Using Expressions WILL Change DaVinci Resolve Fusion Forever 

Let me know what questions you have for future videos! I really want to do more of these down the road!

Love this Jake 👏I've used expressions before but you still managed to clear up some things for me. Thank you!

Awesome, thank you!

wow. Thank you so SO much for this knowledge drop. i'm fairly new to Resolve and this directly addresses specific issues i've been struggling with. 🤙🔥🎬

Excellent info! Thank you

If a software engineer wants to be an editor like me, WOW it's so cool

Man this is super helpful thank you! Would love to see practical ways to use them inside a real composition in the future!

Thank you so much for this!

Thank you for this video. I've been looking for a way to move things at a certain speed for hours. I hope there is an easier solution but I"ll give this one a shot soon.

Excellent video, my man. Love the William Justice plug 👍

Great video. This will save me a lot of time in my spacecraft cockpit animations. Now I only have to update the background and the instruments will update to show the same thing without having to reanimate each of them. One thing you missed in the video (or maybe I just didn't hear it) was that expressions are case sensitive. Node1.Value is not the same as node1.value.

Great video, good job explaining this stuff, especially time and comp.RenderEnd. I used to code for fun (back in the 80s). Maybe it's time to get back into it with Resolve.

Hi! Just watched this video, very helpful! Could you explain how to add Animation In and Animation Out Checkboxs, and also explain how to make macros and publish parameters to use them in Edit? This would be awesome :) Thanks!

hello I've been following you for 1 year now and I think you're an incredible tutorial do you think it would be possible for you to have doctor who effects, for example regeneration or tardis effects

yeah so is no one gonna compliment the epic UI cutouts, sound design, and smooth animations in this video? Like its awesome. (constructive: music was a bit much upfront)

its like easier programming, i live it

eyooo thanks for the shoutout! expressions can get pretty nutty. then using them on top of animcurves and all the other tools... 🤯

Great video Jake very interesting content - could do with less music upfront :)

Hi, at 7:36 in this video you can see an expression code that looks like visual studio code. I have a question - is it actually from VSC, and if so - is there any extension that colors and arranges (prettifier) the code of such an expression?

Hey,just wanted to know are the fusion page in the paid version of da Vinci resolve and the stand alone fusion (studio) same/do the same stuff What are the difference between them pls make a video explaining that

Help me Jake! I really need to create a flicker lighting effect for a campfire scene. I’ve scoured RU-vid for techniques for this and still can’t get a good look. I’ve been using the flicker node in fusion but it looks terrible. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Im gonna try wiggle expression on an opacity on an adjustment layer but im just grasping at this point.

I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'm working with a Polygon node to crop a specific area from a video clip. I've also set up a Tracker node on a duplicate of that clip. I applied an expression to the "Center" of the Polygon using "Tracker1.UnsteadyPosition" to track the movement of the Tracker, and this part works flawlessly. The Polygon accurately follows the Tracker's movement. Ok done. Now, the Tracker has two points, so I've configured it to track not just movement but also rotation since the video has complex camera shakes. I initially wasn't certain if I could make the Polygon rotate correctly, as the default behavior involves rotating around a pivot point. However, I discovered a solution. I made a Transform node and added an expression directly to its "Angle" using "Tracker1.UnsteadyAngle". This way, the Polygon rotates proportionately to the clip's movement, rather than pivoting around a fixed point. However, here's the issue I'm facing. I'm also tracking the scaling of the clip, especially since this particular clip zooms in. My initial thought was to add an expression to the Polygon's "Size" using "Tracker1.UnsteadySize". HOWEVER doing this makes the Polygon distorted, expanding from its pivot point. This creates an undesired effect. So I attempted adding the expression to the Transform node's "Size", but it resulted in the entire clip zooming in, rather than just adjusting the Polygon's "Size". You can see the problem here. There is a size mismatch. So back to square one. Essentially, any change in size I apply to the Polygon leads to the entire shape shifting away from its center. My main question is: Is it even possible to use an expression to scale the size of the Polygon proportionate to the scaling of the Tracker? P.S.: I know that I could bypass this issue entirely by manually creating keyframes for the Polygon's "Center" and "Size". However, I'm asking this because the software is quite sophisticated, and I'm wondering if there's a way to accomplish these tasks more efficiently using expressions from someone who actually knows what they're doing lol.

nice sales video.

William Justice's Expression Cheat Sheet: LINK IS BROKE Great video by the way.

Yoo!!, got a question! And I need help!!. Is there anyway that I can add for example (OpticalFlow1) & (VectorMotionBlur1) and copy and paste these fusion effects into all my clips at once?, instead of me manually going through each clip and having to paste them and also Connect the node!?, Is there ALSO! a way for my nodes to automatically connect instead of ME! manually doing it??

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Why the tense music? Makes you sound like you're secretly an axe murderer lol

Video starts at 2:15

get on with it

Wippi 🥵🥰

Frustrating video to watch, turning off. Why? Show don't tell. Two minutes in it is still all tell.

So, it's already dead??? Don't bring BS "power" to new program... Only dead AE needs expressions. Normal, modern programs for animation, have all you need in UI. Maya is the best example.