With your key now complete, you’ll need to tell DaVinci Resolve how to composite your footage. This will help to hide or smooth over any imperfections in the process. Once your key is looking solid, use the “blur radius” setting to add a little bit of softening to the edges. With your selection still highlighted and inverted, adjust the threshold of your settings in the qualifier tab until you get the cleanest result possible. The goal is to have your background appear completely black, and the subject fully white.

For the purpose of this process, you need to invert your selection in the qualifier tab. Invert Your Selectionīy default, your selection will of course be on the green elements in the frame. You can use the highlight visualizer to show you a black and white image of what’s selected vs. Once you move back into your “color” tab on DaVinci Resolve, you’ll want to use the eyedropper/qualifier tool to isolate the green background. Set up Your Timelineīefore getting started with your chroma key work, you need to set up your timeline by placing the background plate on track one and the green screen shot on track two, just as you would in any other NLE. Here’s a breakdown of the steps in the video: 1. This short tutorial from FilmmakerCentral will show you just how to do it: The good news is that Resolve has an extremely powerful keyer built right in, and you can absolutely use it for your chroma key work. If you’re like many colorists who are DaVinci Resolve experts, but don’t necessarily have a lot of experience with other VFX software (such as Nuke or After Effects), you’ll likely be tempted to pull your color keys right inside of DaVinci Resolve.

In other instances though, you’ll need to pull the key yourself. Your editor or VFX artist may have already gone ahead and keyed out a green screen shot for you, and will simply send you a composited shot to color grade. In some cases when working as a colorist, you may be given pre-keyed footage. DaVinci Resolve may be known as one of the world’s best color grading platforms, but its compositing/chroma key tools are just as impressive.

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