Creating Transitions in Davinci Resolve 17 - Anim Curve explained!

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The new modifiers for creating Transitions within Fusion and probably my favourite new part of Resolve 17. It'll make life way easier!
If you want to learn how to starting creating your own transitions within Davinci Resolve 17 then hopefully this video will give you a good place to start.
Anim Curve explained. It's awesome and I can't wait to really get to grips with it.
00:00 Intro
01:05 Getting Started
01:48 Fundamentals
03:03 Creating Right Whip Transition
09:14 Saving as User Transition
10:00 Changing to Left Transition
11:25 Adding Motion Blur
12:46 Using 'Mirror'
13:20 Adding Motion Blur cont
13:50 Adjusting Scale
14:30 Scalable!
14:58 Zoom Transition
19:31 Outro
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Mr Alex Tech

[@MrAlexTech]

One for my fellow Fusion nerds this one

[@TheCreativeModellerHO]

I love fusion! Thanks for your videos!

[@PatrickStirling]

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I see you Patrick... I see you... 😆

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[@SimonStansfield]

Think I fall into this group... 😂

[@user-je4kf2ns6q]

I just found this video (2 years later) as I'm starting ramp up my Fusion skills. This saved me HOURS of frustration and has opened a whole new world. I want more modifiers!

[@mastixmastix]

Love it. Amazing Davinci Resolve. Keeps making it easier for many of us. This is looks so much faster and straightforward than before. Blackmagic is really on the right track to make Fusion a great tool for all of us that are still afraid of the complexity of Fusion.

[@TriniWeekes]

Nothing short of being epic!!! Davinci Resolve 17 looks absolutely promising. Thank you as always Alex, your the man.

[@SailEtherow]

Had a weird issue - followed this great tutorial carefully and had the Whip Pan transitions working fine on the timeline. Made them into macros and restarted DR17. When I dropped the transition onto clips on the edit page, it picked up the second clip first, changed to the first and cut to the second. Went into Fusion and switched the inputs - worked fine. Deleted the settings file, restarted and rebuilt the macro from the start - again great care and same outcome. Third time of doing it, same issue. So I opened the settings file in Notepad++ and changed the Inputs=ordered() function to make Main Input1 SourceOp='Transform1' and Main Input2 to use Transform1_1 and Bingo when I opened DV17 again! A massive confidence boost at finding a solution.

[@paulsaxby7579]

I have to say, your tutorials are, by far, the best on KZbin. I dont know how you do it. This was only released two days ago and you work it and release a tutorial whilst holding down a full time job. Your dedication is admirable. Thanks Alex.

[@DavidRomanHalliday]

Very cool stuff! I'm loving these new resolve 17 features! The ability to easily create and share fusion transitions was a game changer in 16.2, and I'm so happy that this has been enhanced in 17. I think it's a great way for the community to share an empower each other. I purchased some of your transitions and have been throwing them into my projects to spice things up and create a finished output with more impact. Perfect for a hobbyist like me!

[@user-ll9ln1uu4b]

Those animations ... God this is INSANE

[@adsmithtx]

this is a great video to understand "ANIM CURVE". best of found so far!!

[@SimonStansfield]

Very cool... lots of exploring to be done. Thx again!

[@AroundCooking]

Thanks for the always great tutorial Alex, I really appreciate your time and effort and also thanks to you I'm getting good at the art of editing! 🤘

[@fatheadmediapro]

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 I don’t know how you figure this stuff out, but thank you! Very great piece of knowledge.

[@adsmithtx]

Excellant Video Easy to follow and great information

[@marchmadecollective7983]

Very cool! Thanks for the amazingly helpful tutorials MrAlexTech - Legend!

[@RoyBattyLives]

Love it Alex, thank you!

[@PilanFilms]

Very good! Splendid tutorial.

[@VINISAMPLES]

Really well explained. Thanks for this.

[@lucapardo]

What a great addition to Davinci and as usual greatly explained

[@theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

I laughed so much at that intro! The sounds as you "ran away" LOLOLOL. Thanks again for another awesome video!! Loving 27, but it's crashing a fair bit for me at the moment. SO much saving required!

[@DanielPartzsch]

Thanks. This is a big step for content creators being able to create templates that modify the actual footage itself and at least currently a big advantage over adobe's motion graphics templates.

[@iamthomasogun]

Very remarkable lesson!!!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Great video. I can't wait to see what tutorials you create with Resolve 17. What a beast it is.

[@msergeyy]

Very well explained!

[@montymurray8602]

Excellent video, looking forward to more on fusion 😁.

