I just followed along with this tutorial, made a few mistakes, but thanks to the narration and clear screen recording was able to find and fix my mistakes and achieve the final goal! Thank you ever so much for making these excellent tutorials. Now off to try and replicate all this WITHOUT looking back at the video (and perhaps using different shapes) ...
I'm not a beginner to MGFX, nor Resolve from an Editor and Colorist perspective, I'm actually pretty seasoned in my career. But I never really dove deeply into Fusion. If I sit and focus on the workflow, I can grasp the process fairly well, but there's something negatively visceral to my common understanding of how to think about building up assets in a given project in Fusion. Prior to deeper thought on this subject, there was a friction point that turned me off to Fusion, and now I think I know why. It's not a node workflow, I use and understand the concepts of nodes inside Maya, UE, emberGen, etc. I think in terms of Resolve/Fusion, it's the "merger" node. I don't understand why this is an explicit step in the process, when in the color page once you connect the output to the input of a proceeding serial (or other) node its already "merged" under the hood, without explicit input from the user. It just works logically. Also, why can't there be transform properties inherent in all node types? If you don't need to capture any translations on a particular node, just don't touch those properties. I feel like anything BMD can do to simplify and cleanup the process, so there isn't a gazillion nodes on your screen for things that should just employ basic logic (merge) and basic tools (transform) would make working in Fusion far more approachable to beginners and seasoned old twats, like myself. I think in the meantime, I need to engross myself with getting more solidified with merging. Annoying.
Awesome video - just what I was looking for! Thanks Casey. Suggestion for a future video: Tips/Tricks for organizing your Node layouts so your fusion comp doesn't look like the flight path of every aircraft in N. America.
Hey Casey that was super useful! I think using shapes will save time. Just on the issue of the polygon ends still showing when you reduce length to zero, if you change the border style to flat from rounded you won't have that problem. So saves some time of using other workarounds. I'm a complete noob but just came across that issue before so thought it might be helpful!
This was fantastic! I would love to see a follow up or another example where you actually have the voice over in fusion and are adjusting the key frames to the VO.
Thank you. I’ve learnt a lot from this. One question though, the coffee looked a much darker brown in fusion than when it was back on the edit page. Is this because of the quirks of Fusion and RCM?
Your videos are great!! I just have a question. I noticed you can change the height & width of the sRectangle with the cursor on the shape itself. I can't seem to be able to do this, is there a setting or something that might be set wrong. On regular shapes I can, but just not with the sRectangle. Any suggestions would help. Thanks..
Hi, I'm probably late so this comment might go unnoticed, but I have a question. In this video you made your own artwork with the shapes. But when you don't have the time or skills to create the artwork yourself, you are left with the other option: importing artwork. You have a video on your channel that deals with importing SVG's, but when you're dealing with a complex artwork with many layers made in a Vector Art program, you end up importing a SVG that holds THOUSANDS of nodes containing merges, bg's, paths... It's impossible to work with if you want to animate the different layers you had in your vector art program. Is this a shortcoming of DVR? Is it simply not made for working with artworks in this way? Or am I missing something? Hope my question is clear, if not let me know!
Very nice video. What I would like to know is, how could I make this dynamic to reuse it in other projects? Like I can, when I buy a videovfx package. So, I create this thing ones and can change the attribues on the colors for example or the text values. Thanks.
"Your video is absolutely great, and I have a question. At 14:11, there is an option 'keep' in style mode, but I don't have it in my DaVinci. Can you help me?"
Great helpful tutorial. thank you. i am doing this tutorial using 1.8(paid version) and i realize the differences between 1.8 and 1.9. i cant resize the rectangle on the fusion page. there is no option on boolean to choose "keep" 14:10. so i just change width and height. right now i wont upgrade because i dont want to miss 100 of great plugins
You can do all of it by using masks instead of shapes. Quickest way is to do all of it in Illustrator and import it as SVG or do it in Photoshop and import it as layer comp.
dude i dont have opacity option in my s rectangle node i even have the remove keep problem and i cant adjust shapes in the viwer if all these were not a problem i would have been done with this project way early
Hi Casey as usual invaluable content. I possibly know the answer to this question but…..Looking at the tools in the Artist voice over and they look awsome, but the target audience im aiming at is Australian. How dificult would it be to put a good ol Aussie accent on this., or any other accent for that matter for a local feel? Coukld it be as simple as an “Voice Origen” button or would this be a saved set of parameters. 😁 Thanks
I didn't really understand the part at 15:14. Why we didn't put the stransform node after the actual coffee shape in order to contract the edges of it but instead of this we inserted the stransform node after the cup shape? What's the difference?
