I have been using Davinci Resolve for about 2 years, but I have always avoided Fusion because it looks sooo complicated. In 11 minutes you have taking away that fear. Thanks, I will re-watch the video & practice on one of my own projects. Many thanks!
I'm just about switching from many years of After Effects to Fusion and this was the first I clicked on :) Thanks for a great 10 mins that already gave me a lot of "Aha" and seeing that Nodes are indeed a good alternative to layers.
This was extremely helpful. Even took it a step further and added extra to fade in and fade out each of the elements. This tutorial just opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. Thank you.
Wow, this was great. I like how you zip through it all, but very clearly so that I can go back slowly to grok individual bits that don't make sense at first.
I've been using Resolve for a few years now and I'm barely scratching the surface of what I can do with it. The nodes overwhelm me, layers, like in After Effects seem more intuitive to me but I'll give this a shot.
Casey, I hope your ground control stuff is selling well. You are fantastic at teaching this stuff. I always love your videos. Educational and fun at the same time. Can't wait for all the new stuff you figure out on there. Thanks!
Thanks man! Have been using different video editors, started years back with Pinnacle studio, lately been using very basic Movavi and just now finally got to the DaVinci. Again thanks for your videos, will be coming back for more :)
For anyone wanting to learn how to do this, don’t just watch the 11 minute video and expect it to sink in. Casey says to follow along in Resolve and he’s absolutely right. For every step, do it yourself several times and play back the section until it clicks. It’ll take you a good hour to get through the video but you’ll learn it vastly faster this way. With anything you want to learn really.
Yes, I just spent an hour and I only began to make progress towards the end. When I tried to do it myself I got hung up on stupid little things that I wasn't doing quite right. If you can watch this video being stone cold new to fusion and get it immediately you are doing really well. I definitely was not that fellow. ETA: the video did an awesome job of introducing the basic ideas of what was going on. Sometimes that can be the hardest thing when I am starting to learn something new.
This was a great tutorial. It would be also great to see some green screen + unreal engine scene + DaVinci resolve tutorial. Like creating a video, overlapping it on unreal scene and making it believable with color grading. : ) Just an idea for a future tut. Thank you for all you do.
Super Super cool, thank you Casey. I've got the fusion survival guide waiting to dive into, but this is an amazing kick start. Love the way you teach. Respect. Film maker based in Ibiza, started out as a director and producer, but now been shooting and editing for 5 years and just got onto Davinci this year. Your videos are helping me a lot, thank you. Mike
(Possibly my first ever comment on a youtube video) This is by far the best tutorial for jumping into fusion. Thank you Casey for teaching it in a way that is super easy to digest.
Awesome tutorial!! Could you also maybe make a tutorial on vfx? Like compositing explosions/decals on a moving / static shot.. which tracking to use and what they all do.. etc etc
Never thought I'd find a tutorial by someone as fun as Michael Freyrer. Got any tutorials for Prism Studio? They changed some stuff and I'm confused. I'll kiss all your pets goodnight if you do. 😁
It seems like Fusion just seems confusing because of the emphasis on the nodes. In reality, nodes are just layers, and once you pointes out the spline graph I was like, okay, now this looks like After Effects or Motion. The nodes seems to be a slightly easier way to group things together, but kind of get in the way once you start editing in the dimension of time.
Thank you for these tutorials! Do you know why I can't click and drag elements in Fusion preview window? I'm following along with this tutorial, and I can't move the text boxes to the left and right of the logo like you did. Not able to click and drag in the preview window. Any ideas?
Hey Casey thank you. I'm new at motion graphics: how should I set my expectations in terms of time and work load for learning to make basic motion graphics with mostly text?
I was brand new to fusion three weeks ago. Thanks to you, I am producing ever more spiffy YT videos. Your ability to jam an incredible amount of information into short videos is astonishing. Thank you so much.
Casey I am working on learning the Fusion section in Davinci. It is so daughnting but thankfully you are super helpful. I want to be able to create aweome intros like this for my RU-vid channel and i cant thank you enough for all the tutorials you are posting here!
Thank you so much, Casey. Like others, I've been using DaVinci Resolve for a couple of years now and really had no idea what Fusion was for or how to use it. I followed this video step by step and achieved the same beautiful output. Now I feel empowered and want to learn more. I'll definitely be looking at more of your content.
I have tried to watch so many of these tutorials. So many are completely out of date, or assume that I already know how to use Davinci. I LITERALLY shouted "it's working!!" right before you shared that Anakin clip. I can't thank you enough for this.
