This was an immaculate tutorial! I picked up so many new tricks & techniques for the Fusion page thanks to this video. This channel is easily one of THE best DaVnci Resolve channels on UA-cam, hands down.
I am using Fusion for 10 years and there's always new tricks to learn. Thank you. Great tutorial. It's rare to see one with real, non curated footage to teach how to deal with its limitations. Most Fusion tutorials in UA-cam are very basic and this is a good example of an intermediate level, that assumes that you already know the Fusion 101.
BEST RESOLVE VIDEO IN SOME TIME because it has depth, not a "Crash Course" or a ridiculous, "Master Resolve in Fifteen minutes." You answered some questions I've had for a while and loved how the techniques were focused on a goal. Very helpful video. How to judge if this is really a helpful video? Answer: Isn't really helpful information NEW information and so one must see the video multiple times? And then PRACTICE using the new techniques. More, please! Thanks, Mike
@@team2filmsthanks for the tutorial! However I’m struggling with the magic mask. I separated the black and white channel but I end up with a camera negative and not a pure white outline/silhouette. Thanks for any help! 🙏🙏🙏
Seeing this video makes me very happy. I'm a video editor, and I almost always use Fusion when creating special effects and motion graphics. This video effectively demonstrates the powerful capabilities of Fusion, and I hope to see more excellent Fusion tutorials like yours on UA-cam.
Outstanding tutorial my friend. As a novice, I was concerned I would get lost along the way but your explanations and pacing were perfect. I also appreciate your respect of the community with your shout out to Casey who is another exceptional mentor. Keep pumping out these gems, thank you
I feel way more at home in Fusion than the Color page. Always frustrating when different parts of a program package have different hotkeys or have completely different UI behaviors. This content is incredibly well made, you're so pleasant to listen to and inspire me as a youtuber. Not to mention the knowledge you're handing out for free. Well done.
Thanks a lot ! What great news that you begin to cover the Fusion page ! All your tutorials are amazing ! Very clear and pedagogic. This multi index workflow is amazing ! One topic I'd love to see well explain is the color management inside Fusion. I'm often discourage using it because I don't really understand it. I've watched a lot of videos about it, including Casey Faris's and Cullen Kelly's one, but it's steal a very confusing subject. Keep it up ! It's awesome !👌
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Daria at @DaVinciMasterKey has a fantastic video on this: ua-cam.com/video/Y6GLDi-UADk/v-deo.html It's the most comprehensive and reliable video on the topic that you can read. Thoroughly recommended.
That was incredible! Not skipping over things and showing the entire pipeline and thought process is immensely helpful. Thank you for spending the time and also explaining all the little "gotchas" that come with different-sized media. Brilliant!
Your tutorials are TOP NOTCH, completely unmatched. This really opened up my eyes to the potential of fusion. It felt limited to me the first time I played with it because I didn't know where anything was (compared to AE) but i'm diggin' the node structure more and more.
Thanks so much, yeah it’s difficult at first when everything feels so foreign compared to AE, but it doesn’t take long to start getting familiar. We love AE too. Keep up your Fusion learning, it’s so powerful!
Thanks so much @CaseyFaris Your video on single axis stabilisation was a huge help when putting this together. Everyone go watch Casey's new TOAST video :)
This is beyond amazing... what a lot of info, what an insane amount of possibilities, and everything was very well explained. BEST ADVANCED FUSION TUTORIAL EVER. Easily. I will rewatch this several times... Now Fusion seems a little less intimidating!
Excellent !!!!!!! Would LOOOOOOVE to see more of these start-to-finish Fusion/Resolve projects. I find that watching the whole process helps me wrap my head around THE THINKING THAT WENT BEHIND THE WORKFLOW. For example, like the different indexes/outputs you did in the colour page in order to have independent control of every aspect of the final composition. I find that the challenge in learning to do pro level Fusion / Resolve composition projects is, TO FIGURE OUT THE WORKFLOW as there are SOOOOOO MANY TOOLS in Resolve / Fusion that one does not know where to start, let alone organize everything... The node tree workflow helps breaking down that workflow, and seeing a project from start-to-finish like in your video here helps me dissect that complex node tree and workflow. I've learned quite a few things from this video. Thanks Team 2 Films for making and posting this tutorial. Looking forward to other great start-to-finish Fusion/Resolve composition tutorials like this one.
Thanks so much, yes for sure there will be more videos like this. We just need to carve out some time to make some more! Glad to have you here with us. Thanks for commenting.
Excellent tutorial! Knowledge about the appropriate organization of nodes is as important as the idea for the animation itself. Thank you! If I could suggest a topic that has not yet been comprehensively discussed in the UA-cam Fusion community, it seems to me that it is worth talking about preparing an animation project for archiving and methods of relinking footage used in a fusion page from one disk to another (for example in case of transferring the entire project to another disk/PC or in case of multiple users collaboration). This is well covered for simple editing in the edit page but not for complex postproduction with multiple fusion page animation elements. Thanks again!
