Hidden, Obscure, and Useful Tricks for Fusion in DaVinci Resolve 

😀 You're welcome.

Yep, that's kind of the idea of the video 🙂

Yeah... though a cell phone for a camera or an ssd drive for the save icon might be harder to recognize 😀

@@VFXstudy Yeah. I'm not sure I have any alternatives to propose either. I mean. I've seen some apps that go for an approach where arrows go into something and out of something to represent save and open. And some cloud and regular apps have done away with the idea of saving altogether. Cameras are even harder to exchange since phones and a fully decked out Alexa look nothing alike. And adding 3D wireframes to match up with custom rigs is probably a huge waste of resources as well. So I guess we are stuck with something that is essentially a non-issue. :) So it's like the Typewriter klickety klackety PLING, ratch... Sound. Or the record scratch. Artefacts of a bygone era where the new generation rarely questions why a hard disc is named after a hard disc. And that floppies actually were floppy. Or why the system drive in windows is on C and we today Rarely, if ever see drive A or B

Thanks, fully agree to the wireless node comment. Also the reason why I am using it rarely. Typically I forst pay attention to the overall layout of the flow - in my opinion even more important than renaming. If things are visually logical, then I can dive into an existing flow quickly.

Wow.... Thank you, yes, it still works! I wish this would also work in expressions, where dragging this plus symbol can sometimes be annoying. But there it seems we are stuck with pasting the name manually or dragging the plus.

@@VFXstudy It would be difficult as one would only want one property, but certainly some way of select the property (from a menu showing all possible properties) would be an interesting way to solve this. But considering BMD is more interested in making Fusion a tab of the grading software rather than developing it as a compositing application on the level of Nuke or at least After Effects, I doubt they will put any effort in perfectioning something not used when colourcorrecting clips...

Excellent point! It's one of the things I wish BMD had changed in the default when going to Fusion 16. Since Fusion 9 users got screwed in multiple ways this change would not have made a big difference and would have aligned Fusion with the rest of Resolve. The ctrl thing is definitely a legacy thing of Fusion and many modern UIs do this differently - and arguably better.

Hihi... 😄 maybe not, cause it's basically just one viewer with different angles / zoom factors

This could be a set extension with a matching image or video of a river. If you want to build water as a good simulation, that's quite difficult. Not impossible, but hard. Typically people turn to software like houdini for that. There is a water simulation in Fusion Reactor and some posts on the WSL forum I believe.

If water is a main subject of your content then use different software to do fluid simulation like blender+FLIP I think??there's also a video in the old eyeon channel I think showing an example of that?

Sure, you can use multiple. You can use it for any 2D RGBA image, but there's a 3D version as well if you need to connect part of a 3D flow. There are some special input types that you may not be able to connect directly to the wireless node like materials or bumpmaps otherwise it is pretty flexible.

@@VFXstudy Thank you. Hey wondering is there away we can create family chart (genealogy) with lines flowing as branches.

@@nansfilms2430 there's no inbuilt graph generator or so if that's what you mean. Everything is possible, even building one. But maybe it's easier to use an external design tool to make the tree, then import as svg and modify / animate in Fusion?

FaceBuilder seems to be an external plugin for Nuke and Blender. Not sure there is any similar OFX plugin that could work directly in Fusion. Perhaps it might be possible to use the one for Blender and later import the blender model into Fusion. Not sure there's a more direct way.

@@VFXstudy thanks, fusion still has a long way to go

🤣 If he does, we'll ask him some Fusion questions 😋

Hi SirEdric. Indeed. So sorry about that - although I'm almost certain I saw that once before I'm happy to give you full credit for reminding me of it. Would you like to be mentioned by name or by pseudonym? I am very happy to do that in the next video. All the others are 100% not from the workshop and I honestly wouldn't know who to mention - in most cases the manual, pehaps other tutorials some definitely myself. The alt click for example is from an exercise where I assembeled all Fusion Keyboard shortcuts from settings file and any other resource I could find and consolidated it on one page. Ideally I would love to give credit the original author instead of the one to demo it - which would be a developer, I suppose. I have a scientific background and we never cited secondary sources of people who showed something that others created but only the original author. But I am sorry if the etiquette here is different - maybe it should be and I am happy to try my best to rectify this as much as possible. So sorry. For everyone reading this: I saw the trick you mentioned in a BMD workshop where you demoed it.

Hi Bernd. No worries and thanks for mentioning me. Please keep on doing the great stuff you do for the Fusion community. Fusion rocks.

Hope you still like it after watching it :P

Yes 👍🍻

What do you mean by finding the right control?