Hi Mark, Glad you liked the video. Yeah, this is really easy for basic animations. I am probably going to be using this quite a bit! Thanks for watching!
This video has made animating titles so much easier! For a novice video editor like me I thought the whole keyframes approach was a bit long-winded but I didn't know there was an alternative, until now.
Hey Shaun, Thanks for your comments. I agree, keyframes take quite a bit of work. You can do just about anything you want, but they can slow you down. Animating without keyframes keeps everything quick and simple.
Ditto to all the great comments below! I've learned so much from watching your tutorials; and your work here will make my editing work so much easier. Thanks!
I'm very impressed by your Animate Express I would love to be able to use it. I have downloaded your file but cannot get it to install. I'm using Windows 10 and DaVinci Studio 18 . You have obviously put a lot of work into this and I don't know where you get your knowledge from but your understanding of the way da Vinci works is brilliant. Rodger
Hey William - I hope you're well and enjoyed the holidays. just had to jump in here and say THANK YOU! I use animate express ALL-THE-TIME! I just works soooo well. Thank you again for putting such helpful stuff out there!
Almost all of videos are unique and awesome... but this video is specifically something that I needed for quite a long long time.... requested on many channels, but here is the man who delivered it..... so Thanks man....
Sir, you are the best in TH-cam regarding DR in my opinion. I just start learning devanci resolve 16 about 4 mouths ago edit my TH-cam video content and fortunately I found your channel and immediately subscribe to your channel. You are straight to the point and very easily to follow. Had learned lot from your tutorial. Hope you will get 100K subscribers in the near future. Thanks so much for uploading your tutorial content in TH-cam 👍✌
Hey Seth, thanks for your comments and support. The best way to learn is by doing... That's been my plan. Find something I want to know more about, learn it and make videos. Really glad you are learning as well.
Hi Joe.. Sorry it took me so long to get this one out (too much other stuff going on). I have quite a few other videos half way done, so next one should be out pretty soon.
Awesome William. I adore your tuts but most of all I adore your imagination. The way you draw us into the creative headspace behind this BM program. You're King William!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Hi William, thanks for replying me. One question, if I may? I know how to create shaky effect for titles and footages, but how to tweak the parameters to something dynamic and smooth like this: th-cam.com/video/Swysi3NvXNc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=finzar This effect is always on my No.1 wishlist
Thanks very much William for creating & sharing AnimateExpress. Also lots of other useful info is this video and I have only just recently found your channel and immediately subscribed. Once again, a huge THANKS.
Hi William, sorry if I write here. If I right click on the nodes in Fusion I find a "setting" menu on which I find "save as" which allows me to save the nodes as a .setting file Subsequently, if I do a drag & drop of the .setting file, I find my programming and nodes in the node editor. But what is the "Load" command located above the "save as" command for? Can't the .setting file be loaded even with a normal program load? I put the file settings in the library, but it could be convenient to load them also with a normal "load" in the node area, without having to use drag & drop. Am I doing something wrong?
I have not used the before so not sure how it works. I just did a quick test.... it looks like it will load the settings for one specific node only....ex... i edited a node, right clicked and saved (ONLY THE ONE NODE)... modified the node settings,,, then did the load of the file I just saved. It restored the node settings from when i saved it....So only appears to to work for one node. when i tried loading a full composition, it did not do anything... So either drag/drop or adding the composition to the effects library at the ways to use them.
I can not not to thank you for helping me learn. I am not afraid not to get into DR folder on my computer and be able to brake something. Now I finally learned how to add on things
@@WilliamJusticeMedia It reall took me some time to get around Davinci, since I got familiar with it I can now experiment with it. Thank you for your time and I pray you get really well soon!
Hi, I downloaded your Animate Express but I cannot really work with it, since it will not render the transition. I put it in PLAYBACK on SMART already but it will not render, so I don't really know what the transition will look like :( Any ideas?
Sorry for the troubles. Are you still having problems? You may want to try restarting your computer... what happens when it tries to render the effect?
Hi Oliver. Yes, that's the idea. Was trying to make it easier to do some common animations. Which leaves more time to work on other areas of your videos! Thanks for watching!
This is great! Such a useful shortcut for such a common animation! No need to overcomplicate things with keyframes when you don’t have to. Keep up the great work Will!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia pleasure is mine mate.. I'm sharing this channel with my friends as well.. Could you make a tutorial on the settings of BM and also the computer to get better performance?
especially for fusion and color tab. Mine spec is MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012. 2.5 Ghz Dual Core Intel i5, 16gb 1600 MHz DDR3, Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4ooo 1536 MB. What's your suggestion?
