How To Remove The White Background In Davinci Resolve

Removing a white background from any footage in DaVinci Resolve is very easy to do. It just takes a few minutes to do. Sometimes you may face a problem where you download an image or video with a white background, and you want to remove that white background. For that, I will show you two methods to remove it. Let’s understand how to do that.

In this first method, we will use a 3D keyer for removing the white background in the Edit page.

• Select your clip and graph and drop them in the timeline.
• Click the tools overlay and change to ‘Open FX Overlay.’
• Go to the effects panel and search for ‘3D Keyer’ and drag and paste that effect on the footage where you want to remove that white background.
• In the inspector panel, you will see 3 pen options: 1. Pick, 2. Subtract 3. Add.
• Click the ‘Pick’ option, and now in the preview window, draw a line on the white area so all white areas are removed.
• (Note: by default, a Pick option is selected, but if not, you can select it manually.)
• If in your footage’s border is slightly visible with a white line, zoom in and select the ‘add’ pen tool, and select that area.
• If you want to remove some unwanted area, you can remove it using the ‘Subtract’ option.
• Adjust according to your needs, and after that, your white background is removed.

In this method, we will use the ‘Luma keyer’ for removing the white background in the Fusion page.

• Select your clip and graph and drop it in the timeline, then click it and go to the Fusion page.
• Click the ‘mediain’ node and press { Ctrl + Space }; after that, a toolbar will open.
• Search in the toolbar for ‘Luma (LKy)’ and add that node.
• After you add that node, you will see that your main subject is desaturated.
• To fix it, click on ‘Luma Keyer’ and go to the inspector panel.
• Here you can see a bunch of options. Click the Channel drop-down menu and select ‘saturation ‘.
• To add more visibility, go down here; you can see two options: 1. Contrast, 2. Gamma.
• Increase the contrast and decrease the gamma so you can see the main subject more clearly.
• After all your settings are done, your footage’s background is removed.

• You can use a 3D keyer for removing a green screen as well. I also created a full blog post about how to remove a green screen from any footage. Click here and read the full blog post: DaVinci Resolve: The Easiest Way To Remove Green Screen For Free.
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Removing a white background in DaVinci Resolve is very easy to do. You just need a few minutes to remove that. DaVinci Resolve provides many ways to remove that, but I show two simple methods so you will understand properly.  What are your thoughts about that feature in DaVinci Resolve? Let me know in the comments. If you want to watch the full YouTube video about that topic, you can watch my YouTube video below as well.

Have a nice day.

Topic: Davinci Resolve, removing a white background.