You both are fantastic teachers! The fact that you have so much informative content available for free is really the dream of the internet. Thank you much!
y'all are so awesome for this. i love the 'start to finish' approach instead of highlighting one particular use case and calling it a day. very appreciated 🙌
That was insane! I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to apply this, yet, but the cogs are turning. Liked and subscribed. This one video was more helpful at showing the complexity of Fusion and how all of the pieces work together. Please do more of this type of work--beyond basic Fusion--keeping things short as you did here. It was also nice to see that things weren't perfect, as they normally aren't in real life. Thank you!
Every time I see a new video, I immediately drop what I am doing, can't wait! I liked the style a lot. Thanks for showing how to break up the different elements for color grading. Could you do that for different layers from the edit page, like titles?
Thank-you so much Andre, that is really kind of you. We appreciate your support and it's nice to know people are enjoying our videos so much. Kind Regards, Leon and Natalie
I wish I wasn’t so thick because I got lost halfway through with all the various stabilisings and merges and whatnots but it’s very clever. What puzzles me is how you ever work out the combination of what to do in the first place, so many darned steps and nodes to know all with weird eccentricities of their own.
Yeah, there's a lot to break down here. It makes sense the more you use it though. I hope there's a little here for everyone, please try out those tools and feel free to watch it again. I'm sure you'll spot new things each time.
This class was extremely revealing and explanatory!! It cured several doubts I had and made others appear, it was great to learn and thank you very much for making such a rich class when it was free for us!
@@team2films I'm so glad you asked, thanks again! Here's the deal: until now, I didn't know the right way to separate objects in Fusion and send them to the Color Page, this video was a major game-changer. But now that I know this, my compositing workflow will be completely changed. I work editing videos for Instagram and I shoot with my phone. A very common practice is to shoot in 4K to edit in an FHD timeline and get that "pixel zoom". With that in mind, I've been having the following problem for a few months that I haven't been able to solve. So far, I know it's possible to create compositions in 4 different ways: Method 1: Through an Adjustment Layer - I throw it on the timeline on top of the clip I want to work with and make my composition. Advantage: I can work in Fusion with the clip already color-graded by the Color Page. Disadvantage: The timeline gets extremely heavy, it seems like this workflow order was made to crash DaVinci. Method 2: Select a clip in the timeline and open it on the Fusion Page. This way is very interesting because it respects the original size of the clip, even if it's different from the timeline. For example, a 4K clip in an FHD timeline. If I open the clip directly in Fusion and put an FHD background, the clip is recognized as 4K. If I don't put the background, Fusion understands that this comp will be 4K, even if it's FHD in the Edit page. But, this method is a bit more complicated because If I get a clip with 7 min, for example, the keyframes from fusion become a mess. Method 3: Selecting the clip in the timeline and click New Fusion Clip. This way is interesting because I have all the clips in layers on the edit page and I can work with them in Fusion. It's very similar to the After Effects logic, but this way, it completely crops the 4K clip and I can't adjust it. Method 4: Going to the Media Pool, create a Fusion composition from scratch and import the clip inside the Fusion Page. This way, if the clip is 4K, Fusion resizes this 4K to FHD and then I lose the advantage of a native pixel zoom. Every place that I search, recommends using Method 3 or 4 because looks more efficient to playback, but I can't lose this "pixel zoom" Now that I know how to prepare the composition to color the objects individually, I don't need to make this "sandwich" of effects to organize the color grading, but I need to figure out the proper way to work with a 4K clip on an FHD fusion composition. PS.: I'm sorry if it was a bit confusing, it's just a lot of information and writing makes it harder to show the comparisons.
If you've got any good tips, please share them! Yeah, there might be some peculiar ways I solve problems 🤣 Glad you were able to learn something from it too.
11:11 Thanks for the tutorial. However, I have a question. You appeared to use 3 different methods to resize the media: 1) merge with background 2) Resize node 3) Crop node So, why couldn’t just one of these methods work in all cases? 16:57 Here, you added keyframes to rotate the image on the left to match the camera rotation on the right. That is puzzling for 2 reasons: 1) I thought the data from the Planar Tracker would automatically rotate the image. 2) Assuming that I am wrong about #1, how did you know that rate of rotation of the camera would match the rotation that you keyframed?
Thanks so much for watching. Please let me know if the information below helps you out. The planar tracker applies the image to the screen. The image being displayed in the screen was shot on a camera that did not rotate. So it needed to rotate to match the movement of the camera. Otherwise the shot would have been on its side once the camera had finished rotating. The camera rotates 90 degrees. You can tell when it stops and starts by scrubbing back and forth in the timeline. The three different methods serve different purposes. - The background method allows me to resize, crop and reposition the image in one go. - Resize does not allow me to crop the image. It also does not allow me to reposition the image. If I were to use resize to go from a 1.5:1 to 1.78:1 image it would stretch it. Hence I resized to the horizontal width and then cropped the top and bottom off with the crop tool. - Crop does not allow me to resize the image. It also does not allow me to reposition the image. Cropping is not the same as resizing. While you might end up with a smaller image that doesn't mean it's been resized. A resize operation would scale the image.
