How to Make Object Vanish in A Puff of Smoke in DaVinci Resolve Fusion

How to Make Object Vanish in A Puff of Smoke in DaVinci Resolve Fusion | Smoke Disappear Effect

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Күн бұрын

Wonder how we can make an object disappear into a puff of smoke in DaVinci Resolve? Well, that's exactly what we are going to look at in today's Fusion particle tutorial. I have seen this effect used a lot in commercials lately. Ideally, we would want 2 videos, one with just the background and the other with the object that we want to transform to smoke, but we can still do it with just 1 video. This will also be a good tutorial to watch if you are interested in learning more about particles in Fusion. So, without further ado, let's get started!
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Effect Preview & Video Setup
01:10 Masking
02:21 Fill the Void Background and Blend
04:00 Create Smoke Effect
08:18 Continue Experimenting with Parameters
Link to the footage used in this video:
www.pexels.com/video/woman-ru...
#davinciresolve #smoke #particles

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@mikefetherling 10 ай бұрын

I love learning from your videos. You always put out top notch stuff! Thanks!

@videoeditingcentral 10 ай бұрын

thank you so much!

@CoopMusic247 Жыл бұрын

Great work and thank you!

@dots560 Жыл бұрын

Very nice effect. Thanks for sharing.

@crown3026 Жыл бұрын

A nice effect and explained in detail. Thank you very much.

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@haddonhousefilms Жыл бұрын

Great video. Looking forward to more davinci tutorials. Subbed

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@swantoinepranks4651 Жыл бұрын

Hey VEC, i really enjoy the way you teach! You make it short although you explain the reasoning behind the notes which is one of the essential factors for people who really want to learn something beyond the specific effect. You definetly have my sub! One (hardly related) question tho. What setup/PCspecs do you use? Idk if you timelapsed the rendering parts for example but they seemed flawlessly fast (in comparison to my fusion workflow). Diving into fusion (even tho I'm used to 3D programms) really brings up the old age of my setup especially given fusions inefficiency when it comes to hardware usage.

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for the kind words and providing your feedback! i'm very happy to hear that! great question, so full disclosure, i don't have top notch specs for my Mac and the rendering part is timelapsed for the sake of the viewing experience. i have 16 GB of RAM and 8GB of graphics memory and if you are curious, there are pages on premiumbeat/blackmagicdesign/motionarray that explain the system requirements for DaVinci Resolve 18. i'd say make do with what you have until it starts to hinder your ability to do creative work. lightning fast rendering is nearly impossible especially as the flow gets complicated, so slowness is expected in many cases.

@gorillakingmedia Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral I can't even get playback and I have top of the line Macbook. Any settings you reccomend?

@nightthemoon8481 10 ай бұрын

heavy effects like these require a powerful gpu, so something like an rtx 3080 or higher, rtx gpus in particular are great for these effects because of their tensor and optical flow accelerators (and their raw power too but yea)@@gorillakingmedia

@kstalk09 Жыл бұрын

WAY COOL! Watch the whole vid several times now - about to attempt recreating it with one of my own clips. Q: Are all the nodes used available in the free version? The ones I've checked so far seem to all be present, so hoping the rest are as well. TNX SO MUCH FOR THIS ONE!!

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you! and yes! all the nodes are available in the free version 👍 i actually don't have the studio version myself, so rest assured

@kstalk09 Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral AWESOME! I'm very happy to know that your tuts are all done in the free version. Lately, more and more of these YT Fx tutorials use either Magic Mask, Depth Map, or Surface tracker... (sigh) It was exciting when I became efficient at Rotoscoping about a year ago now, but it's tedious and not very exciting any more... (hehe) Keep up the good work! I always look forward to your vids!! Kel

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

@@kstalk09 thank you so much, Kel! yeah, it really comes to your needs, surprisingly we can get a lot done using just simple tools sometimes.

@naifox1 Жыл бұрын

nice job

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you!

@ArtDigitalMediaTV Жыл бұрын

Very nice! I used it on my own footage and it came out great...once I figured out how to change the angle that the smoke moves. 😂 My runner was going a different direction.