Hi Casey, I am having trouble getting the word BIRD text to be in sync with the word KING text when animating the slide outs from behind the Bird logo. I'm using Davinci Resolve V18.6.2, 2 Build. Some of the tools are in slightly different spots in this version which is not a drama. My computer is a Mac Mini M1 16 GB running MAC OS Ventura 13.5.2. Hope you can assist me with this problem. Cheers John
I have a question has anyone here experienced a node not connecting between the input and output due to what seems to be a copyright situation.... I was trying to paint on a graphic that had a watermark on it and it wouldn't let me apply paint to the node tree 😂
While I've been using fusion for quite a while, there are always some nuggets to learn. In this one, I learned about using text (et al) as a mask on an image or video clip. It is **almost** like assigning a new material to use for the text so it looks cool! BTW, did you see my comment on importing BINs as "templates?" Still wondering about the answer to those questions.
Casey, you are a gem! I used all of this info yesterday and my world just expanded ten fold. You understand your subject so well that you are able to share you insights so logically and efficiently that it is actually a pleasure to learn. I am so grateful to you for these tutorials and wish you the very best in your endeavours. 🙏
This has completely lagged out my whole project and now I don’t really know how to fix it. My intro text is on the screen throughout the whole video and I have no idea how to change it. I click on the render frames and set it to a small duration and click save, then i go to the edit window to see the playback and go back and the render frames have went back to the duration of the whole clip. It’s as if it is set to some auto render mode. I don’t even know where I went wrong.
There's a reason why i suggest you to every person considering youtube and video creation, you are such a gentle teacher and take the time to explain stuff that others may assume viewers already understand. Take the using nodes part, you didn't have to show if you connect them it works and if not it won't and left it to us to figure it out by testing but you took those extra 30 seconds making such a big thing so tiny and easy to understand. Such a gentle approach that makes listening to you something that is less work more fun.
Being used to After Effects, I'm wondering how the equivalent of a typical After Effects project with several 100 layers is going to look as a flow chart. Is that even manageable?
Yep gained a sub. Fusion has always been super intimidating...only used it for green screen and even then I only barely got it right (still hints of green in very micro areas). In my next video, I'm gonna make a title screen and start playing a little bit more with these effects...worry free (kinda).
So I am assuming I can make a logo or artwork in Illustrator and PhotoShop and import into DaVinci, what file types should I save them as and what is the resolution best suited for 4K vid please.
Why i didn't go to DaVinci Resolve ? Why i always avoided this software !? It's so natural to do effects like this... Thanks a lot for the explaination. I need to go further to understand how or when the effect do effect (haha) on the timeline.
Hello and thank you for all your videos, very instructive. I have had Da Vinci installed in my computer for almost 2 years, but I always found it to be too much. I recently saw your tutorial/interview with Kevin Stratvart and WOW, it was soooo clear and Da Vinci is soooo much not what I thought. Learning still, but learning nevertheless. This one is very interesting as well. Thanks
Really great tutorial. I actually had to play it at .75 speed...when clicking on different controls or views, you assume more familiarity of the layout of the fusion screens than I currently have, seeing it for the first time. But, that's not taking anything away from the excellent demo - I'm ready to start my own little fusion project now!
man thank you so much for yor tutorial i literally just downloaded Davinci Resolve and know nothing about it or how the process works. im hoping its something i can use to create animations and expand my digital media canvas. i currently use an app on my phone to draw with called medibang paint hoping ill be able to use the 2 apps together to create with. again thank you for your tutorials.
I am new to the Davinci, honestly (like 2 days). However, I already liked it. I can't imagine movies use Davinci. I would love to learn more now and make a lot of arts using it😮
Hey Casey, must let you know, im new to everything. Any type of editing on any platform and i have been checking out your videos on Davinci Resolve 18 thus far and though its all very confusing for a newbie like me, your videos are helpful.
I basicly never comment on anything but now i gotta salute you mate, damn u helped alot of understanding fusion! If possible, it would be very nice to get lesson how to overlay bad spots with good parts in video. Keep up good work man!
I have a question, does fusion not have a source viewer? Meaning, i know about the dot below the nodes to see them in the viewer, but in the media pool, i press the clips and nothing happens, did i press something or fusion doesn't have a source viewer?
great video.. I am just getting started editing my own videos after years of false starts. This goes a lttle fast for me, but the pause button has helped. I think you do a great job and would love to chat with you briefly to understand your work better as well as suggest a training video that would be intersting to see how to do it.
