DaVinci Resolve - The Fusion Crash Course [Perfect for Beginners!] 

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"Just give me a couple of minutes...🙄". LOL. You are the best! I can't wait until the industry as a whole moves away from Adobe. Nodes just make so much more sense.

I literally stayed away from the Fusion tab before watching this video. In 25 minutes I learned enough to start experimenting. Thanks!

Casey, you are getting really good at explaining Resolve. This is a very good video. You are so much better at including every relevant component and not skipping the little things that can be so important. And even you have done this subject a number of times before, you are now being much more precise to include everything that is important and not assuming prior knowledge. For beginners and intermediates, it is often some seemingly minor step that they don’t get. Watching video educators who skip over these little points is unbelievably frustrating. A good example in this video is how you clearly explain the two viewer dots. It’s not much but if that’s not explained, then viewers would be so messed. Your knowledge and passion are unquestionable. Your education skills are now matching your knowledge. Well done you.

WOW! Now this is how you do a video. Straight to the point, no long winded unneeded explanations. You didn't spend 10 minutes talking about something before you showed the 3 clicks to do it... 10/10!

You're teaching methods are nothing short of amazing. I enjoy how you always seem cheery and willing to help us newbies at trying to learn these complicated things. Will definitely be looking into your courses very soon since we are best friends now :D

Casey, I have to admit something. Everytime I'm looking to learn something in Resolve and searching RU-vid for tutorials, I come across your videos and every time, you completely change my game. The truth is that I stayed away from VFX the most part of my filmmaking journey because the complexity of operations and the tools always confused me.. and even though I'm a very technical guy in general, the pipeline always instantly dragged me off the creative mood.. so I always used Fusion for VERY basic stuff like titles (usually with presets.. not really understanding much of what was going on in there). Recently, the desire of learning VFX basics came back to me to bring my filmmaking game to the next level.. so I decided to give it another shot. As always, I was searching for tutorials on RU-vid and found THIS video. 26 minutes later, I now truly understand how it works.. and goshh that feels good! You are an amazing teacher. I don't know how much editing you do in your videos, but it feels so easy and logical.. I love it! Whatever you do man, it just works! So I just want to say THANK YOU MAN!

You just keep getting better at this RU-vid thing! Very clear. I think this is a very valuable video for anyone starting out in Fusion.

Made the switch from Adobe Premiere to Davinci Resolve last year, and I'm amazed at how much my reliance on Premiere has held back the progression of my skills.

Thank you so much for being an amazing person and putting all this knowledge on RU-vid for free 🙏 once I have the funds I will look through the courses you offer as well for more advanced training

One big win for 18.5, it opens much faster! ❤your channel, keep up the amazing work Casey!

Casey, you are an amazing editor and teacher!! Thank you!

I’ve been away from fusion and da Vinci resolve for quite awhile, so I need a refresher. These brief tutorials are terrific they’re even better than what I remember getting from you before. Thank you

Excellent work mate. Watching tuts is normally a snooze fest, but you crushed this one man. I had been avoiding the fusion page forever and now im excited about improving my post production skills because of you 🎉

Tutorials like this are why I subscribed to your channel. Thanks again for a great job.

This has to be one of the best videos to follow for fusion, thank you

Fantastic tutorial. I'm getting into learning Resolve again, because of the non destructive editing that I really like and this is a great help understanding the workflow!

When I clicked on this video I saw that I’d already liked it, but I don’t think I was ready for this. Now I’m pumped as hell. Thanks for the introduction to this rad system!

That was VERY helpful! Ty as an AE user Fusion confused me sm the first time I opened it, but now I finally understand the whole concept. I was planning to move away from AE (because their features are stuck in 2016) this gave me new motivation to do that

Bro, you are awesome. I'm going to play your video multiple times to get the basics of Fusion. Thanks for the tutorial.

I've been using After Effects for such a long time now that it feels like second nature, but I've been wanting to try out Fusion for VFX because of its Node system, but hadn't really stumbled upon any video that gave me a jump start, and finally this one was just like the title says: "Perfect". Thank you for such a clear and concise video!

Every single one of the videos by you that I have watched is absolutely fantastic. So clear, concise and deeply informative. THANK YOU.

For someone like me just starting out this is like reading hieroglyphs! Thank you so much for explaining it simplistically.

It's easy to understand people who know their stuff, thanks.

wow! 😅 This tutorial shook all the pulp in my brain! But what a pleasure to get to the end and succeed! Thank you so much for sharing and congratulations on your pedagogy! Hello from France!

