The FASTEST way to ANIMATE ANYTHING in DaVinci Resolve 

Didn’t know about the pen tool to animate. Actually makes it so much easier to do basic silly animations like that. Thanks for the tip!

I've wondered how so many youtubers I watched growing up did edits that seemed to be like mouse movements, but could never find out how they did it. This video completely answered that question. Thanks so much Patrick, great video!

Cool! I can see this being really useful if you need to quickly blur someone's face or an object from a shot, but don't want to track anything. Just hit play and follow the movement with the mouse, animating the mask.

Patrick, your help has assisted so many. Thank you so much for making these videos. Your work is genuinely appreciated.

Thank you so much. This makes animating basic graphics so much easier. You don't have to learn about nodes and key frames, you just animate it by hand!

When I was an AE user I always wanted to know a way to manually animate in real time. Now that I made the switch I'm glad Fusion does have this function! Thanks :D

This is sick. Definitely gonna implement it to the tool kit.

Dude, you ROCK!!!! Please don't ever stop making these videos!!!Thanks you so much!!!

Thank you SOOO MUCH!! I was searching for EXACTLY this option of animating for over an hour now :'D Biiiiggg thanks to you!

This is new to me and quite fun to use. Thank you for sharing.

Thank goodness I found this video again! I forgot how to do this and love this method. Thank you!

That's so neat!

I love this and definitely going to use this! Thanks!

that's so simple, yet SO EFFECTIVE. Thank you so much!!!

Man this was so great to watch and try out. Used this in a recent project, and it was fun to finally learn how my favourite videos used cursor moment type animation. Thanks a ton

Thank you. This is what I've been looking for.

This is dope definitely using this

Woow thank youuuuuu unvaluable

Love this so much, thank you for sharing!

Thanks for all the good videos Patrik. I just got started with Davinci today and your videos have been very helpful. I managed to get two videos done!

Thank you!

Thank you for this! I was searching a way for like a human like animation with the mouse for editing

I think this is amazing.

Great tip, super fast! Awesome as usual.

Thank you so much!!!

i've been looking for how to do this for too long. thank you so much

This is gonna help me so much Tysm

Thanks a lot! This might come in super useful

I find this technique works really well with the size and angle parameters.

Super cool....thanks

Thanks man, I didn't know about this tool and would be perfect for a beginner transitions on overlays

Thank you for this hack 😁

nice to see what else is possible in DR, thx

thanks for the tip!

fun and powerful technique, thanks for sharing!

thanks dude.. you are life changer.. This will make all my keyframe stuff much easier and faster❤ huge thanks

I'm new to Resolve and I've been wondering if it's possible to automate moves and this is perfect. I can't believe it's so simple. Great video!!

Not seen this before, thank you for such an easy to follow tip and.

Dang, mind blown

Love this! It's like when you want to recreate that sockpuppet musical feel but in digital format.

no no no this is very cool, thank you

Thankyou i cant express my emotions soo just Thankyou!!!

Thank you for this, this could be really useful.

I did not know that was there. Already plan on using that thank you sir.

I can definitely see using this just to keep things interesting.

Oh man this is pretty dang cool!

thanks man!!!! I never knew that pen tool was ever a thing.

wow....finally what i desired....was already there!!

wow thank you !

Super useful! Thanks!

Well the feature was probably designed to use it with a graphic tablet to draw the Paths

😂😂 Love you lovely improv. And thank you so much for the tip, What a timesaver!! 🤯

Oh man... 😀 This is gold... Thanks for sharing...

Thank you

thank YOU.

Wow Hopper from Stranger Things doing Davinci tuts!! Awesome!!

This is actually Fun XD

uau this is super awesome, you just enabled me to make my first video in youtube, thank you, sir.

I LOVE YOU

I hope you use the Matt Berry audio for “FATHER!!!!”