Ahhh yes, I understand regarding the Planar Tracker. Oh, btw , I always wanted to know how break up the composition so I could color grade the parts separately. You showed how to add additional Media outs was extremely helpful. And regarding cropping and resolution nodes …. well, it really pays to know those tools, what limitations they have, etc. Thanks again.
Still fresh in Fusion, the killer thing is the multiple media outs and how to use them in the color page. Haven’t seen anyone talking about this, while it seems essential for compositing.
This was very helpful. Learned alot of new techniques. Definitely had to like and subscribe right away. Please keep uploading more about compositing and fusion vfx !
Thanks so much. Yeah we really try to avoid 'do this then do that' videos. They don't help people grow. We really appreciate you watching and commenting and are glad the video is hitting right.
@@team2films This is for me like from the other planet. :-) I create Fusion animations but what you've shown is an incredible piece of work. Thank you for sharing.
Hello, a lot of people have asked about media to follow along. We'll have a think about how we can get that set up in the future. In the meantime, thank-you so much for watching and here's a recommendation. Shoot some footage of a blank screen (even if it's with your phone) and you can experiment with that. Thanks once again for watching.
I knew Fusion long time, and, yeah, it's extremely powerful, but the learning and mastering will also takes time... thanks for sharing in complete, how to do it. It's quite a nice demo. Still a lot of confusion though... but hopefully able to understand in later time.
Yeah, there's a learning curve for sure. We've provided the files to follow along for anyone who wants to try it out themselves. We find it clicks when you are 'doing' it. Thanks for watching.
@@team2films Perhaps it's just me, but I find Resolve so confusing and not user friendly so have to keep re-learning how I did something months ago. As someone pointed out recently.... Resolve doesn't give you tools as such, but building blocks to make tools. This enlightened me on why everything is such a long process all the time.
Hello thanks so much! A lot of people have asked about media to follow along. We'll definitely have a think about how we can get that set up in the future. In the meantime, thank-you so much for watching and here's a recommendation. Shoot some footage of a blank screen (even if it's with your phone) and that will allow you to experiment with most of the techniques we demo'd.
I didn't know you can pass output to color page and merge it there :O Amazing! Color correcting in fusion is annoying compared to color page, especially if you have grading panel. Can't wait to test it out in my upcoming projects. I'm waiting tho, Blackmagic will take care of fusion and its problems. It will be easier to have "color page" node inside fusion and no issues with color shifts in fusion viewer when using davinci wide gammut in color managed workflow. Your tips can help with this issues for now so thank you!
@@team2films Thank you. I find Fusion intimidating still. But more so, my worry is whether to spend time learning this or just going by the consensus that "after effects is the preferable one for mograph, not Fusion". I know Fusion is great for Compositing but wondering about mograph.
Very Nice! I have experienced a few crashes using Caseys' expression to stabilize just one axis. Using the convert polyline of the tracker to XYPath and delete one axis curve. Also i can tweak the keyframes/curve manually on just one axis.
Also dont know if you know this guy www.youtube.com/@MillolabTuts He has a lot of advanced tutorials about compositing. I think he deserves some attention
Yeah, glad you think so. Fusion is pretty awesome. We wouldn't say it's better than AE in every way possible. Being balanced, there are some things that AE excels at. But Fusion gets better with every release. Hopefully it will exceed it one day soon.
@@team2films Absolutely, I agree that AE has its strengths, especially in motion graphics. But when it comes to compositing, that's all Fusion's realm. And you're right, Fusion has been stepping up its game with every release. And regarding motion graphics, Fusion is no slouch either; it can hold its own. Let's hope for even more exciting developments in the future! Lovely video, once again.
One little suggestion here: If you look closely into a EVF, when pulling the camera away from your eye (or another camera) the size of the content in the EVF should remain almost the same. This is because of the lens set inside of the EVF. So the whole thing would look much better if the transform node is removed and add a tracked lens distort effect on it.
Yeah that's a good point. There is an animated lens distortion on the final comp of the EVF (not shown in the tutorial), but having the EVF stay a similar size throughout the pull-back would make it look more realistic. Thanks, next time we'll be sure to incorporate that.
Amazing Masterclass. This was perfectly executed. Perfect speed and you showed quite a few things others have not. New sub. I"ll be back for more, thank you so very much for this post.
Wow, sir, that was amazing. You mentioned that this comp still needs work, can we get a video you finishing that part as well? Would be amazing to see it. Also, more Fusion videos please!
Hello, thanks so much for watching. The additional work was just some extra tidying on the magic mask, a little more time in the grade and an LCD pixels effect on the EVF (using the scanlines node). There will definitely be more fusion videos in the future.
This was an immaculate tutorial! I picked up so many new tricks & techniques for the Fusion page thanks to this video. This channel is easily one of THE best DaVnci Resolve channels on UA-cam, hands down.
