Quick & Clean Background Removal in DaVinci Resolve - Cut Out A Photo in Fusion for FREE

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In this video I'm going to show you how to remove a background quickly in Fusion!
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[@CaseyFaris]

Check out the FREE 9 Nodes course: www.groundcontrol.film/9-nodes-workshop

[@Garrett_Collins]

Im not sure if people know but at least on the galaxy s22 ultra you can cut out anything from a photo by just holding down on the picture over the item you want to cut out. It also leaves a clear background for you so you can pop it right into davinci resolve. Its saved me a bunch of time when trying to create thumbnails and whatnot.

[@BEERNBBQBYLARRY]

I really like how you show various approaches and their pitfalls before settling on the better solution. Really helps people understand why you are taking the additional steps. Good work!

[@SuspiciousPixels]

I much prefer these kind of videos than the hour long plus ones that go deep diving into stuff. This video is very digestable and ticks the boxes for me. Thanks

[@thepleasuremate8623]

your stuff is always so damn helpful and unlocks so much of creativity, it is unbelievable. Even the motion graphics, that I am slowly diving in now as a davinci resolve and edit newbie. Loved even the animated arrow and used it to make an animated descritption. Thank you so much for your stuf!

[@CaseyFaris]

Ahh so great!

[@Real_ItzVanilla]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! My friend wanted help to make him a thumbnail and I said sure since I had loads of free time and I was asked to crop his face into the thumbnail for the first time and I didn't know how to crop stuff out and this helped after you made the background transparent, I clicked the image with transparent background and it told me I could save it and it worked. TY

[@sparkys2k]

Sweet tutorial, Casey! It's a handy trick and I *really* appreciated the "de-instancing" tip 👌

[@gruntgg]

Your tutorials are so good, Casey! Thanks a lot for all the work!

[@Mark.OnEarth]

Video starts at 2:41

[@chrisona6]

Casey once again coming to save the day. 🤝🤝🤝🤝

[@lucetto]

nice lesson, thank you, i have to go back a lot to repeat but that's ok, you have a voice that is lovely to listen to over and over

[@CaseyFaris]

Thank you! 😃Daww

[@Clickumentary]

Nice vid Casey, and love the stacking of multiple polygons to manipulate as one. Q: I'd like to see a vid on the *VAST* differences between color and fusion control point interfaces and how best to work between both. I like in color how you can swipe over multiple points in a group and move in unison / flex them, etc... if that makes any sense at all.

[@WakeUpAndCraft]

Amazing tutorial as always Casey!👍

[@OdysseyNomad]

thanks casey, all that peer pressure and now im addicted to resolve.

[@mattlewin72]

Another incredible tutorial. No surprise there. Thank you very much Casey.

[@wolverinejr1897]

This is exactly what I was looking for! However the vernacular for this type of edit falls within such a BROAD vague search for youtube it took forever to find lol. Most people like myself would just search for: "How to edit images in DaVinci Resolve" but that is an entirely different search. Thanks!

[@OriginalRaveParty]

You're a wizard Harry

[@Rangsk]

If I use this method in Fusion to construct a thumbnail, how do I export it as an image?

[@CaseyFaris]

Super easy. Right click on viewer and "Save Image As" then you can select .png or whatever there.

[@coin777]

How to make fusion not go crazy like MS Word when you add picture when I change my timeline resolution?

[@TheLastDispensation]

Dude! You are HILARIOUS!! You need to get into stand up or something! Every time I watch a tutorial I spit my drink out all over my keyboard because I laugh so hard!! You owe me a new keyboard my friend . . However, this video you are more serious . . Go back to being hilarious guy!!

[@iamakkkshay]

Really helpful video, thanks for fusion videos. Loved the survival guide to fusion, really helped me❤

[@wolverinejr1897]

What would've been helpful to close up the video is to show us how to export just the image while working on a timeline. I found out that you could: select the clip, open the *color tab* at the bottom of the screen, right click the image, grab still, right click still, and export it as jpg.

[@major-skull-gaming]

Thanks for the videos as always! great job! It helped me with some thumbnails im working on!

[@demetrixxx8962]

Great. Thank you

[@gavinmurphy8330]

Was there a video on how to do a background removal with a moving object or clip?? in desperate need

[@RandyReviews1990]

great video you can also remove background in photo and cut out photo in the color tab that' differs from here a little bit!

[@tommystravels64]

Love your tutorials Casey! This one started off great but just too many diversions on it for me mate.

