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  • Any way to composite an image (title) in resolve?

    Posted by Nat Jencks on March 31, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Sorry for the basic question, but I’m new to resolve…

    Is there any way to take an image with embedded alpha channel (in this case a title), and comp it onto the image in resolve?

    Or does this need to be done externally?

    Thanks!
    -Nat

    Jonathon Lee replied 15 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Joseph Owens

    March 31, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Resolve is a color grade application.

    If you need to composite titling, maybe Final Cut, or AVID, or Premiere, or some other application might be more appropriate.

    jPo

    You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

  • Illya Laney

    April 1, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    You can composite a still but the control is very limited. Check out Warren’s walkthrough.

    vimeo.com/16643351

    twitter.com/illyalaney

  • Nat Jencks

    April 1, 2011 at 7:27 pm

    Thanks for the link to the tutorial!

    Very useful, but can this be done with a still with embedded alpha do define the matte as opposed to using a keyer like in the tutorial example?

    -Nat

  • Illya Laney

    April 2, 2011 at 12:43 am

    I don’t know how attaching a matte to the composited image would work. I’ve never tried something like that.

    If the point is to isolate the titles in an image, It might be easier for you to render out your clip with the titles baked in, then export just the alpha matte for the title and attach that to the clip in Resolve. This would work with animated graphics too so you can correct everything but the graphics or vice versa.

    twitter.com/illyalaney

  • Jonathon Lee

    April 2, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Yeah, sadly there is not really any compositing in Resolve. The matte thing is basically used for isolating grades… really cool if you are working with CG elements.

    Scratch is the same way… we all want compositing and text… so DS and smoke is basically the best thing if you need to do “finishing” BUT… those systems are not designed for doing color work like a true grading app… on one system we have a Scratch & DS… and on another we have Davinci and Smoke… and we also have a Linux Davinci… I wish there was one solution… well if you have a lot of $$$ you can get a Flame Premium.

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