Ah, that's too kind! Thank-you so much for watching and commenting. We really appreciate it. Glad the video was helpful.
Agree 100%. Thank you very much for this, it's really a Masterclass.
This is a masterclass. We need more of this type.
immaculate is truly the right word. Excellent! thank you!
I'm about 15 years away from this level of complexity, but that was freakin' cool to watch! Beautifully done.
Thanks. Appreciate you saying that. Keep on plugging away! You will get there
I am using Fusion for 10 years and there's always new tricks to learn. Thank you.
Great tutorial. It's rare to see one with real, non curated footage to teach how to deal with its limitations.
Most Fusion tutorials in UA-cam are very basic and this is a good example of an intermediate level, that assumes that you already know the Fusion 101.
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate your kind comment.
BEST RESOLVE VIDEO IN SOME TIME because it has depth, not a "Crash Course" or a ridiculous, "Master Resolve in Fifteen minutes." You answered some questions I've had for a while and loved how the techniques were focused on a goal. Very helpful video. How to judge if this is really a helpful video? Answer: Isn't really helpful information NEW information and so one must see the video multiple times? And then PRACTICE using the new techniques. More, please! Thanks, Mike
Thanks again, Mike. Glad it's been so helpful.
I think you're an excellent teacher/educator. Very concise yet easy to understand.
That's very kind of you to say, thank-you.
I second that.
Absolutely!
@@team2filmsthanks for the tutorial! However I’m struggling with the magic mask. I separated the black and white channel but I end up with a camera negative and not a pure white outline/silhouette. Thanks for any help! 🙏🙏🙏
What an absolute banger of a tutorial. I've been using Fusion/Resolve for several years now - and this just blew my mind. More like this please!!!!
Thanks so much! We'll keep an eye out for more opportunities to do stuff like this.
Seeing this video makes me very happy. I'm a video editor, and I almost always use Fusion when creating special effects and motion graphics. This video effectively demonstrates the powerful capabilities of Fusion, and I hope to see more excellent Fusion tutorials like yours on UA-cam.
Thanks so much, we'll definitely be making more of these tutorials in the future. Glad you enjoyed it so much, and thanks for commenting.
Fantastic! I wanted to dive into Fusion and look forward to working with your video. Thank you so much!
Hope it's helpful. Thanks!
I mean it when I say it - Wow! You guys always find a way to outdo yourselves. Simply excellent!
Thank-you so much. Appreciate you saying that.
Outstanding tutorial my friend. As a novice, I was concerned I would get lost along the way but your explanations and pacing were perfect. I also appreciate your respect of the community with your shout out to Casey who is another exceptional mentor. Keep pumping out these gems, thank you
Thank-you Brendan. Casey is a great teacher. I'm glad the video was paced right. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Wow! This is the best in depth Fusion tutorial I've seen yet.
Thank-you so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved this breakdown and explanation Leon, you covered a lot of points in an easy to understand way. More fusion videos like this? Absolutely please!
Thank-you. We'll try to do these whenever we have projects that we can share.
This is one of the best tutorials i've seen in years on any software package....absolutely insane!!!
Thank-you so much :) Glad you enjoyed it.
Awesome, I love how Ican be amazed by all the possibilites of DaVinci
Yeah, it's pretty powerful! Thanks for watching.
I feel way more at home in Fusion than the Color page. Always frustrating when different parts of a program package have different hotkeys or have completely different UI behaviors. This content is incredibly well made, you're so pleasant to listen to and inspire me as a youtuber. Not to mention the knowledge you're handing out for free. Well done.
Thanks a lot ! What great news that you begin to cover the Fusion page ! All your tutorials are amazing ! Very clear and pedagogic. This multi index workflow is amazing !
One topic I'd love to see well explain is the color management inside Fusion. I'm often discourage using it because I don't really understand it. I've watched a lot of videos about it, including Casey Faris's and Cullen Kelly's one, but it's steal a very confusing subject.
Keep it up ! It's awesome !👌
Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Daria at @DaVinciMasterKey has a fantastic video on this: ua-cam.com/video/Y6GLDi-UADk/v-deo.html
It's the most comprehensive and reliable video on the topic that you can read. Thoroughly recommended.
Fusion has broken colors with color managed workflow since it came out years ago :/
@@Nadolny.mp4 Check out Daria's video (if you havn't already). It's excellent.
That was incredible! Not skipping over things and showing the entire pipeline and thought process is immensely helpful. Thank you for spending the time and also explaining all the little "gotchas" that come with different-sized media. Brilliant!
So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Your tutorials are TOP NOTCH, completely unmatched. This really opened up my eyes to the potential of fusion. It felt limited to me the first time I played with it because I didn't know where anything was (compared to AE) but i'm diggin' the node structure more and more.
Thanks so much, yeah it’s difficult at first when everything feels so foreign compared to AE, but it doesn’t take long to start getting familiar. We love AE too. Keep up your Fusion learning, it’s so powerful!
