6 FREE Davinci Resolve Effects I Use On EVERY PROJECT!

[@ozzmanzz]

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been using Resolve professionally for 5 years and I didn’t know most of these. Thanks for posting.

[@foggymoe3590]

Same XD

[@wasadyy1728]

I am not a professional, but I am using it for 1.5 years from now, and I knew these things but the complicated method and a lots of trial and errors.

[@Sustainavore]

Push is my go to! One quick tip: instead of copying, clicking the other clip to highlight it green, and then pasting--you can instead just hold 'alt' and drag the transition to the clip you want, and it will duplicate it. It's super fast. You can also use that method to duplicate most anything on the timeline, and if you want to just select one thing in a linked clip (like just the audio or video) without unlinking them, 'alt' and clicking on what you want will allow you to select just that one clip without anything else associated with it. Edit: I learned another quick way to add to multiple: if you select all of the clips you want to apply the transition to, and then click on the edge as if you were going to change the length of all clips, it will highlight ALL of them green along the edge, and then when you paste, it will apply to all of them. This is actually incredibly helpful for me! The green highlight thing to allow paste is new to me though, and will definitely come in handy when I am adding to a bunch of tracks. Thank you!

[@dunnadidit]

Absolutely! Great addition, thanks for sharing! Glad you found the video helpful too!

[@TobiasWeberRSA]

It's crazy that this is all part of a free software.

[@dunnadidit]

Right!? Pretty nuts!

[@ismaelferreira6447]

Man, you didnt see capcut yet. (For sure is not the best software for other things, but for good presers like this it it King

[@TobiasWeberRSA]

@@ismaelferreira6447 I use it on my phone all the time. Couldn’t really get into it on my computer though. Davinci still works best for me there.

[@Jonathan-zg3sc]

Just pirate the studio version

[@_nahwhat]

​@@Jonathan-zg3scI wouldn't want to pirate from a company that has good business practices

[@lenVallo]

Zooming with adjustment layer just blew my mind 🤯 ..i was zooming every single clip manually this is a serious gamechanger thank you 🔥😄

[@magdalena99]

Just found out on another tutorial that you can actually zoom in or out the clips in the inspector -> Video -> Dynamic Zoom!

[@philogofer]

damn me too. ive got alot to learn

[@StayHungry41]

SAME

[@moono_lith]

Dude adjustment clips are a game changer, makes it so much easier than constantly having to chop up my video when I want to add effects to specific sections

[@darleneelizabethmusic]

I have spent so much time adding key frames that often times have to be changed, just to try out different zoom composition ideas. This adjustment clip is going to be game changing! Thanks for making such a great video!

[@jorgeantonioherreraayala7015]

Its great to have a very understandable and clear english for us that english isn´t our native language. Always watching you Dunna, Grettings from méxico! 🇲🇽

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you for the kind words! Greetings from Canada!

[@The_Plastic_Ape]

Blanking fill and adjustment has changed everything. Subbed.

[@prestonurvina]

Crazy how you can use all of the effects, watch a video, and find out how many more useful ways you can use it! Thanks, Sir.

[@dunnadidit]

Right!? That’s why it’s so important that video editors and creators talk to eachother! We can learn so much from eachother!

[@prestonurvina]

@@dunnadidit 100%. Working on getting more consistent on my uploads as we speak

[@dunnadidit]

@prestonurvina love that!

[@JonatanCastro]

Please do more of these videos about simple, quick, and easy motion graphics on DaVinci Resolve that actually look cool and make your videos look professional. Thanks a bunch for this one!

[@dunnadidit]

Noted! I’ll keep that in mind!

[@TLOverlander]

Blanking fill... You just changed my life!

[@dunnadidit]

Boom!

[@fightybattlereacts]

The Blanking fill one is CRAZY!!!

[@Fishingonvideogames]

true going to save me soooo much time on the shorts

[@RVTIPSANDTRAVELS]

Thanks Dunna, just switched to Resolve so I'm binging your videos, as I did years ago with camera shot videos when I started the channel. Care to share the font name at 5:58? (where it reads "drop shadow")

[@FPSpsychoYT]

I have a quick question regarding the "favourites" tab, for some reason when I favourite any effect I enjoy, sometimes it'll remove it the next time I go to use it? Just curious if anyone else had this issue and how to potentially fix it. All great points, solid video! 💙

[@crazystevejulian]

5:26 you could also use the dynamic zoom function it adjust's given on the clip's time. just a small trick :) (theres also a dynamic zoom editor which allows you to adjust the direction of the zoom the total size and more)

[@bulwazurbulwazur]

Blanking fill you presented is a game changer, so far i applied 3tracks including adjustment clip to get this blurry background effect for vertical shots. I also liked this soft zoom effect that we can replicate easily to any clip thanks to adjustment clip. I've learned recently from your channel how to make 'editing to the bit' more user friendly. Very good content, thank you

[@dunnadidit]

So glad to hear that my content has been helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@celestepalm6949]

I'm always learning new vid lingo: what does 'editing to the bit' mean? I love the Blanking Fill too!