@@orknobe Good idea... I will look into that... Performance in Resolve, is definitely something I wish was a lot better. If I find some settings that help I will make a video about it.
Fabulous idea! Both sections were great, liked the first half showing how to get animation using the edit page and the animate express is very cool. Cheers!
Thanks! Hope your doing good! This worked out pretty good. I have made quite a few different things for Resolve, but this is one that I will probably use quite a bit.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia it really is. and i never thought I would be interested in Resolve because I do not want to go into Fusion. But this made it easier. I'm only learning video editing during these lockdowns. and I'm into Premiere and After effects. and now, I think I'll be using Resolve
I was doing this to animate b-roll clips from one to another, I didn't relalize you could do this with text and graphics animations as well. This will cut down on the time I'm spending in Fusion doing custom motion graphics animation. Great tutorial! -Jason
OMG, thank you so much for this! This is gonna save me a lot of time from my old way of manually doing the spin in for text... geez, why didn't I find your channel sooner?
Don't really remember how i found that. I usually just click around on things to see what happens. Seemed like there should be a way to copy those. I knew you can copy clips using alt->click and drag so probably tried that on a transition.
LOOOVE your stuff, man! One very minor suggestion if I may? No music would be great. IDK about other people, but I almost never watch any tutorial videos at real time. This makes the music a lot more unpleasant as you might imagine. Again, you got great content and I greatly appreciate you making these. Keep it up, brothah!
Hi.. Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Sometimes I use audio and other times no... .BUT..you are correct.. in this video it was a bit too much.. .too loud. Thanks
Thanks William. The correct path for MacOS Catalina is: /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions
When you get a chance, give it a try...Its really easy, especially the push transition. The best part is being able to adjust the timing and position of everything without worrying about messing up the animation. It just works. Thanks
Thank you very much. Things to consider improving: The background music is not ducked (does not fate when talking) and made it a bit hard for me to listen. Some parts repeat (like creating the text), maybe you just want to cut that out.
Hello again! Would you be so kind to let me know, where to install it nowadays on a MAC desktop pc?! I would love to be able to use it.... thank you in advance
I solved the Pivot Overlay issue by using a Merge Node with a Text Node "X" with a Checkbox Control that Turns the Blend on or off :) the Center of the Merge is Linked to the Pivot :)
Hi,, how's it going. Hope you are doing well.. That's a good solution. Actually in some of the early versions I did the same things so you could see the pivot point.. it had an "X" but i ended up taking it out...I was putting some animations together and I had forgotten to disable the view so there were all these "X" spots on the screen. I had to go back and click through all the transitions to find the ones where it was enabled... got frustrating...so i ended up taking it out....it would be interesting if they had a way to enable/disable something based on if the transition was selected in the UI. you have a merge that is only enabled when the transition is selected on the time line. You select another transition or clip and it disables the merge....it would be automatic .....anyway... always lots of fun stuff and challenges!!!
Hi William, congrats for one more excellent video. I'm on a Mac and, on the path given, the Template folder is empty, the rest of the path (Edit/Transitions) is not there. Looked elsewhere for something similar, but did not find it. Any ideas? Thanks again for the great work!
with Resolve 17 you should be able to go into fusion to find the folder.. In Resolve Click the Fusion button Open the effects panel Click Edit Templates and then Transitions In top right area, click "..." and choose Show Folder Copy the files to the folder location Restart Resolve
I made all of those effects in Fusion and didnt recognize that its possible with the Transitions. Now I checked out your animate Express tool. Amazing! I understand that that 1 is for pushing in things. 2,3,4 I know too but what does 5 and 6? The settings are the same as 4.
Thanks for your comments. When you are saying... 2,3,4 and 5,6... which settings are you referring to? Not sure i am understanding what you are asking. Which part of the video are you looking at.
Can't get this to work in Resolve 18 Edit on a Mac. Is it not compatible with freemium version of Resolve? The Edit/Effects/ folders didn't exist, but I was able to create them and drop the .settings file in there (and in the Macros folder.) I can open it as a node, but in Edit it appears under Fusion Effects, not Video Transitions.
