One other thing that could help if you need a vertical node layout is changing the default to vertical. If you go to the menu bar and click Fusion > Fusion Settings > Flow, there is an option to change the flow direction from Horizontal to Vertical.
As someone who used to do layered composites in after effects, this is a comprehensive translation into nodes and flowcharts. This answered all the questions I had and now I can just setup and animate the layers individually.
Just like that. I spent all morning figuring how and what do all the color coded arrows do and why there aren't any layers here. And this is surely a lightbulb moment. MANY THANKS!!
This is exactly what I've been saying to people who come from AE or similar. Flipping back and forth with the foreground and background inputs with Ctrl+T really helps solidify this visual as well. Yes, nodes are daunting at first, but they become so much more intuitive. Also, Sam is not wrong.
I've done the switch from PP and AE to Resolve but have been hesitant to open up Fusion because I just did not get the node workflow - no matter how many videos I watched. You sir, have managed to make sense of it in 5 minutes! Thank you 🙏
I've been stuck playing around with nodes for hours trying to figure it out for myself (trying to put an animated text message popup over one of my videos) and I finally gave up and watched a video - thanks so much for saving me an extra few hours with this!
I had this lightbulb moment about a month ago and I've been working so much more easily in fusion. And I also realized, instead of copying the MediaIn node multiple times, I can just send the output to several other nodes.
It’s gonna take a wee while to override 30 years of layered thinking. Thank you mightily. A reasonably simple vector logo animation was busting my brain. Now I see clear blue skies and the world is a happier place.
i actually started editing in D.R i now sometimes edit a video in apple motion, and don't find layers so clear to see where everything is. .. so it also works the other way around. thx 4 the vid.
Very helpful. I literally just switched from premiere pro to Davinci Resolve yesterday and this was extremely helpful. Soaking in the knowledge! 🤣🤣. 👍👍👍
yes this is exactly, in my opinion, the most relevant and in some cases problematic difference: with nodes you have no idea where things start or finish in time
Thank you very much, I finally understand the order of the nodes. A huge thank you again. It's really not easy for us who come from After Effects. GOD BLESS U
The problem I have is not the layer order, it is working with audio and timing the layers in nodes. For example, you have a list of things following the audio. Each new line comes on and the previous line may blur or change color or opacity as the total page of graphics builds. Easy to see and do in layers, but more complicated in nodes. I would love to see an example done in Fusion.
I'd be curious to see some tutorials for working in Fusion with content that is not the same size as the timeline. For example, you have 4K footage and want to make a TH-cam short. Your footage is contiguous and you need to edit the content not only to fit the vertical resolution but you also need to trim content and use fusion to pan and zoom around the content. As if you were making a tutorial and using a screen cap, but wanted to make a short to focus on one point. If you edit your content on the timeline to fit the resolution, you lose what is "out of bounds" by bringing it into fusion because it is immediately cropped to timeline resolution. You can use an adjustment clip on the layer above but that can present some additional confusion and problems of its own. What's your best practice for this type of scenario? How do you retain full resolution inside of fusion without having to drag direct from the media pool?
Another thing you can do is group your 'layers' together to collapse them down into a single node. This gives a bird's eye view of the entire composite, just like you would get by looking at the basic layers without seeing all of the excruciating details going on inside of each layer.
Dude! Thank you so much!!! That helps a lot. I've been watching for a while and have a comedy short coming up for the Louisiana Prize Film Festival and to be honest I've been a little nervous about the editing. This really made some connections for me. Onward to the nodes!!!
new to fusion. can you do more of these layer videos. working with mask and blend nodes would help me awful lot. still need to know how to mask inside fusion.. thank you. this video was a big help for undestanding this a bit more...
While I understand how Fusion works, I still find that working with text is still much more involved and complicated than with After Effects, even in the edit page. And I’ve been using Resolve for almost 2 years now. I really wish they’d have a redesign of how text customization works. Because this is one area I really miss from Adobe is the Essential Graphics Panel, which really streamlined text and basic shape graphics.
Great tutorial. This made things much more clear for the reasons you pointed out... Coming from a Photoshop background, this all makes significantly more sense now. Thank you.
Hi Casey, yes, that was a light bulb moment and a great explanation. However, for me, I would like to know what I can do with this fusion composition so I can use it in other timelines and still be able to edit it?
