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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

You're reading from   Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18 Create quick video content for your business, the web, or social media

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075251
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Resolve – Publishing Your First Cut FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Adding Titles and Motion Graphics 4. Chapter 3: Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync 5. Chapter 4: Adding Narration, Voice Dubbing, and Subtitles 6. Chapter 5: Creating Additional Sound 7. Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
8. Chapter 6: Working with Archive Footage 9. Chapter 7: Stabilizing Shaky Footage 10. Chapter 8: Hiding the Cut – Making Our Edits Invisible 11. Part 3: Advanced Techniques
12. Chapter 9: Adding Special Effects 13. Chapter 10: Split Screens and Picture-in-Picture 14. Chapter 11: Enhancing Color for Mood or Style 15. Chapter 12: Studio-Only Techniques 16. Glossary 17. Answers to Questions 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a greenscreen effect on the Edit page using the 3D Keyer

The 3D Keyer is a chroma key tool where you can quickly draw lines over the color you want to key (remove) from the background.

Every line you draw selects the corresponding colors in the 3D color space of the video. A color space is a 3D representation of all the colors available for your video. See Chapter 11, for a more detailed explanation of color spaces. Hence why the tool is called the 3D Keyer, as it takes a key from the colors in this 3D color space.

You can apply the 3D Keyer on either the Cut or Edit page (of course, you can also use the Fusion and Color pages, but that is a bit more complicated than you need it to be).

Applying the 3D Keyer

After locating the 3D Keyer in Effects > Video > Resolve FX Key > 3D Keyer, you can apply the 3D Keyer to the selected clip in the Timeline using any of the following methods on either the Cut or Edit pages (Figure 9.11):

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