This was really amazing. Please make more of this type of tutorials :)
Thanks so much! Please consider sharing it with someone! It helps YT know the video is liked :)
Awesome, great to see such an in-depth, project specific example of how to use Fusion!
Thank-you Jamie, really appreciate that 😀
Thank you so much that was amazing please create more videos like this it's so much informative
Gladly. We'll plan more content like this in the future. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful tutorial. So much information packed in nice and tight. Thank you. Please do more of this.
Thank-you so much. Glad you enjoyed the pace. We try to make the videos as efficient and worthwhile as possible for people to watch.
Great video as usual! Loved seeing your process and I learned a bunch of lil things!
Thanks so much @CaseyFaris Your video on single axis stabilisation was a huge help when putting this together. Everyone go watch Casey's new TOAST video :)
This is beyond amazing... what a lot of info, what an insane amount of possibilities, and everything was very well explained. BEST ADVANCED FUSION TUTORIAL EVER. Easily.
I will rewatch this several times... Now Fusion seems a little less intimidating!
Really good, thanks. Liked the style, the pace, the explanations which help to give a deeper understanding of Fusion (and the Color Page).
Thank-you. Glad the pace was on point. We want the videos to be efficient. Don't want anyone to feel like they have wasted time.
Thanks for putting this session together - really appreciative of the solid knowledge shared!
You're welcome Chris. Glad you enjoyed it.
thank u for sharing such valuable content for free! I've already learned so much from u guys. This channel is pure value. Again, THANK YOU!!!
Thank-you, that's much appreciated. Glad the videos are helpful.
Excellent !!!!!!!
Would LOOOOOOVE to see more of these start-to-finish Fusion/Resolve projects.
I find that watching the whole process helps me wrap my head around THE THINKING THAT WENT BEHIND THE WORKFLOW.
For example, like the different indexes/outputs you did in the colour page in order to have independent control of every aspect of the final composition.
I find that the challenge in learning to do pro level Fusion / Resolve composition projects is, TO FIGURE OUT THE WORKFLOW as there are SOOOOOO MANY TOOLS in Resolve / Fusion that one does not know where to start, let alone organize everything...
The node tree workflow helps breaking down that workflow, and seeing a project from start-to-finish like in your video here helps me dissect that complex node tree and workflow.
I've learned quite a few things from this video.
Thanks Team 2 Films for making and posting this tutorial.
Looking forward to other great start-to-finish Fusion/Resolve composition tutorials like this one.
Thanks so much, yes for sure there will be more videos like this. We just need to carve out some time to make some more! Glad to have you here with us. Thanks for commenting.
@@team2films👍
Excellent tutorial! Knowledge about the appropriate organization of nodes is as important as the idea for the animation itself. Thank you! If I could suggest a topic that has not yet been comprehensively discussed in the UA-cam Fusion community, it seems to me that it is worth talking about preparing an animation project for archiving and methods of relinking footage used in a fusion page from one disk to another (for example in case of transferring the entire project to another disk/PC or in case of multiple users collaboration). This is well covered for simple editing in the edit page but not for complex postproduction with multiple fusion page animation elements. Thanks again!
Thank-you, that's a good idea. We'll add it to the list. We appreciate your support and comments. Thanks
Best Fusion Tutorial I've ever seen!
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it so much.
You both are fantastic teachers! The fact that you have so much informative content available for free is really the dream of the internet. Thank you much!
Thank-you. We’re so happy that people are enjoying our videos. More to come :)
y'all are so awesome for this. i love the 'start to finish' approach instead of highlighting one particular use case and calling it a day. very appreciated 🙌
Thanks, glad the start to finish style is going down well. It's nice to see tools in context. Thanks for watching.
I knew resolve was good, but didn't think it was THIS good! WOW
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So glad you enjoyed the video.
Incredible Masterclass! I learned so much. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
You are very welcome, thanks for watching and dropping a comment of appreciation.
Dang i need a whole course on what you just taught. Hard to find complex fusion tutorials. More please!
Will do! They take time to put together, but we'll definitely be doing more of these when we can.
@@team2films i will rewatch those multiple times down the road. Keep it up I love the content. Definitely in my top 3 favorite channels.
That was insane! I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to apply this, yet, but the cogs are turning. Liked and subscribed. This one video was more helpful at showing the complexity of Fusion and how all of the pieces work together. Please do more of this type of work--beyond basic Fusion--keeping things short as you did here. It was also nice to see that things weren't perfect, as they normally aren't in real life. Thank you!
Thanks so much James. Great to have you here. We'll definitely crank out more stuff like this in the future.
guys, you do great job! i like you do advanced tuts and you show new stuff. for begginers theres already planty videos.. Thanks a lot
Thanks so much. I hope it strikes the right balance, pushing but not leaving anyone behind.
You guys are a goldmine!
Thank-you, that's kind.
Every time I see a new video, I immediately drop what I am doing, can't wait! I liked the style a lot. Thanks for showing how to break up the different elements for color grading. Could you do that for different layers from the edit page, like titles?
Thanks Max, I hope it didn't disappoint. Appreciate your support.