Hi Casey. Thanks for all your videos, mate. I've learned a lot. Sorry, a tangential question - what tool are you using to highlight the cursor with a blue circle? Is it PointerFocus or something else? Cheers, mate.
Two comments / questions: - Is there any way of adjusting the curves of several keyframes simultaneously in Fusion? I have found that you can smoothen the curves with a hotkey, yes, but can't drag more than one keyframe at any time to customize them. This is a big loss in comparison to After Effects. - When repeating but still modifying graphical elements in a timeline it would be helpful to copy and paste the fusion node tree to a new fusion composition. However, the animations within the nodes follow a timecode, so when you paste the nodes with their keyframes to a different part on a timeline, the node lengths in the keyframe window are all kinds of wrong and the fusion composition "breaks" in a way. - It would be quite helpful for some applications to get a node length be "infinite" so it would be always active no matter the adjustments to a fusion composition length.
How do I change the blend mode in fusion. I'm placing tracking text on a clip, then masked it so it's on the sky (background)... Lastly I want to blend it so it looks like it's behind glass of vehicle. I cannot seem to figure out how to change the blend mode for the text. BTW your tutorials are awesome. I've watched a TON of them to make the videos for my channel. I'd have never got started in Resolve w/o them! Thanks!!!
Is there any benefit from adding a text node in fusion to doing the same in the edit section? Is fusion faster at processing the effect vs the edit page etc?
Is there any way to change the order of the "layers" on specific frames? For example I want SOME TEXT to be in the front and then LAYER 3 appear on top of it and then move SOME TEXT back on top of that?
This approach would only allow you to make changes to entire duration of clip though correct? If I add text using just the normal edit layers, I can adjust how long I want the text to show within the clip. For example I may want the text to appear for only have of the clip. I can simply adjust the length on the text in the edit layers. Can you do that using nodes?
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One other thing that could help if you need a vertical node layout is changing the default to vertical. If you go to the menu bar and click Fusion > Fusion Settings > Flow, there is an option to change the flow direction from Horizontal to Vertical.
Hands-down the best description of nodes I've heard yet. Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful!
As someone who used to do layered composites in after effects, this is a comprehensive translation into nodes and flowcharts. This answered all the questions I had and now I can just setup and animate the layers individually.
That's awesome!
Just like that. I spent all morning figuring how and what do all the color coded arrows do and why there aren't any layers here.
And this is surely a lightbulb moment. MANY THANKS!!
This is exactly what I've been saying to people who come from AE or similar. Flipping back and forth with the foreground and background inputs with Ctrl+T really helps solidify this visual as well. Yes, nodes are daunting at first, but they become so much more intuitive.
Also, Sam is not wrong.
You have a gift. Nodes vs layers is a conceptual hurdle for many. This explanation will go a long way in helping the nodally challenged.
I've done the switch from PP and AE to Resolve but have been hesitant to open up Fusion because I just did not get the node workflow - no matter how many videos I watched. You sir, have managed to make sense of it in 5 minutes! Thank you 🙏
I've been stuck playing around with nodes for hours trying to figure it out for myself (trying to put an animated text message popup over one of my videos) and I finally gave up and watched a video - thanks so much for saving me an extra few hours with this!
As a beginner I’ve learned so much from watching your videos and this one was as usual easy to understand, thank you for spreading the knowledge
I had this lightbulb moment about a month ago and I've been working so much more easily in fusion. And I also realized, instead of copying the MediaIn node multiple times, I can just send the output to several other nodes.
Out of all the videos I’ve watched no one has said it like that. It helped
me to relate it to photoshop, and I get it now.
By far the best at explaining Davinci Resolve, especially for people who have finally escaped Premiere Pro.
Really helpful. Great video . Thank you 🙏. Have a great weekend everyone 😀
Your video pretty much confirmed what I was starting to think about nodes and Fusion after watching several tutorials.
It's actually been much clearer than other explanations I've had access to. Thank you very much for your time.
It’s gonna take a wee while to override 30 years of layered thinking. Thank you mightily. A reasonably simple vector logo animation was busting my brain. Now I see clear blue skies and the world is a happier place.
i actually started editing in D.R i now sometimes edit a video in apple motion, and don't find layers so clear to see where everything is. .. so it also works the other way around. thx 4 the vid.
This is exactly what I want all of your tutorials to be like
THIS is the video I've needed since I started using Resolve about 2 years ago! THANK YOU!