I hope you figured it out by now or after trying it yourself, but doing it that way would impact the whole shape of the mug and the coffee at the same time which is not the effect we want, we just wanted to impact the black coffee and the sboolean
In place of the coffee mug, Im trying to make a glass shape (inverse trapezium) with the rounded corners.....unable to figure out the suitable shape node for that. Any solution?
Wait a minute... I'm supposed to leave a little room for the creamer while pouring the coffee? That explains why I always make such a mess pouring coffee. I have to try this! 😲
Depends a lot of what you are trying to achieve. I was working on a video where the voice over was talking about how visitors to the site are used to how social media sites work on their phone and that the org needed to modernize. So for that I created a clip where each frame was a social media icon and then I fed that into a particle emitter and it would randomly spit out a social media icon that would move across the screen is a spray of icons. I used a similar technique to do fake air cars in a 2d animated scene in the distance. It really depends.
It is awesome that you can do stuff like this in Resolve and the tutorial is great but I have to say seeing the complexity of this is the reason I'm sticking to adobe (for animation) right now. The sheer amount of nodes and knowledge about every single one of them you need to achive something rather simple like a coffee mug is bonkers. Maybe it's just old habits but I realy feel like doing this in after effects would be significantly faster and easier.
Nah nah I actually agree with that I've said time and time again that Resolve can do almost everything that you can do in AE but not as quick and easy as AE 🤷♂
I was like you as well but once you start working with nodes and it start clicking ... no more precomps of pre comps oif precomps ... I never want to go back to layer based compositing for ANYTHING ... vfx, mograph ... doesn't matter. While osme things ar e abit more difficult to do the FLEXIBILITY is insane. Someone did an video explaining the limitations of layers in POremiere and how the order of operations is dictated by the underlying system and how that can cause issues and then requires pre comps. It took me a whiule to get the hang of fusion but now I never want to work in anything else (well ... maybe nuke).
Does anyone running into this issue? The sBoolean is missing the keep option and the sPolygon is missing the opacity slider. I had to change the color of the boolean to brown and white to get the color but I cant seem to find out why the only option is replace, along with not having the option to set the opacity for the sPolygon. Very confusing and been racking my brain to see if I made a mistake but can't seem to find where
@@jukkariikonen5757 figured out that you need version 19 to run som of these features. There are videos on yt that explain how to download the latest version
Notice you're running 19 - for a newbie would you recommend using the beta as I learn, or should I start in 18? Is 19 solid? Does it make existing tutorials "wrong" in big ways. Thanks for an interesting video.
Canva and Capcut can get this done in around 3 minutes. But i know i'm learning this to be able to get deeper, more skilled. You know how it feels like to me? Capcut can do 90%, maybe even 95% of good as a job as Davinci, with a weeks long learning curve. And with Davinci, to get that extra 5-10% itll take you months! Is it worth it? I'm still figuring that one out.
Ah hello I'm just new to da vinci resolve and I'm following the video but I can't directly resize the shape and sboolean with my mouse, also in the style mode of sboolean there is only replace and no keep. Please help
Well Soundly has soemthign similar built into their FREE Digital Assett Management tool and you get a ton of free generations every day and it's pretty solid. Somethign else you could do is record it yourself and then use a voice changer like Replay (it's free) to change your voice using a voice model. I'm pretty sure Casey isn;t going to offer any suggestions because that might be agianst the terms of his sponsorship. I do have to say I was really impressed with the Artlist AI voices.
Hello, I am having a problem when I try to use MOV files, Davinci doesn't seem to register it as a file to use, I drag files toward the timeline or media pool and nothing happens, unlike with mp4. There's probably a very simple fix for this that I'm not aware of.