[@dunnadidit]

@@celestepalm6949 it’s “editing to the beat” (of the music) I think it was just a typo. I had a recent video on that topic!

[@themusp]

The only one of these I've used is the camera shake, but I've only used it for more violent, earth-quake-esque shaking. I just uploaded my most effort intensive video ever. I wish I'd known these before I did that, but they're definitely going in my arsenal for future videos!

[@HonkiePlonkie]

You just made me go through all the effects for 5 hours long, tweaking all of them and see what they all really do

[@mosubekore78]

The most beginners friendly video of this topic

[@sergeyiu2301]

Wait, on 0:45 how does he split the left panel for project bin and effects panel? For one thing replace the other when opened. Is it a new feature of resolve 19?

[@margrace8753]

The blanking fill and drop shadow comes in a perfect time. I will have to edit a video with a lot of pictures, what i have never done before and i already thought of ways to not just have this 2D look of a squared picture on a 2D backround...

[@llpreiss]

WOW!!! Where were you when I needed these on previous projects? I did it the hard way -- searched until it was found; UGH! Thanks again.

[@dunnadidit]

Haha… sorry… and you’re welcome 😂😂 I guess I should have made this one a while ago

[@JasonLorette]

Ohhh...Push & Blanking Fill are definitely going to get used! Those plus making presets for them and the favs list! Thanks Dunna! 📷😎

[@dunnadidit]

My pleasure dude!

[@philipsbrett]

Thanks Dunna, these are so useful! Adding this video to my list of "glad I found it, but also agonizing over the hours lost before hand" playlist. I've been shooting an interview series for about a year now, and only just found out about remote grades last month. All these tips to avoid endless copy & pastes are welcome!

[@dunnadidit]

Haha those seem to be the playlists I live on most of the time! Glad it was helpful 😁

[@StayHungry41]

Brother, that adjustment clip is an absolute game changer. I have commentary and react videos I do pretty often and have to manually enter the zoom, x and y coordinates on clips to give myself a full frame of my face cam. I've had videos where I've manually entered coordinates over 100 times to get a zoom on on my face. The fact I could just copy and paste an adjustment clip over the top of them makes me partly furious because I've wasted so much time, but mostly elated that I now have a solution to dramatically increase my workflow. I wish I could give you a hug(but I'm sure you'll settle for a Subscribe).

[@HeyThisIsAndrew]

Seriously! Thank you! I need to make it a mission of mine to watch a minimum 3 of your videos per day to master resolve! You just helped me in several ways. Every tip was something I needed and googled but could not find the answer for. Like the background with text! The way you described and showed it to be so seamless! Thanks man!

[@dunnadidit]

Haha I’m gonna need to make some more videos fast or you’re gonna run out!!

[@HeyThisIsAndrew]

@@dunnadidit Do you have any tips on recording VO in davinci resolve? I followed a couple tutorials and each of them caused my video to export with left channel only audio. I am using a Blue Yeti Mic

[@dunnadidit]

@HeyThisIsAndrew sounds like the track that you’re recording to is a stereo track. 2 fixes, either patch your input channel to BOTH the left and right channel of that track, or make a mono track to do your VO on.

[@HeyThisIsAndrew]

@@dunnadidit thank you!

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

Excellent video and demonstration of how you use it! I'm new to Davinci Resolve from PP and am just scratching the surface of its power. The one thing Adobe PP did better so far though is text based editing, it's far superior to DR studio's version and I've already submitted bugs to the engineer team who have confirmed there are issues and it wasn't behaving properly. So hopefully they can catch up to PP's text based editing and it'll be pretty darn perfect. The text box wrapping is also a thing missing in DR but meh, I'll work with the workarounds. I do wish DR would allow users to save the default for all the settings though so workflow could be even faster! Things like blank fill and dynamic zoom for example.

