Animate TEXT Like a Pro - 5 Fusion Techniques in DaVinci Resolve

[@canalmarcelolobo]

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[@RyanOsborneUK]

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[@Alex_Osborne]

Me too, it's lovely ❤️😁

[@Lokmansouhail]

bro your channel is a hidden gem

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thanks Souhail!

[@jjBroProd]

I've used AE for 15 years and and now that I'm switching my whole video workflow, those are the little mechanics that I waste my time looking for. GREAT turorial, thank you for sharing

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Amazing! Glad it has helped 🙌

[@oskarneftel3756]

fr this is exactly my situation. I still don't understand one thing though. You know this typical animation, where the first letter gets visible(by having the opacity animated) and then moving to the left while the next character gets visible. How would I do this in fusion?

[@oskarneftel3756]

for reference like nr 3(from center) from this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bJdoqbm5t4mck

[@RyanOsborneUK]

​@@oskarneftel3756 This can be achieved using the follower modifier. Apply a follower modifier and go into the "Style" tab (specifically the one in the modifier tab) and you'll see a control for opacity. Keyframe this across time and then add in your desired amount of delay between the characters in the "Timing" tab. Then go back into the Tools section of the inspector window for the text and keyframe the tracking slider in the "Text" tab. You can achieve the same flick style animation in the spline tab too 👍

[@oskarneftel3756]

@@RyanOsborneUK thank you man

[@danielmiller1826]

This channel deserves to blow up.

[@Deatarus51]

KZbin recommended this video, and it's exactly what I was about to search for. It literally read my mind. Excellent video. Explained well, to the point, and thorough. I was gonna subscribe, but found that I already was, lol! So this is likely the second time you've taught me something. I'm just gonna binge your channel now.

[@sms22j]

Gentleman you are one of the best chanel for Davinci Resolve. Really appreciated all your videos.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you Mamadou 🙏

[@tpf1952]

Thank you so much for producing this tutorial. Really opens the floodgates to being able to create text animations. There is life after After Effects after all!

[@yanickvanweydeveldt7455]

This is gold. Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such an easy to understand way! I'm already looking forward to your next monthly upload 😎

[@AnushVenkataraman]

I’m happy I found this channel. Keep up the great work, Ryan. ❤

[@Xpert56]

Couldn't find a single good text animation video for ages, thank you so much!!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad this could help! If there’s any specific text animations you’d like to see, let me know 😄

[@Xpert56]

@@RyanOsborneUK Would definitely love more text animations (like this video) as that part isn't explored in the tutorials much on youtube.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@Xpert56 okay! Leave that with me 😄

[@PhilipThompson]

Excellent tutorial, thanks!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you!

[@dreamsofcode]

This is awesome. I've been using DR for a while now with my videos and have been really experimenting with motion graphics. Your channel is such an amazing resource. Thank you.

[@Mandsefar]

Sorry for only being able to give you one thumb up. You should have a ton. Keep it up, your channel is a gold mine.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Haha thank you! Appreciate it

[@codydeer2856]

Just switched to using Davinci for more than just color grading. Your channel has helped a ton! Looking forward to seeing this channel grow!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thanks Cody! Nice to see another editor make the switch 🙌

[@SIR1mg]

best thing about the video is your awesome accent ❤‍🔥

[@RyanOsborneUK]

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[@eziz7468]

Thank you! Your videos taught me so much about using fusion and creating custom text to make my videos much better!

[@Peeze16]

the out back cubic was nice. I've been using Davinci for a while but never realized that. Thanks mate

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Looks slick that one 🙂 hidden away too! Glad it could help

[@OlNoName720]

The "Word by Word" effect is done inefficiently, you don't have to set an extra keyframe one frame after each word. Set they keyframes where the words are, select all the frames in the spline editor (keyboard shortcut should be "a"), and hit the "step in" button at the bottom of the spline editing window (it's the first button that makes a right angle). You'll see the keyframe graph change where the line for the animation will jump up suddenly on a keyframe. Also, the reason the "Position" stuff is in the shading tab and not the transform one is to give the different shading elements on a single text node their own options rather than being only able to give it to the entire node. This is done for things like drop shadow and border for the text.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Appreciate the feedback 😄You're totally right! I'm familiar with the step in button and I see what you're saying completely. Same result but d'oh! - way more efficient they way you describe. Thank you! And yeah I know what you mean about the position too. For example, if we wanted to have the stroke outline animate on a different parameter to the fill, then doing this on a "Global" position setting would be tricky. It just seems odd to me that there isn't at least the option to control position from within the transform tab 🤔

[@OlNoName720]

@@RyanOsborneUK I guess the Transform tab is only meant to modify the character, words, and/or lines for a node rather than the whole thing. If you want to move the whole node, there's the "Center" option for the X and Y position under the Layout tab.