I have a logo, like most logos the words are in the logo photo. The logo has a tap I'd like that to have a graphic that fills a 'subscribe' button. Is that possible, do you think you could make a video that could show something that could teach that, I'm but a humble plumber trying to up his RU-vid game 😅
That title is a little deceiving. I really feel like I had completely learned Fusion at the nine minute mark. Now I am ready to start giving lessons too …. 😊
thanks for this video Casey. I left Adobe (using it for 10 years) and I am now using DaVinci Resolve. Little panic here because I am so used to After Effects and Premiere pro. Subscribed to your channel.
@@CaseyFaris its a complete disaster. I am trying to add simple text animation on top of a transparent circle. It's either maskin or give me a brain damage because i am figuring out what node can connect with what. I'm afraid I am too Adobe-alized. -- Edit - your video 'All about SHAPES in Fusion - DaVinci Resolve 17 Graphics Tutorial' at 9:25 showed me how.
Brand new...still confused but not because of your tutorial. Will definitely watch a few more times to wrap my head around Fusion as I've avoided it. LOVE your videos! Thanks!
and what if you want different effect other than the 4 on the line? you do not go over that at all in your video. you also do not mention that if you had any other "overlay" on top of your clip in the timeline that simply clicking the click and going to fusion does not work, it instead brings in what you have above the clip. it took me almost an hour of looking at this and other videos, along with just messing around with it to see this. I am trying to bring a logo into my clip, make it have a transparent background with giving it a light glare off coming off of it. if do this on the time line once i add the effect onto the logo (which already has a transparent background, the light glow effect turns the entire background black and hides the clip. so i am trying to do this in fusion now instead, and yet all i see ppl doing in there are the 4 effects that are on the bar. for some reason all of the other effects in the program are either not available in fusion or none of you content creators have made a video showing how to use this. on a side not, i was using the free version of the program, it kept telling me i "reached the limit of the free version" so i paid the 3 almost 400 dollars for the full version, but now the free version will not delete from my computer to allow the full version to upload correctly. i have deleted the free version multiple times, gone to the website to download the full version and every single time the free version is the one that re downloads and i again keep hitting the "reached the limit" message when i scroll through the video effects. this is all very frustrating and at this point adobe pro is a better program simply because it makes sense, and ppl who make the videos for that program are thorough in their explanations.
Hey that sounds really frustrating. It can be confusing jumping into a new app. 1) once you pay for resolve, make sure to download the version called "resolve studio". That's the paid version. 2) if you want to have a logo with a clear BG, merge it over a background node in fusion with the color set to black and the alpha set to 0 ( the a slider by the color picker in the inspector when you have the bg node selected) 3) if you hit shift-spacebar in fusion you can search for any effect you want to add. Super convenient way of finding things. Don't give up! I know it's a lot to learn but you can do it! Pretty soon you'll hit a point where everything will "click" and you'll wonder how you survived without Resolve.
New. So new. Stared at the screen and thought about throwing the laptop new. Been doing photography for a year and a half and thought it would help with video. I lied. I lied to myself right to my face. After seeing the video you did with the cookie company edit, I did manage to make my first video fairly quickly. This is Ps all over again. Thank you for doing these videos
During Covid, I taught myself Adobe Premiere Pro. Later, a friend gave me an old Mac with Final Cut Pro, which I used for three months. Then, quite by accident, I stumbled upon DaVinci Resolve. I particularly enjoy the capabilities of the Fusion page, although nodes initially intimidated me. Now, I'm learning a bit here and there-it's incredible. One day, once I've mastered nodes a bit more, I'm excited to create an amazing intro for my RU-vid channel with plenty of visual effects. I will share my concept and hope you will be able to help me.
Thanks for the tip that eveytything can be a mask, and not to take anything away from the video, but a have a question, when the preview monitor are empty on the video you can see a lot pixelating, like pixels going crazy, why is that? i ask because the rest of the video looks ok, maybe that black is too dark?
Hi from Greece. Dear Casey you are the reason I do half of my work in fusion now and Im loving it. Thanks for your time and effort. I want to ask if there is a way to convert a magic mask selection to masking points. I mean, if I have a still media in fusion and use magic mask to select something, is there a way to convert that mask into points so I can make more adjustments? Thanks
Thanks for the video. It’s the first time someone explains the “why” things are organized in such a way. I’m new to DaVinci resolve. I’m an animation artist and illustrator with a background in classical film animation and I was using lumafusiom to make basic art draw with me videos. I wanna take my videos to the next level so I thoughtd I’d give dr a try. I like it a lot but it is very technical. Thanks again
