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Resolve FX are the built-in plugins that come with DaVinci Resolve. These plugins span the gamut from blurs and complex color adjustments to stylized image treatments and lighting effects to sharpen and repair operations that are too complex to accomplish using the palette controls of the Color page.
An image before/after using the Abstraction Resolve FX filter
Most Resolve FX plugins have been optimized for real-time playback, making it possible to apply complex effects such as Lens Flares, Light Rays, Film Grain, or Warping, and make adjustments while getting immediate, high-quality feedback, and enabling you to play each variation of your effect as you work without the need to wait for rendering or caching to happen first. Of course, if you’re working with extremely high-resolution or raw source media, if your workstation is particularly old, or if you’re applying many Resolve FX all at once, your performance may slow, necessitating the use of either the Smart Cache or User Cache.
Open FX
Open FX (OFX) is an open plugin standard intended to enable easier development of cross-platform visual effects plugins for a variety of applications. Popular plugin packages include BorisFX Sapphire and Continuum Complete, Red Giant Universe, and NewBlue TotalFX, all of which are ubiquitous tools for feature and broadcast work. The available Open FX plugin packages are also growing every year as this format becomes more widely adopted among developers.
With Open FX support, you can use plugins to do many stylized operations that would be difficult or impossible to do using the other tools in DaVinci Resolve. Everything from lens flares, optical blurs and prism effects, lens warp correction, film and video grain and damage effects, dead-pixel corrections, and more can be accomplished with the right plugin collection.
One of the many Sapphire OFX plugins from GenArts