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Glow to highlight a moving person
Dear all!
I am pretty new to DaVinci Resolve Studio (so nodes and all the funny colorful in and outs there are not that clear to me) and I just read, that the thing I am looking for, would be “rather easy” to generate in it.
So, here is my question:
I am trying to achieve, that a moving person (sports) is being highlighted (outline, aura glow?), so that learners know on who to focus. I figured out MagicMask to track the person, but then everything I am trying just doesn’t work. I used ChatGPT to help me, but everything it tells me leads to no visible changes.I need it strictly for educational use and I would be really thankful, if anyone could help me out here.
All the best
Gernot -
5 Replies
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I did something like this a number of years ago, without all the glitzy Assistive Bots.
I used SHAKE to generate a motion path (that’s how long ago) and a radiant filter that I masked with a spline matte that was semi-automated. Much easier as a green screen.
It was incredibly tedious.
Make it easier on yourself, unless you wish to portray your subject as some sort of religious icon and just use a tracked power window / edge matte. The Wide World of Sports has the budget you don’t.
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See, and that’s where it gets a little too much for me already… 😅
If you have a little more detailed way to do that, I’d highly appreciate it.
And, of course, I don’t need a Jesus-like glow, having the player highlighted (I must say, having his outlines in yellow or something would be nice) is enough – as I said, it is to make sure learners know where to focus on.
All the best
Gernot -
I was looking to use MagicMask as that tracking works wonderfully… just doesn’t do anything.
Tried a Merge-Node, but I can’t really figure out, how I have to set them up… 😐
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I’m not that fluent with Resilve, but I think you need to apply a border effect that follows the mask. I did a quick search and found this tutorial. I don’t know if it works with the magic mask.
Check it out at 4:24.
https://youtu.be/k7Rz1HCNQ-g?si=Rs7qUyeEmc_biJIy
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For a newbee to resolve, I would suggest an old school oval shape on the person, that tracks with the person. Circular power window, track them, then either brighten the node with the circle, or invert it and darken everything else. I would suggest you could freeze the shot, highlight the person, so everyone knows who to look at, then go back to normal for the play. Doing an actual outline would not be that difficult in fusion, using a magic mask, but if you are just learning resolve, Fusion may be a bit too intimidating at this point, as you would be looking at a few different nodes, and mask adjustments.
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