All language subtitles for R18_03_Depth_Map

Another new feature in the color page
with Resolve 18

and the studio version is the depth map.

So if I go over to the upper right
hand corner and click on Effects

and here in the search bar type
DEP, that'll bring up depth map.

Again, you have to have the paid version
of resolve to use this,

but I need to show you this
because it's really, really cool

when I take this and drag it onto any note
I want to add it to

and it will automatically figure out

how far things are from the camera

and it will color them black, white
or some shade of gray.

Things that it thinks are farther away
from the camera.

Are going to be black.

Things that are closer
are going to be closer to white.

And the cool thing about this is
you can use this black

and white image as a mat
if you're not familiar with what a mat is.

It's basically a black and white image

that controls the opacity
or the strength of something else.

Usually white is completely on black

is completely off,
and gray is kind of somewhere in between.

So we can do something like use
this mat to drive something like a blur

and we can have things farther away,
be blurry and things closer to us.

Be sharp.

So the way that we do that is we have to
do a little bit of fancy noting.

So what I do is right click here

and say add node corrector,
which is the same as a serial node,

and I'll just kind of hook this up

as our main first node here.

And this node here is our depth map.

So I label this depth

and I'll take the output of this depth map

and I'll put it into the blue input.

That's the mask input of our node here

and now what that's going to do

is use this black and white image

to kind of limit
where things are adjusted.

So if I do a blur
and this node can just switch over

to our blur and sharpness palette here

and I'll just roll up on my scroll wheel.

And now we're starting to blur certain
parts

of the image.

I can take this depth map right here

and go over to my effects and say Invert.

And what that'll do is tell this node
that, Hey, anything

that's farther away from the camera,
I want you to fully effect.

And anything
that's closer don't affect as much.

So that's why
we have these nice sharp curtains here.

And then as things get further away
to get more and more blurry.

Now, this isn't a perfectly
realistic effect, but it's an example

of the things that you can do
using a depth map.

I can even go in here
and adjust my depth map

and adjust these map levels,

and I can push this

far limit and near limit around

to adjust kind of what's black
and what is white.

So we can make her really sharp,
basically making her black

and have everything behind
her kind of be white or gray.

So we get

this kind of pseudo depth of field look.

This, again, is something that doesn't
look super realistic, but with some work,

you can really kind of pull off
some cool effects this way.

One thing that I like to do is instead

of blurring it,
I'll just reset this node grain

is I can take just the contrast down

in something like this
and take the contrast down.

And let's just take our depth map

and let's not invert it

so that basically only things
that are farther away get less contrast,

which kind of adds
a little bit of fake haze to this shot.

So here's before and here's after.

We're just adding a little bit of haze.

So this is a really useful tool
if you want to use it again,

just in the paid version of Resolve 18.

Definitely worth checking out.