Many people have been asking for an adjustment layer feature for Resolve, and with Davinci Resolve 16, Blackmagic Design has given us this feature with the Adjustment Clip. The Adjustment Clip drops into the timeline above your footage and allows you to use it to add your color grading andContinue Reading
The Trails node is used to add a motion blur type effect to moving objects. While this is actually a 2D effect, in this video I show you how to apply it to a 3D object to have the object leave motion trails behind it.Continue Reading
Is Davinci Resolve the perfect video editor? No, but it’s still my favorite despite a few things that kind of annoy me. So here are my top 6 things that annoy me with Davinci Resolve. Here are my top annoyances with Davinci Resolve that still have not been addressed asContinue Reading
I was asked some time ago to show how to do a Star Trek Transporter Effect. While I knew pretty much how I was going to do it, it always seemed like other projects got priority. I finally wrapped it up, and while it isn’t Industrial Light & Magic Quality,Continue Reading
What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 16.0b4Support for copying and pasting clips and edits across timelines and projects at different frame ratesSupport for a moving playhead option in the Cut pageSupport for adding crossfades to clips on the Fairlight pageSupport for applying presets to Fairlight buses for equalizer, dynamics, plugins andContinue Reading
Masking and rotoscoping is usually reserved for separate compositing apps like After Effects. With Davinci Resolve (since version 15), Blackmagic’s Fusion is built into Davinci Resolve. Using the techniques in this video, you will learn how to create masks, how to animate them, and how to use them to hideContinue Reading
One thing that is difficult in most video editing programs is creating masks to apply effects only in certain areas. With Davinci Resolve, masks are easily created, and animated, which is one of that things that has made Davinci Resolve a powerful color grading system for a long time. InContinue Reading
In this video, I show you how to add some depth to a 2D object, add chrome effect to 3D text, and make a lens flare in Davinci Resolve Fusion. For this project we will be using some of the following Fusion Nodes: Text3d Duplicate 3D ImagePlane Hotspot You canContinue Reading
This video is a beginners guide to rotoscoping with Davinci Resolve 15/16 or Fusion 9/16. Rotoscoping is used when you need to animate a mask around something that is moving in a scene. I apologize for the sound, it is only coming out of the left channel.Continue Reading
When you want to have different clips start at different times, it’s just a matter of throwing them into the right position on the timeline. However, when you are trying to do this with from the Fusion page, things aren’t are straightforward. To solve this problem, we can use aContinue Reading
