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Visual Effects in DaVinci Resolve
To begin with, DaVinci Resolve has a wealth of effects in both the Edit and Color pages for creating titles, transforming and animating clips, compositing and creating transparency effects, cutting mattes, applying filters, image stabilization, lens dewarping, and so on.
Then of course there’s the Fusion page, which adds considerably more powerful VFX and motion graphics capabilities via its node-based interface and deep toolset of effects nodes, keyframing and curve editing controls, and 2D and 3D compositing features.
To use DaVinci Resolve to the best effect, it’s prudent to begin to think of the Edit, Fusion, and Color pages as complementary sets of controls.
— For editors, the Fusion and Color pages are really just two giant inspectors; one filled with every compositing tool you could hope to use, and the other filled with every control for color and visual adjustment you could want, each of which are only one click away.
— For compositing artists, the Edit page can be considered a robust shot management interface as well as an opportunity to do VFX work that’s deeply integrated with the edit of the program you’re working on.
— For colorists, the Edit page is a refined environment for dealing with conform issues and taking care of myriad finishing tasks quickly and easily, that itself is only one click away. For more information on the effects that are available in DaVinci Resolve, see the chapters available within Part 6, “Editing Effects and Transitions,” and Part 11, “Color Page Effects.”
VFX Connect
As robust as the built-in compositing capabilities of DaVinci Resolve now are, when you run into instances where the various capabilities found in the Edit, Fusion, and Color pages aren’t enough to achieve the effect you require, you can use the VFX Connect features of DaVinci Resolve to send one or more clips from the Edit page Timeline to Blackmagic Fusion, the powerful node-based compositing application from Blackmagic Design, in order to do more robust compositing and effects work there. Furthermore, the VFX Connect feature can also be used to round-trip media to and render results from third-party applications such as The Foundry’s Nuke, Autodesk Flame, or Blender.
The New VFX Connect Clip dialo