What version of DR was this tutorial created under and is it OK for DR 17.2 FREE When I go to Fusion Effects it says that "You have Reached a Limitation with DaVinci Resolve" and it requests I buy Studio. I can't seem to get it installed either
Did you figure this out? I will have to check. It should work in DR 17.2 FREE. I should not need any of the upgraded features. If you are still having trouble, let me know.
Thank you man, this will definitely come in handy for my next videos, 🔥 as a beginner I appreciate your work and your teaching method always on point, keep it up, my skills in graphic animation has definitely improved thanks to you 💪
Thanks for your comments. The best way to learn is by doing. Try things out and see how they work. Once you learn a little bit you can build on it and keep learning. Thanks for watching!
This is a lifesaver!!! Been looking for a tool like this to replace Mr Horse Animation Composer and Mt Mograph Motion V3 plugins in After Effects. How did you build this? Is it possible to build a controller like this for other 2D preset animations like bounce, warp, excite, etc?
Hi Josh, Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked this transition. I built this as a fusion transition. It is definitely possible to do just about anything using this technique. any kind of transitions, effects.....
@@WilliamJusticeMedia thanks. Are there any videos you'd recommend (or keywords to search) for learning how to build a controller like this? Also, is it possible to use AnimateExpress.setting in the Fusion window?
Hi William, I want to start editing videos and i was really wanting to go with Davici resolve 16. The problem I have is that FCPX has a great plug in of animated handrawn cartoon elements that are exactly what i need. Do you know if there is anything like this for davinci resolve? Im struggling to find anything.
Hi Stevie... I am not familiar with that plug in. what does it do? you can load lots of different graphics/overlays into resolve. I am assuming the cartoon elements are animated.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks for the reply! Yes buddy they are animated. I've posted a link, if i can get similar animations/sfx in Davinci resolve i would definately purchase it. Sorry about posting the link just easier, ill remove when you see it. You mention you can load animations in, do you know where i can find similar royalty free? This is all new to me, im an electro technical officer in the merchant navy. m.th-cam.com/video/sx6vOWlbLL0/w-d-xo.html So ive actually found something similar, its called RTFX generator by RTFX animations. It might be just what im after as providing I can use them in videos for uploading to YT
Hi William. Thanks for being so generous. I've just installed the 16.2 version and had a problem installing the AnimateExpress. When I get to AppData/Roaming/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Support/Fusion/Templates/Edit there is only a Titles folder, no Transitions folder. What should I do?
Not sure why that would be. Try creating the Transitions folder. Also make sure you are in the /Support/Fusion folder... there are other folders in there and it can be a bit confusing... Hope that helps!
I've davinci 17.4.3, transition works fine, but I don't find version tab like 1,2,3 etc. Under effect-just animate I find controls and settings. There is no easing either
Hey William - does Animate Express work with the free version? I am getting a pop up that says "Warning: Unknown tool found. Name: DirBlurOut. ID: ofx.xom.blackmagicdesign.resolvefx.directionalBlur - same for DirBlurIn? Any thoughts? I am on 17.0B Build 15
Hi... I know that some people have had issues on older beta versions. Try upgrading to the latest beta of resolve 17. Think it is beta 6. I think that fixed the issue that people were having. It should work in the free version.. so don't think that would be the problem. If you are still having trouble, let me know.
thank you so much for all this creative stuff. But one question to the animateexpress. In my DV version 17 I can´t find different versions like you said in your video. When I drag the transition onto the text, I have only one version - not selectable more than one. What did I wrong?
Are you referring to the different easing options? Those are only available in the version 17 animate express.. the other version for resolve 16 does not have as many options.
This seems so much easier to follow than do it in Fusion. I may be slow...but Fusion is so confusing to me no matter how many time I watched and learn.
Yes, It is definitely easier that fusion. This effect was built in fusion... The great part is that you can do anything in fusion and then package it as an effect/transition so you can use it on the timeline. Very useful!
What version of DR was this tutorial created under and is it OK for DR 17.2 FREE When I go to Fusion Effects it says that "You have Reached a Limitation with DaVinci Resolve" and it requests I buy Studio. I can't seem to get it installed either also when going to this folder C:/Users/*my name*/AppData/Roaming/Blackmagic design/DaVinci Resolve/Support/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions/ ... should there be many other Fusions transitions in the folder because it is empty.
U NOW have a NEW Subscriber...ME, and a LIKE and this comment...LOVE...LOVE..And did I say LOVE Your Channel and your website FREE stuff. Tried quite a few...Love them ALL. Cheers & Thanks !!
