This is a video that needs to be shown to anyone who has worked with other video editing software, because this is probably the biggest hurdle to overcome in Davinci Resolve, where the hell the nodes go and in what order
Had someone in this Discord recently that got confused with the nodes. They were thinking the input at the bottom is background and top is foreground. And had trouble following a tutorial. Colors matter and are a great indication of what you are working with. Also important is to learn what multiply by mask means
Yes, this is a great comment. I just started Fusion yesterday and the first thing I noticed where when I followed a tutorial, my colored arrows were in different spots. Several tutorials really down hammer home this or describe well just how to conceptualize nodes going into a marge's fore/background. Useful stuff. Made my first basic title animation last night.
Well Casey, I realize the benefits of going through your older videos. This one here is interesting. I know it's all the same, but for some reason, hearing and seeing it explained in a slightly different way helps. With this video, after 5 or 6 minutes it starts to sound like jiberish to me but... If I watch it a few times and experiment with davinci resolve in between, It sticks better to the memory. Thanks for the videos Casey.
I've been looking for this kind of conceptual logic forever. Great help. Thanks. Now, please do this kind of conceptual outline for performance improvements, i.e. optimization, proxies, cache, etc., i.e. when to use one or the other and when to use them together. I've encountered other performance issues and solutions. For example, I've noticed that linking clips or creating a compound clip can improve performance.
Very good quick intro. Deeper dive into each node or node group would be great as well. I had no idea there was a underlay feature to group nodes. Good stuff!
That was a great overview. I'm new to Davinci so still learning. This puts things in perspective. I'm going to take a look at your master class. Thanks.
That went by so quickly, I'm thinking "wait! wait! I'm just starting to enjoy this." FWIW, I was at a photo/video conference last year, sitting in on some video tutorials. A few of the presenters were using Resolve and nodes were just "there" because they are not some dark magic. Things didn't come to a screeching halt while he dragged a node. I have to take it on faith from how many attendees could follow without getting frozen in fear seeing a line of nodes that once you get the hang of them they're business as usual in Resolve.
Oooh can't wait to watch this one! Title is exatcly what I've been wondering! Love from me thank you Casey!
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Really loved this video, clarified so many things. I like to think about merge nodes as layers like in photoshop, if need to put something over or under another, then I have to make a merge layer.
Still learning nodes. I hope this tutorial will work fine. Thanks for sharing most basic insights about nodes. Another thing I am interested in is colour grading video clip shooted using mobile phone in FHD, 30 FPS to a commercial style one... Built in LUTS and some free LUTS haven't worked yet for me.
I never thought about using the underlay as a method of creating a custom "tool bar" until I watched this video. Definitely going to give it a try. Another great tutorial would be on settings which are kind of like presets.
why do you have ONLY 5365 views on this video ..... You have amazing teaching skills and this was an interesting topic .... and no I couldn't buy your ... DAVINCHI RESOLVE MASTER TRAINING: because I can't afford it right now but I'll ... one day
Helpful vid explaining the order and use of nodes. I still don't see the option in fusion to show the background layer when keying objects in front. I have to switch from edit and fusion.
This is just what I needed. Your videos always help to make fusion more accessible. Maybe I missed it in the video, but did you talk about transform nodes?
This is great, Casey! It sure helps us noobs get a good handle on dealing with nodes. But here's a question for you: How can we add AUDIO media to a Fusion composition? There are many occasions when we would love to add sound effects to motion graphics done in Fusion, so if you could do (or point us to) a tutorial on adding audio, particularly sound effects like whooshes and pings etc., to a Fusion composition/title graphic, that would be great! Thanks for all you do.
@@CaseyFaris Thanks, but that doesn't help us export those graphics into something we can later import into other videos - complete with sound. I saw an older video (unable to determine when it was made) that had EXPORT buttons on the bottom of the Fusion page, but don't see them on my version 16.2. Maybe we need to add a SAVER node to the composition? I need to explore that some more. However, I understand with some recent upgrades to the .MOV file format, you can export motion graphics from Fusion with audio and an alpha channel (transparent background) to the .MOV format, which creates a file that can then be imported to and overlaid on any video timeline. The goal, of course, is to be able to create reusable motion graphics with sound (usually SFX). Do you have some thoughts on this?
What is a loader node? I have a png pic that I use for my logo. I add it to fusion then add my text and then animate. If I save as macro, to reuse like a templet it will not save the png image so I would have to bring that image into the media pool of every project. On a blackmagic forum they said use a loader node for the image. I can't find anything about this node. Maybe there is another way?
