Hi everyone, Kevin here. Today, we are going to
look at how you can 10X your video editing skills by using the magic of AI together with DaVinci
Resolve. AI makes video editing so much easier. For example, you can enhance the way
you look. Look at that handsome guy. You can also edit your video just by highlighting
text and you can even remove background noise and isolate a voice just by clicking on a button.
These are just a few of the AI features that you can use right now. If you've neve
r heard of
DaVinci Resolve before, it's free video editing software that you can download by clicking on
the link in the top right-hand corner. That said, many of these AI features require a premium
license. The good news is you can buy a premium license for just a one-time fee, and that gives
you a lifetime license. Let's check out these AI features. This brings us to tip number one. You
can edit your video simply by highlighting text. I have one clip over in my media bin. I’ll right
clic
k on it and right towards the bottom, there's the option to transcribe audio. I'll click on this
and now it'll go through and pull out all of the text from this clip. Right over here, I can see
a transcript of the entire clip. Now check this out. Let's say I want to include this line on my
timeline. I could simply highlight it right here, and if we look into the source viewer, here you
see that it automatically sets an in point at the beginning of the sentence, and it sets
an out point at t
he end of the sentence. Right at the bottom, I can now create a new clip
based on this text that's highlighted. Here, I could stop it or play it, and over here, I can
add it to my timeline. I could either insert or append. I'll append it to my timeline. And let's
say I also want to include this sentence down here. I'll append that to my timeline as well.
That's a really easy way to start building out my timeline. Tip number two, you can very quickly
and easily generate subtitles for your vi
deos. Right up in the top left-hand corner, let's
click on the timeline menu. And right here, there's the option to create subtitles
from audio. When I click on that, you have a few different settings that you
can define. You can select the language, the caption preset, and also how many characters
you want per line. I'll stick with the default 42 and then click on create. This has now added
a new track to my timeline called subtitle 1, and if I zoom in on my timeline, here I can see
the i
ndividual subtitles, and when I hover over any one of them, here I can see it overlay
on top of the video. Now you'll notice that the contrast isn't all that great, and it's a
little hard to read some of these subtitles. With one of these subtitles selected, in the top
right-hand corner, I'll open up the inspector, and here we have all the different settings to
customize what these subtitles look like. Right up here, I'm currently in an individual caption.
Here I can see the text and I can
modify the text. Right up here, I can click on this checkbox and I
can customize the look and feel of this individual caption. And down below, I can see all the
different captions throughout this entire video. In the top right-hand corner, let's click into
track and here I can change the style and the position for all the subtitles in this video. For
example, maybe I can add a drop shadow here and let's also add a background, so that way it makes
the text a little bit more visible. To expor
t your subtitles, on the timeline, I can right click
on subtitle 1, and here there's the option to export the subtitle. When I click on that, here
I can choose where I want to save it, and I can also choose the format for the subtitles. Say,
for example, you want to upload your subtitles to YouTube. You could select subtitle files
without formatting or a .srt file. I'll cancel out of that. Down below, let's click into the
deliver page. On the deliver page, in the top left-hand corner, you c
an also export your video
using custom export. And down at the very bottom, there's a category for subtitle settings. I'll
enable this and right here, you could choose the format. So, do you want a separate subtitle file?
Or you could also embed it or even burn it into the video where this text will appear as part of
the video file. And right here, I can also choose the format that I would like to export as. So,
lots of different options related to subtitles. Tip number three, you can use A
I to reframe your
videos. Here I have a video clip of my son walking on a walkway, and I would like to make this so I
can upload it to TikTok and also Instagram. So, I need to turn it into a vertical video. Up in
the media bin, I'll right click on the timeline and here, let's go to your timeline and timeline
settings. Here I’ll uncheck use project settings and let's change this to a vertical resolution.
In this dropdown, I'll set it to 1080 by 1920, and then let's click on okay. This is now
adjusted
the video, but you'll notice that my son gets cut out of the frame here. Now I could go through and
I can manually adjust the frame so he stays in the center, but we could use AI to do this. With
this video clip selected and in the top right-hand corner with the inspector open, there's the option
for smart reframe. I'll expand this category and right now it's set to auto. Let's click on
reframe. And check that out! It went through the entire video and here it adjusts it, so my son
is
in the center of the frame throughout the video. Down on the timeline, I'll expand it so I
could see all the different key frames and here it went through and it automatically added
keyframes to keep him in the center of the shot. Over here, you can also click on this dropdown
and you could custom set a reference point. So, say you have multiple people in the shot and you
want to make sure that it stays focused on that one person, here you could select the subject.