Can someone help me, I'm trying to make a cup right now, but i'm stuck on the "sBoolean>Style Mode" I'm trying to find "Keep" for one of my options, but my only option is "Replace". (On MacBook)
Ever encountered a video that just refuses to stabilise? Colour page classic stabiliser, fusion planar or even edit page couldn't do it. And the footage wasn't even that shaky, just had some movement. It was made to look like a security cam so it had an angle from the roof looking down but that shouldn't have made it difficult? Maaaaaaaaan :(
I honestly cannot see a large project's nodes not becoming a clusterfuck of madness. Nodes for everything you apply, it has to become a shitshow very easily. But let's see how Fusion will be.
I think it's because Fusion wasn't really meant for motion graphics like this. This would have been much more straightforward in something like After effects.
Just because you can make this in fusion, doesn’t mean you should. After Effects would be infinitely more simple to make this on. Great to know it’s possible though Casey!
uuff ... Für so ein Animation sehr sehr viel Arbeit.. Das gleich erstelle ich mit PowerPoint und das wesentlich einfacher und schneller.. 😁 Nichts für ungut ich schaue deine Video's an und mag dein Arbeit, aber für die Animation war die Arbeit dahinter jedoch etwas viel..!! Trotzdem schön gemacht 👍🏻
cool, but. After Effects is infinitely more practical for these information graphics tasks. I'm learning Fusion now, but I'm realizing that everything in After is done in a much more intuitive, practical, fast and precise way.
How do I edit the shape in the viewer with my cursor? I added a sRectangle but I can only do it through the inspector panel, trying to resize the box with my cursor doesn’t do anything. Help plz
Same problem, can't find the answer even after 3 hours of googling, because I can't figure out what the bloody green-overlay-control-thing is even called... Also, the green box does not conform around the rounded edges of the shape after changing the corner radius from inspector panel. Send help.
Try the Artlist Voiceover tool now: bit.ly/3ayH9oL
Obviously your videos are incredibly educational, but it’s your super goofiness that I love most.
You are the best davinci resolve teacher in all of the inter web 🙏🙏🙏
The amount of tips and tricks is the thing I love about this workshops. There is so much value!!
I just followed along with this tutorial, made a few mistakes, but thanks to the narration and clear screen recording was able to find and fix my mistakes and achieve the final goal! Thank you ever so much for making these excellent tutorials. Now off to try and replicate all this WITHOUT looking back at the video (and perhaps using different shapes) ...
I’m only 1/4 of the way through the video and I am already so thankful you made this video. Thank you so much for what you do!
Please don't stop making such videos, you are the best teacher out there❤😊
I'm not a beginner to MGFX, nor Resolve from an Editor and Colorist perspective, I'm actually pretty seasoned in my career. But I never really dove deeply into Fusion.
If I sit and focus on the workflow, I can grasp the process fairly well, but there's something negatively visceral to my common understanding of how to think about building up assets in a given project in Fusion.
Prior to deeper thought on this subject, there was a friction point that turned me off to Fusion, and now I think I know why.
It's not a node workflow, I use and understand the concepts of nodes inside Maya, UE, emberGen, etc. I think in terms of Resolve/Fusion, it's the "merger" node. I don't understand why this is an explicit step in the process, when in the color page once you connect the output to the input of a proceeding serial (or other) node its already "merged" under the hood, without explicit input from the user. It just works logically. Also, why can't there be transform properties inherent in all node types? If you don't need to capture any translations on a particular node, just don't touch those properties. I feel like anything BMD can do to simplify and cleanup the process, so there isn't a gazillion nodes on your screen for things that should just employ basic logic (merge) and basic tools (transform) would make working in Fusion far more approachable to beginners and seasoned old twats, like myself.
I think in the meantime, I need to engross myself with getting more solidified with merging. Annoying.
I've been watching your videos for sometime. Love all of them. This one is the best. I've learned so much from a single video 👍👍👍
Doing all the key frames all at once and tweaking the timing ar the end is a vert good worflow i reckon. Thank you so much❤
This was fun to watch, and so informative. Thanks for the fantastic content!
I love your style Casey, just keep going mate
HEY! Casey! You are a great mentor i look up to you always thanks for the information you provide
Awesome video - just what I was looking for! Thanks Casey.