[@destripvlogger]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@fishmasin5334]

this really help me as newbie

[@manfromthemist1958]

Hi Casey, does this work in DR19 free version, the reason I ask is I get to where you turn off the polygon mask, the swtich toggles the icon greys but the image doesn't re-appear on the background, I can draw the polygon mask in viewer 1 and when complete it appears in the coloured background in viwewer2.The rectangle and the oval work but the other three dont. any help is greatly appreciated

[@kszanika7782]

Do you have a video about removing an object in the background that people are passing in front of? When I try using object removal it removes part of the actors in front of the object as well.

[@immensives147]

How to mask hairs ?

[@LandyVlad_Rides]

Cool video thanks Casey

[@fishersgaming]

Where’s the video at for the moving image?

[@RhinoOffroad-zq8fh]

Hey Casey, very very helpful to help me make better thumbnails. However, how to you erase the tracing points if you make a mistake?

[@hajrisulmataj]

Can we do this with Magic Mask or not ? Because it's easier if we can with Magic Mask

[@BrokerBasil]

Same question here - yes, I have Studio version so have Magic Mask available.

[@andy_diep]

You could do this with magic mask but it involves using compound clips. It's my preferred method of cutting things out actually. Because frankly I didn't want to mask things out by hand xD. Here's how I do it, first grab a still image and run it through magic mask. (KZbin it if you don't already know how) Then track it forwards and backwards. Create an alpha output on your nodes and output it. Then you'll want to go back to your edit timeline and create a compound clip. Move the image around with the x or y position. If it moves the masks that's ok, go back and retrack the original image layer forwards and backwards. Done. There may be a more efficient method but this is what has worked for me. I could also make a short video on this if we can get enough comments asking for it. :P

[@Sunny_Chronicles]

Is this something that can be done in the free DaVinci Resolve Version? I'm not seeing "new fusion composition" when I right click on the media pool.

[@growingnest8091]

Ok i followed your video to end and made a great cut out image, but how the heck do I 'export. I wen to File, Export, export fusion composition, and it only allows me to save in a "export composition" file type, which is not functional.

[@tattoosinreview]

Great tip! I need to learn this and the Fusion tab just makes me cringe. Im soooooooo bad and impatient with it!

[@CaseyFaris]

Hey you should check out our 9-nodes workshop. That’s a great place to start! www.groundcontrol.film/9-nodes-workshop

[@tattoosinreview]

I am really going to have to break down and dig in on this@@CaseyFaris

[@SnackGuy2Star]

Is there any way to remove the Background for a video? For example let's say I want to record someone moving but I only need the footage of *them* and not of anything else. Is there any way to crop out everything else while keeping the recording of the person intact?

[@UtahPaul]

Hi Casey my name is Paul and I love your channel I’ve learned a lot. Hey I have the free version of Davinci Resolve 18 I’ve tried to use the magic mask on one of my backgrounds and it said I reached my limitation. I thought you could use that for free. Is there another way to take out the background? Also is there a textbook that’s for Davinci? Thank you.

[@CaseyFaris]

You can check the Blackmagic Design website for tutorials, training manuals, the community forum, as well as their support team.

[@whitebirdstory]

love it! Thank you

[@adsmithtx]

great options.

[@clyntonmann1725]

this is golden

[@Being-Mango]

can you make a video on bevel text effect please

[@doughgarcia6086]

i am on 19 3 beta and when i magic mack it does a good job but when i move forward in the timeline the background come back that i just removed with the colored background that disappeared when applying the magic mack... it is kinda heard to explain...

[@WarGardensForVictory]

Great video and super helpful. How can you take that outline that you made in fusion and use it in the color tab? Or vise versa.

[@AceChina]

An absolute pain trying to zoom in and out of this with a laptop 🙄

[@ChrisRichardsonwtfgamer]

This worked great, but I ran into the same problem I've had with other fusion tutorials. When I attempt to use the work I've done as a template to make another similar effect, things get squirrely quick. Here's an idea for a follow up video. Show the steps you'd use to modify what you've done with another image. There seem to be many little traps Fusion tosses in the way when making modifications. Maybe it's a layer thing? I don't know. But when I tried hooking up a new polygon mask to the node tree already working, things went badly fast.

[@ChrisRichardsonwtfgamer]

My brute force solution by the way is to remake the fx from scratch with a new image. It's always frustrating doing work twice.

