Locked On Stabilization Effect in DaVinci Resolve 19 - EASY TO DO!
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In this DaVinci Resolve video editing tutorial, Will teaches you how to do the locked on stabilization effect that became popular in sports commercials. DaVinci resolve makes it very easy to get perfect tracks to stabilize your footage fast!
In this video, I'm going to teach you a cool effect called the locked-on stabilization or locked-on track stabilization, where the footage stays perfectly on whatever you've chosen to track. So it could be someone's face, a hand, or some other object. The results are really cool; it's a popular effect, and we're going to dive in. I'll teach you how to do it, and if you're new here, we have over 200 videography-related videos, so there's lots of content for you to learn from. If you want to know any of the music or the equipment we use to make our videos, all links are in the description. Let's jump in.
Okay, I'm in the edit page inside DaVinci Resolve, and I have one clip loaded. Let's play it and see what it is. So this clip is a sideways view of a person running, and they're also wearing headphones. For this effect to work, you're going to need footage where someone is bobbing up and down, skipping rope, or jumping in some way. I found this stock footage clip, and I think it will work for what we are doing.
To get started, let's go to the Fusion page. A quick note about the footage you're using: you want to make sure that there's some contrast, such as this white ring with the darker headphones. Or, if this person was facing directly to the camera, we could use maybe her nose or eyes. In those cases, or in this case where we have the white circle, these would be good spots to help DaVinci Resolve perform a good track to get this effect to work. That'll make more sense in a minute.
Also, we're going to be cropping in on the footage because, once this starts to stabilize and do its thing, it'll move the frame around and start to show a bit of the edges. So, we'll need to zoom in on the footage to cover the seams, and Resolve makes this pretty easy to do. I know the Fusion page can be a little intimidating, but with just a few clicks, you can get this tracked and stabilized. It's actually not that difficult to do.
The first step is to come down where your nodes are and just right-click on a blank spot. Go to "Add Tool," try "Tracking," and we'll select "Tracker." Then, if you hold Shift and drag, you can connect both of those together. So now our in-point and out-point have the tracker inside, and it's properly connected. With our tracker node selected, you'll see we have this box with the green text that says "Intell Track." That’s actually not the one we're going to be working with.
If we go over to the inspector, under the tracker list, we will add a tracker called "Point" and delete the Intell Track. Under the "Adaptive Mode," change that to "Best Match." If you move your mouse over our tracker, you'll see that it has a boundary box around it, and in the top left corner, there's a small white square. Click and drag that to where we want to track. If you want to zoom in, you can go over here to, say, 100%.
I'm actually not at the beginning of my timeline, so I want to make sure I am at the front. We'll have to adjust that again, increasing our boundary box—think of it as the search area where the tracking box will perform a search. The larger you make the search box, the more accurate the result will be; however, it will also take longer to track, so keep that in mind. There's a sweet spot, and we will increase the match tolerance a bit.
From there, go to where it says "Tracking" and hit the forward tracking button. Once it's done, if it looks like it's still in the same spot, then it probably did a pretty good job. Let's go up to "Operation" and change it to "Match Move." This will give us a bunch of other options. Under "Merge," change it to "Background Only."
At this stage, you should be done. Before I show you, though, I want to undo the tracker, press play, and this is what the original footage looks like. And then, here it is with the locked-on tracking effect. So, it's just that easy to do. You basically just track the spot that you want, make a few clicks, and it’s done. It essentially does all the tracking itself, and it's pretty accurate.
All right, let's try this again on a different clip. We'll get rid of this one. Let's go back to the Fusion page; once again, we will add our tracker, hold Shift, and connect it. Then we will add the other tracker, delete the first one, position this where we would like it, and then increase the size of the search box. Change the Adaptive Mode to "Best Match," increase the tolerance just a bit, and track forward. Once it's done, go to "Operation," "Match Move," switch it to "Background Only," and then, since we trimmed the footage on the edit page when we brought it in, you'll see that the in and out points where the tracking data is will have the effect on.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, and what I didn't do on the first clip, we need to zoom in a little. We'll just do it on this clip so you understand it. To fix that, go to our edit page and go to the spot where it’s zoomed in the most. Adjust it so that we don't see any of the black edges of the frames.
If we go to our first frame for when it starts, you can see the effect, and that looked pretty good. Of course, I could have tracked the whole frame, but for the purposes of this tutorial, that would have taken a while, so I just showed you the middle section of it. But it is pretty easy to do, and you can get some really cool results regardless if the person is facing you or away from you. Again, it doesn't have to be a running clip or a skipping clip; it could be something like throwing a ball and tracking the ball flying through the air or any sort of moving object. Just make sure that you are using the point tracker; otherwise, you can get some weird results.
Okay, that's how you do the locked-on stabilization effect. I hope it was helpful. If you liked it, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to see more videos from us in the future. We have over 200 videography-related videos, so there's lots of content for you to learn from. If you want to know any of the music or the equipment we use to make our videos, all links are in the description. Thanks so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.
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