I've always wanted a way to animate exactly like this

Holy Toledo, goof narrative animation is part of what I'm looking to do. This is perfect! So easy to use too, oh my goodness. just click and "act" the scene out. Nice~.

that's very useful

thank you so much for this, actually massive tip

Absolutely love this. Will be utilizing the crap out of it 🤣

Hola. Interesante , fácil y nada pesado para mi máquina. Saludos.

Hey Patrick do more vids about animation please, this one is awesome

Oooohh I'm gonna abuse this so much.

Very cool, thanks for the tip. What a time saver! I can see this being useful for playing with timing too. Quickly mocking up (hilarious :P) scenes like you did and then using that to inform dialogue. Like storyboarding.

2:03 i was in panic the pen icon wasnt in my screen 0.0 now i can stop motion with precision ! thank you so much ^^

I like using the pen with a stylus (adoyy) as a way to mask or reveal an intricate design or typography. It feels more organic and flowing to trace reveal calligraphy than just moving a blurred mask away.

That was fun xD

Always wondered what that was for but never really bothered testing it out. I think the most "useful" scenario for this would be if you were trying to do some sort of fake stop motion, as it would make the movement look a bit more natural than going keyframe by keyframe. Like you mentioned, it really depends on the style one is going for.

Purfect! I was looking for something just like this. However, Finzar still has not recreated all his Premiere Pro videos for DaVinci Resolve yet. Thank you! 🙃

Super video thanks. Is there a way to constrain movement to x or y only?

Pretty cool. Can I save something like this to use over and over?

This is great! Is there any way to do this stuff in the edit tab?

This is a great tutorial, thank you! Oddly enough, when I do the text node the tools bar disappear, but for images they are available. It's a mystery. Still, this is so useful, thanks a lot.

Great patrick, I want you as a screenwriter in my next movie🤣🤣🤣

Wow thats handy, thanks. And what do you use to screen capture with the camera?

hey can I ask you which camera you're using? awesome picture quality!

thats what i talking about!

Awesome! How can you copy the exact movement of the RU-vid logo to the text? I believe should be a way

is there a way, i can hear the audio from the timeline, to sync it up?

how do you dod it with rotationg

This would be very easy with a tablet and pen, with a practice hand it could be another and more exact, and it doesn't clog up space in the node screen either! I remember how long it took me to stimulate a static image that is jumping (pausing briefly in the middle), so many keyframes. More it can flow naturally without manualoy adjusting the path and i can still use grid warp and rotate, so the character or object will appear to be landing and leaning forward for the next jump Could also control a more smooth and flowing effect for many 3d effects using this on the final merge after the render node, or perhaps there's a way to apply it to particle effects for a less robotic version of what DR generates. I wonder if there a way to combine this with a camera node... Combined with setting a target, this could be very neat!

how do get audio to plaay while you do this?

What camera do you use? Other than you being so majestic, the camera has such a high quality!

Is there a way to play back the video at half speed?

I’ve always wondered, why something like this isn’t possible… Well. It is 😁🎉

how do i make the png/picture rotate?

Cool. Is there a way to simplify and smoothen this motion? Like Smoother in After Effects? (So not only smooth keyframes but less of them)

I have a video of a crow. I want to create a polygon mask of the crow in each frame of the video and create an alpha output. My problem is that the mask does not remain the same but changes as I proceed along to other frames. How do I freeze each frame to remain as I have drawn it? Thank you.

Hey Man, I use free version of Resolve & Beta 5 & Beta 6 has some sort of Problem with the audio of Files you put in the Timeline. The Moment you drop a Clip in the timeline, The Audio of the File that shows in the Green Box does not show up or produce any sound for few frames. In the Beta 3 Version it's all good, but what's happening with the newer versions, I don't know. Have you seen some like that ???

man that was incredibly sketchy... but very useful! Thanks!

🙏🏻🤟

Hi, could anyone tell me if something similar to this cold be done in premier pro? Thank you!!!

I was wondering what computer you have. Because my computer is lagging so hard lmao

How to use this techniq for 3d??

this same method can be done in the edit tab i think