My mind just exploded. I can't believe I've been using keyframes on position and zoom of text for all this time. This is so much better.
Hi Mark, Glad you liked the video. Yeah, this is really easy for basic animations. I am probably going to be using this quite a bit! Thanks for watching!
I am new and I love it as well. So quick to do animations without key framing.
This video has made animating titles so much easier! For a novice video editor like me I thought the whole keyframes approach was a bit long-winded but I didn't know there was an alternative, until now.
Hey Shaun, Thanks for your comments. I agree, keyframes take quite a bit of work. You can do just about anything you want, but they can slow you down. Animating without keyframes keeps everything quick and simple.
Ditto to all the great comments below! I've learned so much from watching your tutorials; and your work here will make my editing work so much easier. Thanks!
Hi Keith, Great to hear! I am learning too. Just trying to make videos and share what I find.
Are you a magician? It's incredible what you've given to us. Thank you!
Wow, thank you! Nope.. sorry not a magician... just trying to learn and make videos as I go. Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Your tutorial is simple and good for beginners.
THIS IS SO INCREDIBLE 🔥 One of the BEST DAVINCI RESOLVE Channels on the internet 🔥Thank you so much sir for the Free Stuff.
Wow i was looking for a video like this for a week now. Im glad i found you. You helped me alot
Awesome... so glad to hear this helped you out!
I'm very impressed by your Animate Express I would love to be able to use it. I have downloaded your file but cannot get it to install. I'm using Windows 10 and DaVinci Studio 18 .
You have obviously put a lot of work into this and I don't know where you get your knowledge from but your understanding of the way da Vinci works is brilliant. Rodger
Hey William - I hope you're well and enjoyed the holidays. just had to jump in here and say THANK YOU! I use animate express ALL-THE-TIME! I just works soooo well. Thank you again for putting such helpful stuff out there!
a new super useful tutorial. Thanks Bill you're the really best in the tube!
Thanks so much... Really appreciate your support!
Almost all of videos are unique and awesome... but this video is specifically something that I needed for quite a long long time.... requested on many channels, but here is the man who delivered it..... so Thanks man....
Appreciate your comments. Glad you like the tool. I am pretty sure I will be using it for all kinds of things in future videos.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia well not sure about you, but I'm quite sure that I've got some superpowers now.... huge huge time saver man.....
I love you for all your tutorials and whatnot, top-notch content!
Hi Mihail,,, thanks.. appreciate your comments!
After only watching two of your videos. I'm sold on your channel. I had to subscribe because I know more amazing videos are on the way.
thanks. really appreciate your feedback
Sir, you are the best in TH-cam regarding DR in my opinion. I just start learning devanci resolve 16 about 4 mouths ago edit my TH-cam video content and fortunately I found your channel and immediately subscribe to your channel. You are straight to the point and very easily to follow. Had learned lot from your tutorial. Hope you will get 100K subscribers in the near future. Thanks so much for uploading your tutorial content in TH-cam 👍✌
Hey Seth, thanks for your comments and support. The best way to learn is by doing... That's been my plan. Find something I want to know more about, learn it and make videos. Really glad you are learning as well.
Sir, you are absolutely 💯 correct l practice everyday and watching your tutorial👍
Big Thanks, Your Animate Express is reality WOW. Thank you!
The video which I was looking from past 9 months finally I got 😭 thanks man you really good❤️
Aweseom.. Glad you liked it
Mate this is amazing. Just subscribed. Best teacher. Thank you!!!!!!
I was going through my notifications and wondering about "Where's William" yesterday. Here you are today with this super amazing work! Thanks William
Hi Joe.. Sorry it took me so long to get this one out (too much other stuff going on). I have quite a few other videos half way done, so next one should be out pretty soon.
William,thank you for sharing your knowledgements. We appreciate it too much.From Argentina, you are the best!!
Hi Ruben, Thanks for your feedback. Hope everything is great in Argentina!!!!!
Awesome William. I adore your tuts but most of all I adore your imagination. The way you draw us into the creative headspace behind this BM program. You're King William!
Hi Maria, Thank so much for the kind words. Just trying to learn and see if I can create something interesting at the same time.