[@jeremiahsalunatrono9889]

Thanks a ton for sharing your skills with us, Dunna! Quick question though: how did you manage to move your playhead using the Shift + arrow keys? I tried it, but instead of moving the playhead, it just shifts the clip underneath by 5 frames. Even when I don't have any clips selected, it's still not working. Any tips on that?

[@cjnaasz]

I'm just getting started with video editing and this video helped tremendously, thank you so much!

[@jer3006]

Huge tip about difference between Drop Shadow Effect vs Text+ Drop Shadow! Thanks for clearly explaining those gotchas.

[@dunnadidit]

Heck yeah! Always glad to help!

[@HelloDanzel]

THANK YOU, always loving your tips because its just so easy to digest even though they are simple you truly take it step by step. Appreciate ya

[@DoffenGG]

Drop down is going to be a lifesaver 😄 Done that manually to text the whole time. Copied some sure, but this is much much easier. Great tips!

[@ausdoug974]

Very, very helpful. I've been trying to duplicate the functionality in Fusion and these effects are so much better and easier. Thanks so much for creating this video for us. Brilliant.

[@marc_likes_marketing]

Davinci rocks! I'm still an Adobe fanboy, but Resolve's color grading is next level (I own the Studio version).

[@dunnadidit]

So true!

[@avgytenjoyer91]

definitely will use the breaking fill the most when converting landscape videos from my streams to vertical clips

[@adrielalves531]

i'm just getting into DVR (as of... yesterday), and omg Camera Shake and Blanking Fill will be so helpful!!! tysm for this video

[@YeetSurfing]

you can also use the blanking effect to change the aspect ratio of your video - for a more cinematic look rather than adding black bars

[@dunnadidit]

Great idea!

[@BushveldBoet]

Just started my creating journey and I am so grateful for having come accross your video!! This is a game changer! Thank you😃💥

[@geotsaou]

Great video man, shows how to use resolve but also gives examples to make your brain create different senarios as to when to use them. Awesome!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@natepotter6911]

Good to see ya, Dunna! Great tips, thanks much!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@99rpm]

Hi Dunna, I was wondering, the title cards shown at 1:11 (Push) for example, do you hand-edit the text for every of these cards or is it one master sequence that you use instances of and enter the text via a separate text field?

[@dunnadidit]

This specific video is a bit different because I was trying to be cheeky by showing the effect I was going to talk about with each title card. But the push title card is the closest to what I typically use in my videos. All that is is the background on one layer and then a text+ on a layer above. When I need to create more, I just highlight those two clips (background and text) and either copy and paste or opt(alt) drag to copy them to the new location, change the text in the text+ clip and I’m done. Hope that answers your question.

[@99rpm]

@@dunnadiditthank you 👍

[@IanKristoffer]

As a newbie moving from premiere to davinci this saves me a lot! More power to your amazing content maan ⚡

[@dunnadidit]

Cheers! So glad to hear it! Welcome to the DVR squad!

[@DennisKing]

I really needed a creative kick today. This was it and I'm ready to edit. Thanks!

[@dunnadidit]

I’m so glad to hear that!!!

[@42north]

Love it. Great to see your progress. Here since 20k

[@ConnorEckdahl]

I just started using davinci and these tips were super helpful! Was very easy to follow. Thanks dude!

[@EastPh1lly]

love it! i now have a idea how to edit photoshowcase-stories for instagram with the push transition. + the dropshadow effect will separate them from background

[@dunnadidit]

These are SOOO handy for vertical content!

[@EastPh1lly]

@@dunnadidit thank you very much for all of your content! Even after nearly 2 years in this software - there are always things you’re not aware of in your actual workflow. 😁

[@dunnadidit]

Totally!

[@alvinniza]

Just start using Davinci Resolve and I can say this is the most helpful video I ever need.

[@danielruff5693]

Dude.. thanks to your videos and my practice in davinci resolve, I'm able to earn my money with video editing. Can't thank you enough man! And again: very nice and important tips. Especially the Blanking Fill was a huge face palm moment for me :D

[@dunnadidit]

That’s such an amazing thing to hear! Thanks for letting me know!

[@OTWD]

I hadn't thought to use camera shake on tripod footage - great idea. Thanks for making this video.

[@masterdentaltechnician1914]

I am new to Davinci Resolve, and I learned a lot from that video. Thank you !

[@DFD1]

These are the most common effects most of us use or should be using anyway. Very good use cases too. Great tips 👍👍

[@BruscoTheBoar]

Bro you've shown me a ton of stuff i used to animate by hand in the fusion tab lol And the drop shadow is an awesome thing that will come handy in future videos. Thanks a lot!