There's something about nodes that I've not heard many talking about, those small triangles in different color around the merge node. Green triangle says foreground and yellow triangle says background....if you find you do not produce the desired effect correctly, try to connect to the right triangle.....
How does one show something happening in the Fusion as there is no timeline? I want to show an expanding circle and confused what nodes to pick. Thanks.
Do you have a video that show you how to make a film title template? I've been looking for the past few days on yt. Made 4 and followed his instructions to the tee! Guess what it didn't work and didn't show. At this point I'll just fight a bear and arm wrestling lion. Plz help
Love, absolutely love your tutorials. You get to the point and your directions are awesome. Been a subscriber and bell notifier for a long time. keep up the great work. I wish I could afford your master training course but right now money is tight. I have a question hopefully you could help me with. So I’m looking to create an effect on a Stargate portal type thing that I created in blender. If your familiar with the Stargate TV and movie franchise will know what I’m talking about. What I wanna do is step through this portal and make it look like I am stepping through liquid or something to that effect. I know I have to mask myself out as I step through the portal but I want the portal to react to me stepping into it. I have googled and UA-cam searched it and can’t find anything. Is there something in Davinci that will create this type of effect?
So I looked at that tutorial, and it's really cool and all and does what it says, but in the beginning of the tutorial it says you can't put it on anything. I have a garage scene with a portal on the side that I want to walk through and have this kind of effect on it, but the effect affects the whole scene and I cannot move it to just be on the portal. Am I missing something? Sorry for the questions. Really want to use this effect. Can I create a 3-D mask on top of the portal and then put this affect just on the mask itself?
I’m getting a hang on creating animations with fusion nodes and masks, but it’s absolutely killing my render times. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix that? I’ve got a video I’m working on with several fusion compositions and the render time keeps indefinitely adding on time that it’ll take to complete the render. It renders normal video perfectly fine, but it seems to be having trouble with fusion nodes. It’s not an issue with my computer, everything’s up to date and I did a ton of hardware troubleshooting to make sure. Just trying to figure out how to speed up the render. Thanks!
I was watching a tutorial on Burn in Text but it Mentioned Some Node That i cant not find at all (Stains Node) i searched everywhere and nothing comes up has that... Or Maybe you can just make a tutorial on it ... for the 19 fusion ,,,
Hey Casey! This might be a strange request but I'm wondering if you would be willing to charge for a live zoom tutoring session using Davinci Resolve. I have a very specific idea of what I want to accomplish with Resolve and how I want my videos to look, however, it's been a frustrating experience trying to figure out the workflow on my own. I'd love some professional help specific to how I want to edit. Let me know if you'd be interested in doing a live session! Thanks man! Looking forward to hearing back from you!
Every time I see someone trying to explain fusion to beginners, they start doing a million things at once, going way fast, get sidetracked down some other rabbit hole like making boxes around things and then say "there you go! Wasn't that easy?" and I'm over here eating play doh comprehending just about none of it.
I think it is a bit confusing that the mask nodes goes into the image nodes and not the other way around. You could have an image node, pipe this through a mask node and the output from the mask node would be a part of the image.....I think. But I am relative new to this....
Remember, masks aren't just for cutting out images. You also use them for limiting where an effect is applied. How would masking a blur effect work, for example? You can do what you are describing with the Matte Control node, although it is a bit more involved that an Effect Mask.
Hi Casey - This is Mr. (Gary) Giddens formally of Junction City High School Media Specialist fame. I'm retired now and live in Monmouth but now do landscape/fineart photography photoslesstraveled.com My second son Jayce (who teaches photography, video production, and graphic design at Corvallis High School) and I are getting set to launch our own UA-cam channel together teaching photography. I've been meaning to write you a comment for quite a while now to let you know how much I've been enjoying your tutorials, especially having to do with understanding Fusion. When I came across you originally, I thought...hey, I know him. I'm pretty sure you never took any of my media classes in high school, but definitely started somewhere down the path of expert. After many many years of using Adobe Premiere and After Effects, I made the decision to quit using the Adobe products and went to Affinity for photography and DaVinci for video. After some steep learning curves, I've come to love it much more so than Premiere and I have to very much thank you as you have been instrumental in my learning. I actually just used your advanced tracking video to add a title to a drone shot for my little opening sequence. And this particular video was extremely great in sort of putting all I've learned together. Of course it would be really fitting if you had taken a class from me so I could say the teacher has now become the student, but because you didn't, I'll just say the teacher has become A student. So know I'm out there watching, liking, and subscribed. Thank you again.
Another great video man! It is possible to do something like this on fusion? Like re-create the same work flow using nodes? ua-cam.com/video/AwMfu_vh9f4/v-deo.html It would be a good idea to compare with After Effects.