Suggestion for a future video: Tips/Tricks for organizing your Node layouts so your fusion comp doesn't look like the flight path of every aircraft in N. America.
Awesome dude! Been watching all your motion GFX videos lately for ideas, glad you’ve got some new stuff!😍
I want more this type of videos best fusion teacher can't express in words
Fusion is amazing; I am so impressed. Thanks.
Hey Casey that was super useful! I think using shapes will save time. Just on the issue of the polygon ends still showing when you reduce length to zero, if you change the border style to flat from rounded you won't have that problem. So saves some time of using other workarounds.
I'm a complete noob but just came across that issue before so thought it might be helpful!
Amazing video that I've needed for so long. Thank you!
This was fantastic! I would love to see a follow up or another example where you actually have the voice over in fusion and are adjusting the key frames to the VO.
Thank you. I’ve learnt a lot from this. One question though, the coffee looked a much darker brown in fusion than when it was back on the edit page. Is this because of the quirks of Fusion and RCM?
A really great tutorial! 🙌🙌
Your videos are great!! I just have a question. I noticed you can change the height & width of the sRectangle with the cursor on the shape itself. I can't seem to be able to do this, is there a setting or something that might be set wrong. On regular shapes I can, but just not with the sRectangle. Any suggestions would help. Thanks..
Hi, I'm probably late so this comment might go unnoticed, but I have a question.
In this video you made your own artwork with the shapes. But when you don't have the time or skills to create the artwork yourself, you are left with the other option: importing artwork. You have a video on your channel that deals with importing SVG's, but when you're dealing with a complex artwork with many layers made in a Vector Art program, you end up importing a SVG that holds THOUSANDS of nodes containing merges, bg's, paths... It's impossible to work with if you want to animate the different layers you had in your vector art program. Is this a shortcoming of DVR? Is it simply not made for working with artworks in this way? Or am I missing something?
Hope my question is clear, if not let me know!
Very nice video. What I would like to know is, how could I make this dynamic to reuse it in other projects? Like I can, when I buy a videovfx package. So, I create this thing ones and can change the attribues on the colors for example or the text values. Thanks.
I don't like coffee, but I like your tutorials. Thank you! 👌🏻
You must’ve had a hard hard time following this tutorial with all that coffee in front of you
@@chezchezchezchez Almost traumatic hahaha
"Your video is absolutely great, and I have a question. At 14:11, there is an option 'keep' in style mode, but I don't have it in my DaVinci. Can you help me?"
Very cool! Thank you...
Learned alot from this tutorial 😋
How are you doing the text on your shorts?
love your stuff
Great helpful tutorial. thank you. i am doing this tutorial using 1.8(paid version) and i realize the differences between 1.8 and 1.9. i cant resize the rectangle on the fusion page. there is no option on boolean to choose "keep" 14:10. so i just change width and height. right now i wont upgrade because i dont want to miss 100 of great plugins
You can do all of it by using masks instead of shapes. Quickest way is to do all of it in Illustrator and import it as SVG or do it in Photoshop and import it as layer comp.
dude i dont have opacity option in my s rectangle node i even have the remove keep problem and i cant adjust shapes in the viwer if all these were not a problem i would have been done with this project way early
So cool, thanks for this 👍
Hi Casey as usual invaluable content. I possibly know the answer to this question but…..Looking at the tools in the Artist voice over and they look awsome, but the target audience im aiming at is Australian. How dificult would it be to put a good ol Aussie accent on this., or any other accent for that matter for a local feel? Coukld it be as simple as an “Voice Origen” button or would this be a saved set of parameters. 😁 Thanks
Yooo motion graphics tutorial!!
Thank u casey :D
How lnog oes it take for a pro like yourself to create this in realtime as if you were editing for a client etc.
I didn't really understand the part at 15:14. Why we didn't put the stransform node after the actual coffee shape in order to contract the edges of it but instead of this we inserted the stransform node after the cup shape? What's the difference?
I hope you figured it out by now or after trying it yourself, but doing it that way would impact the whole shape of the mug and the coffee at the same time which is not the effect we want, we just wanted to impact the black coffee and the sboolean
Hi Casey. This is super cool. Even chatgpt didn’t know at first how to add a shape!
Just a quick question. How do we make the shape a gradient color?