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

lol, thank you! glad you liked it, yea the direction can be changed in a number of ways. one of which is using velocity, you can change it to negative if you want it to go the other way

@caspiansfriend Жыл бұрын

Do you have a video on how to do this effect with a moving camera such that the background is constantly in motion?

@willstduschlankseinoder Жыл бұрын

One of the best effects I have seen, so far! But is there a confusion of the Matte node and the inverted Matte node? When you invert the MediaOut picturse changes although the noe is not connected

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you very much. so at what point in the video did this happen?

@FabianBelser Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great tutorial!! When you i.e. click on "MediaIn2" you can see in the viewer MediaIn2, if I click it, I still see MediaOut1. How can I change that my viewer displays the active node?

@gorillakingmedia Жыл бұрын

I have the same question. Any answer for it?

@zigzagsportca 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful video; it helps me a lot. However, I have a question: how do you achieve such smooth playback?

@videoeditingcentral 8 ай бұрын

hi, thank you so much! playback does take time, i sped up the rendering in the clip, but in real life, it does some time to render the effect due to the complexity

@havefuninlife62 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the awesome tutorial! But how did you learn to know what all the different dials and nodes do... Fusion is so complex to me that right now I mostly have to follow Tutorials. Often this works great but I wish to directly know how I can build effects myself.

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! and this is a great question, it will come with experience and time. fusion is indeed very complex, and i myself is still a novice compared to compositing artists out there. it is a lot of tutorial watching and experimenting. like you said, have fun! enjoy the process and you will know soon how to build effects yourself 👍 plus you have platforms and channels like mine where you can reach out for questions. we are all in this together.

@opieshomeshop 12 күн бұрын

*_I just wanted to make a few objects on my bench disappear, but I guess never mind. Sheesh!_*

@youknowwho1364 Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the tutorial, this is really useful! How would you do the reverse of this? I mean have an effect where someone forms from smoke?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

that's a fantastic question. well, assuming the footage remains the same, i would still the smoke first based on the subject and then manipulate the smoke effect heavily, have the viewers see that first instead, and then bring out the subjects like how the smoke was brought up in the video, so you'd pretty much still have to create the smoke first but go one step further to bring out the subject again.

@youknowwho1364 Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral Thanks you so much for the response! I'm going to have to do some experimenting

@haurjie 15 күн бұрын

Great video! I've been using Resolve for about 2 years now after switching over from Adobe for 8 years. Anyways, I'm trying to achieve this same effect in a video I'm doing but I'm very new to fusion. I've watched Casey Faris' video on intro to particles video and yours here. I need some more help even though I'm googling things along the way. I want to make a still non-moving subject disappear into smoke like this. So I feel like there are a lot of nodes you used I probably won't have to... but not sure which ones. How do I get in touch with you?

@videoeditingcentral 15 күн бұрын

hi, thank you! actually in your case, it'd be much simpler. instead of using the video footage, you can just replace that with your still image, or non moving subject, the rest of the nodes are the same. so basically everything up until the 4 minute mark doesn't quite apply to you : )

@haurjie 15 күн бұрын

I have a similar clip with moving subject/person, followed these exact steps, but it doesn't look like the result

@qntzyy9215 Жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial however for me it doesn't want to do the effect on the right frame it does it at the beginning of the compound clip. Could you assist me please?

@MastroOfficial 11 ай бұрын

The tutorial is great, but what happens if there is no static image to work with? In your case, the woman is moving, but the background is the same throughout the whole video, no camera movement etc. In cases where both move, and we also don't have a clean plate of the background (person is always in front of it), how do we manage it?

@videoeditingcentral 11 ай бұрын

hi, very interesting scenario. I'd say it may still be feasible with very precise rotoscoping, but if there is way to do a clean replacement of the background, then we might be at wit's end.

@Ant02496- Жыл бұрын

recommendation on what to do with a 4k 60fps clip? some video like proxies or caches that you might have?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

hi, if you are experimenting with 4k 60 fps, i'd say not much change is warranted, the time of the keyframes may need to change but other than that, it's mostly the subject in the video that you want to turn into smoke.

