u/Boardgaymergirl

Hello everyone!

I've been having a couple problems over the last little while when trying to edit videos. I am not sure if I found an EXACT answer to the question plus I still consider myself a beginning in videos, editing etc. So for context, I run a board gamer channel and make board game playthrough videos where I utilize 2 cameras (one for my face and one over my tabletop) from time to time.

I have 2 Sony ZVE10 camera's that I set to 4k video at 30 fps and typically try to keep the ISO between 100-200 and do not use any profiles to soot the video in. I used to and it would take a lot more work AND I am also a beginner at colour grading and find it much easier as the priority is the board game content and getting those videos done).

However, I finally upgraded from a ASUS TUF15 Laptop to a ASUS ROG G700 Gaming pc (Intel core ultra 7, 265f/32gb RAM. 2 TB SSD with a nvidia geforce rtx 5070 TI).

I started to get A LOT of artifacts when utilizing the ellipses mask for my face camera over top of my tabletop footage when editing on my laptop. I thought just upgrading to Davinci Resolve 20 studio from utilizing Davinci Resolve 19 PLUS getting a more substantial PC would help with this issue. However, my latest playthrough it STILL is happening, so I utilized a rectangle mask for my face camera but it still occurs. I will link a short video that utilizes that footage where a few artifacts show up where my captions are, and during my long form playthrough I regularly have one little artifact while still using the rectangle mask.

VERY long post here I know, but wanting to give as much information and context as possible so I can maybe also understand based on what I am working with. Again I have used fusion for these simple tasks but multi-node things or LUTs or things of that nature I start to get lost, BUT I'm hoping there is some practical, easy fix I am missing that I can utilize moving forward when doing these sorts of videos.

Regardless thank you for your time and as I am a visual learner, especially when it comes to Davinci Resolve and editing, if you have an example or video I should be referencing (I have TRIED to look for them) please let me know. Typically, some tutorial videos are way beyond me when that start to go into this node and that node and needing multiple ones etc.

This is the short: https://youtube.com/shorts/TyVslmVENfc?feature=share

So, I originally got into board gaming heavily by 2015/2016 when in nursing school and at that time it still felt like a lot of board games didnt automatically add a solo mode. I found Board Game Geek maybe a year after and also the forum and file sections for board game pages. If it wasnt for fan made solo modes I am not sure if I would've stayed in the hobby as my only way to play board games was solo up until the last couple of years.

Because of that I wanted to share the resources I used for some of the more popular board games that weren't accessible to me because they had no official solo rules (at the time). I am so happy that since then some of these fan made solo modes have either become official editions to some of these board games or even surpassed the official solo mode the publishers originally put out.

With that said, I am sure there are so many more great fan made solo modes I am missing and it's made me curious to hear what I might be missing or ones I should try. So I am posting this here, but also hoping the community here can also share more of fantastic fan made solo modes i should try so I can play even more games that might be of interest, but I avoid looking further into just because they don't have an official solo mode.

Anyways, thanks for perusing my rambling 😜.

https://youtu.be/whkc-7jPeXU