To be honest am not a video editor but as long I came across your page on RU-vid I automatically have interest in video editing 😇. You are a good mentor ✊

bought the pro version! Love that you provide the assets to help learn along. Will be great to use with recent and upcoming client work. Appreciate it! Stoked to share the progress

The part I like about Fusion is, it forces you to thing more about what you want to do. And especially for more complex work, Fusion is less murky than e.g. embedded comps in Hitfilm Pro.

Seriously i was waiting for this fusion training as im improving my editing skills,thanks for this Casey

I'm just starting with D.R. this was the perfect intro video! I actually understand Fusion a bit better now. I did a Karaoke video following a youtube tutorial, but I didn't really grasp what I was doing!

Excellent! Using the underlays to show categories - simple and brilliant (the best kind of awesome). You're already quit good but you're getting even better. Keep rocking the free world, bruddah!

Been watching your tutorials for a while and it's paid off in a major way this week. Thank you.

Excellent Video Casey ! To the point and a very good beginner intro to this app.

Nice and explanatory video, I'm switching from Premiere and AE and those nodes were like a the Matrix code to me :) 👍

I watched this right after watching the one you did for v17 thinking it would cover the same material, and was delighted to see new things. Thanks for taking the time to put these together, I know how much effort it takes!

This is so awesome man. I've been watching quite a few of your older videos when i started editing with Davinci, and to see how much you've grown as a creator is inspirational. Thanks alot and well done on your personal growth! Bossing it mate. From England! 👊🏽

Dude your explanation is so easy to understand, now I’m not scared no more! Thank you

This is such a great tutorial! Keep it up man!

I can't believe I've never noticed all of the buttons under the play controls 😮‍💨Would've saved so much time searching for things! Awesome video Casey, learnt a lot!

thank you. I been making videos for about two years and recently decided to up the game. Very effective tutorial.

I’ve been using Apple Motion since it came out so beginning to learn Fusion is taking a while to say the least. This was a great presentation !!

I just moved on to this software finishing up with aftereffects… starting to enjoy it :)

Casey..Great overview....to the point and not endless words of no meaning....now I need more advanced.

Thank you so much for your videos, seriously your tutorials arey favourites cause I can actually understand what's going on as a noob 😊 and I really appreciate that. I would love if you could do an in depth tutorials about 3D & particles , these guys really got me confused. You are awesome! Thanks

You are the best man ⭐️🔥

Nice job Casey.

Amazing! I know a lot more now!

Thanks. You convinced me to start learning Fusion and....WOW...what a difference it makes over trying to do the same stuff on the Edit page. Your clear explanation helped me to get past the Brain Melt and the Nope I experienced every time I started to look at the Fusion page. Can't do it right now but I'll start setting aside some cash to to the course you introduced a couple of weeks back.

I just needed it I am done with edit now for extra effect fusion is good af

Awesome loved it man!

you are natural in teaching ...

Casey thank you so much.

This is excellent thank you.

My mouth is wide open, you are great man, thank you!!

That was super helpful - thanks mate.

I was ready to give up on fusion until I saw this video thank you I will be getting one of your courses soon

Thank you so much for this video! Learning to work with fusion is a very steep learning curve for me 😅 but with your explanation I finally understand the structure of the nodes. Up to now I couldn’t really get my head around it but now I’m ready to really dive into it without getting stuck all the time. Thank you!

excellent mate. this is so cystal clear explanation. well done.

Great video, will be watching this a bunch of times to get the hang of things; good stuff

How cool is that!

For those of you who don't know, you can easily swap the inputs on a node, like a merge node, by pressing CNTRL + ALT + T.

Brain overload. I need a moment now to swallow and digest 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Thanks for the video ❤

I'm still flabbergasted that not only is this software program free, but these videos are as well!

Great video..thank you for this!!

Video Idea: @23:05 you begin to explain a "new flow chart" - I LOVE THIS. Especially given the tutorial up to this point. I find myself really wanting to follow along with your explanation...but (there it is! lol)...I'm having to rewind too much because it's a little too hard to follow. I pause the video, looking for the node you're talking about (sometimes hard to find) and I like to look at the inspector and pair the three things (the node, the inspector, and what you're saying). It's like putting it all together. So here's the video idea: you could once a week take some already baked in "flow chart" - either your own, or, pick one of the Templates/Edit/Titles and open it in fusion and walk through the flow chart telling us how it all makes sense. Who do I think that would appeal to? Those of us who are jusssst barely beyond newbie and nowhere near intermediate yet. I think there's a segment here you could serve really well. It's a thought. An Idea. A once a week thing that might feel too simple but I think someone like me could watch a dozen of those and gain a lot from it. And I'm not aware of anyone else doing it. (Another thought: place flowchart elements into your "underlay categories." Although, really, there's a version of this idea where you don't have to do that much augmenting work; just turn nodes on and off or muck with them in an insightful way.)