Very helpful. I literally just switched from premiere pro to Davinci Resolve yesterday and this was extremely helpful. Soaking in the knowledge! 🤣🤣. 👍👍👍
It's like layers of toast, man! Layers and layers of toast.
Great video as always.
One thing that i think differs the most from layers in a time line , is that its visualizes when the layer starts.
yes this is exactly, in my opinion, the most relevant and in some cases problematic difference: with nodes you have no idea where things start or finish in time
The keyframe view could be a solution for this... but unfortunately, it leaves a lot to be desired.
Yes, lightbulb moment. I kinda got it, but with much more clarity because of your explanation. Thank you.
Yes! Makes it a lot easier to think of nodes like this!
Thank you very much, I finally understand the order of the nodes. A huge thank you again. It's really not easy for us who come from After Effects. GOD BLESS U
Damn man, you appear for every problem i encounter, you are the GOAT of davinci resolve!
Casey, thank you for always making it simple for us noobs!!
Superb video. Concise, simple and answered the question about "draw order" I've had for a while now. Thanks!!
Met you last week at the NAB convention. Appreciated the one-on-one lesson on nodes.
Maaaann this is helpful! I've been struggling with trying to layer stuff and this definitely brings some clarity. Well done.
Glad to hear it! Yep it's kinda tricky, but you'll get it!
Very simple and effective explanation. Thanks Mate
The problem I have is not the layer order, it is working with audio and timing the layers in nodes.
For example, you have a list of things following the audio. Each new line comes on and the previous line may blur or change color or opacity as the total page of graphics builds.
Easy to see and do in layers, but more complicated in nodes.
I would love to see an example done in Fusion.
I'd be curious to see some tutorials for working in Fusion with content that is not the same size as the timeline. For example, you have 4K footage and want to make a TH-cam short. Your footage is contiguous and you need to edit the content not only to fit the vertical resolution but you also need to trim content and use fusion to pan and zoom around the content. As if you were making a tutorial and using a screen cap, but wanted to make a short to focus on one point.
If you edit your content on the timeline to fit the resolution, you lose what is "out of bounds" by bringing it into fusion because it is immediately cropped to timeline resolution.
You can use an adjustment clip on the layer above but that can present some additional confusion and problems of its own.
What's your best practice for this type of scenario? How do you retain full resolution inside of fusion without having to drag direct from the media pool?
Another thing you can do is group your 'layers' together to collapse them down into a single node. This gives a bird's eye view of the entire composite, just like you would get by looking at the basic layers without seeing all of the excruciating details going on inside of each layer.
Great - it's so good to have the basics right. Especially when you come from AfterEffects as I do. Thanks dear friend🙂
Thanks so much casey, this is the best basic explanation for us.
Bruuhhhh no one has ever explained w all the explaining on tube! Thank you 🙏🏿.
Thank you so much for this!! I come from AfterEffects so this explanation helps so much!!
Best explanation I´ve seen so far. Thanks!
Hey Casey, this is what I am talking about, short, simple, well explained, and thank you again for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks, this was a lightbulb moment💡!
Dude! Thank you so much!!! That helps a lot. I've been watching for a while and have a comedy short coming up for the Louisiana Prize Film Festival and to be honest I've been a little nervous about the editing. This really made some connections for me. Onward to the nodes!!!
new to fusion. can you do more of these layer videos. working with mask and blend nodes would help me awful lot. still need to know how to mask inside fusion..
thank you. this video was a big help for undestanding this a bit more...
Thank you, I wish you would talk about this imprisonment with its intransigence and facilitation, because we see it complicated
While I understand how Fusion works, I still find that working with text is still much more involved and complicated than with After Effects, even in the edit page. And I’ve been using Resolve for almost 2 years now. I really wish they’d have a redesign of how text customization works. Because this is one area I really miss from Adobe is the Essential Graphics Panel, which really streamlined text and basic shape graphics.
100%! Essential graphics was the main reason I stayed in premiere so long. Fusion is so hard to understand compared to AE or essential graphics
Great tutorial. This made things much more clear for the reasons you pointed out... Coming from a Photoshop background, this all makes significantly more sense now. Thank you.
THankk you i was looking for this explanation for the longest time thanks
Yeah, this is the video I wish I had when I started using Fusion. Great explanation. Thank you!
Really very (!!) helpful, makes the whole workflow clearer - thanks a lot!