@Ant02496- Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral interesting, spent 5 hours with no success, reinstalled davinci, could never shake the lag that happens at 5:20 ... yours plays smoothly, mine plays at 1fps per minute and shuts down the software. Using a 4 second clip at 4k , 30 fps, with a monster computer. Any suggestions?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

@@Ant02496- that is very bizarre considering how powerful your computer is. well, it sounds like it has more to do with playback speed, so perhaps change the resolution to something much much lower, also when doing playback in fusion, perhaps try turning of high quality, motion blur as well, all these could potentially help with playback speed.

@jolebire Ай бұрын

Hi, i started following all the steps to make this effect but my only problem is with the merge 2 whenever i move my first merge i still see the background instead of my compound clip could you help me with that?

@ririlan2137 7 ай бұрын

I'm trying to figure out how to have it disappear without displacement like the guy at the beginning of the clip and accelerate the puff. Any tip where to look for? Thanks and very good clip :))

@videoeditingcentral 7 ай бұрын

hi, thank you! and that is a great question. I'd say in that case, ideally you'd want to have 2 clips, 1 with just the background and 1 with the subject. To accelerate the puff, the key would be to play with the settings in the emitter nodes. the flow itself can stay but you'd adjust the settings to fit your needds.

@sherlockedambience8380 7 ай бұрын

which one are u using, the resolve studio 18.6 or the other one?

@videoeditingcentral 7 ай бұрын

hi, I am using the free version of DaVinci Resolve. At the time the video was made, I was using a slightly earlier version.

@iokko 9 ай бұрын

I have followed every steps multiple times but can't figure out what goes wrong. From 2:11 of the video, i don't have the same output : when I move the X or Y center, the whole frame is moving and my object is actually behind the frame. Could you do another tutorial about this effect ? Maybe its because im on 18.5, i don't know

@dimitris.ballotta 3 ай бұрын

i have the same problem.. did you find out how?

@iokko 3 ай бұрын

@@dimitris.ballotta no sorry I just abandoned the project :(

@_UAV_PILOT Жыл бұрын

When I hit invert for Mattecontrol2, nothing happened ?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

hmmm, that is very bizarre. is it plugged in to the garbage matte input? and you are also viewing Mattecontrol2 on the viewer too?

@_UAV_PILOT Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral Yes, of course. More than one time I stated project looking what have you done. I am in drp 18.0.3 studio.

@filmmakerny Жыл бұрын

THANK YPU BROTHER FOR THE NICE EFFECT.BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM SOMEHOW CAN NOT HAPPEN WHEN I GET TO PART DESAPPEARING

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

thank you very much, man! okay, so let's see what happened. At what point in the process did the problem occur? and what exactly does the problem look like?

@filmmakerny Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral thanks 🙏 for responding well I kind do it on a video that I filmed while ago but when I get to the part of fill the void background and blend and also create the smoke and you connect the timestrecher

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

@@filmmakerny no problem! so you said when you get to the part of filling the void, then what happened exactly?

@filmmakerny Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral I must be doing something bad

@Lotta-ex6gk 3 ай бұрын

Is it possible to do this with the free version? I don't seem to succeed in this

@julesmatias 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video!!! I am trying to re-create the same effect, but I my MatteControl2 node does not invert. I would be so grateful if anyone can let me know how to do it. Thank you in advance!

@videoeditingcentral 8 ай бұрын

hi, I can help you look into this. so just to make sure, at around 1:49, when you try to invert the matte, it didn't work for you somehow, is that correct?

@julesmatias 8 ай бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral Thank you so much for your reply! I figured out! The issue was that I didn't click on the node (below those two little dots) and I was not able to see that it was inverted. It took me about 3 hours to figure out 😅... Well, it was my first time in fusion.... but I was able to make it! I still have practice to make it look better. I feel very grateful, thank you for this amazing tutorial and sharing knowledge!

@videoeditingcentral 8 ай бұрын

@@julesmatias this was your first time in fusion? that is actually incredible🙂well, very glad you figured it out on your own, you swing for the fences, that is awesome. have fun in DVR and all the best!

@julesmatias 7 ай бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral I would like to thank you again for this video! I made a short film "Wizard's Tales" and applied this effect ( you can see it on my channel, at the end of the film; film is 1 min.) and it looks pretty good☺. One thing that was complicated is that my computer (MacBook Air) was not able to render this effect in real time, so I was doing that in blind mode. After render I noticed that disappearing starts very slow. I wanted to try change settings of different nodes but, the real time render was not there, so I decided to use speed ramp to make it faster. Thank you for your work and for sharing this lesson.