So useful, omg, saved my HOURS of work
You deserve 1 Million subs, sir, saved me hours of pain
glad you liked the video
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Hi William, thanks for replying me. One question, if I may? I know how to create shaky effect for titles and footages, but how to tweak the parameters to something dynamic and smooth like this: th-cam.com/video/Swysi3NvXNc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=finzar This effect is always on my No.1 wishlist
Thanks very much William for creating & sharing AnimateExpress. Also lots of other useful info is this video and I have only just recently found your channel and immediately subscribed. Once again, a huge THANKS.
Hi ExpatPete, Really appreciate your support! Thanks for watching!
Hi William, sorry if I write here.
If I right click on the nodes in Fusion I find a "setting" menu on which I find "save as" which allows me to save the nodes as a .setting file
Subsequently, if I do a drag & drop of the .setting file, I find my programming and nodes in the node editor.
But what is the "Load" command located above the "save as" command for?
Can't the .setting file be loaded even with a normal program load?
I put the file settings in the library, but it could be convenient to load them also with a normal "load" in the node area, without having to use drag & drop. Am I doing something wrong?
I have not used the before so not sure how it works. I just did a quick test.... it looks like it will load the settings for one specific node only....ex... i edited a node, right clicked and saved (ONLY THE ONE NODE)... modified the node settings,,, then did the load of the file I just saved. It restored the node settings from when i saved it....So only appears to to work for one node. when i tried loading a full composition, it did not do anything... So either drag/drop or adding the composition to the effects library at the ways to use them.
Your channel Is really underrated!! It's gonna blow up soon 👍
I can not not to thank you for helping me learn. I am not afraid not to get into DR folder on my computer and be able to brake something. Now I finally learned how to add on things
Awesome. So glad this video helped you out!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia It reall took me some time to get around Davinci, since I got familiar with it I can now experiment with it. Thank you for your time and I pray you get really well soon!
Hi, I downloaded your Animate Express but I cannot really work with it, since it will not render the transition. I put it in PLAYBACK on SMART already but it will not render, so I don't really know what the transition will look like :( Any ideas?
Sorry for the troubles. Are you still having problems? You may want to try restarting your computer... what happens when it tries to render the effect?
Thank you very much, i enjoy watching your videos, because there is so much to learn!
Glad you like them! Appreciate your support!
I like this! You can do everything, but these simple things you can save your time a lot! Excellent!
Hi Oliver. Yes, that's the idea. Was trying to make it easier to do some common animations. Which leaves more time to work on other areas of your videos! Thanks for watching!
This is great! Such a useful shortcut for such a common animation! No need to overcomplicate things with keyframes when you don’t have to. Keep up the great work Will!
So far the best and most inspiring resolve video..
Thanks so much... Really glad you liked it! Appreciate your support!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia pleasure is mine mate.. I'm sharing this channel with my friends as well.. Could you make a tutorial on the settings of BM and also the computer to get better performance?
especially for fusion and color tab. Mine spec is MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012. 2.5 Ghz Dual Core Intel i5, 16gb 1600 MHz DDR3, Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4ooo 1536 MB. What's your suggestion?
@@orknobe Good idea... I will look into that... Performance in Resolve, is definitely something I wish was a lot better. If I find some settings that help I will make a video about it.
Fabulous idea! Both sections were great, liked the first half showing how to get animation using the edit page and the animate express is very cool. Cheers!
Thanks! Hope your doing good! This worked out pretty good. I have made quite a few different things for Resolve, but this is one that I will probably use quite a bit.
Really amazing work William! You've got a new subscriber here and have become my joint fave Resolver alongside Mr Alex Tech!
Thanks so much... I really appreciate your support. Glad to have a new subscriber. New videos coming soon!
Another great video William. Lots of really useful info well presented. 👍👏👏👏
Hey Mark... Thanks... This type of animation is really easy... I will probably be using it in lots of my videos for all kind of things.
very very useful, it will bring your workflow to a whole new level. glad I watched this.
Hey Rocky, Thanks for watching. Its a great way to quickly setup some simple animations.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia it really is. and i never thought I would be interested in Resolve because I do not want to go into Fusion. But this made it easier. I'm only learning video editing during these lockdowns. and I'm into Premiere and After effects. and now, I think I'll be using Resolve
Excellent. Great information clearly explained. Thanks!
Hey Mike, Thanks for watching!
Very nicely done Bill! Thanks. Best, John
HeyJohn, Thanks so much!
Another key piece of information learned. Manipulation of text and images by just using transitions. How good is that? Thanks William.
Hey John, Yes it is good... I always like to find easier ways to get things done. Thanks for watching!
