Basics of Lua Scripting for DaVinci Resolve & Fusion | Beginners Guide

In this video, I'll teach you the basics of Lua scripting, perfect for beginners who want to create scripts for DaVinci Resolve Fusion. Whether you're new to coding or looking to enhance your editing workflow, this tutorial will guide you through the essentials. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more tutorials!
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[@PeeJ_ENT]

Watched this so many times to reference techniques that I need to make my own timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Where to Save File 1:26 Variables and Variable Types 4:01 Console 4:25 Tables 6:53 WriteString() 7:23 If Statements 8:45 If Statements with Greater and Less Than 9:50 If Statements Nil 10:32 *For Loops 11:38 For Loops Backwards 11:58 *For Loops for Interating through Tables 15:09 While Loops 16:35 Repeat Unitl Loops 17:33 *Funtions 18:57 Concatinating Strings 19:56 Calling Functions 21:17 Recursive Looping 22:13 *Updated Interated Loop for Tables 23:20 Passing Through the Variable/Returning Variables from Funtions 24:07 Suprise

[@PeeJ_ENT]

I feel my brain growing

[@tonypcoyle]

while is for zero or more iterations (i.e. you might have null input). repeat is for 1 or more iterations (you will ALWAYS run the code at least once) As long as your termination criterion is appropriate that can save you a conditional inside the loop.

[@asherroland]

Thanks for the info! That's super helpful!

[@TheOrsonLord]

My dude! This is just the kind of stuff I'm looking for!

[@Execrated]

The "complex tables" you referred to at 5:00 are called dictionaries (at least in Python), for future reference. I hope to see more Lua scripting videos from you in the future because I'm having a hard time translating some concepts 1:1 from Python to Lua, and not a lot of people are covering the Resolve API on KZbin.

[@philingram9281]

Many thanks - I've been wanting to get into scripting in DaVinci Resolve, especially Lua, but there aren't many beginner tutorials available. Plenty for Python though.

[@asherroland]

I'm glad I could help! :D I noticed that too and it's my goal to teach people how to script for Davinci Resolve since it has awful documentation about it

[@lenonfernandes8584]

I am trying to automate the process of converting a ATEM Project to a Multicam Clip, like Alex Pettitt manually did in his video. Do you think it is possivel to use LUA for that?

[@itsnotloveitslust]

Ive used Lua among other programming and scripting languages for years but i still struggle with Resolve/Fusion scripting because blackmagic is terrible with documentation. The latest fusion manual is from 2016. Its really disappointing.

[@asherroland]

I agree! I hope to make everyone's lives easier with my videos lol

[@GamerKittyEuphoric]

you should flip the order of your playlist to be oldest first, so the "basics beginner guide" is the first in the playlist

[@asherroland]

@@GamerKittyEuphoric I didn't know I could lol I thought it was based on how the user sorted it 😅

[@GamerKittyEuphoric]

@@asherroland nope! awesomely enough, you can go into studio and playlist settings and sort by oldest :D Found that out myself by lookin through for my playthroughs

[@asherroland]

Fixed it! :)

[@GamerKittyEuphoric]

@@asherroland yay!! :D

[@Dexter101x]

I use VSCode extensively for web design. Are there any extension I should use for LUA coding?

[@Dexter101x]

I'm not available for tomorrow's live stream, hence the question

[@asherroland]

I'm streaming tonight if you wanna get a good answer. But I just searched for Lua extensions and chose the first one haha

[@MarkIreland_carrierband]

Do you have problems with NVidia drivers and DaVinci?

[@asherroland]

I haven't had many problems with it personally

[@sabarisansabari2032]

Is inverse kinamatics possible.

[@asherroland]

Probably lol

[@dazzlingspring]

pls do more scripting tuts

[@asherroland]

More Scripting coming in two weeks! :D Next week is making a macro from scratch

[@muzlee7479]

table indexing not starting with 0 is insane

[@asherroland]

I agree! What's worse is when making a UI Tree(with Fusion GUI) to store data in a literal table, the indexing starts with 0. And there's a few examples of that from Davinci Resolve. Haha

[@dmitrydonets]

Indeed