[@beacherry]

You are so clear! The best I have found the whole day

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad it could help you 🙌

[@mohamedelaminecherik1162]

Too good. Just keep it up and this channel is going to explode for sure! Great style of explaining and choosing of topics. Thank you!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you Mohamed 🙌 appreciate that!

[@AleksanderZh]

Thank you for the video. Without “pouring water”, straight to the point.

[@ZainSAful]

I love your videos. I'm still learning DaVinci and your videos are easy the anxiety of learning such a daunting system into something more easy to break down and follow.

[@juanfxblender]

Another awesome tutorial!!!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thanks Juan! 🙌

[@sebastianbuff]

Thats exactly what I want. Thank you so much. I like your clean Video Style.

[@ejazkayani3439]

Amazing simply amazing sir. This solved so many problems for us beginners

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you 🙏

[@t0mwhazzup]

As always, great video, cool techniques presented easy to understand. I really grow into Resolve by watching your videos!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Love hearing this Tom! 🙌 Glad it could help

[@gyaniIsfailure]

brtherrrrrrrrrrrr, you saved me from after effects. can't thank you enough.

[@shibuthomas9294]

Ryan, your teaching is highly appreciated keep in continuing 👏 Subscribed

[@RyanOsborneUK]

More to come 🙌 Thanks Shibu

[@Master_of_X]

loved it man subscribed for the first video, keep doing this it is helpful for us, Love from INDIA

[@arnoldsnodgrass2953]

Ridiculously good tutorials, thank you

[@mluckphoto]

wow! This is Crazy Good Stuff!

[@studio13texas1]

Great video!!! You explain everything perfectly and it makes following along super easy. Keep the videos and ideas coming. Thanks for the help!!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Awesome! Thank you! 😊

[@thats4thebirds]

How are you bringing up that quick color selector? during the shape reveal for instance. thanks and great work!

[@morneschaap2944]

Wonderful video! I have learned so much! Thank you! 😊

[@GlennTaubenfeld]

Been using Resolve for a year now and had always feared using Fusion. This really got me going. Thanks Ryan. You've been an amazing help. I hope your channel grows quick! A sub from me!

[@techiebookworm2137]

Thank you so much for doing this!! This has made it so much easier and less daunting to make cool looking titles! :D

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad it could help you 😊

[@kerliboi]

3 days in using Davinci for motion and grading, so far the nodes are great!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Great to hear!

[@Alex_Osborne]

Thank you Ryan for you help, your videos are great and your voice is even greater 😁

[@konradtomaszewski1677]

Brilliant tut - succinct and to the point.

[@Haidar_xx]

I really enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you. I hope you will upload a Tutorial explanation of everything in the program

[@LarryCarlin]

Just bought the studio version under Linux. Superb teaching style. Super stuff, keep going!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you Larry! 🙏 more to come

[@kirbylover37]

Linux user tries not to mention they use Linux challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[@Heythatsjeremy]

This channel is amazing, so helpful, thanks man.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

You’re welcome 🙏

[@manikantasripathi755]

Saved my life!!! Great video 👍

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@structureofmagic]

You've produced a great video & explaination. Thank you Ryan !!

[@CfopCubing]

Wow! Great video! I've been using davinci resolve for a long time now, but I learned a surprising amount from this video! Thanks so much for leveling up our animated text skills!

[@abeeragarwal]

awesome tutorial, can you please tell me how you brought up the gradient colour tab

[@pto2k]

Thank you Ryan. for the cool stuff. I'm new to DR and wonder if these compositions could be reused with changed text but same animation ?

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Check out this video Winston, it’s a macro you want to create, kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHzNcoOdocqIhpI Should help you!

[@igormendes426]

Good stuff. Thanks Ryan.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad it could help Igor!

[@shaquiberaihan6212]

Hey Ryan, thanks for the fantastic tutorials. I having an issue with the shape reveal animation. I can't get the background to reveal only one side as you did in 8::40. Could you please elaborate on what you did there?

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Yes! Sorry I maybe rushed over this part. It can be a little confusing because mask nodes don’t have pivot controls (they are usually always anchored to the centre of the mask). This means that your rectangle shape has to be keyframed to move from left to right at the same time as your width animation. Which will give the appearance of animating in from one side (if you position it correctly ). It can be a little bit of trial and error!

[@shaquiberaihan6212]

Thanks for the fast response, I really appreciate it! I'll try it right away.