Thanks a lot from Canada. :)
This is wonderful!!! I learn something new about Davinci R. Great work William!! You got a Sub here and a thumb up.
Thanks so much. Really glad you liked this video!
Great job Thanks !!
Thanks. Glad you liked the video!
Excellent tutorials. You are very knowledgeable and a great teacher too. Thanks William for your time.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your comments!
Mr. Justice thank you very much for your work; for your practical and very informative videos! Thank you!!!
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your comments!
I was doing this to animate b-roll clips from one to another, I didn't relalize you could do this with text and graphics animations as well. This will cut down on the time I'm spending in Fusion doing custom motion graphics animation. Great tutorial!
-Jason
Hey Jason, Glad I could help! Yeah I agree.. It helps a lot and makes everything much easier to setup.
Very nice! Been thinking about this myself for a long time. Thanks for the help!
Thanks... i have been thinking about this for a while too. I wanted an easier to to do some basic animations. Thanks for the feedback!
Awesome William!
Hi DrHans, Thanks... Glad you liked the video!
OMG this is some big brain stuff! How did I miss this! Thank you!!!
Hi, Thanks for the comments. Glad you liked this one!
Great video.
I use loads of text in my vids and never even thought about sticking transitions on text... it’s obvious now you say it 🙂
Hi Alex... Thanks for the comments.
Mister Justice, you are the best
Thanks
OMG, thank you so much for this! This is gonna save me a lot of time from my old way of manually doing the spin in for text... geez, why didn't I find your channel sooner?
Hi, Thanks for the coments!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks for sharing your Resolve knowledge & hard work! :D
How did you discover alt key transition copying? I’ve been in negligence for years!
Don't really remember how i found that. I usually just click around on things to see what happens. Seemed like there should be a way to copy those. I knew you can copy clips using alt->click and drag so probably tried that on a transition.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Yeah, and there's a way to apply the same transition to multiple clips at once... I just can't remember how right now.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia
Waiting from more tool of you. Keep at work. ANd just keep good prices.
First visit to your channel, won't be the last. Thank you.
Hey Ian, Thanks so much for your comments. You are welcome back anytime!
Great work ! Really appreciate your videos, super instructive. Dowloaded the file and already installed it in DR. Can't wait to use it. Thanks man !
Awesome... Glad you liked it. Hope you can do something interesting with it!
This is what I’ve needed
Greeting from Hong Kong, your video is very useful, thanks for your share!
Hey, hope things are good in Hong Kong. Thanks for watching! Appreciate your feedback!
LOOOVE your stuff, man! One very minor suggestion if I may? No music would be great. IDK about other people, but I almost never watch any tutorial videos at real time. This makes the music a lot more unpleasant as you might imagine. Again, you got great content and I greatly appreciate you making these. Keep it up, brothah!
Hi.. Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it. Sometimes I use audio and other times no... .BUT..you are correct.. in this video it was a bit too much.. .too loud. Thanks
Thanks William.
The correct path for MacOS Catalina is:
/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions
Hey Steve...Thanks so much... I have the path updated. Appreciate it!
Great stuff as usual. Simple tool but very flexible. Can’t wait to try it out.
When you get a chance, give it a try...Its really easy, especially the push transition. The best part is being able to adjust the timing and position of everything without worrying about messing up the animation. It just works. Thanks
Thank you very much,William,a useful addition would be a quick vertical text solution instead of using one text for each letter...
Great suggestion!
Thank you very much.
Things to consider improving:
The background music is not ducked (does not fate when talking) and made it a bit hard for me to listen.
Some parts repeat (like creating the text), maybe you just want to cut that out.
Hola.
Sencillo y muy fácil de hacer.
Hay que tener imaginación.
Saludos.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Muchas gracias. ¡Realmente aprecio su apoyo! ¡Me alegra que te guste el video!
There must be one soulless person on TH-cam who dislikes this awesome video. Your skills are just great. :thumbs up:
Thanks... Really appreciate your support!