@videoeditingcentral 7 ай бұрын

@@julesmatias amazing! it is so awesome to hear you applied it to your film. I am incredibly honored that you applied the techniques I showed in the video : ) yes, due to the complexity of the effect, it will stress out the system a bit, I am no different, lol, my Mac is also feeling it. glad you found a workaround though!

@eliaslimapro 8 ай бұрын

Hello friend, it's interesting, could I politely ask you for the link to the footage so I can review it? Thanks.

@videoeditingcentral 8 ай бұрын

absolutely! I actually put it in the video description, lmk if that helps.

@XSession Жыл бұрын

Great...are u in Davinci resolve community in discord

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

hi, no i am not but thank you for asking and bringing this up! something to look into for sure.

@ferideaktas5707 11 ай бұрын

When i tick "Invert" in Matte Control2 , nothing happend - What did i do wrong ?

@qntzyy9215 Жыл бұрын

Another thing I've done the effect but the subject still remains in the background what do I do to fix that?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

hi I can definitely look into this issue for you. so at point in the workflow do you start to experience this problem?

@qntzyy9215 Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral after the effect is completely made

@Lotta-ex6gk 3 ай бұрын

Can this be done with the free version?

@videoeditingcentral 2 ай бұрын

1000% all my videos are done in the free version :)

@spearcy 5 ай бұрын

Hahaha! The background never moves, so it's a simple case. Magic mask the runner and put her on any background. Just apply the effects to the alpha mask and put it on top of whatever background you want.😉

@JayxRosi Жыл бұрын

My effect just stays in the layer. Does not turn to smoke or spreads like yours. It just moves around like water inside the cut out.

@JayxRosi Жыл бұрын

ooooh FIX. Lengthen Clip. Thank U!!! great!

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

@@JayxRosi well, glad you found the fix!

@badejoolatuiyi1365 Жыл бұрын

A night crawler effect

@bazookajoe99555 Жыл бұрын

I've tried this a dozen times, and watched each piece of the video numerous times and it STILL DOESN"T WORK. If there's someone out there who can help talk through a couple of the sticking points I would love to hear where you had problems following the video. I'm a smart guy (I thought I was) and follow directions well. I've written thousands of tutorials on tech things in my career and know there's always some unintentional ambiguity or assumptions. I think there are some missing settings in this video. His settings are obviously correct (because it all works for him) and it looks like the video is one main, live take---but there might be other dependencies that were left out or assumed. For instance, I had to set the polygon node to be inverted to get a piece of it to work and I'm not sure how you'd be able to tell if the Ctrl + T to set something to the background was actually achieved or not (is that an on-off toggle). This is such a cool effect, I'd love to make this work. Can anyone help?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

hi Joe, I can definitely look into some of the issues you have and do my best to help out. so at what point in the tutorial do you start to experience issues?

@k1k13004 Жыл бұрын

Saint-Petersburg?

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

i think so. not too sure tbh, it could very well be, lol

@k1k13004 Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral ok sorry I thought it was yours

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

@@k1k13004 no worries! its a royalty free footage, although i do wish it is mine, lol

@_UAV_PILOT Жыл бұрын

I have just figured out where I was wrong. But you forgot to tell us, this effect need fixed camera angle.

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

glad you figured it out! i apologize, but the video stabilization in the beginning was aimed to mimic fixed camera angle. hope that helps.

@k1k13004 Жыл бұрын

yep. All kind of effects are much easier without camera motion

@LafsGaming Жыл бұрын

I am beginner and trying to understand the video…..but I m failing to understand why you are dragging so many nodes and whats its use at that situation😢

@videoeditingcentral Жыл бұрын

this definitely is not a beginner friendly tutorial, so don't be too hard on yourself. start with something very simple, very few nodes, that will really help you grasp Fusion nodes and their use much better.

@LafsGaming Жыл бұрын

@@videoeditingcentral Thanks for the reply. If you have posted any video on nodes explanation, please do share the link here ❤️