[@ChrisRichardsonwtfgamer]

And now I'm back to apologize. I'm 2 tips into your free Fusion Survival Guide and you've already cleared up so much. I'm going to look into your paid offerings next. Thanks for the tips. Sorry I can't make Resolve Con in person this year. Please consider doing one in LA sometime! Thanks again for the great tutorials!

[@reesaoldyear7763]

Thanks for your Video, Casey. I was wondering if you could show me or maybe make (if you haven't already)a tutorial on mobile phone screen scrolling, or website scrolling/ showcasing. Or maybe scrolling down through a PDF document, for example a book. I know a pdf document can be transformed into png files and then turned into a sequence in Davinci Resolve. But this doesn't work as smooth scrolling effect, as each page/png still image will be treated as a frame, so the transition from page to another will be too abrupt. I've seen people doing this effect, but could never find a tutorial on it.

[@esctheo]

A tutorial for doing this to a video would be great!

[@pahpatree597]

Great video & I’m a fan of you & your channel & I was wondering if you might be able to help me figure something out? I recently updated to 18.5 beta from 18 & now every time I open up Resolve it opens until I try & open a project & then it minimizes to the bottom of my screen & it won’t reopen, any ideas why this is happening & how do I fix this? Thank you & cheers!

[@tmanx2724]

Maybe it's my headphones but in this video, you seem to be a bit quieter than usual. I don't put them to maximum volume (roughly in the middle), but I put my sound settings to 70% and the KZbin sound settings to 100% Edit: it doesn't take away from the video either; no more of me using GIMP etc. :D. Also, could you make a video going into detail as to how to do this for moving images? I'm unsure if the one with the bird describes what I'm looking for or not...

[@samuelmcilwrath5756]

Cassey remember beginners may be trying to follow yur lessons and may not know how to select to draw the polygon or zoom in and out.

[@chuckdaddy7964]

wait how do we zoom in?? 2:57 NVM...Hold cntrl + mouse wheel

[@Konslufius]

Doesn't work for me. Followed step by step, but after connecting the last node and switching on the polygon mask, it is always just a black image.

[@Jus-Too-Smoove]

yo act like I have no idea what I'm doing and please tell me how I export this cropped image without any background. Like I strictly just want the image please. Other than that this video was very helpful

[@ToriksLV]

I was about to say, cant you do this automatically with AI but then saw for free version. :D

[@LIGHTISBURNING]

Casey, what format can I record that I dont need to use optimization/proxy (I have ryzen 7 5800x)? its 1080p 60fps

[@rgamingx954]

Hello this is probably an easy fix 😅, so I have two photos that I cropped out. The first one has a transform that moves the whole background but I don’t want that. I want to move the image that I cropped out. When I add a transform it moves both of them which I don’t want either. If anyone knows which node I need for this please let me know 😭

[@alexdalbianco203]

Hello Casey. Alessandro from South Africa. 19:00 28/06/23. I need your help with corner pin. My py picture doesn't stay pinned it moves with my video. Why? I am using DaVinci Resolve 17 Free version. Please can you help. I do it fusion. Thank you.

[@engraverhand]

Thanks! :-)

[@MindlessCoreX]

where the video cut version??

[@PabloS-pu3tg]

Did you just peer pressure us to like & comment? Lol!

[@chaadovd1260]

Any idea why do i have to use invert to see what have i masked? when i dont use invert it keeps the background that i cut away, ty for reply.

[@CaseyFaris]

Turn off the little switch at the top of the inspector with the mask selected so it won't cut things out until you're done

[@stephenprescott4441]

Hi Casey. Is the Fusion survival guide a hard copy, or is it emailed electronically. I ordered it a while ago. If hard copy, do you deliver to Australia

[@CaseyFaris]

It’s a streaming video series

[@DJFurio]

How is this at all quick and easy? For a novice this is way complex. 100 times easier to get my iPhone to do it automatically in 1 finger press. Or use background removal in PowerPoint.

[@scooterD3]

This is traditional workflows. This methodology has been around for decades now. Your iPhone has only been able to do that for a few years. The problem with consumer tools, is when they work, they work great. However there are plenty of times where they won’t work at all. If you don’t know the professional tools, you’re in for a world of hurt trying to do something simple. If phone works for you, then great. But when you’re working fast in Davinci, sometimes, if you just know the tools, this can all be done WAY faster than on the phone. For example, this entire process, when broken down into how long it actually takes to do it, really only takes about a minute. In contrast, getting the image onto your phone (assuming it isn’t already there), performing the mask, and getting it back to your computer could very easily take longer, especially if it happens to grab the wrong objects, or doesn’t grab the entire object. Yes there is a bigger learning curve to this approach but it is well worth it if you work in Davinci resolve frequently, which I expect most everyone watching this video probably does.