Hello again! Would you be so kind to let me know, where to install it nowadays on a MAC desktop pc?! I would love to be able to use it.... thank you in advance
I solved the Pivot Overlay issue by using a Merge Node with a Text Node "X" with a Checkbox Control that Turns the Blend on or off :) the Center of the Merge is Linked to the Pivot :)
Hi,, how's it going. Hope you are doing well.. That's a good solution. Actually in some of the early versions I did the same things so you could see the pivot point.. it had an "X" but i ended up taking it out...I was putting some animations together and I had forgotten to disable the view so there were all these "X" spots on the screen. I had to go back and click through all the transitions to find the ones where it was enabled... got frustrating...so i ended up taking it out....it would be interesting if they had a way to enable/disable something based on if the transition was selected in the UI. you have a merge that is only enabled when the transition is selected on the time line. You select another transition or clip and it disables the merge....it would be automatic .....anyway... always lots of fun stuff and challenges!!!
A great tutorial with useful info. The music ,however, is a quite loud and intrusive. Thank you for the video.
HI... Thanks for the feedback.. Yeah... It is a bit loud in spots. I will try to fix that in future videos.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Excellent.. I really do enjoy watching your videos - the animation side of things in DR is so exciting!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia I enjoyed it, but it was a bid loud. Is it a royalty-free song? I'm looking for some good royalty-free music.
Dito on the music, super annoying and distracting to an otherwise great Tutorial 👍
Very good work, thanks for sharing it!
Hi Michel, Thanks!
Hi William, congrats for one more excellent video. I'm on a Mac and, on the path given, the Template folder is empty, the rest of the path (Edit/Transitions) is not there. Looked elsewhere for something similar, but did not find it. Any ideas? Thanks again for the great work!
with Resolve 17 you should be able to go into fusion to find the folder..
In Resolve Click the Fusion button
Open the effects panel
Click Edit Templates and then Transitions
In top right area, click "..." and choose Show Folder
Copy the files to the folder location
Restart Resolve
Awesome
Thanks so much!
As always great video something with the ease of use and million applications.
Thanks... that's the idea with this one. Wanted something that anyone could easily use. Lots of possibilities.
Awesome, thanks for this video and great value:)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very Good Knowledge added by You Thank you
thanks
Thank you, very helpful
Can resolve be used for photo editing ? Or which free or one time payment software would you recommend ?
Hi, Resolve can probably be used for photo editing, but I have never tried it. Interesting idea...
I made all of those effects in Fusion and didnt recognize that its possible with the Transitions. Now I checked out your animate Express tool. Amazing! I understand that that 1 is for pushing in things. 2,3,4 I know too but what does 5 and 6? The settings are the same as 4.
Thanks for your comments. When you are saying... 2,3,4 and 5,6... which settings are you referring to? Not sure i am understanding what you are asking. Which part of the video are you looking at.
This is really excellent, thanks for sharing!
Hey Derek... Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Can't get this to work in Resolve 18 Edit on a Mac. Is it not compatible with freemium version of Resolve? The Edit/Effects/ folders didn't exist, but I was able to create them and drop the .settings file in there (and in the Macros folder.) I can open it as a node, but in Edit it appears under Fusion Effects, not Video Transitions.
Nevermind. I got the new one named JustAnimateExpress.settings and created a Transitions folder and it seems to be working
Thank you. Awesome tuts.
Hi Alastair,, Appreciate your comments. Thanks.
Practical, thank you very much!
Hi Howard, thanks for your comments!
Nice tutorial.....I made it through the path but there is no "Transitions" folder under Edit, only "Titles"......Using version 18
Amazing video, just found out about you and worth my sub and like immediately. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks... really appreciate your support!
What version of DR was this tutorial created under and is it OK for DR 17.2 FREE When I go to Fusion Effects it says that "You have Reached a Limitation with DaVinci Resolve" and it requests I buy Studio. I can't seem to get it installed either
Did you figure this out? I will have to check. It should work in DR 17.2 FREE. I should not need any of the upgraded features. If you are still having trouble, let me know.
Wow there's been a while since a saw a video without dislikes amazing!! august 2020
Thanks for your comments!!!
awesome tutorial!!!really helpful :)
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you man, this will definitely come in handy for my next videos, 🔥
as a beginner I appreciate your work and your teaching method always on point, keep it up, my skills in graphic animation has definitely improved thanks to you 💪
Thanks for your comments. The best way to learn is by doing. Try things out and see how they work. Once you learn a little bit you can build on it and keep learning. Thanks for watching!
This is a lifesaver!!! Been looking for a tool like this to replace Mr Horse Animation Composer and Mt Mograph Motion V3 plugins in After Effects. How did you build this? Is it possible to build a controller like this for other 2D preset animations like bounce, warp, excite, etc?