[@IAMJOELBURRIS]

I'm really enjoying your focus on switching away from Adobe. Super helpful stuff man! Keep goin! But don't burn yourself out. :)

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you 🙏 I appreciate the kind comment. Trying not to burn myself out haha

[@janlim9326]

Hi Ryan, Could you please show us a tutorial on how to do your "Size Follower" text. Thanks. Dave

[@yuddhveersingh710]

Thanks mate it helped a lot just keep making tutorials like this. pretty deep and understand able

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you my friend! 🙏 more to come for sure

[@The_Daliban]

Great Video! Gonna check if you have more on the topic. If not, please make more. Such a great topic especially for people coming from adobe😅🙃

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thanks SA M - definitely have more if you want to check them out :)

[@MIHAO]

Coming from AE as well. This is very helpful, thanks!

[@oskarneftel3756]

I also highly encourage everyone to get familiar with the spline editor as it will really help making your animations unique.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

It’s so important, no matter what animation software you’re using

[@priusscientia]

Hello, thanks for the really good tutorials. Is there any way to automatically adjust the size of the rectangle to the width and height of the text automatically for style 3?

[@JayeshandShreya]

Wow! Got to learn something new from you.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Glad to hear it 🙂🙌

[@cbandall.443]

Excelent, Hello! I wanted to reach out and say thank you for the excellent Davinci Resolve tutorial you put together. I'm new to video editing and your step-by-step instructions really helped me get familiar with the software and start editing my own videos, Here from Perú

[@marciopereira1726]

Where can I download the sound of machine typing? please...I loved this one

[@danielmiller1826]

This is great and won you a subscriber! I edit in Resolve and I've never really touched Fusion (I actually work as a Nuke Compositor). But while I will probably stick to Nuke for FVX compositing your tutorials have opened the door to just how many of the AFX style animations are easy to achieve in Fusion.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Amazing! Thank you Daniel 🙂 I’ve not touched Nuke myself but I’d love to learn it.

[@danielmiller1826]

@@RyanOsborneUK I've been using it for about 10 years. Very powerful for VFX and not too dissimilar to Fusion. Maybe I'll make some tuts!

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@danielmiller1826 please do! And link them here 🙂

[@danielmiller1826]

@@RyanOsborneUK Well now I'm accountable and have to do it! Meantime I also co-host @thevfxartistspodcast if you're interested in the VFX industry and film industry in general

[@FritsJanSmit]

Great. Thanks. Also your vlog about AE vs Fusion. The way of thinking like a solid comparing with a background, that helps. I still find AE more efficient. Like when I have several text Fusion based animation in my timeline and I want all text to change to uppercase or change the font... that's for me still a very time consuming process. Could you do more AE to Fusion workflow comparison?

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Definitely more AE to Fusion to come Frits 🙂 I plan on showing more time saving tips in future!

[@arunr5529]

Great vid. What is the outback cubic option actually doing in spline? and is there an easy way to make the background node transparent if i want to put these effects on top of existing footage? Thank you.

[@depraved420]

Great video! Thank you!

[@anthminimal]

awesome video bro! i loved the follower animation. would love to see future videos where you show the word by word one as well as the other one just after it!

[@rustwastelands]

7:16 how did you get that color pop up?

[@drsayantandey]

In the inspector settings of the background node instead of a solid colour u can select gradient to get the colour he got. Hope this helps!

[@dulllamb]

感謝 你的影片很有幫助

[@joey_williams]

Great tutorial. When I scale the size up, it scales from the bottom to the top. How would you scale from the centre instead?

[@philippzakrzewski8180]

Hi Ryan, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge and it's great to see someone making the same transition as myself away from Adobe (have been using the Affinity Suite and Resolve/Fusion successfully for the last half year, even though I have to nip back into AE from time to time). Just out of interest, what is the app that you're showing on the right (at 14:03) after Fusion? Would be interested to know :-)

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Hey dude 😊 You’ll get to the point eventually where you don’t need to go back! Keep plodding along, it’s luminar, I use it as an alternative for lightroom. Pretty good and worth a look at

[@philippzakrzewski8180]

@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks Ryan. I’ll have a look. The thing with AE is there are certain things it still does faster than Fusion. But you are right, the reasons to go back are getting fewer :-D

[@_Neolidas]

Super informative video, thanks man! One question: how do you move test boxes around the screen?

[@kotianpradeep]

Great video

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thanks!

[@Dilmi_VO]

thank you very much for the Davinci tutorials i really appreciated 👍👍👍

[@LotrecOh]

Great tutorial! Just a question: the arrows that you use at minute 1:02 and 1:05 ....how do you make it? Ty

[@marysolzetina]

what a great accent you have

[@MisterTrashcan]

This has probably been asked before but I can't find a solution - How can I make my animation change depending on the clip length? I have a popping-in animation for my text. Let's say I need to trim this clip. As soon as I cut off the start of the clip, the animation is gone. Makes sense. I can see there are some Text+ presets that adjust for this. If, for instance, I trim the "Fade On" preset, the fading just gets faster instead of cut in half. I'm a noob at using Fusion so I don't really know what to look for 🙃

[@ShoaibChaudary]

Hey mate, Your color options are different from mine did you install something or its just view on mac only I'm on videos like you have your own few colors in the picker.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Yes I'm on Mac. They're different on Mac vs PC.

