Easy LIGHTSABER TUTORIAL - Tracking | DaVinci Resolve Fusion

[@joinizwe]

That is the smart way 🤩

[@KKP_yt]

Thank you so much for this! PLEASE keep these coming

[@HikingWithCooper]

That was brilliant. I just learned so much, so fast.

[@rishansookhoo1544]

thanks this helped so much

[@ishanbhattacharyya8842]

Thanks Man!!!

[@charlesn]

Great job David. I watched a few other tutorials and I definitely think yours is the best of the bunch. Keep up the great work. I wish I saw this video before my last project started so I could have added the white paper marks on the light saber...would have saved me a lot of time!

[@dakr-q2g]

Thank you so much!

[@TomCalver-mn5vr]

at 3:57 in the video what keys are you clicking to set the frame and then move forward?

[@davidharrison5127]

Sorry forgot to say, its just the arrow keys. Left goes back one from, right goes forward one frame. So just moving a few frames at a time

[@tombro8080]

@@davidharrison5127 thanks!

[@p.c.windhamparanormalroman4339]

You hit those keys any harder and you will go through your desk. Take it easy.

[@davidharrison5127]

🤣🤣 go hard or go home

[@sushimattch7438]

can you please make a video on if the lightsaber goes behind you or an object and how to make it appear that way? thanks!

[@davidharrison5127]

Great idea. This is something I should be able to do as my new job allows more hours for making videos 😊

[@dcfanforlife533]

@@davidharrison5127 please do!!

[@JebrilKessler]

Would 2 peices of black tape on my toy lightsaber be enough fro tracking. And should i do 2 little dots or wrap a good 1 inch tape around the whole blade at the top and bottom?

[@mikeheimer537]

Not sure what version you are using , but 17 isn’t the same. First off every time I publish, it locks up the program and I have to reboot it. Second even though I created 2 trackers when I go to publish it only shows one on the list even though I am clicked on 2. Then there are a number of choices to publish to which you didn’t have. Maybe the ones I am choosing are causing it to lock up?

[@davidharrison5127]

I was on DR 16. Tbh I haven't tried it in the DR17 to see if much has changed. I will look to do an updated one

[@CjzombiecatOfficial]

How did you put the tracking points on at the begining

[@ClubBrick]

This all looks different in DaVinci 17. The glow has different options etc 🤔

[@davidharrison5127]

Yes I believe some of the options have changed. But can achieve the same result with a little experimentation

[@NotYourAverageBrightonFan]

Yeah I’m trying to figure it out too

[@whitefish-willy]

This was sick, made a sweet light saber for a music video I'm making, do you know what I'd have to do if I have a scene with two light sabers? Like a dueling scene?

[@davidharrison5127]

That makes things much more complicated! You could track where possible, but would likely have to do a lot of manual positioning! There is another option where you use green or blue coloured props, and then you can chroma key them to save any positioning at all. I will look to do a tutorial on that method

[@whitefish-willy]

David Harrison thank you!

[@davidharrison5127]

You should link the video if its complete. Would love to see it

[@whitefish-willy]

David Harrison I’ll make sure to when it drops 👍🏻

[@whitefish-willy]

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[@masscreationbroadcasts]

I ran into a bit of a problem which I fixed, that being that it twisted the shape of my saber into an S shape when it tracked the points. I twisted the polygon shape at the start before tracking and it fixed, but I'm pretty sure my error was not meant to happen.

[@JCurtisMedia]

This was very very helpful and after watching a couple of times it really will help with some of the basic features of Fusion. Thanks for posting! #NewSub

[@ehnorst]

Comment fait on pour sélectionner le glow ? Je ne le trouve pas

[@toufiquzzaman_sabbir]

Where did you get the pipe? 😲😲

[@davidharrison5127]

From my girlfriends clothes rack 🤣 It seemed a more useful purpose

[@fane_fane]

in the 1:25 coin on which I press to put the glow effect

[@rishansookhoo1544]

drag the glo effect and click it on to the polygon

[@ehfosse]

what do you press to activate glow??

[@natalieschmitz7035]

How do you get both of the windows 1 for the saber and the other for you’re video

[@davidharrison5127]

There is a square box at the top of your window to click and open/Close the 2nd window

[@thunderprowfilms5917]

if the hilt and tip of my lightsaber are different widths, how do I adjust the width of the individual ends of the polygon mask?

[@davidharrison5127]

Great point. You would have to use a 4 point poly. So you can vary the distances at each end

[@HeinleinShinobu]

does it work on fast moving object?

[@davidharrison5127]

Not great. With fast moving object you would be better following with a 4 point mask, then you could increase the size of the mask to create sort of light blur as it follows the sabre.

[@tanvirshajahan]

why when i go for next frame i lost the drawings on next frame

[@slash5068]

what key do you press to get the glow

[@SuperMineFilms]

I need to know too

[@davidharrison5127]

Sorry guys. How foolish of my not to say.. Its shift+spacebar brings up a search list of nodes

[@slash5068]

@@davidharrison5127 thanks :}

[@Kenjiiscool]

how would i add lasers that im deflecting?

[@davidharrison5127]

In a very similar way. Use a background for the colour of your lasers. Use a mask that you will animate for the movement. Its a good idea, I might do another tutorial with me deflecting some lasers

[@therealzyto4624]

I cant get the glow on the light saber help please

[@davidharrison5127]

are you using the correct glow node? There are 2 options when using glow

[@therealzyto4624]

@@davidharrison5127 I am

[@davidharrison5127]

@@therealzyto4624 seems very strange, you have the nodes in the order shown? Using the glow and the soft glow? Is the lightsaber showing, just not glowing?

[@stirlingbalazs2853]

@@davidharrison5127 what are the two options? I have this kind of problem as well, that if I click on the little "glow" rectangle, things come up in the inspector

[@agames426]

i stuck at the polygon part

[@davidharrison5127]

Stuck how? can you explain and I will try and help your resolve

[@agames426]

nevermind i got unstuck

[@Julianos373]

good video, But you are Doing it way to fast, slow it down, so we can follow XD

[@reyvaz2951]

I had to stop washing this because all that noise in the back its hard to concentrate.

[@davidharrison5127]

Thanks rey. Better microphone going forwards 😊