Save Magic Mask 2 in Resolve 20

Learn how to render out a luma matte, saved video file for a Magic Mask 2, so you never have to retrack a magic mask AI rotoscope again. Follow along with the footage in the cutting club.

There are a couple of ways to send the magic mask luma matte to the deliver page from the color page to render as a ProRes QuickTime file. One of which I wasn’t even aware of when recording this tutorial is simply to pipe the magic mask's blue mask output to the green RGB color output. This is how I will render my color page magic masks moving forward. Special thanks to Chad Miller for pointing this out to me.

An alternative way, as shown in the tutorial about saving Magic Mask 2 from the color page, uses a color generator node. For this method to work, you also pipe the blue mask output from the node with the magic mask, but this time to the color generator. Only the color generator is to get rendered to the final output, but you also need to right-click to “create and alpha output” for the blue alpha output dot to appear. See below for an image of the node tree.