Yes, absolutely a great explanation.
Thank you! super helpful to me as i have a lifetime history in layer world :)
Hi Casey, yes, that was a light bulb moment and a great explanation. However, for me, I would like to know what I can do with this fusion composition so I can use it in other timelines and still be able to edit it?
A-ha! That makes sense. Thank you. Bringing multilayered psd files from Affinity won't seem so daunting now. Cheers!
This was SUPER helpful!!
Thank you!
Hi Casey. Thanks for all your videos, mate. I've learned a lot. Sorry, a tangential question - what tool are you using to highlight the cursor with a blue circle? Is it PointerFocus or something else? Cheers, mate.
Thank you so much. It would deserve another tutorial about how to translate the timeline from the layers visual approach to the nodes one.
This is actually easy 😮 thank you 😊
Great lesson. Thank you!
that brings light into my darkness thx
Thanks Casey! Seen your videos makes me wanna learn more of Fusion. Do you have dicounts for advanced courses? ;)
Awesome Explanation!… You the man!!😊
Excellent explanation!
Very well explained!
Yes. Hugely helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for this, I was about to go back to previous software cause I couldnt wrap my brain around nodes.
Excellent explanation! thanks!
Great explanation, thanks!!!
thanks, Casey. please make more videos like this explain about keyframes motion graphics and importing audio to fusion.☘
This was awesome. Thanks.
Yes, thank you. This was very helpful.
Cool. But how does this interact with the arrangement of clips ?
Nice explaination, .... good reminder
Thank you Casey, super!
hey, i loved this way of explanation but could you also explain track mattes of after-effects in Davinci in the same manner.
Two comments / questions:
- Is there any way of adjusting the curves of several keyframes simultaneously in Fusion? I have found that you can smoothen the curves with a hotkey, yes, but can't drag more than one keyframe at any time to customize them. This is a big loss in comparison to After Effects.
- When repeating but still modifying graphical elements in a timeline it would be helpful to copy and paste the fusion node tree to a new fusion composition. However, the animations within the nodes follow a timecode, so when you paste the nodes with their keyframes to a different part on a timeline, the node lengths in the keyframe window are all kinds of wrong and the fusion composition "breaks" in a way.
- It would be quite helpful for some applications to get a node length be "infinite" so it would be always active no matter the adjustments to a fusion composition length.
More like this! Amazing humor too! 😁
Thank you so much!!!!
How do I change the blend mode in fusion. I'm placing tracking text on a clip, then masked it so it's on the sky (background)... Lastly I want to blend it so it looks like it's behind glass of vehicle. I cannot seem to figure out how to change the blend mode for the text. BTW your tutorials are awesome. I've watched a TON of them to make the videos for my channel. I'd have never got started in Resolve w/o them! Thanks!!!
Yes a huge lightbulb moment thank you -
Light Bulb Moment, haha moment Thank you!! From Chinese to plain English, night & day. Cheers
This doesn't seem to work with shape nodes, such as rectangle.
You're a top. I enjoy your explication. Thinks so mutch.
Do you have a video of the best way to create Proxies in DaVinci?
Super helpful !
Thanks that's a great help
Great! Thank you!
Is there any benefit from adding a text node in fusion to doing the same in the edit section? Is fusion faster at processing the effect vs the edit page etc?
Okay, but how to I make the different texts appear at different times on the video?
Thanks a bunch!
liked that Casey... nice one! 🙏
NICE!! WELL DONE!! Thx
Is there any way to change the order of the "layers" on specific frames? For example I want SOME TEXT to be in the front and then LAYER 3 appear on top of it and then move SOME TEXT back on top of that?
💡Learnt so much from you 👍👊
Nice!! Thanks!!
i just found my new teacher
The intro killed me 😂🎉 didlidlido 😄🙌
What if I want another video or layer beside media in put ?
In Fairlight we can hide the audio tracks but I am unable to hide the audio tracks under Edit tab , is there any option or short cut. Please advise
This approach would only allow you to make changes to entire duration of clip though correct? If I add text using just the normal edit layers, I can adjust how long I want the text to show within the clip. For example I may want the text to appear for only have of the clip. I can simply adjust the length on the text in the edit layers. Can you do that using nodes?
Yep you can do the same thing in the keyframes panel. Just trim each node to appear where you want it to be.
Great! Takes away the Fusion fear!