By using a MediaIn node you can get your audio into fusion
In place of the coffee mug, Im trying to make a glass shape (inverse trapezium) with the rounded corners.....unable to figure out the suitable shape node for that. Any solution?
Is there any benefit in using the sShapes? I am used to working with normal masks with background and overlaping them. Any difference?
Thank you Casey.
Learned a ton! Thank you😊
This is very well done.
Fantastic!
14:09 I don't see the 'Keep' option in my boolean node. Any solution?
Keep may have been introduced in Resolve 19. If not, just set the color in the style of the boolean node.
Wait a minute... I'm supposed to leave a little room for the creamer while pouring the coffee? That explains why I always make such a mess pouring coffee. I have to try this! 😲
What if I don't see the "Keep" style mode option in Boolean node?
39:15 A fold/unfold all toggle would be so nice if there isn’t one
As valuable as ever. Thanks,
why colour of coffee rectangle is different in fusion page and edit page?
Hahah yeah I think it's a bug with the color management in this version I was recording with. Normally shouldn't do that. :)
Casey in the star wars advanced course I don’t have the lightsaber still in my VFX bakes😢😢
Just a question, if i want to create a planetarium or aquarium style where planets or fishes move around. What technique should i use?
Depends a lot of what you are trying to achieve. I was working on a video where the voice over was talking about how visitors to the site are used to how social media sites work on their phone and that the org needed to modernize. So for that I created a clip where each frame was a social media icon and then I fed that into a particle emitter and it would randomly spit out a social media icon that would move across the screen is a spray of icons.
I used a similar technique to do fake air cars in a 2d animated scene in the distance.
It really depends.
hey casey can you make openhimer movie clip video in fusion 3:40 second to 3:55 second showing in movie can you make it
It is awesome that you can do stuff like this in Resolve and the tutorial is great but I have to say seeing the complexity of this is the reason I'm sticking to adobe (for animation) right now. The sheer amount of nodes and knowledge about every single one of them you need to achive something rather simple like a coffee mug is bonkers. Maybe it's just old habits but I realy feel like doing this in after effects would be significantly faster and easier.
Nah nah
I actually agree with that
I've said time and time again that Resolve can do almost everything that you can do in AE but not as quick and easy as AE 🤷♂
I was like you as well but once you start working with nodes and it start clicking ... no more precomps of pre comps oif precomps ... I never want to go back to layer based compositing for ANYTHING ... vfx, mograph ... doesn't matter. While osme things ar e abit more difficult to do the FLEXIBILITY is insane.
Someone did an video explaining the limitations of layers in POremiere and how the order of operations is dictated by the underlying system and how that can cause issues and then requires pre comps.
It took me a whiule to get the hang of fusion but now I never want to work in anything else (well ... maybe nuke).
Does anyone running into this issue? The sBoolean is missing the keep option and the sPolygon is missing the opacity slider. I had to change the color of the boolean to brown and white to get the color but I cant seem to find out why the only option is replace, along with not having the option to set the opacity for the sPolygon. Very confusing and been racking my brain to see if I made a mistake but can't seem to find where
Same issue with the polygon opacity, it doesn't show up in the mediaOut 🥴
@@jukkariikonen5757 figured out that you need version 19 to run som of these features. There are videos on yt that explain how to download the latest version
@@teriyakisquid1546 Love you for responding brothar. Thanks!
👁👁👍👍Liked, watched and subscribed.
How to use USD in fusion, I always get black when I try to use uDome light
Notice you're running 19 - for a newbie would you recommend using the beta as I learn, or should I start in 18? Is 19 solid? Does it make existing tutorials "wrong" in big ways.
Thanks for an interesting video.
Although it's still in beta, 19 is quite solid.
So great!
Canva and Capcut can get this done in around 3 minutes. But i know i'm learning this to be able to get deeper, more skilled. You know how it feels like to me? Capcut can do 90%, maybe even 95% of good as a job as Davinci, with a weeks long learning curve. And with Davinci, to get that extra 5-10% itll take you months! Is it worth it? I'm still figuring that one out.
there is no opacity option on my s rectangle
Thank you, very nice!
