How to Make Object Vanish in A Puff of Smoke in DaVinci Resolve Fusion | Smoke Disappear Effect 

Very nice effect. Thanks for sharing.

I love learning from your videos. You always put out top notch stuff! Thanks!

Great work and thank you!

A nice effect and explained in detail. Thank you very much.

Great video. Looking forward to more davinci tutorials. Subbed

Very nice! I used it on my own footage and it came out great...once I figured out how to change the angle that the smoke moves. 😂 My runner was going a different direction.

nice job

Hey VEC, i really enjoy the way you teach! You make it short although you explain the reasoning behind the notes which is one of the essential factors for people who really want to learn something beyond the specific effect. You definetly have my sub! One (hardly related) question tho. What setup/PCspecs do you use? Idk if you timelapsed the rendering parts for example but they seemed flawlessly fast (in comparison to my fusion workflow). Diving into fusion (even tho I'm used to 3D programms) really brings up the old age of my setup especially given fusions inefficiency when it comes to hardware usage.

WAY COOL! Watch the whole vid several times now - about to attempt recreating it with one of my own clips. Q: Are all the nodes used available in the free version? The ones I've checked so far seem to all be present, so hoping the rest are as well. TNX SO MUCH FOR THIS ONE!!

Do you have a video on how to do this effect with a moving camera such that the background is constantly in motion?

One of the best effects I have seen, so far! But is there a confusion of the Matte node and the inverted Matte node? When you invert the MediaOut picturse changes although the noe is not connected

Thank you for the great tutorial!! When you i.e. click on "MediaIn2" you can see in the viewer MediaIn2, if I click it, I still see MediaOut1. How can I change that my viewer displays the active node?

Thank you for this beautiful video; it helps me a lot. However, I have a question: how do you achieve such smooth playback?

Thank you for the awesome tutorial! But how did you learn to know what all the different dials and nodes do... Fusion is so complex to me that right now I mostly have to follow Tutorials. Often this works great but I wish to directly know how I can build effects myself.

Hi, i started following all the steps to make this effect but my only problem is with the merge 2 whenever i move my first merge i still see the background instead of my compound clip could you help me with that?

Amazing tutorial however for me it doesn't want to do the effect on the right frame it does it at the beginning of the compound clip. Could you assist me please?

Great video! I've been using Resolve for about 2 years now after switching over from Adobe for 8 years. Anyways, I'm trying to achieve this same effect in a video I'm doing but I'm very new to fusion. I've watched Casey Faris' video on intro to particles video and yours here. I need some more help even though I'm googling things along the way. I want to make a still non-moving subject disappear into smoke like this. So I feel like there are a lot of nodes you used I probably won't have to... but not sure which ones. How do I get in touch with you?

Hey, thanks for the tutorial, this is really useful! How would you do the reverse of this? I mean have an effect where someone forms from smoke?

I suppose you could just reverse it to make them appear lout of thin air?

*_I just wanted to make a few objects on my bench disappear, but I guess never mind. Sheesh!_*

The tutorial is great, but what happens if there is no static image to work with? In your case, the woman is moving, but the background is the same throughout the whole video, no camera movement etc. In cases where both move, and we also don't have a clean plate of the background (person is always in front of it), how do we manage it?

Is it possible to do this with the free version? I don't seem to succeed in this

I'm trying to figure out how to have it disappear without displacement like the guy at the beginning of the clip and accelerate the puff. Any tip where to look for? Thanks and very good clip :))

Hey, nice video! But what if the camera is moving ? I mean when you do some following camera movement. It's hard to find something .

recommendation on what to do with a 4k 60fps clip? some video like proxies or caches that you might have?

which one are u using, the resolve studio 18.6 or the other one?

Thanks, but I just updated to the 19 Beta and the particles are rendering at around 7 seconds per frame.

I have followed every steps multiple times but can't figure out what goes wrong. From 2:11 of the video, i don't have the same output : when I move the X or Y center, the whole frame is moving and my object is actually behind the frame. Could you do another tutorial about this effect ? Maybe its because im on 18.5, i don't know

Hello friend, it's interesting, could I politely ask you for the link to the footage so I can review it? Thanks.

Thank you for the video!!! I am trying to re-create the same effect, but I my MatteControl2 node does not invert. I would be so grateful if anyone can let me know how to do it. Thank you in advance!

THANK YPU BROTHER FOR THE NICE EFFECT.BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM SOMEHOW CAN NOT HAPPEN WHEN I GET TO PART DESAPPEARING

When i tick "Invert" in Matte Control2 , nothing happend - What did i do wrong ?

Another thing I've done the effect but the subject still remains in the background what do I do to fix that?

Great...are u in Davinci resolve community in discord

Hahaha! The background never moves, so it's a simple case. Magic mask the runner and put her on any background. Just apply the effects to the alpha mask and put it on top of whatever background you want.😉

Can this be done with the free version?

When I hit invert for Mattecontrol2, nothing happened ?

A night crawler effect

My effect just stays in the layer. Does not turn to smoke or spreads like yours. It just moves around like water inside the cut out.

I've tried this a dozen times, and watched each piece of the video numerous times and it STILL DOESN"T WORK. If there's someone out there who can help talk through a couple of the sticking points I would love to hear where you had problems following the video. I'm a smart guy (I thought I was) and follow directions well. I've written thousands of tutorials on tech things in my career and know there's always some unintentional ambiguity or assumptions. I think there are some missing settings in this video. His settings are obviously correct (because it all works for him) and it looks like the video is one main, live take---but there might be other dependencies that were left out or assumed. For instance, I had to set the polygon node to be inverted to get a piece of it to work and I'm not sure how you'd be able to tell if the Ctrl + T to set something to the background was actually achieved or not (is that an on-off toggle). This is such a cool effect, I'd love to make this work. Can anyone help?

Saint-Petersburg?

I have just figured out where I was wrong. But you forgot to tell us, this effect need fixed camera angle.

I am beginner and trying to understand the video…..but I m failing to understand why you are dragging so many nodes and whats its use at that situation😢

Nice video 👌 but how I can make person appear into video in cool way? 🫣🤔