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

[Joseph Owens]

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]

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

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[Nat Jencks]

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]

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.

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[Jonathon Lee]

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.