Hey there good people, my name is Scott and you are watching Sword and Shield Studio. Right now
we are going to learn how to use Smart Reframe in DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio which will allow you to
automatically crop your footage for different social media platforms and different aspect ratios
in general. Now this is a Studio-only feature in DaVinci Resolve 17 so if you have the free version
you can still manually crop and transform your footage to achieve a similar effect.
With that in mind, let's get right into it.
Okay, so I am here on the edit page in DaVinci Resolve where I have a timeline with a clip that
I want to reframe vertically for phone screens. First thing you will need to do is duplicate the
timeline in order to do this, so right click the timeline that you have in your Media Pool
and hit 'Duplicate Timeline' from the drop down menu.
Then you can left click this new timeline and hit 'F2' to rename it to whatever you like. I'm
just going to title this 'phone screen' for the phone screen format that I am creating.
Then right click that new timeline, go to 'Timelines' from the drop down menu and hit
'Timeline Settings...' from the menu that pops out from that. Then in this Timeline Settings menu,
uncheck 'Use Project Settings' so you can set your own custom settings for this timeline and in my
case I am just going to swap these two values of the 1080p resolution to make it a vertical frame.
I'm going to type '1080' and '1920' you can create yours whatever you like depending on what format
you need to create. Then under where it says 'Mismatched Resolution' set this to 'Scale full
frame with crop' which will fit the footage that you have to the new frame size and give you a good
start to work with. Then hit OK and double click in the Media Pool this new timeline to open it up
and then I'm going to close my Media Pool. You see we got a vertical screen here but the skater
goes out of the frame at times cause he's not completely centered and for this new format we'd
really like him to be centered so in order to do a Smart Reframe go up to the inspector,
left click to open it up and under the 'Transform' section there should be a Smart Reframe section
if you are in the Studio version of Resolve and you just left click to expand that menu.
By default the object of interest is set to 'Auto' so let's try that first and hit
'Reframe' and Resolve will automatically analyze this clip for the object of interest
and reframe it to this new timeline format. Let's see how that looks.
It's looking a lot better. The skater is pretty well centered in the frame at all times.
He doesn't trail off to the left or right as he did before which is what we were looking for.
Now, if the auto setting for Object of Interest
did not work well for you can try to set this to the 'Reference Point' option
and hit the box crosshair icon to the right of that reference point
which will create a reference point in your viewer. You can transform
with the corners the size of this reference point and you can move it with the center
box here to define the area that Resolve's AI will be looking for when it reframes the footage.
And then left click 'Reframe' again. Of course the auto setting worked in our case
but it's always good to have another option. If we play this back, yeah it worked out pretty well.
Now if neither of these options works well for your footage then you will have to fall back
to using the manual zoom and position controls in your inspector under transform
which can give you a similar effect if the AI is unable to determine the object of interest.
Well that does it for this tutorial. Smart Reframe is a handy new tool to
come to DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio. If you're having to crop a lot of different clips for
different social media platforms it can save you a lot of time in the long run.
I hope after watching this video you feel more confident using this tool. If you do,
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