Instantly Improve Your Footage with This New Resolve 19 Tool

Give your cheap footage a high-end look with this new tool in Resolve 19.
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Learn to create cinematic blur and depth using DaVinci Resolve's new defocus tool.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Creating Batman’s soft edges
02:50 - Advanced technique: Adding a natural shape
03:07 - The Batman FX
05:15 - Adding realistic shallow depth of field to iPhone footage
08:11 - Conclusion
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I'm Waqas Qazi, founder and senior colorist at Qazi & Co. I have worked with PRIME VIDEO, ADIDAS, TOYOTA, VIZIO, etc. My mission is to share industry secrets by making fun and practical videos on color grading.
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[@BenjaminDizdarevic]

Do I have to wait 8 minutes until I can comment "great video"?

[@theqazman]

Haha. My man. ♥️

[@BenjaminDizdarevic]

@@theqazman 😘

[@lucian_r_k]

I very much appreciate you showing how you use the effect with both normal camera and the iPhone footage!

[@theqazman]

Made the most sense.

[@CreativeCookingVideos]

I will be upgrading this weekend. Thanks for another great video!

[@mrshaheedmalik]

Grateful video.

[@mishukx]

Great point buddy.... It's good!!

[@meyerdigitalfilm]

My favourite tool is the color balancer, it saved my ass in a fast changing light situation on a wedding shoot.

[@theqazman]

Super helpful.

[@surajkafle2028]

Lovely one brother❤

[@jm.wowvisuals]

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[@Mister_Te_]

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[@Mohammed_Abdulmalik]

Awesome value as expected from somebody like you ❤

[@theqazman]

Ty bro

[@dankaprzemek2218]

Thanks for sharing that knowledge 🔥🔥🔥

[@theqazman]

Of course ♥️

[@Dardjiskien]

Super video Thanks so much !

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@RaymondRitzau]

Ohh my god! What a sick tool! Appreciate your videos as always!

[@theqazman]

Thank you.

[@raphaelsmith3532]

I’ve been struggling to make this type of effect, using regular blur…wow this is so cool. Thanks!

[@theqazman]

You're welcome

[@outdoorsinontario3037]

Very cool

[@dawoodzafar23]

Thanks, You're the best❤

[@theqazman]

Appreciate the love.

[@koushikbhattacharya832]

awesome

[@ifell3]

Top man

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Blackmagic is constantly changing the game. Super sick man, thanks for going over this! Also I just got a BMD CC6k and just diving into working with Braw footage. Would love to see you work with Braw in a video, if you don't already have content on that.

[@kdottbuzz]

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[@marietafarfarova]

Great overview of Defocus Background, Qazi. I'm curious to see how it compares to Lens Blur OFX. Gotta try it out!

[@theqazman]

Ty and absolutely.

[@finaltouchstudio_]

Yes man!! I love that new tool! Suddenly iPhone footage is starting to look more cinematic by the day

[@theqazman]

Yeah bro it's so good. Fcm Fam ✊🏽

[@CifuentesPhoto]

I do some work with the DJI Avata 2 flying in very close proximity to subjects and/or tie spaces. It is an amazing tool but the small sensor camera feel sucks. I am definitely going to be using this (with moderation) to give the footage a more pro camera look. Thanks man!

[@theqazman]

Sounds like a plan. Of course bro.

[@ihassan1001]

This is absolutely fantastic...thanks for this..as always you bring good stuff...I am guessing for any moving camera I need to track the power window? I'll try it out

[@theqazman]

🙏🏽 and yes.

[@ihassan1001]

@@theqazman got it!! Thanks a lot. Always look forward to your contents. Solid!

[@salpicate7265]

Hi Qazi! A really great video! Wao!! I would really like you to do a video tracing us how to color grade with luts and look pro. I know luts is not the right approach but I will like to know how to color grade with luts. It would be great video.

[@joyoffilming9500]

Awesome tool and instruction - as always! Where in a larger node tree would you position this node - more in the beginning or more towards the end? My gut feels says: more in the beginning to allow the grading to grade the blurs - but happy to learn from you.

[@theqazman]

Thank you. Closer to the end before the grain.

[@joyoffilming9500]

@@theqazman Thanks a lot - makes a lot of sense!

[@SophiaField]

Your videos are so well done, easy to understand with great examples, so thank you so much! But my question is…Is there any way you’d be able to do a tutorial on grading landscape drone footages? Specifically, bright foggy/misty sky and shadow heavy foreground (such as mountains) with no clear/easy separation for masking? 😅. Appreciate you! ;)

[@theqazman]

hey Sophia, first of all thank you for the love. You are so specific that I’m assuming that that’s what you deal with and if that’s the case and you have some footage DM me on Instagram and I’ll definitely make it happen.

