REMOVE any Object or Person from DRONE footage - Davinci Resolve FUSION Tutorial 18.5 

The Gold Standard of tutorial videos right here...

I am hoping that you would consider doing a paid course for fusion just like your editor's course. Your style of teaching is superb!

This is the BEST tutorial on YT that clearly demonstrates a more technical,but honest & full lesson on the subject of object removal - 10/10. There is not easy flick of a keystroke to erase subject matter & this proves once more that understanding everything involved will yield a proper clip with a decent standard fix. Again 10/10

This is the absolute BEST, educational & practical channel when it comes to DVR 18.6 learning & skill sets. It’s truely 10/10 … all explained step by step 🎬🎥💪🏼

Again - really well explained. I don't usually watch many fusion tutorials as I find it to be a rabbit hole that just swallows all my time - which would be great, if I thought that I had mastered other things already. To which I feel that for me I might never reach that. But the way you have explained things here, makes me want to start investigating. Great video

Top-notch tutorial 10/10. Thanks for the help!

Absolutely brilliant! We've been doing this for 15 years and never would've approached that way.

This is brilliant!!! I don't think that fusion has this feature, but it would be great if the people at BMD would put in "pop-up hints" where you could get brief tips on how to use various nodes - or the various inputs of nodes - when you hover the mouse over them. Sure, it is one thing to "read the manual" if you are doing a lot of fusion, but for us independent film makers, it is often something that needs to be done sporadically and spasmatically. It's hard to remember what everything in fusion does if you are only RARELY diving in to it.

This is seriously beautiful work. Thanks so much for walking us through such an elegant solution to a mind bending challenge :)

It's incredible how much can be taught in 12 minutes. I've already bought your outstanding course for editors. If you ever decide to create an in-depth course on the Fusion page or the Color page, I will be first in line to buy it. Thank you for everything that you do!

Best and comprehensive video for the object removal at this date. Thanks you !

Amazing as always!! Keep uploading more tutorials, we will watch every singe one

Wahwahweewah...this is amazing! Once again, outdone yourselves with the hyper-clear explanation. However, the thing that I think is the best is that (unlike a lot of Fusion Tutorials) you didn't just stick with a simple, perfect shot but actually used something somewhat more challenging. With phone apps getting better and smarter with object removal, I think showing off the power of fusion on more complex tasks is so much more useful. Well done!

Wish I found this video last week. Had a very complex drone shot with lots of movement. Looking at this... I definitely did it the hard way. Keep up the great work on your channel.

Love it, its another approach using the stabilization!

Once again, your structure and logic is wonderful. Thanks for this one! :D

Leon... This is amazing, I have been watching Davinci/Fusion Tuts for some time now and this is the first time I have seen this simply done and explained well, thank you so much for sharing, sending you both a big "HI🤗" From Luton UK

Awesome explanation and teaching style…thank you!

I really like removal type tutorials. Please keep making them.

Good Tutorial, thanks a lot. For the paint node I recommend using the single stroke option (on top of the viewer) and switiching to clone paintbrush in the tool window rather than setting the stroke duration to an arbitrary value. That way it will always stay visible even if the clip duration happens to be extended later on. (Also quick tip: mergeing can be sped up by just dragging the output of the node you want to be the foreground onto the output of the node that is supposed to be the background input of your merge node)

Great stuff... This is what Resolve tutorials should all be like. Very elegant, clearly explained, without any of that irritating 'sha-pong!' smugness you get from other Resolve-teaching RU-vidrs. More please!

Brilliant tutorial thank you. I pair this with AI inpainting and gen fill in photoshop and works like a charm for rough clean plates to place a character over

Well done, sir! Thanks for posting this tutorial.

Great stuff thank you.

This is just great Thanks a lot!

very clear explain thank you very much!

wow, it really works! thanks for the help, bro

OMG amazing.

Perfect tutorial! I agree with the “Gold Standard” comment wholeheartedly.

This is so well instructed and streamlined. This is a very real world example of something a client would ask for. Would you be able to go into deeper detail on making a noise/grain match? Well done.

Awesome 👍👍

You just earn a follower, this is good.

Super sir,,, ❤❤

Amazing video !!!!!

AWESOME TRICKS 👈

This is absolutely brilliant! Thanks! 👍 #MoreLikeThis 🤞

Amazing!

This tutorial is way above my pay grade. Way way above.

thank you so much

Thanks man

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Thankful for this detailed tutorial although I can't help to think in this day and age and all the AI tools we now have that there would be a much simpler and faster way to do this.

Amazing! I do have a request...I have tried looking for tutorials on how to track markers on greenscreen and then replace it with 3D background...I have seen a lot of tutorials for after effects but nothing for fusion....I someday really hope to see that type of tutorials

Thanks leon 🔥always learning great tips from you, sometimes I need to add another video from my timeline to the same clip that I already work on it in fusion tap .. What if I already worked on clip then I decided I need to add clip then another clip.. Mixing clips before and after clip that I worked on seems hard.. Timing and mixing clips seems difficult because clips are handling individually.. really love fusion but in terms of transition and keeps the all video as one smooth piece it doesn't work.. ex-if i speed an video on edit page then convert it into a fusion clip it transfer well ok nice, imagine travel video clips inside each other and so much speed and masking then I noticed speed isn't right from beginning.. I hope I explained my point.. And I really respect your explanations, and the answer from you will mean a lot to me. It would be preferable if it was in a video explanation.. I think many have this problem that makes us prefer After Effect, but we know that Fusion is much better, But we didn't get enough explanation There is no better one than you to explain and simplify this, Excuse my English language, fan from middle east 💙

Hi thanks for recording this video. I was wondering if the second method could also work for removing drone and its props from the video. I put 360 Insta camera on top of the drone, but then the drone and the props are in the shot. I have tried some AI tools that do great job, but since the props are rotating at fast speed I get flickering in the video when the props are removed.