¡Gracias!
Thank-you so much Andre, that is really kind of you. We appreciate your support and it's nice to know people are enjoying our videos so much. Kind Regards, Leon and Natalie
Wonderful tutorial, and beautiful end result. 🎉
Thank-you 🙂 Great to have you here.
Been a few years since I looked at Fusion, might be time to dig back in.
Wow! This is absolutely amazing. Thank you soo much for sharing 🙏🏻❤️
That's kind of you to say. Thanks for commenting. Feel free to share the video with others :)
@@team2films definitely will. Keep it up. Always excited for your uploads👍🏻
I wish I wasn’t so thick because I got lost halfway through with all the various stabilisings and merges and whatnots but it’s very clever. What puzzles me is how you ever work out the combination of what to do in the first place, so many darned steps and nodes to know all with weird eccentricities of their own.
Yeah, there's a lot to break down here. It makes sense the more you use it though. I hope there's a little here for everyone, please try out those tools and feel free to watch it again. I'm sure you'll spot new things each time.
Cool! Excited to check out more Fusion videos from you! Thanks a bunch!
Thanks so much, we’ll definitely be making some more.
Leon, what an amazing masterclass and I do love compositing on the color page. Great job!
Thank-you Kaur! Really appreciate that. Yeah, the ability to take those separate MediaOut nodes into the Colour Page is amazing.
This class was extremely revealing and explanatory!! It cured several doubts I had and made others appear, it was great to learn and thank you very much for making such a rich class when it was free for us!
Oooo, would love to hear what doubts it raised for you too. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
@@team2films I'm so glad you asked, thanks again! Here's the deal: until now, I didn't know the right way to separate objects in Fusion and send them to the Color Page, this video was a major game-changer. But now that I know this, my compositing workflow will be completely changed.
I work editing videos for Instagram and I shoot with my phone. A very common practice is to shoot in 4K to edit in an FHD timeline and get that "pixel zoom". With that in mind, I've been having the following problem for a few months that I haven't been able to solve.
So far, I know it's possible to create compositions in 4 different ways:
Method 1: Through an Adjustment Layer - I throw it on the timeline on top of the clip I want to work with and make my composition.
Advantage: I can work in Fusion with the clip already color-graded by the Color Page.
Disadvantage: The timeline gets extremely heavy, it seems like this workflow order was made to crash DaVinci.
Method 2: Select a clip in the timeline and open it on the Fusion Page. This way is very interesting because it respects the original size of the clip, even if it's different from the timeline. For example, a 4K clip in an FHD timeline. If I open the clip directly in Fusion and put an FHD background, the clip is recognized as 4K. If I don't put the background, Fusion understands that this comp will be 4K, even if it's FHD in the Edit page. But, this method is a bit more complicated because If I get a clip with 7 min, for example, the keyframes from fusion become a mess.
Method 3: Selecting the clip in the timeline and click New Fusion Clip. This way is interesting because I have all the clips in layers on the edit page and I can work with them in Fusion. It's very similar to the After Effects logic, but this way, it completely crops the 4K clip and I can't adjust it.
Method 4: Going to the Media Pool, create a Fusion composition from scratch and import the clip inside the Fusion Page. This way, if the clip is 4K, Fusion resizes this 4K to FHD and then I lose the advantage of a native pixel zoom.
Every place that I search, recommends using Method 3 or 4 because looks more efficient to playback, but I can't lose this "pixel zoom"
Now that I know how to prepare the composition to color the objects individually, I don't need to make this "sandwich" of effects to organize the color grading, but I need to figure out the proper way to work with a 4K clip on an FHD fusion composition.
PS.: I'm sorry if it was a bit confusing, it's just a lot of information and writing makes it harder to show the comparisons.
This is so sick. The light wrap trick was 10/10
Awesome! Glad you like it.
Always learning little things from your content. Thank you.
You are so welcome. Thank-you for commenting.
Loved the tutorial. I would have done some things differently, but that is the beauty of Fusion I guess. Great work! I learned som new skills today.
If you've got any good tips, please share them! Yeah, there might be some peculiar ways I solve problems 🤣 Glad you were able to learn something from it too.
one of the best free davinci resolve master class on youtube, thank you so much
That’s so good to hear. Thanks for watching
Thanks, perfectly explained tutorial. Reference video to keep coming back to.
Thanks so much. Appreciate you saying that.
11:11 Thanks for the tutorial. However, I have a question. You appeared to use 3 different methods to resize the media:
1) merge with background
2) Resize node
3) Crop node
So, why couldn’t just one of these methods work in all cases?
16:57 Here, you added keyframes to rotate the image on the left to match the camera rotation on the right. That is puzzling for 2 reasons:
1) I thought the data from the Planar Tracker would automatically rotate the image.
2) Assuming that I am wrong about #1, how did you know that rate of rotation of the camera would match the rotation that you keyframed?
Thanks so much for watching. Please let me know if the information below helps you out.