[@Poggy]

Why not just use Magic Mask?

[@k2OS]

same thought. (I can't remember if magic mask is available in the free version, which might be why he is showing this method)..

[@CameraTim]

@@k2OS Magic Mask is Studio only, so anyone using the free version can't use it.

[@randomandy2023]

Depending on clip length magic mask is actually longer than a quick manual mask. Some times on my PC magic mask would be like 30 plus minutes. But I can't afford a faster machine right now. I can do this method in about 5 minutes.

[@andy_diep]

@@randomandy2023 Would shortening the clip help speed up the process?

[@randomandy2023]

@@andy_diep I don't know I have only tried to use it a few times and every time I basically gave up to use another method

[@barifarrag]

After this amazing progress in artificial intelligence, is there anyone who still uses those old methods...

[@CaseyFaris]

There are a lot of amazing AI things. Ya gotta know the basics tho to be able to fix imperfections or when AI fails.

[@piratestudiosproductions]

Your video's are pretty frustrating for a total noob. You go kinda fast, and leave some details out. How to you move the cut out image after its cutout? And how to you add a picture background behind it?

[@CMDNEYO416]

How do you do this with a film clip?

[@paungster]

👏👍

[@HandsomeMax33]

Wait. You just made a 10 minute video about a VIDEO software and show us how to remove the background from a PICTURE. A single frame. So you are telling me that I have to repeat this process like 3000 times for a single scene?

[@ihavenoclue572]

No. Read the title and he has made many for videos. This one was made specifically for photos for people who just want to edit photos or create thumbnails using Davinci.

[@HandsomeMax33]

@@ihavenoclue572 funny how BEFORE clicking, the title shows as "Quick & Clean Background Removal in DaVinci Resolve - C..." So he definitely clickbaited. He should have mentioned Photo in the first part of the title.

[@ihavenoclue572]

@HandsomeMax33 Its in the title... just because youtube doesn't finish the rest of title for you doesn't mean it's his fault.

[@HandsomeMax33]

@@ihavenoclue572 yes, actually it is. You can see what will be visible and what wont as an uploader. He purposefully put the meaningless part of the title in front and the most important one last. Its literally clickbait by definition.

[@ihavenoclue572]

@HandsomeMax33 LOL. Even after a click, you see the full title and you can just click out. I cane across many tutorials that were helping with what I needed. I just clicked off and moved to the next. You're completely unhinged over a title.

[@CuriousMind1000]

idk how to move it after i cropped it

[@CaseyFaris]

Add a transform node

[@peacelove3828]

not only is this not simple its time consuming for real. you gotta make web of buttons and drag them together and then scroll some shit and so . just to crop an image out. we coulndt just go street to the cropping of the image without all them map of buttons being linked up wtf.

[@SomewhatAbnormal]

This could be done with 1 click in Photoshop, no? Not a criticism of the content, but I would never try to isolate a subject in Fusion just for the purpose of a thumb. I guess I should take into account that not everyone has Photoshop.

[@wireditvideo]

I think there is an auto mask feature but maybe in the paid version of Studio?

[@SomewhatAbnormal]

@@wireditvideo there’s an auto masking feature for sure, but nothing compares to Adobe’s implementation of subject, background and object masking right now.

[@thomas74london]

cool but too many manips😫

[@Platan0Man]

Why not just do this in photoshop it’s easier

[@RomeWill]

I hate AI... But AI should be able to do this so we don't have to

[@Johnsmith-yv8tx]

that is not quick! also you make it way too complicated just to explain background removal

[@SlowBurnFx]

Pretty bad tutorial actually

[@mishra.shailendra]

You looking little weak today.

[@Jessiekim]

[@SoBeBun]

I'm not afraid! Not at this moment, anyway... But... 👀 I might be, if you could create an example of how to make a little cartoon (or emoji) ghost 👻with a foggy trail, float across the screen of a video clip... I might be scared then! 🫣 I'm about to post my first video ever, and somehow I managed to make one after fumbling around for a couple of days, but it's really lame and I have no idea how I did it... Let's just say the chance of me being struck by lightening, heavily outweighs the chance of me doing it again! 😂 Btw, thank you so much, Casey, for all of your anonymous support for noobs like me, you are a truly a blessing for doing what you do! 😊🙏

[@CaseyFaris]

That’s super inspiring! Way to go!!!