Super helpful. I just finished watching your excellent CreativeLive Fusion course and this video is an excellent supplement. Thanks for creating it.
I must say, you have teaching skils, thank you .... and yes I bought your ... DAVINCI RESOLVE MASTER TRAINING:
This is a video that needs to be shown to anyone who has worked with other video editing software, because this is probably the biggest hurdle to overcome in Davinci Resolve, where the hell the nodes go and in what order
at last found someone who explained all nodes functions.thanks for your time and support
You deserve more views. These are hands down the most helpful davinci Resolve tutorials I've found
Had someone in this Discord recently that got confused with the nodes. They were thinking the input at the bottom is background and top is foreground. And had trouble following a tutorial.
Colors matter and are a great indication of what you are working with.
Also important is to learn what multiply by mask means
Yes, this is a great comment. I just started Fusion yesterday and the first thing I noticed where when I followed a tutorial, my colored arrows were in different spots. Several tutorials really down hammer home this or describe well just how to conceptualize nodes going into a marge's fore/background. Useful stuff. Made my first basic title animation last night.
Awesome, I was literally struggling with this today, so did a quick search and this came up and you've only just made it!
First time someone explained it clearly! Thanks
Thank you, Casey! I think you may have solved my confusion with merge nodes.
You have solved every single one of my questions and I can't thank you enough.
Well Casey, I realize the benefits of going through your older videos. This one here is interesting. I know it's all the same, but for some reason, hearing and seeing it explained in a slightly different way helps. With this video, after 5 or 6 minutes it starts to sound like jiberish to me but... If I watch it a few times and experiment with davinci resolve in between, It sticks better to the memory. Thanks for the videos Casey.
I've been looking for this kind of conceptual logic forever. Great help. Thanks. Now, please do this kind of conceptual outline for performance improvements, i.e. optimization, proxies, cache, etc., i.e. when to use one or the other and when to use them together. I've encountered other performance issues and solutions. For example, I've noticed that linking clips or creating a compound clip can improve performance.
In fusion it is the second tutorial that everybody must seen after the base of node entry in and out (foreground,background,mask and outpout) Thanks
Very nice!
Quick, concise and quite helpful for newbies like me.
Another excellent video. You should do more videos on Motion Graphics!
+1
On it!
What an amazing way to demo the underlay. A moment of genius right there. I was looking for this feature
Great explanation. How to use Fusion makes a lot more sense now. Thanks.
Best simple breakdown of this I've found yet! Random question though. What are the white/grey dots under the nodes?
Very good quick intro. Deeper dive into each node or node group would be great as well.
I had no idea there was a underlay feature to group nodes. Good stuff!
This is best explanation. It finally clicked!
"Yeah, but just do it here. Merge this but just [to the parts] inside of this rectangle." Very useful frame. Thank you.
That was a great overview. I'm new to Davinci so still learning. This puts things in perspective. I'm going to take a look at your master class. Thanks.
Awesome, thank you!
That went by so quickly, I'm thinking "wait! wait! I'm just starting to enjoy this."
FWIW, I was at a photo/video conference last year, sitting in on some video tutorials. A few of the presenters were using Resolve and nodes were just "there" because they are not some dark magic. Things didn't come to a screeching halt while he dragged a node. I have to take it on faith from how many attendees could follow without getting frozen in fear seeing a line of nodes that once you get the hang of them they're business as usual in Resolve.
Fantastic teaching skills. Considering to buy your course just because... :D
I have looked everywhere for such explanation... thank you very much!
Oooh can't wait to watch this one! Title is exatcly what I've been wondering! Love from me thank you Casey!
Really loved this video, clarified so many things.
I like to think about merge nodes as layers like in photoshop, if need to put something over or under another, then I have to make a merge layer.
Thank you Casey, what needs to be understand is explained with some great teaching skills !!!
Please make more tutorials on motion graphics on images. Please!!
Love it! I got a little into fusion about a year back to make some titles and I really want to know what else this program can do! Keep these coming 😊
Great video. You're pretty clear, thank you!
Great turorial!!, Helped me a lot to understand nodes
Excellent explanation!
Thanks for the upload 🙌🙌🙌
Still learning nodes. I hope this tutorial will work fine. Thanks for sharing most basic insights about nodes. Another thing I am interested in is colour grading video clip shooted using mobile phone in FHD, 30 FPS to a commercial style one... Built in LUTS and some free LUTS haven't worked yet for me.
Very well explained Thank you
Thank you, you answered my questions I still have some, but good job man you made it so clear
I never thought about using the underlay as a method of creating a custom "tool bar" until I watched this video. Definitely going to give it a try. Another great tutorial would be on settings which are kind of like presets.