The planar tracker applies the image to the screen. The image being displayed in the screen was shot on a camera that did not rotate. So it needed to rotate to match the movement of the camera. Otherwise the shot would have been on its side once the camera had finished rotating.
The camera rotates 90 degrees. You can tell when it stops and starts by scrubbing back and forth in the timeline.
The three different methods serve different purposes.
- The background method allows me to resize, crop and reposition the image in one go.
- Resize does not allow me to crop the image. It also does not allow me to reposition the image. If I were to use resize to go from a 1.5:1 to 1.78:1 image it would stretch it. Hence I resized to the horizontal width and then cropped the top and bottom off with the crop tool.
- Crop does not allow me to resize the image. It also does not allow me to reposition the image. Cropping is not the same as resizing. While you might end up with a smaller image that doesn't mean it's been resized. A resize operation would scale the image.
Ahhh yes, I understand regarding the Planar Tracker.
Oh, btw , I always wanted to know how break up the composition so I could color grade the parts separately. You showed how to add additional Media outs was extremely helpful.
And regarding cropping and resolution nodes …. well, it really pays to know those tools, what limitations they have, etc.
Thanks again.
@@team2films I would've simply used a Letterbox in all of these situations.
@@MattMcCool0 I'm not entirely sure what you mean!
@@team2films I can send you a quick video if you'd like. Is your website the best way to reach you?
Still fresh in Fusion, the killer thing is the multiple media outs and how to use them in the color page. Haven’t seen anyone talking about this, while it seems essential for compositing.
That was a big one for me too!
It's SUCH a great feature. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video.
This was very helpful. Learned alot of new techniques. Definitely had to like and subscribe right away. Please keep uploading more about compositing and fusion vfx !
It's on our list :) Glad you enjoyed it so much.
wow, thanks for the excellent masterclass. I loved that you actually went in depth and didn't just do a "do this then do that" kind of guide. Subbed!
Thanks so much. Yeah we really try to avoid 'do this then do that' videos. They don't help people grow. We really appreciate you watching and commenting and are glad the video is hitting right.
Absolutely incredible work.
Thank-you. Glad people are enjoying the video.
@@team2films This is for me like from the other planet. :-) I create Fusion animations but what you've shown is an incredible piece of work. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent and practical. It is so nice to see a tutorial that teaches real world examples in a workable and meaningful way. THANK YOU!
Thanks Ben. Appreciate you watching and commenting.
thank you so much sir please more tutorials 😍😍
More to come!
Great masterclass, light wrap can be tricky sometimes, but this simplifies everything, for instance.
Thanks! There’s other great ways of doing it too, glad you liked this way.
outstanding..... thanx
🙏😊
Fantastic video.
What an amazing FUSION tutorial. Thank you. I learned _a _lot_.
So happy to hear. Thank-you.
Fantastic Masterclass!🔥🔥🔥
Thank-you so much. We'll try to do more of these.
Speechless. This was just incredible!
So happy you enjoyed. Thank-you!
thank you Leon, please consider adding project files.
Yes! Will do, we're going to see what we can do to get that setup for future videos. No infrastructure in place for that currently.
Awesome!
Would you share the footage so we can practice with you?
Hello, a lot of people have asked about media to follow along. We'll have a think about how we can get that set up in the future. In the meantime, thank-you so much for watching and here's a recommendation. Shoot some footage of a blank screen (even if it's with your phone) and you can experiment with that.
Thanks once again for watching.
Files available here! training.team2films.com/fusion-compositing-masterclass-lesson-files
AWESOME !!!!I LOVE FUSION!!!AND MY BMCC 6K PRO!!!AWESOME TUTORIAL!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks! Keep on editing :)
I knew Fusion long time, and, yeah, it's extremely powerful, but the learning and mastering will also takes time... thanks for sharing in complete, how to do it. It's quite a nice demo.
Still a lot of confusion though... but hopefully able to understand in later time.
Yeah, there's a learning curve for sure. We've provided the files to follow along for anyone who wants to try it out themselves. We find it clicks when you are 'doing' it. Thanks for watching.
This is the best tutorial I've seen so far!!! Thanks a lot.
Thanks so much!
Why you was not in my recommendation before? You doing amazing!
We don't know! But we are happy we've made it into your recommendations now :) Welcome. Great to have you here.
Amazeballs. Thank you!
🤣 Perfect comment. Thank-you.
one of the best presentation and clean editing 🔥🔥 thankyou so much for sharing contents like this
You're very welcome, we're so glad people are enjoying it.
Superb. Real world bumps in the road.
Glad you liked it with the problems!
Excellent. I learned a great deal and will keep this in my faves for reference
Thanks so much. Glad it's worth watching more than once :)
@@team2films Perhaps it's just me, but I find Resolve so confusing and not user friendly so have to keep re-learning how I did something months ago. As someone pointed out recently.... Resolve doesn't give you tools as such, but building blocks to make tools. This enlightened me on why everything is such a long process all the time.
please make more this type of video.. lots of love from Nepal.❤❤
Will do. Thank-you!
excellent job!