[@AIMadnessYT]

Great tips! I can see myself using that Push Effect on most of my projects now as well haha. Thank you!

[@TheIndieBuffet]

Ohhh these are good! Just started really using Davinci so I will be pushing a few of these to my daily routine

[@FenzirL]

Daamn This is crazy! Esp that blanking fill 🤯 Thank dunna! 🙌🏻

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@charlesdavidmedia]

Blanking fill for the win, I didn't know about this effect ! I'm already using it on a project, thanks

[@dunnadidit]

Nice! Great to hear I helped you find it!

[@isi_outdoor]

Little Question off topic, i wantet do Colorgrade some GoPro Footage, but i cant find informations about the colourspace of the GoPro (11), would you perform a CST and how? Thanks in advance, love your Videos!

[@dunnadidit]

As far as I’m aware, GoPro footage is generally already in a rec709 space so you should just be able to apply the corrections and looks that you want with no CST

[@Applebymoments]

Your video is amazingly helpful! Quick question: I like the camera shake effect! But is there an effect that does the opposite? When we have shaky footage an effect that makes it “Steady footage” Asking for my wife😅

[@dunnadidit]

In the inspector on the right, there is a “stabilize” panel, try that! It’s not always perfect but it can help.

[@Applebymoments]

@@dunnadiditI mean her video recording isn’t crazy shaky but she doesn’t use a gimbal or anything. She’s a photographer so looks natural. Would be interesting to see what da Vinci does to the footage. Thanks 🙏

[@robbyalzn]

i do blanking fill manually before watched this video. Thanks bro

[@dunnadidit]

Happy to help!

[@TheFlyFishingFilmmaker]

Were those clips in this video from Escalante? We were just there checking out the slot canyons

[@joshherron7]

These are some really good tips. I appreciate you making this video and taking the time to teach us this. This is my second time watching it as of finally started to get editing down again. I'm going to try to add some of these tricks into my next video.

[@RyanGreen]

Dunna did it again I reckon I’m going to make use of pretty much all of these! Thanks man

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!! Stoked to hear it!

[@j.r.outdoors247]

These are awesome. Thanks so much for sharing. I love learning this stuff and you do a great job of explaining it. The push is definitely something that i will be adding.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ev_p]

This is great! I switched to Davinci this past year.

[@owlmuso]

Very useful, thank you, thank you man for your generosity and time in creating videos like this. I been trying to figure out how to make more use out of the Davinci FX and this video goes a long way to helping me with that goal. I am still on a mission to learn how to get even more creative with fx like glitching, waviness etc. I have tried some of these before but its tough to not end up with something cheesy. Another question I have is this... on my music DAW I have options to create LFO generator effects (sine, square, random etc) that can be mapped to parameters in separate effects to create interesting movements in these other effects... is there a way to do the same in Davinci?

[@BearClaymore]

Man, thanks THANKS! This is one of the best, easy to follow, well explained, to the point and with actual real basic use case scenarios that will help anyone, specially beginners like me. Subbing rn!

[@frankygoestocanada]

Very nice video! I learned a lot with it! I knew all of these FX without knoowing how to '' play'' or to 'tweak'' with them! My problem now will be to remeber them. But the last ''how to set up'' trick will help me! Thanks dude and have a great one!

[@ruhani-rabin]

Thanks for this. However, I am having trouble zooming in on a screen area (for tutorial videos with screen recording) and making them reusable. How should I go about it? Should I Use Adjustment Clips?

[@achimforst6097]

Thanks, Dunna, for the useful tips ! Used the Drop Shadow till now only within the Inspector !

[@saviourudo1062]

Thank you! Blanking fill has saved the day!

[@Phrystile]

Oh man great video! I just stumbled across it today and these tips are really helpful - makes me want to go edit a new video just to try them out! Awesome stuff, thank you!

[@Troldefar94]

Question on the "Adjustment Clip" would this have any effect on the Music/sound layer ea. if you put a speed up effect on, would the music/sound go faster as well? If so is there a way to choose which cuts I want to be effected by the adjustment?

[@SauceIsMyPersonality]

I had no idea about some of these - thank you!! 🙏🏻

[@dunnadidit]

Nice! That’s always the goal!

[@JemManeXJ]

This video just helped me save so much time while editing. Thank you man! 😁😁

[@Topcatyo.]