This brings us to ti
p number four. You can use something called magic mask to automatically
select objects or people, and then you can apply different effects to those objects or people. I'm
currently on the color page of DaVinci Resolve and right up here, let's select the magic
mask tool. Within magic mask, right up on top, here I can set it so I can select an object or I
can select a person. I want to add a mosaic to my son's face to protect his identity. So here I'll
click on person and over on the left-han
d side, I could select an entire person or I could select
features on that person. Here we have a dropdown with all the different features. I just want
to add a mosaic to his face. I'll select face. Right up on top, I have this add tool and over
here, I'll simply highlight part of his face and it'll go through now and select his face. I'm
going to zoom in just a little bit, so we see his face. Now, when I go down, we have the option
to toggle the mask overlay. When I press that, here you'll
see that it's identified his face.
Over here, you can apply the mask on the area selected, or you can invert it where it selects
everything around the face. I'll turn it back, so it's just on his face. Now down below, I can track
it forward and back, so that way this mask will apply throughout the entire video clip, but just
for simplicity, I'll go up to the top right-hand corner and click on effects, and now I can apply
any one of these effects to this selection. I'll click on the search
icon and let me look
for mosaic blur. I'll select this effect and simply drag and drop it onto this clip. Now
let's turn off this overlay and here you see that it's applied this mosaic to his face. Now
I could go through here and I can customize it. This is a really easy way to target effects or
even color changes to a specific person or to an object. This brings us to tip number five. You
can use AI to refine the way a face looks. I have a video clip here on the timeline of myself from
th
e intro of this video, and it could probably use a little bit of face refinement. Down at the
very bottom, let's click into the color page, and in the top right-hand corner, let's click
on effects. I'll click on the search icon and let's type in face refinement. Here we see
face refinement. I'll drag and drop that onto this node. And right at the top, let's click on
analyze. It'll now go through and find all of the different features of my face throughout this
video clip. Now that it's fini
shed, over on the right-hand side, I have all of these different
controls that I can use to enhance the way I look. Before we make any changes, let's turn
off the overlay, so now I just see the face and I'll also zoom in just a little
bit so we could see these changes better. First, we have the option to modify the texture
or the skin. I'll increase the amount and you'll notice that my skin is becoming a little bit
smoother. Here I can toggle it off and back on and look at that nice skin. W
e could also apply color
grading or here's the option for eye retouching. Let's maybe remove those bags under my eyes.
Look at that. I got good sleep last night, no bags for me. And you can come through and
make all sorts of other changes to your lips, the forehead, your cheeks. So, feel free to have
fun with this one. This brings us to tip number six. You can use AI to generate a depth map. Down
on my timeline, I have one clip on the timeline. I'll press control C to copy and let me move t
his
clip up. I'll simply drag it up to the next video track and then I'll press control V, and that way
I have a duplicate of that original clip. Up in the top left-hand corner, let's click into effects
and down here, let's go to Open FX filters. I'll click on the search icon and let's type in
depth map. As a note, you can also use this on the Fusion page and also the color page. I’ll select
the depth map and then drag that onto my topmost clip on the timeline. And just like that, it has
g
enerated a depth map and we can preview it up above. Now you might be wondering, well, what is
a depth map? Well, it represents the distance of an object from the camera. So here you see my
outline. I'm sitting close to the camera, so I appear in white and then the background behind me
is farther back, so it appears in a darker shade. Up in the top right-hand corner, make sure that
the inspector is open and then click into effects, and here we see all of the different effects
related to the
depth map. Here I can turn the preview off, or I could also toggle it back
on. Right here we can also make adjustments to the map. So, I want to just isolate myself
from this shot. So I'll check this box next to isolation and over here, I can choose the target
depth. Now I'm fairly close to the camera. So, I think 1 works well. Here, I can
lower the tolerance a little bit, or I could raise the tolerance and here
that looks just about right. It just has me selected and it's removed the back
ground. Here,
I could also make adjustments to the softness. Down below, I can also turn on post-processing
and this will result in a slightly cleaner image. Up at the very top, I'll turn off the preview.
So far, this looks exactly the same, but I've now separated me from the background in this top clip.