I loved the last twenty seconds. So funny.
Bro, thanks for this, It is what i was looking for, congrats.
why do you have ONLY 5365 views on this video ..... You have amazing teaching skills and this was an interesting topic .... and no I couldn't buy your ... DAVINCHI RESOLVE MASTER TRAINING: because I can't afford it right now but I'll ... one day
Liked and saved to my watch later 👏👏👏
Ha! Very nice! And soo helpful. Thank you Casey!!
Helpful vid explaining the order and use of nodes. I still don't see the option in fusion to show the background layer when keying objects in front. I have to switch from edit and fusion.
Great explanation! Thanks!
This video was so helpful!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Another great tutorial... Thank you for the tutorial for nodes 🙌
OMG THAT. IS. PERFECT.
This is just what I needed. Your videos always help to make fusion more accessible. Maybe I missed it in the video, but did you talk about transform nodes?
Thank you so much......from Mumbai
Excellent Video!!
Love your fusion videos👍🏻
Question: What re the 2 small white and black dots on the bottom left of the nodes?
Very clear! Thank you
This is a nice tutorial. :) Thanks :)
grouping... grouping, grouping... yes... YES!!! 'brilliant'... now I'm getting it!!!
We want more.. we want more..! Pleaseeee.. 😬😁
Super useful, subbed!
Fusion is the most complicated thing to learn here, but I sorta understand is like layers, but more complex
Thank you! God bless you!
This is great, Casey! It sure helps us noobs get a good handle on dealing with nodes. But here's a question for you: How can we add AUDIO media to a Fusion composition? There are many occasions when we would love to add sound effects to motion graphics done in Fusion, so if you could do (or point us to) a tutorial on adding audio, particularly sound effects like whooshes and pings etc., to a Fusion composition/title graphic, that would be great! Thanks for all you do.
Ya gotta make the visuals in fusion, then add sfx in edit page
@@CaseyFaris Thanks, but that doesn't help us export those graphics into something we can later import into other videos - complete with sound. I saw an older video (unable to determine when it was made) that had EXPORT buttons on the bottom of the Fusion page, but don't see them on my version 16.2. Maybe we need to add a SAVER node to the composition? I need to explore that some more.
However, I understand with some recent upgrades to the .MOV file format, you can export motion graphics from Fusion with audio and an alpha channel (transparent background) to the .MOV format, which creates a file that can then be imported to and overlaid on any video timeline.
The goal, of course, is to be able to create reusable motion graphics with sound (usually SFX).
Do you have some thoughts on this?
That was straight 👍
Very nice, Casey
if i drop a rectangle node it atomatically gets connect with the mediaout, how to slove this problem
does your master class include updates/goodies etc from you going forwards...?
what if i wanted to add multiple texts? how do i connect them , to appear on different edit clips
How do you turn on and off the little node window on the side of the node tree? Yours does not show up. I would like to turn mine off.
What is a loader node? I have a png pic that I use for my logo. I add it to fusion then add my text and then animate. If I save as macro, to reuse like a templet it will not save the png image so I would have to bring that image into the media pool of every project. On a blackmagic forum they said use a loader node for the image. I can't find anything about this node. Maybe there is another way?
There's something about nodes that I've not heard many talking about, those small triangles in different color around the merge node. Green triangle says foreground and yellow triangle says background....if you find you do not produce the desired effect correctly, try to connect to the right triangle.....
Brilliant 👏 👏
How does one show something happening in the Fusion as there is no timeline? I want to show an expanding circle and confused what nodes to pick. Thanks.
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How to make a good page curl or element curl in fusion?
Whoa man!!! You got the point.....
Genius! Are you a wizard?
Is a Transform node in the "Effect node" category?
hahaha that ending is so awkward :P love it
Then how do you zoom in to a video halfway and add a circe to the kill feed
Do you have a video that show you how to make a film title template? I've been looking for the past few days on yt. Made 4 and followed his instructions to the tee! Guess what it didn't work and didn't show. At this point I'll just fight a bear and arm wrestling lion. Plz help
Love, absolutely love your tutorials. You get to the point and your directions are awesome. Been a subscriber and bell notifier for a long time. keep up the great work. I wish I could afford your master training course but right now money is tight. I have a question hopefully you could help me with. So I’m looking to create an effect on a Stargate portal type thing that I created in blender. If your familiar with the Stargate TV and movie franchise will know what I’m talking about. What I wanna do is step through this portal and make it look like I am stepping through liquid or something to that effect. I know I have to mask myself out as I step through the portal but I want the portal to react to me stepping into it. I have googled and UA-cam searched it and can’t find anything. Is there something in Davinci that will create this type of effect?