Hi Josh, Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked this transition. I built this as a fusion transition. It is definitely possible to do just about anything using this technique. any kind of transitions, effects.....
@@WilliamJusticeMedia thanks. Are there any videos you'd recommend (or keywords to search) for learning how to build a controller like this? Also, is it possible to use AnimateExpress.setting in the Fusion window?
Hi William, I want to start editing videos and i was really wanting to go with Davici resolve 16. The problem I have is that FCPX has a great plug in of animated handrawn cartoon elements that are exactly what i need. Do you know if there is anything like this for davinci resolve? Im struggling to find anything.
Hi Stevie... I am not familiar with that plug in. what does it do? you can load lots of different graphics/overlays into resolve. I am assuming the cartoon elements are animated.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks for the reply! Yes buddy they are animated. I've posted a link, if i can get similar animations/sfx in Davinci resolve i would definately purchase it. Sorry about posting the link just easier, ill remove when you see it. You mention you can load animations in, do you know where i can find similar royalty free? This is all new to me, im an electro technical officer in the merchant navy.
m.th-cam.com/video/sx6vOWlbLL0/w-d-xo.html
So ive actually found something similar, its called RTFX generator by RTFX animations. It might be just what im after as providing I can use them in videos for uploading to YT
Hi William. Thanks for being so generous. I've just installed the 16.2 version and had a problem installing the AnimateExpress. When I get to AppData/Roaming/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Support/Fusion/Templates/Edit there is only a Titles folder, no Transitions folder. What should I do?
Not sure why that would be. Try creating the Transitions folder. Also make sure you are in the /Support/Fusion folder... there are other folders in there and it can be a bit confusing... Hope that helps!
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thanks for the prompt response. The folder was there after reiniciating.
@@luisfernandoarrudadecarval7832 Great. Glad you got it working!
GENIUS!
I don't know if it's just me, but the mac download instructions aren't visible/navigable
I've davinci 17.4.3, transition works fine, but I don't find version tab like 1,2,3 etc. Under effect-just animate I find controls and settings. There is no easing either
Great work, thank you very much!
Hi John, Thanks for your support!
Hey William - does Animate Express work with the free version? I am getting a pop up that says "Warning: Unknown tool found. Name: DirBlurOut. ID: ofx.xom.blackmagicdesign.resolvefx.directionalBlur - same for DirBlurIn? Any thoughts? I am on 17.0B Build 15
Hi... I know that some people have had issues on older beta versions. Try upgrading to the latest beta of resolve 17. Think it is beta 6. I think that fixed the issue that people were having. It should work in the free version.. so don't think that would be the problem. If you are still having trouble, let me know.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Thank you so much William! I will upgrade and see how we go! Cheers for everything. Kev
@@WilliamJusticeMedia Yup that fixed it! You are the best! Thank you!
thank you so much for all this creative stuff. But one question to the animateexpress. In my DV version 17 I can´t find different versions like you said in your video. When I drag the transition onto the text, I have only one version - not selectable more than one. What did I wrong?
Are you referring to the different easing options? Those are only available in the version 17 animate express.. the other version for resolve 16 does not have as many options.
@@WilliamJusticeMedia OK, so I have downloaded an old Version. I Work With 17
This is really amazing!
Glad you liked the effect!
This seems so much easier to follow than do it in Fusion. I may be slow...but Fusion is so confusing to me no matter how many time I watched and learn.
Yes, It is definitely easier that fusion. This effect was built in fusion... The great part is that you can do anything in fusion and then package it as an effect/transition so you can use it on the timeline. Very useful!
thank you but i cant see the version option for the one i install
I like it a LOT!
Thanks
What version of DR was this tutorial created under and is it OK for DR 17.2 FREE When I go to Fusion Effects it says that "You have Reached a Limitation with DaVinci Resolve" and it requests I buy Studio. I can't seem to get it installed either also when going to this folder
C:/Users/*my name*/AppData/Roaming/Blackmagic design/DaVinci Resolve/Support/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Transitions/ ... should there be many other Fusions transitions in the folder because it is empty.
OOOPs I was looking for it in the wrong pull down effects menu.
HI, DId you get the effect working? or are you still having trouble?
Thanks for this input! this accelerate my workflow A LOT. I have a question. On my mac I can see the version, yet on my PC I can't :( any helo?
hi Jose. not sure why pc and Mac would be different
Thank you so much for doing this and stuff like this!
Hey Alex,....Glad you enjoy it!
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