Month: January 2021

Basic Text Tracking in DaVinci Resolve 17 Fusion

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In this week’s video I share how to do some basic text tracking in DaVinci Resolve 17 Fusion so that you can make text follow anything you want in your videos. Fusion has some powerful tracking tools that make the process quick of tracking text and other media to parts of your video quick and easy. Try it out for yourself.

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production services for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Please reach out if you are in need of an impactful video.

How to Use Render in Place in DaVinci Resolve 17 for Smooth Playback

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There is a feature that perhaps goes under the radar among all the new features in DaVinci Resolve 17 called Render in Place. This allows you to render an individual clip on your timeline in its entirety on the Edit Page so it will playback smoothly. In this video I talk about how to use render in place in DaVinci Resolve 17.

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production services for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Please reach out if you are in need of an impactful video.

How to Create Custom Transition Presets in DaVinci Resolve 17

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In this video I go over the basics of how to create custom transition presets in DaVinci Resolve 17. This is one of the greatest new features in DaVinci Resolve 17 that allows you to quickly and easily make custom transitions within Fusion, incorporate them on the Edit page, and save them for later. It’s just as easy to save the transitions out as a .setting file to pass along to others to install too.

You can install transitions by copying the .setting file to one of the following locations depending on what operating system you are using:

Windows: C:\Program Files\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Transitions

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions

Linux (Ubuntu): /opt/resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production services for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Please reach out if you are in need of an impactful video.

How to Create a Pop Up Text Animation in DaVinci Resolve 17 Using Anim Curves Modifier

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This video goes over how to create a pop up text animation in DaVinci Resolve 17 using the Anim Curves modifier. This is a quick and simple method to create a smooth pop up text animations that are easily adjusted from the edit page timeline. In addition I show you some ways to improve the production value of the animation to make it pop.

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production services for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Please reach out if you are in need of an impactful video.

Free Simple Lower Third Template

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Shared in this video is a Free Simple Lower Third Template for DaVinci Resolve 17. You will learn how to bring the animation into your project, some ways that you can modify it to make it your own, and at the end I will share some of the specifics of what went into making it so you can either use this animation as a jumping off point to make a more complex lower third or use some of the concepts involved in making it in other animations.

As always thank you for watching and/or reading. We are Sword & Shield Studio and we create weekly DaVinci Resolve tutorials on YouTube and offer full service video production services for local commercial clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Please reach out if you are in need of an impactful video.