Using face detection in Resolve Studio - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- What I'm about to show you is a studio only feature. In other words, you have to be on the paid version of DaVinci Resolve to enable this feature, but I wanted to show it to you anyway, because, one, it's really cool, two, I think it really does scratch the surface of, over the next couple of years, we're going to see lots more of this happening in all of our post-production software. It's extremely powerful. It really is designed to take some of the work off of our shoulders, especially, in this case, when it comes to organizing our media and sifting through our media. Think smart bins on steroids. What am I talking about? Automatic face detection. Let's take a look. So first thing I'm going to do is pull up our dailies, I want to pull up all of our dailies. So I'll shift click through all of these bins so that all of our dailies are showing right now. And then I'm going to command A, or on a PC control A, to select all, to select all of these clips. I'm going to right click on any one of them. And I'm going to choose analyze clips for people. Again, this is a DaVinci Resolve studio feature. It's a paid version is required for this option to appear. So if you're not on the paid version, just watch along as something to think about if it'd be useful to you and worth the upgrade price. So let's click on that. And now it's searching for faces. It says I collected 33 clips. Maybe I should only have done two of them, but that's fine. You can see it's actually going through them pretty quick right now, and now it's come up with groupings. So I've got people in general, and then it has person 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So I've got to tell it, you know, give it names and then other people, there are other people in here who it's not quite sure who they are. So let's start with people, and start entering names. So right here, I'm going to enter the name of dad. When I do that, notice how dad changes from person one to dad, Person two, son. Person three, mom. Person four is the doctor. I'm not quite sure who person five is. And person six is the doctor, and we're going to deal with that in a moment. We'll deal with other people next. So now if I go to dad, I can come through here, and it's pretty remarkable. I mean, you take a look at a clip like this, look how small his face is. And yet, somehow DaVinci Resolve has recognized that that face way in the background there is the same face in this bright daytime shot, as the same face in this nighttime shot. So it's pretty remarkable. And as I run through these, these are all correct. So I'm going to continue on down and take a look at the son and yes, this is the son. And person three, okay. So person three here, this is the son, so what I'm going to do is right click, not person three. It's the son. And then this is our rando guy that we don't really care about. So I'm just going to leave that as person three, we just don't care. Doctor. So we can see the doctor, the side angle on her here, but there was another angle that was also the doctor right here. So I'm going to right click on this and add that to doctor, and add this to doctor. Now we're going to double-check mom, and yes, it correctly tagged mom. It correctly tagged son. And now we've got other people. So I've got two shots here that it's tagged, and I can tag these collectively as mom and they disappear. But there's something else I can do, which is the improve people grouping results, so let me click on that. And are these the same person? Yes. All right, so we just helped Resolve improve its ability to detect people. Now these are kids. These, I don't really care about tagging these kids individually. This is mom here, I don't really care about tagging mom. Here's dad. Yeah, okay, we'll go ahead and tag him as dad. The kid on each of these, I'm going to command click on these since they are discontinuous from each other, or control click if you're on a PC. And yeah, all of these as well are all going to be right clicked, tagged as son. These are dad again, I'm command or control clicking on a PC for dad, but I'm not going to- even though this is dad's shot, because the square is on mom's face, I'm just going to honor the square and tag those as dad. And then these I'm going to leave because I don't need these guys to be categorized. I don't need mom to be categorized here, although I will take dad right there. And then I'm going to go ahead and close this out. Now, where do we find that smart bin? It's not showing up down here. Well, it's a preference. So, in particular, it's a user preference. I'm going to have to come up into preferences, I'll switch over to user, I'll come down here into editing and then automatic smart bins for people meta-data and then let's hit save. And there it is, people. And you'll notice that there's a toggle. So now I can swipe down. And there we go. I've got dad, doctor, mom, person, and son. You'll notice that in the preferences here, I've also got automatic smart bins for shot meta-data and automatic smart bins for scene meta-data. If I enable those, shot and scene. So if I had scene numbers, then I'd have groupings the way I have people groupings, I'd have scene groupings and shot numbers. The way I people groupings, I'd also have shot number groupings. So this gives you a good look at the opportunities when you're using meta-data and really, the beginning of the possibilities of machine learning to help people like you and me to organize our media without actually us having to sift through it and do it in meaningful ways. Very interesting.