[@ShoaibChaudary]

@@RyanOsborneUK Ok ,Thanks for your response it looks cool on Mac 😅

[@sparshchaudhary1715]

I would love to see the word follower animation tutorial please 🙌🏻

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Yes! This will be one of my first videos for this year 🙂👌

[@juanmacastro90]

Great content. A lot of future here! We are switching from ae and all the staff u teach us is great.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Thank you Juan 🙏

[@YTBull]

Cool, very helpful video!

[@jeffagoddard]

I'm a noob. When I merge a background with my text, I no longer see my text? Like the background is blocking the text.

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Try clicking on the merge and hitting cntrl + T :)

[@3v1l73ddy]

What were all those adobe alternatives you showedd the logos of?

[@bossnatzutv]

Auto sub. Great video thank you

[@HeyZaccyPoo]

As far as the stroke outline for text goes, do you know if there's a way to make it infinitely large? I noticed it cuts off at a point. Thanks for all the amazing tutorials!

[@MarkBowenPiano]

Great videos, thank you for uploading them. I'm sure I'm doing something silly here but I tried following the first example, the slide text (haven't tried the others yet) and I've added the two keyframes at the start and then gone to the spline editor and set both keyframes to Out Back Cubic but my animation still just comes in from the side to the centre. It's as though it's not honouring the spline at all. Am I doing something silly somewhere possibly? Thanks.

[@MarkBowenPiano]

Sorry, please ignore the above. I had selected both keyframes but then I was control clicking on the actual line and selecting the ease. It looked correct in the spline editor but for some reason doesn't work? Only when I control click in an empty space does it work. I can't for the life of me see what the difference is though as they both come out looking exactly the same in the spline editor except the one way works and the other doesn't! Very strange.

[@WaterShowsProd]

Is there a noise filter that you can apply to the curves for that wiggle animation, so that the random motion is generated procedurally, rather than inputting keyframes manually?

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Well, that’s an interesting thought… never actually tried that approach. It will be possible using an expression, attaching noise to the x, y and rotation parameters somehow 🤔 I’ll need to check that one out! Thanks for the feedback

[@green.housebg]

Hello! May you show how tô make-up a Shape reveal a image with mask? Like a square up em reveal a part of imagem and after this square go to left and reveal the final image complete?

[@Therizinosaurus]

I dont see Text tab only image, audio, and settings tabs in Fusion

[@Strangers-q1e]

Yes we need more video like this to create teamplate

[@phongkhac3596]

THANKS RYAN SO MUCH

[@blash8670]

Nice tutorial, gonna flex this when applying to work for KFC.

[@dexmcluskey4832]

Skills!

[@nicolascubas1567]

Man, I'm brazillian, so I don't know exactly where is his accent from. Is it from England?

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@nicolascubas1567]

@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks, well, congratulations for your work, it's really good.

[@Nicolasin-yn9mu]

@@RyanOsborneUK Are you watching the football tonight? Thanks for the tutorial! ;D

[@RyanOsborneUK]

@@Nicolasin-yn9mu haha not a football guy but I'll definitely keep an eye on the score! Hope we win 😉

[@DineshKumar-ts7qx]

Is there a way to save all these settings so I can make it quicker? Like making a preset

[@mastercancer9810]

This is great

[@AleksanderZh]

Ryan, quick question. In your video you are stretching one side of your mask only, without effecting the other side. When I change the width of rectangle, it automatically changes the other side. Very annoying. Please, let me know how you do it. Thanks.

[@keithvan8604]

how to magnet it on the fusion grid? mine so messy when putting the nodes while not ticking haha

[@bobvine]

Hey Ryan, is it possible to use the Anim Curves with text's X or Y positions? The option to modify with Anim curves or anything in that contextual menu is greyed out not available? What am I doing wrong? I've split the parameters. Surely we can use elastic curve on the Y position of text in Fusion? Cheers, Bob

[@Aisha-he6lg]

Hey, I am new to this software can you please tell when i follow the exact same steps to animate my text in fusion it shows my media is offline i want to animate text over video. Please help me with this, Thank you

[@RyanOsborneUK]

Hey! If it's showing media offline, it's likely because Resolve can't find your video files anymore. Try linking them up again and go back to it.

[@Aisha-he6lg]

@@RyanOsborneUK Thanks it's working now^^

[@daniwidimurtadho3427]

Your software used is studio version or no in these tutorial?

[@inleste8802]

Muito bom! Agradeço por compartilhar!

[@pinkytran2807]

You're a lifesaver