So awesome man, thanks from the UK.

Incredible tutorial! Thank you so much

Perfect!

beautiful thanks!

Fantastic bro. Pro basic explanation.👌

Thanks Casey, spectacular info

Great instruction, may I ask what software you are using for the cursor highlighting circles and zooming the video area, such a cool looking presentation.

“There’s obviously some problems, but it took 5 seconds so…” I felt that

very cool video thank you

Very well explained thank you 🎉

Fantastic stuff, great crash course. Thanks.

Thanks king. 🙏💙

Table of Contents 0:28- What is Fusion? 2:08- Fusion Interface 3:17- Nodes 4:28- Connecting in between MediaIn and MediaOut Nodes 5:00- Viewing the Node 6:28- Beach Example (affecting the image) 7:07- Cutting things out 7:21- Mask (Polygon) 7:51- Studio Version Only, Magic Mask 8:49- Merge Node 10:04- How Nodes Work 10:43- 5 Categories of Nodes 10:59- Node Category 1- Image Nodes 12:23- Select Tool Panel (Shift+Spacebar) 12:59- Node Category 2- Effect Nodes 13:46- Node Category 3- Transform Nodes 15:00- Node Category 4- Merge Node 15:34- Why so much effort? 16:24- Node Category 4- Merge Node (cont.) 17:18- Output of the Node (Grey Square) 17:35- Node Inputs 17:46- Main Input (Yellow Triangle) 17:50- Secondary Input (Green) 18:20 - Effect Node Inputs 18:28- Node Category 5- The Mask 19:48- Using Nodes to Green Screen 23:00- motion graphics 24:19- Spline panel 24:36- Key Frames panel

Thank you for helping me get along

now this is how you do a tutorial simple and short only what you need'

I am just starting to learn Resolve. This Fusion section sure looks a lot like ComfyUI (an AI Editor tool for Stable Diffusion) so it feels intuitive to me!

thanks for the tutorial, very straight to the point. I also very enjoyed the 5 groups part, made everything crispy clear. I finally wanna dive deep into fusion, ive started with video editing around 4 years ago, but i never really take a deep step into fusion because it just felt overwhelming. I watched some tutorials here and there and know a couple of things, which are very situational, but i just wanna be able to do what i have in mind without looking everything up and following long tutorials for everything. So i defenitly will check out the fusion courses you offer, also thanks for making the survival guide for free, not everyone is earning hundreds of buckeroos to get a paid course. and im happy i could afford the stuidio version this year.

Awesome!

Summary was generated by Summatim, let us know if there are any inaccuracies! 🤖 0:30: Introduction to Fusion 0:14: Integration with DaVinci Resolve 3:10: Interface Overview 4:35: Working with Nodes 3:01: Basic Compositing Techniques 0:08: Advanced Compositing Techniques 7:06: Creating Special Effects 0:30: Summary 11:06: Media In Node 11:31: Generator Node 13:14: Effect Node 13:48: Transform Node 15:43: Merge Node 18:33: Mask 22:25: Color correction and transformation 22:33: Flowchart of steps 22:48: Adjusting background sharpness 23:09: Motion Graphics 23:47: Animation in Fusion 24:38: Adjusting animation timing 25:13: Using the 3D workspace 25:44: Training resources

Could you do a golf shot tracer guide? Trying to figure out how to make an animated tapered line, but no luck.

What an awesome video, thanks

Holly wacamolly, thanks bro :)

Thank you for this useful tutorial!

Great video

your the best

thanks man )) really like your tutorials

Very nice video. You must be a great teacher. I clic on the link to get your motion graphic course, but it shows others courses. I´d like to know more about the course.

Great Tutorial! as always. I am also curious to know what kind of software/tool are you using for these Mouse cursor's blue circle highlight and zooming into the specefic area of the screen, tell me please 😁

This is great - thank you!

Any tips for render cache issues with respect to Magic Mask? Any small changes on the edit timeline and the Magic mask completely glitches out.

Thanks!

Thank you Casey! 🙏

Thank you

Niceee explained thankssss

Thanks a lot