I'll take this clip on my timeline and move it up to the next track. You can now do some really neat
things. For example, I'll pull in, let's say an image of a waterfall and I'll position i
t between
these two tracks on my timeline. Now, when I click in here, you'll see that I am now sitting in front
of this waterfall. I can zoom in on the waterfall. So, it fills up the frame and check that out.
I have now layered an image in between these two clips on my timeline thanks to the magic of a
depth map. This is just one example of how you can separate a layer out in your image and say, apply
a new background, but you can also use it to say, target improvements to certain layers of
your
shot. Let's say, for example, you want to make the background blurry. You could do that with a
depth map. This brings us to tip number seven. You can use AI to automatically classify all
of your audio and the people within your clips. I'm currently on the media page and I have all
of my media selected. I'll right click on one of these clips. And in this menu, there's the
option for audio classification. Let's go over and click on analyze. It'll now go through
and analyze all of these
different clips. Now that it's all done analyzing my clips, let's
click into the edit page at the very bottom. Over on the left-hand side, we see a category for
smart bins. I'll expand the collections and it's now grouped all of my different files into these
different collections. For instance, let's say I want to see all of my clips that include dialogue.
I'll click on dialogue, and this is the one clip that includes dialogue. Or I could click into
music and here it identifies that this i
s my music track. Or here I can click into effects and I see
all of my different clips that include effects. I can even click into subcategories and this breaks
the effects down into subcategories. For instance, here I clicked into animals and we see that there
is a sound file with a dog barking. Or here I can see the dialogue. I can see the dog again. I can
see the train. So, this is a really nice way to organize all of your different audio. Let's now
click back into the media page and let
's go back to the master bin view. Just like you could use
AI to group all of your audio files, you can also use it to group people. Let's select these two
clips. These both include people. I'll right click and here we have the option to analyze clips
for people. Let's select that. Right in here, I can see that DaVinci Resolve has identified
two different faces. Here, it's identified me and also my son. I can click on this text down
below and I could enter in who this person is. Over on the
left-hand side, I can see all of the
clips that contain Kevin and all of the clips that contain Thomas and any other people. This all
looks good. So, in the bottom right-hand corner, I'll click on close. To see smart bins with your
people, let's go up to the top left-hand corner and click on DaVinci Resolve. Then go down to
preferences. Up on top, let's shift into the user view and on the left-hand side, let's click into
editing. Within the automatic smart bins category, let's make sure to
check automatic smart bins
for people metadata, and then click on save. Let's now shift back to the edit page and over
on the left-hand side, we now see that there's a smart bin for people. I can expand this and
let's say I want to see all the video clips that contain Kevin. I could click on that and that
filters the media bin view, or let's say I want to see all of my clips with Thomas. I'll click on
that. And there, I see Thomas. Really easy way to sort all of your media. This brings us
to tip
number eight. You can use AI to remove background noise and also isolate a voice. Here, I have a
video clip of my son speaking on an airplane, and of course, you have the engine noise in the
background, which is very loud. Let's have a quick listen. And, we’re in, we had to go on two
airplanes, and this is our last airplane. So, as you can tell, it's a little hard to hear
what he's saying with all that background noise. With this audio clip selected on my timeline,
let's go up to th
e top right-hand corner and open up the inspector. Within the inspector, there's
an option called voice isolation. Let's toggle this on, and then you can select the amount. Just
for demonstration, I'll go with a hundred percent. Let's now play that again to hear what it sounds
like. We had to go on two airplanes, and this is our last airplane. As you can tell, it's pretty
much completely eliminated that background noise, and it's so much easier to hear what he's
saying. This brings us to ti
p number nine. You can use AI to relight a scene. Over here in
the timeline viewer, I have a clip with me in it, but I'm not entirely happy with the lighting over
here. Ideally, I could modify the lighting after the fact. Thanks to AI, we can still do that. In
the top left-hand corner, let's click on effects. Then down below, let's go to Open FX and filters,
and in the search field, let's type in relight. And here we have a relight effect. I'll drag
and drop that onto the clip on the timeli
ne. In the top right-hand corner, let's open up the
inspector and here I'll zoom out a little bit, just so we can see more of the image. Over in the
bottom left-hand corner, click on this dropdown and switch to the Open FX overlay. And right here,
we see a 2d image that represents a 3d space. The best way to show that is to simply move the light
around. Over here. I see an overlay for my light. Here I can move this around the scene and look
how it interacts with me. So here, when I place th
e light over on the right hand side, you'll see
that there's a shadow on this side of my face, or if I take the light and let's move it over to
the other side of my face, now we see a shadow over on the right-hand side of my face. So, really
interesting. Over on the right-hand side within the inspector, I have all sorts of different
controls to modify the way this light looks. First off let's turn off this relighting map preview.