Ah hello I'm just new to da vinci resolve and I'm following the video but I can't directly resize the shape and sboolean with my mouse, also in the style mode of sboolean there is only replace and no keep. Please help
Keep may have been introduced in Resolve 19. If not, just set the color in the style of the boolean node.
My Boolean node doesn't have the keep option on style mode
Keep may have been introduced in Resolve 19. If not, just set the color in the style of the boolean node.
Oh, I see. I am using version 18.6. I did this, I set the color in the style of the boolean node. Thank you very much.
Does anyone know of anything totally free that’s like Artlist voiceovers?
Well Soundly has soemthign similar built into their FREE Digital Assett Management tool and you get a ton of free generations every day and it's pretty solid.
Somethign else you could do is record it yourself and then use a voice changer like Replay (it's free) to change your voice using a voice model.
I'm pretty sure Casey isn;t going to offer any suggestions because that might be agianst the terms of his sponsorship.
I do have to say I was really impressed with the Artlist AI voices.
Hello, I am having a problem when I try to use MOV files, Davinci doesn't seem to register it as a file to use, I drag files toward the timeline or media pool and nothing happens, unlike with mp4. There's probably a very simple fix for this that I'm not aware of.
This doesn't stop me from being able to follow the video, just wanted to use the footage thats all.
There's a topic on this issue on the Blackmagic Design Forum: forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=197456
I believe mov files are only usable in studio version
@@jsawchuk6520 What I do now is put the mov into handbrake, then transfer the footage into mp4 format.
Am lost after you start connecting the same node to other stuff
Can someone help me, I'm trying to make a cup right now, but i'm stuck on the "sBoolean>Style Mode" I'm trying to find "Keep" for one of my options, but my only option is "Replace". (On MacBook)
Hmmm weird. If it replaces it, just turn the style in boolean to brown then.
@@CaseyFaris 😱 you actually replied to me! I watch your videos all the time, you’re so cool and funny!
I will do just that, THANK YOU 🙏
Ever encountered a video that just refuses to stabilise? Colour page classic stabiliser, fusion planar or even edit page couldn't do it. And the footage wasn't even that shaky, just had some movement. It was made to look like a security cam so it had an angle from the roof looking down but that shouldn't have made it difficult? Maaaaaaaaan :(
I honestly cannot see a large project's nodes not becoming a clusterfuck of madness. Nodes for everything you apply, it has to become a shitshow very easily. But let's see how Fusion will be.
I think it's because Fusion wasn't really meant for motion graphics like this. This would have been much more straightforward in something like After effects.
This can make in PowerPoint. Why it's so complicated to make with this software for just a simple animation.
Arent the normal mask themselves "Vector"?
Thank you so much for this video, super helpful
...I think leading zeroes are dumb lol
👍👍
GOAT
Normally leading zeros are dumb but when you do it they become cool, like peeing your pants.
Just because you can make this in fusion, doesn’t mean you should. After Effects would be infinitely more simple to make this on.
Great to know it’s possible though Casey!
But then you would be using PRemiere / AE ... and no one wants to do that. :p
uuff ... Für so ein Animation sehr sehr viel Arbeit.. Das gleich erstelle ich mit PowerPoint und das wesentlich einfacher und schneller.. 😁
Nichts für ungut ich schaue deine Video's an und mag dein Arbeit, aber für die Animation war die Arbeit dahinter jedoch etwas viel..!!
Trotzdem schön gemacht 👍🏻
The dog ate a WHOLE PIZZA? WHY, CASEY????
He wuz a hunry boi
Ur the best 🫶🏻
If you are an expert in fusion then you are the professional video editor in 2025
cool, but. After Effects is infinitely more practical for these information graphics tasks. I'm learning Fusion now, but I'm realizing that everything in After is done in a much more intuitive, practical, fast and precise way.
5 minutes in after effects 🗿
I think leading zero's are dumb. :).
How do I edit the shape in the viewer with my cursor? I added a sRectangle but I can only do it through the inspector panel, trying to resize the box with my cursor doesn’t do anything. Help plz
Same problem, can't find the answer even after 3 hours of googling, because I can't figure out what the bloody green-overlay-control-thing is even called... Also, the green box does not conform around the rounded edges of the shape after changing the corner radius from inspector panel.
Send help.