Questions? I mean, I didn't even know that film grain and brightness difference was a problem until you told me. Woah!!! I FOUND GOLD while mining for coal!

I followed th tutorial, it works nice for one object replacement. I then need to repeat this provess in teh same shot for another object, and the problem is that when to same pipelines connected with merge node, somehow one of the planar tracker invertend node override each other? soit only lets one tree for one spot to be removed . how to make this removal for several objects in same composition?

Bro . I'm just getting to start with the davinci on my own without any paid templates . Making some kinda show reel. So I'm using green screen templates from RU-vid. I'm here to learn erasing some thing from that template. I picked up. So thank you I will try now ... Things are good but issue are on usability. Most of the time when I make something which I can duplicate n then reuse the same for another picture or video like a placeholder. I am mostly unable to replace the clip on timeline all the time it happens sometimes not all then I have to go to edit page n drag drop over and then this way it looses all the effects and transitions it also changes the length of the clip all I need to do is replace the placeholder with new photos or video . 2nd issue is..... With the keyboard shortcuts. It won't happen all the time idk it just won't work.. 3rd. If I made any changes in transform to text 3d fusion then I get cropped out view in main output in final . .. then to correct I have to zoom in transform in the main again. In fusion it looks fine but then in main I have to zoom . 4th. Is. When I double click any clip where I have inserted photo if I have replaced it on double clicking I still see a drop down where I see both old and new photos. Why so ? Even if I depete from media I will still see it.

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I am trying to widen my vision for video editing. Therefore I am learning the da vanci resolve from scratch and I thought, How hard it could possibly be? Voila “Nodes” is the answer. But I have to admit it does deliver that promised quality in comparison to the PP and AF and it don't come to me at once you PP and AF fan bois. It's just my initial interpretation.

When you add a Paint node you select Multistroke at the top of the viewer and in the inspector in Apply Mode Color you have to set the Stroke duration. If you select Stroke at the top of the viewer and in the inspector select Apply mode Clone you get the same tool that automatically lasts the whole clip. No problems with forgetting to set the duration

Hope this isn't a silly question as it's a great tutorial. Can I use the planar tracker to try to remove an object where the camera was shifting upwards (e.g. in drone footage) over the course of the clip? Trying to figure out how to draw the plane correctly.

great tutorial, by the way can you make a tutorial how to do your low third please.

Congratulations on the video, perfect. I'm trying to find the best way to make a video where the people around me suddenly become paralyzed and I continue walking and talking, do you have any suggestions please?

Hi, Thank you for this video😍 Is this method better than using Magic mask? I watched other tutorials using Magic mask, seems much more simple and quick.

I think something changed since you made this video. When I add the "Paint" node in-between, the clip goes back to being distorted. Have you tried this again recently or have you run into that problem? So close to implementing this and then that happened.

Thanks for the thorough tutorial! What can I do if my object is temporarily obscured by another object that I don't want to remove?

how would you remove logos from tshirts when people are moving? Same technique?

I think I'm doing the same steps but I run into an issue when I add the paint node. Even before doing anything to the paint node, simply adding it breaks the "invert steady transform" of the 2nd planar tracker node. So the output media is a shifting plane (but NOT the same shifting plane as when just the 1st tracker is applied). I've deleted all nodes and started from scratch multiple times, following each step. Any ideas?

Jeez, I hope AI will jump in and save the day by just giving us an easy edit page effect that can do this.

for some reason the cloned patch is not following the planar tracker. Any suggestions why?

In the second case, what is the problem if you still use a patch of the image to cover up the car like in the first case? Thanks

I tried the second version, but when I get to the paint node in the left hand viewer I get a black image. I went back and it seems that if I put the time stretcher node in the left viewer I still get a black image. Why that would be?

As soon as I put the Paint node in between, the reverse steady no longer works! I followed every step as in the video. I'm slowly going crazy :D

My brain imploded on this tutorial, but the planar tracker is a difficult concept to understand. Which method would you recommend to hide a selfie stick on a moving skier?

This is great, yet what I don't understand is why it is SO difficult to isolate artefacts or light flares or whatever that roam around. Very small. Little light artefacts. I would love to remove like dirt yet because they are moving it is SO hard. Could you do video showing how to remove this for low light drone shots? I can send you a clip to see if you can do it?!

i've tried the paint section several times, it's not showing my paint strokes for some reason. going back to after effects.

3:12 Instead of increasing the duration of the multistroke, why not just use the normal stroke?

They gotta make it easier. That is a lot of steps.

trying to get rid of a shadow of someone while using a drone to go around him and can't seem to get it done.

You could’ve used the Object Removal OFX. Less steps and you get the same or even better result.

After effects be like lol

Can you imagine how wonderful it would be if BM decided to knock Adobe in the head AGAIN and create a still image editing app? They would completely rule the market! One can only dream...😃

Great tutorial but way to complicated for me. I hope someday Davinci implements and easier way to remove objects like Adobe AE does. Fusion is way too complicated 😵😵

I'm sorry, but i will use Mocha or AE for this. In AI Age it should be much faster and Hi-quality. Fusion must be boosted like Davinci Resolve editing tab!