[@SophiaField]

Omg, that would be so amazing! I’ll DM you on IG Thank you!

[@auntiescastle]

Here for the soft, creamy edges ;)

[@theqazman]

My kinda, auntie. 😁

[@asaadyt]

better to get it in camera, but very cooooool to add texure to make your look stand out

[@brown2840]

The problem with using a power window alone is that the blur doesn't actually transition properly from no blur to blurry. It just sort of fades into each other. A good trick I learned from Barrett Kaufman's video here is he uses tilt shift and feeds it the power window. The the blur will actually start sharp and over the course of the gradient, get blurrier and will look more natural. Just have to be sure to adjust the sweep/range settings in tilt shift. Tip is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYOVpJmrr6qZf5I&lc=UgzDCxan9AJzHZ6tUpJ4AaABAg

[@theqazman]

For what I'm using it for it works perfectly fine but yes you can use depth map to add the z axis.

[@brown2840]

@@theqazman yes and I love your technique as well, just sharing for the power window technique :)

[@filmalltay]

Barrett did it better for sure.

[@JB_inks]

I'm confused, I heard that DCTLs only work with the Studio version of Resolve, not the free one.

[@r.gimenes8216]

Awesome video! Just one point, anamorphism isn't supposed to stretch everything vertically? like the lenses ? How do I correct that?

[@filmalltay]

Set the anamoprhism to a lower value than 1 to get vertical stretching. Somewhere around 0.5 looks very close to a 2x anamorphic lens.

[@JoeVazquezProductorMusical]

I love defocus, is a great great tool. Blackmagic made a home run. The other new tool is a film look creator, so simple to use and intuitive.

[@meyerdigitalfilm]

If you would edit a KZbin Video would you put your talking head (after cutting it up) in a compound clip and apply the defocus on the compound or would you go from clip to clip?

[@theqazman]

I have a dedicated node for it. I think it makes it much easier.

[@wolfpackvisualmedia9688]

love, but shouldn't the anamorphic effect be vertical?

[@GlobalShutterNY]

When using the Magic Mask you just dragged the alpha channel to the next node input - don't you have to Invert the mask so the effect is happening on the background and not the subject??

[@AlessandroPalombini]

This effect Is just on 19 version?

[@ROBGFILMS]

Have you considered using Tilt Shift Blur instead of background defocus? It offers an anamorphic defocus setting that looks even more believable and produces the vertical stretched bokeh typical of anamorphic lenses with a higher squeeze factor. You just need to fine-tune the settings correctly.

[@theqazman]

I have used it in the past but haven't messed around with it recently. I'll give it a shot.

[@Mariosenda]

best greetings from the Canary Islands!

[@theqazman]

Hey brother. ✊🏽

[@kelvinsilver]

Wouldn’t it be better to use depth map than magic mask?

[@theqazman]

Depending on the situation. Depth map isn't as optimized so it's more cumbersome.

[@kelvinsilver]

@@theqazman okay then, you’re the boss

[@kendersonnoray2651]

is this in the free version as well?

[@HalloweenTelevision]

tilt shift blur works better

[@theqazman]

Depth map works better than that.

[@HalloweenTelevision]

​@@theqazman Humor me, try it out. Use Tilt-shift blur, make a soft mask on a node before and invert it. Run the key output into the 2nd green input on the tiltshift node and set the map source to "from second input" set near blur range to 0, set far blur range to 0.333 (It imitates the focus rolloff of a lens where from the point of critical focus to infinity there is 2/3rds of the Depth of feild and 1/3rd to wards minimum focus). Then thats it, you're done. The Blur background filter blends with opacity so you can see the sharp layer underneath at the transition point, it looks fake, this Tilt-shift Blur method creates a realistic transition where the focus gradually gets blurrier. Can also Use Magic Mask or depth map as your key input but you will have to do some post proccessing to finesse the map by adding blur to made the edges soft because by default the edge of Depth map is too sharp to allow for the focus roll-off to work. You need the key input to have a very very soft edge.

[@secretsdemonteurpro]

first

[@resolving_boris]

I liked it until you added the magic mask, then there was a halo around your ear and I just couldn't unsee it.

[@Fnoucky]

Meh. They're overdoing it nowadays. It makes the image even more artificial, in my opinion.

[@mbgmbgmbg]

nahh the magic mask thing looks soo cheap, it looks like it was shot on a green screen or something