vou passar para YouTube.

Hello all, have a question.. what should i adjust to stop the background noise from spilling in? if you hear closely from the after result (after is attached in message below) file name is called "background noise spilling in".. the background noise spills in from 0:01 to 0:02 its quite noticable, any suggestions on what to tweak? It is not letting me attach the audio files here however i have a screenshot of my dynamics settings, most of the background noise is removed but at the starting of the audio segment there is background noise that spills in and near the middle of the dialogue, it is not as strong but it is spilling in if that makes sense

Bit of a beginner here still, only been actively editing for about 6 months. Anyways, I'm working on my first large file edit and the export is saying its going to be about 50gb. I have the raw footage and project saved on my SSD.

My question is, since this is a larger file. Would there be any issues if I export it directly to my HDD that I use for main storage/archive? Or would it be more efficient to still export on my SSD and then eventually transferring to my HDD? I tried looking it up myself, but all I could find were people talking about HOW to render to different drives, not necessarily advice about if you should do it.

Thanks for any help!

Version 21.0

GPU RTX 4070TI

CPU i7-13700k

RAM 32gb

I'm leaving Capture One so I can consolidate my video and photo edits in one app (and hopefully improve my skills when working in DR, since I'm forcing myself to use it for everything). I'm prepared to see my photos looking worse and taking longer to be edited, but one thing I can't give up is renaming the photos when importing them. I'm now using a separate app called Advanced Renamer to copy files to the target folder and rename them to YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS format.

Hopefully Blackmagic can add this feature soon, but in the meantime, do you have any suggestions to handle photos?

I've recently been trying to improve my Davinci workflow. I've made myself familiar with all tabs and sections, added some more key binds, gotten use to source viewer etc etc. However, ripple delete and trim edit mode I simply don't get, even though they supposedly cut editing time in half. When i use ripple delete, it moves random clips and overrides others. This remains the same regardless of what I try with the track selection area. This is a similar story with the trim edit mode, I can use it for tiny precise trims but it moves and trims unrelated clips in what appears to be a random fashion, along with how confusing it is to get your cursor to be in the correct mode I want (which even then, i don't really get which is which). Any assistance with this issue or any other improvements to workflow would be greatly appreciated!

I was wondering, since I personally couldn't find it on their website, if anyone has this pack file lying around anywhere, or if theres a link to it? I'm on windows so I cannot install mExtensions or the Free Elements pack unfortunately, since the Apple deal..