Thank you!
Great tutorial. Please could you avail the footage so we can follow along?
Hello thanks so much! A lot of people have asked about media to follow along. We'll definitely have a think about how we can get that set up in the future. In the meantime, thank-you so much for watching and here's a recommendation. Shoot some footage of a blank screen (even if it's with your phone) and that will allow you to experiment with most of the techniques we demo'd.
training.team2films.com/fusion-compositing-masterclass-lesson-files
Love it! I’m in the middle of some fusion work and this definitely gives me some ideas! 💡
Perfect! Glad it's helpful.
Wow, great tutorial with a lot of nuggets that will be extremely useful for me going forward! keep up the great work.
Thanks so much, glad people are enjoying the video
Danke!
That's really kind of you. Thank-you so much for taking the time to express your appreciation and support our work. We appreciate you!
THE BEST video about Davinci I have watched in long time 🤯🤯🤯
and I have watched a looot of videos
will rewatch a couple times and save as a reference
😀😊 Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it so much. Great to have you here.
thanks! I like it!
how do you create thos square tiny boxes to keep the node tree tidy in fusion page?
Hold down on ALT and click on a line between nodes.
Great tutorial! A lot of it is above my level, but I still learned a bunch of things.
I didn't know you can pass output to color page and merge it there :O Amazing! Color correcting in fusion is annoying compared to color page, especially if you have grading panel. Can't wait to test it out in my upcoming projects. I'm waiting tho, Blackmagic will take care of fusion and its problems. It will be easier to have "color page" node inside fusion and no issues with color shifts in fusion viewer when using davinci wide gammut in color managed workflow. Your tips can help with this issues for now so thank you!
Yes, it would be nice to see colour management in Fusion addressed. Glad you enjoyed the Media Out tip.
The fact that you did this for free is beyond commendable. I mean, this takes a lot of time but I would even have paid for this.
Thanks so much! If you want the media files to play around with yourself, follow the link in the description.
@@team2films Thank you. I find Fusion intimidating still. But more so, my worry is whether to spend time learning this or just going by the consensus that "after effects is the preferable one for mograph, not Fusion". I know Fusion is great for Compositing but wondering about mograph.
Very Nice! I have experienced a few crashes using Caseys' expression to stabilize just one axis. Using the convert polyline of the tracker to XYPath and delete one axis curve. Also i can tweak the keyframes/curve manually on just one axis.
Excellent tip. Thanks so much for sharing.
Yes, more like this. Thank you!
Will do!
lots of value here. thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing tutorial! I may be biased but i personally think fusion is better in compositing/VFX than AE in every way possible.
Also dont know if you know this guy www.youtube.com/@MillolabTuts He has a lot of advanced tutorials about compositing. I think he deserves some attention
Yeah, glad you think so. Fusion is pretty awesome. We wouldn't say it's better than AE in every way possible. Being balanced, there are some things that AE excels at. But Fusion gets better with every release. Hopefully it will exceed it one day soon.
@@team2films Absolutely, I agree that AE has its strengths, especially in motion graphics. But when it comes to compositing, that's all Fusion's realm. And you're right, Fusion has been stepping up its game with every release. And regarding motion graphics, Fusion is no slouch either; it can hold its own. Let's hope for even more exciting developments in the future! Lovely video, once again.
@@pktsfull Thanks Jay, yeah completely agree. It's nice to chat :) Great to have you here.
Wow, what a REALY great tutorial!
Thank-you Hewal. Great to have you here.
Very, very cool content. I‘d learned so much from your workflow. Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome!
Fantastic. I love this channel so much
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much. Great to have you here.
Bro, this was absolutely amazing!!
Thank you so much. Glad people have been enjoying it so much.
One little suggestion here: If you look closely into a EVF, when pulling the camera away from your eye (or another camera) the size of the content in the EVF should remain almost the same. This is because of the lens set inside of the EVF. So the whole thing would look much better if the transform node is removed and add a tracked lens distort effect on it.
Yeah that's a good point. There is an animated lens distortion on the final comp of the EVF (not shown in the tutorial), but having the EVF stay a similar size throughout the pull-back would make it look more realistic. Thanks, next time we'll be sure to incorporate that.
It's really amazing, but extremely hard to catch up just by watching .
Please bring this kind of tutorials with practice footage with it.
We're going to work on a way of releasing practice footage in the future.
Astonishing.
Thanks John
I LOVE THESE GUYS!
We love you too!
Amazing Masterclass. This was perfectly executed. Perfect speed and you showed quite a few things others have not.
New sub. I"ll be back for more, thank you so very much for this post.
Thanks so much, what a kind compliment. It's great to have you here.
Wow, sir, that was amazing. You mentioned that this comp still needs work, can we get a video you finishing that part as well? Would be amazing to see it. Also, more Fusion videos please!
Hello, thanks so much for watching. The additional work was just some extra tidying on the magic mask, a little more time in the grade and an LCD pixels effect on the EVF (using the scanlines node). There will definitely be more fusion videos in the future.