While I’ve used the Adjustment Clips in a similar way, I do feel like there should be a disclaimer in that section about them. I would, first of all, recommend not using adjustment clips to Zoom. I don’t know the best technical way to phrase this? Adjustment clips will zoom in on the clip at the resolution it is at on the timeline. So, if you have 8K footage and the timeline is at 4K resolution, the zoom from the Adjustment Clip will zoom on the clip as it is on the timeline, at 4K. This means any zooming in that you do with an adjustment clip is going to start to pixelate immediately. Adjustment clips are nice if the timeline res is the max resolution you’re going to get from that media anyway, or if you wanted to apply an effect to the whole screen. But if you use Adjustment Clips to zoom in, the media will pixelate (I think even if you’re zooming in on a Fusion effect, which is technically a vector, you still get pixelation).

[@EmmettLiv]

Great stuff! Where can one access your awesome backgrounds (black paper etc).

[@Semion.]

Love it man, that was really helpful, thanks a lot.

[@dunnadidit]

Glad it helped!

[@Matein13]

Man, I've been an Avid-->Final Cut-->Premiere editor for many, many years, and I'm just now getting into DaVinci and man is this a game changer. I hope they eat Adobe's lunch.

[@celestepalm6949]

Yeah, I really loathe when popular app services try to hold hostage their customers with "rent-forever-never-to-own" tactics.

[@Matein13]

@@celestepalm6949 Yup...it just puts a bad taste in my mouth. Like, I've bought previous versions outright...what's the point if we don't own what we by? Why spend the money at all? Especially if they aren't making the products any better.

[@isaactalbert]

Actually super valuable and understandable unlike alot of explainer videos. Thanks!

[@dibyabt]

atleast a video tht talks about the right thing someone needs to teach.. very helpful.. thank you.

[@wildzenventures]

These are all very interesting! I look forward to trying these!

[@dunnadidit]

I hope they’re useful for you!

[@midoriuora]

you've solved a 2 year issue for me< I've been struggling with some things and you cleared them, thanks a lot !

[@SherardYu]

I prefer using Dynamic Zoom with an Adjustment layer instead of keyframing the Zoom. The best part about it is that I can easily make adjustments by modifying the Adjustment layer rather than having to go back and edit the keyframes. To make things more convenient, I have saved it in a Power Bin. 😊

[@dunnadidit]

That can totally be a good one! I personally find dynamic zoom a bit limiting and fidgety, I don’t like that it changes the speed of the zoom based on the length of the clip. But in certain situations it is definitely a handy call.

[@bharaninathkomandur6330]

Great video. To the point with examples. Thank you for sharing.

[@AirAssaultRando]

Absolutely going to try to implement some of these in my next video. I’ve been doing some of them the hard way already!

[@さみゅ]

2:24 プッシュ 5:53 ドロップシャドウ

[@wmello1963]

I've learned a lot from your videos, but I have a question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I am making a family videography and I was wondering what is the standard font size when making a tutorial or historically accurate video?

[@NickNg-z8q]

we need more of this! thank you for sharing!

[@danielroujansky6420]

Thanks for the great tips & tricks and look forward to your next video.

[@dunnadidit]

Cheers!!

[@GermanCybersec]

Thanks for sharing the effects you are using!

[@NIKO_JOSH]

The adjustment clip was the most helpful tip for me. I just finished a project where I had wasted a lot of time manually copying and pasting the zoom and position settings. I wish DaVinci Resolve had all the qol features that my previous video editing app had. That being said, I don't regret switching because that one was draining my bank and I rarely used it. If anybody was wondering, the feature I was thinking of is where objects, specifically the main video source, can snap to the edges of the scene, so I don't have to fight with the position manually. If anybody knows a way to do that, please lmk.

[@simonrhys]

Great video ! Thank you, looking forward to having a play with these soon!

[@zetazalazar]

Thanks for making this video brother. Greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

[@JonathanPalfrey]

I’ve done full animated videos in resolve just using the push transition. So much easier and faster than using after effects.

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!

[@AltMothpilled]

8:48 BRUH!!!! WHAT!! That blows my mind wtf... so fire

[@diesdas147]

How do dou make the second clip by edge wipe in grey?

[@WillRoyMedia]

Great video. I've has so many work around ways of doing this but this is fast and simple

[@abdellahcodes]

You just solved my biggest frustration with text. Awesome!

[@RobertEmery]

I use Dip-to-color a lot and always have to change the default color from black to white? Is there a way to create a Dip-to-white default?

[@chipcurry]

Very good Video, much appreciated. I find a lot of these videos are either too basic or not interesting and not well explained or way too sophisticated for daily use. This was just right!