If you're wanting liquidy effects, check out my turbulent displace tut!
Casey Faris awesome, thanks.
So I looked at that tutorial, and it's really cool and all and does what it says, but in the beginning of the tutorial it says you can't put it on anything. I have a garage scene with a portal on the side that I want to walk through and have this kind of effect on it, but the effect affects the whole scene and I cannot move it to just be on the portal. Am I missing something? Sorry for the questions. Really want to use this effect. Can I create a 3-D mask on top of the portal and then put this affect just on the mask itself?
Thank you
May I ask how to identify a node if it has been renamed?
Thank yooou helped me
I’m getting a hang on creating animations with fusion nodes and masks, but it’s absolutely killing my render times. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix that? I’ve got a video I’m working on with several fusion compositions and the render time keeps indefinitely adding on time that it’ll take to complete the render. It renders normal video perfectly fine, but it seems to be having trouble with fusion nodes. It’s not an issue with my computer, everything’s up to date and I did a ton of hardware troubleshooting to make sure. Just trying to figure out how to speed up the render. Thanks!
I was watching a tutorial on Burn in Text but it Mentioned Some Node That i cant not find at all (Stains Node) i searched everywhere and nothing comes up has that... Or Maybe you can just make a tutorial on it ... for the 19 fusion ,,,
Hey Casey!
This might be a strange request but I'm wondering if you would be willing to charge for a live zoom tutoring session using Davinci Resolve. I have a very specific idea of what I want to accomplish with Resolve and how I want my videos to look, however, it's been a frustrating experience trying to figure out the workflow on my own. I'd love some professional help specific to how I want to edit. Let me know if you'd be interested in doing a live session!
Thanks man! Looking forward to hearing back from you!
Email me Casey@rthstudios.com
Yay!
Thaaaanks
Every time I see someone trying to explain fusion to beginners, they start doing a million things at once, going way fast, get sidetracked down some other rabbit hole like making boxes around things and then say "there you go! Wasn't that easy?" and I'm over here eating play doh comprehending just about none of it.
I think it is a bit confusing that the mask nodes goes into the image nodes and not the other way around. You could have an image node, pipe this through a mask node and the output from the mask node would be a part of the image.....I think. But I am relative new to this....
Remember, masks aren't just for cutting out images. You also use them for limiting where an effect is applied. How would masking a blur effect work, for example?
You can do what you are describing with the Matte Control node, although it is a bit more involved that an Effect Mask.
How to rename the nodes?
Click on the node and hit F2
Can you make a 3d intro with davincri
You can do quite a bit, but not like 3D modeling... you can make primitives and animate them, or import 3D meshes.
@@CaseyFaris ok yes but I don't know how to.. I watch and still will continue, and improve my editing
shabam...
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Hi Casey - This is Mr. (Gary) Giddens formally of Junction City High School Media Specialist fame. I'm retired now and live in Monmouth but now do landscape/fineart photography photoslesstraveled.com My second son Jayce (who teaches photography, video production, and graphic design at Corvallis High School) and I are getting set to launch our own UA-cam channel together teaching photography. I've been meaning to write you a comment for quite a while now to let you know how much I've been enjoying your tutorials, especially having to do with understanding Fusion. When I came across you originally, I thought...hey, I know him. I'm pretty sure you never took any of my media classes in high school, but definitely started somewhere down the path of expert. After many many years of using Adobe Premiere and After Effects, I made the decision to quit using the Adobe products and went to Affinity for photography and DaVinci for video. After some steep learning curves, I've come to love it much more so than Premiere and I have to very much thank you as you have been instrumental in my learning. I actually just used your advanced tracking video to add a title to a drone shot for my little opening sequence. And this particular video was extremely great in sort of putting all I've learned together. Of course it would be really fitting if you had taken a class from me so I could say the teacher has now become the student, but because you didn't, I'll just say the teacher has become A student. So know I'm out there watching, liking, and subscribed. Thank you again.
Hahah wow that’s amazing!!!!! So cool! Great to hear from you!!!!
Casey, you are suck a great Instructor, love all of your videos, save some $$$ to get you Master Class Course:-)
Casey Faris looks kinda like Andrew Kramer's older cousin. Hmmm....
Particles are their own set of nodes. They are not part of 3d
Another great video man! It is possible to do something like this on fusion? Like re-create the same work flow using nodes? ua-cam.com/video/AwMfu_vh9f4/v-deo.html
It would be a good idea to compare with After Effects.