This will bring back my image and now we can see how the ligh
t affects just this image. So, look at
this, I could add more light to this side of the face. Or maybe I want to place the light over on
the other side of the face. So basically, I could adjust the lighting after the fact. This is so
powerful. Over here on the right, currently it's set to a point source, but I could also change it
to a directional light, and here you could see the light hitting me from different directions. Or I
could also set it to a spotlight. So maybe we put the spotligh
t and let's adjust it right there,
and here I could adjust where the light is. Back over on the right-hand side in the inspector
pane, here you could adjust light properties, surface properties, and there are all sorts
of different settings that you can play with. For full control over what the light looks like
you can also use the relight effect on the color page, and you could adjust say the brightness of
the light. You could also adjust the color of the light. So, you have a lot more opt
ions there. This
brings us to AI feature number 10. You can use AI to upscale your image. Here's a video of me hiking
in the Cascade mountains in Washington state. And it's a nice image, but I would like to give it
a little bit more detail and sharpness. Luckily, I can do that with AI. With this clip selected,
in the top right-hand corner, let's click into the inspector. Within the video tab all the way at
the bottom, there’s an option called super scale. Let's turn this on to see how it lo
oks. And check
that out! That added some nice additional detail. Over here, you also have a few different options
that you could choose if you want more detail. DaVinci Resolve using AI will add more pixels
to this image to give it higher resolution. This brings us to AI feature number 11. You can use
AI to remove objects from shots. Here I have this beautiful drone shot flying away from me on this
hike, but you see that I left my backpack in the shot and I want to remove that from the shot
. Now
that could be a lot of work to get rid of that, but luckily AI can take care of that. Down at
the very bottom, let's click into the color page and let's click into the window view, and here
let's select the curve tool and I'll drag a curve around this backpack. So, let's draw this right
around there. I want to close it. And next let's click into the tracker and here we can track
forwards and backwards. It's all done tracking in the top right-hand corner, let's click on
effects, then
click on the search icon and let's search for object removal. I’ll select
this and then drag and drop it onto the node. At the very top here, let's start by clicking on
scene analysis. Now that it's finished analyzing the scene, let's zoom in, and here we can see that
it's added a gray image on top of the backpack. Over on the right-hand side in object
removal, here if we go down to clean plate, we can see that it's currently set to gray image,
but we can replace it with either an internal
or external plate source. I’ll select external and
there we see the backpacks gone. I can press alt D and that'll turn off the effect. There we see the
backpack is back and I can press alt D and there it disappears. Now, because we use the tracker,
as we go through the shot, you'll see that the backpack is gone throughout all of these shots.
That was really easy. This brings us to number 12, speed warp. Here I have a video of my son going
down a slide and I would like to slow it down. The o
nly problem is I only recorded it at 60 frames
per second. In the top right-hand corner, with this clip selected, let's open up the inspector.
And if we scroll down, there's the option to change the speed. I'll make sure that ripple
timeline is checked and then change the speed percentage to 10. So now it's extended the length
of the clip. The only problem is when I play it, you notice this choppiness. That's because I just
don't have enough frames. Luckily, we can use AI to change this. Ov
er on the right-hand side,
there's a category called retime and scaling, and when we expand this, we can apply a retime
process and there's an option called optical flow. This will use AI to fill in the details between
those frames to make it much smoother. Here I'll select optical flow. Underneath that, you can
also select how you want to estimate the motion between those frames. And here you have many
different options. You can experiment with them, but I'll select speed warp. And here yo
u can see
what it looks like using optical flow together with speed warp. It interpolates entirely new
frames to really create a smooth slow-motion effect. That is so impressive. All right. Well,
if you've ever wondered why I don't seem to age in any of my videos, it might be because I
use just a little bit of face refinement. Okay. So, I definitely overdid it in this shot,
but hey, I don't think there any skincare routines I could get skin this smooth. I mean, I look like
a puppet. To wat
ch more videos like this one, please consider subscribing and
I’ll see you in the next video.
Comments