[@nightcoder5k]

Awesome, thank you for the lesson.

[@Videogen_Studio]

Epic man!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@smkelleystudio]

There goes two weeks that I'll never get back! I just figured out the expression method of doing this last week, and now they're all built in - including elastic and bounce - which took me the longest... Oh well!!! Good vid, Alex!!!

[@MrAlexTech]

Haha I know, I spent an age trying to figure them all out originally but nevermind. This way is better for everyone so it's all good 🙂👍

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Good part of that is that you got the idea of how it all work, now you can experiment in 17, free and proud!

[@JohnMeyer]

This is SO awesome!! What I've WISHED Resolve had for years. Great tutorial. One thing I would do differently with the motion blur is to use the same type of curve as the transform node, otherwise it does not look natural since in real life motion blur happens "in sync" with motion.

[@truewiking]

Really Nice features, well explained as always 👏

[@MrAlexTech]

Many thanks my Viking friend!

[@hawaiianhaole]

Amazing! Thanks!

[@SweetSourTravel]

Very cool. Thanks 😊

[@agot_alva]

I've downloaded the program, so soon gona try to do some of thos smarty transitions - thank you for help😊

[@nategordon]

100% Alex! Thanks, and cheers!

[@CBSuper]

Brilliant!

[@tshansen]

Aaaahhh... there you go! been trying to play around in DR17 myself, but did not found this option. Not quite clear where to find it. Alot of new stuff we need time to adjust to, but damn it is so much sweeter now. Thank you again Alex, great stuff as always. Cheers

[@arthurthedane9204]

Another brilliant tutorial professor Alex. Is there anything about Davinci that you DON'T know? I doubt it. Thanks so much.

[@alexsoyes]

Oh men, I have to drop a comment, that tutorial is so cool, THANK YOU THAT MUCH 🫶

[@EditJohn_Official]

This is a really useful video. In the transition that you released in DaVinci version 16, you made it using expressions, but in version 17 you can make it easier using anim curve. I am very happy with this update and I believe you will be too P.s I'm still using your transitions well. Thank you

[@bankbuilds3368]

Thank you so much your amazing

[@chrisdoratproductions8680]

Thats very cool

[@BrianGillings]

Excellent

[@benderbi]

Man, Resolve is giving us lots and lots of amazing feautres without even asking for money! Of course, there is a paid version, but you get the point.

[@WellDamn24]

Thank you very much. I’m buying a new computer and can’t wait to load DR and create some of these.

[@althewicked]

Thanks!!!

[@johannes7367]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@belperite]

That's brilliant. It's still amazing how they can provide such a full-featured NLE for free! As an aside, I was worried about the 32GB RAM requirement and Fusion. I tested it out on a 16GB Windows installation *on a HD project* with some simple titles - it doesn't seem a hard limit, i.e. it still runs, but it is sloow. Wouldn't want to try it with 4K and anything clever. For my light and amateur workload I will still upgrade.

[@asphaltandtacos]

Yes! Way more easy!

[@trollflix]

I like your transition sounds Mr Alex 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 0:00 and 0:05

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[@imnotsarcastic4085]

ty ty ty !

[@ValdezJu]

How did you get so brilliant?!

[@tsiturbotsi]

Thanks

[@moksh8]

Thanks for the tutorial - Am new to this and been trying to figure out an effect with animated curves. Can we create a looping title across the frame for high speed effect - like it does a few passes/loops left to right and when it reaches the middle of the timeframe of the fusion clip - it slows down and stops, we can read the text and then towards the end it whizzes out ? Would be really helpful. Thanks again

[@dzeips]

Very useful guide and nicely explained. I am a very beginner at this stuff and im just curious that are those built in transition not as good or as editable?

[@abcd-nc9nf]

Sir, please make video about the characteristics of each effect tool in fusion like what delta keyer does, what alpha keyer does etc.

[@3ight0]

fire :))))

[@4thwalltvandfilm]

awesome video. Is there real motion blur available for the transitions?

[@marioturco672]

Hi Alex! Your great MrAT transitions for da vinci 16 don't work well with da vinci 17. Will you make again transitions to download on your channel youtube? Thank you!!!

[@theostlibrary3385]

Can u make more transitions but add more motion to them with shake and fast in and outs.

[@WeedPete1]

damn that's helpful

[@TitanEU]

Looks to complicated for me 😁 But great vid as always!

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

Same here lol...he is bloody clever...

[@LandyVlad_Rides]

Hey mate can you do a video on upgrading from v 16 to v 17 - including how to back up database etc please? (so can roll it back if need be)

[@petersundkvist5374]

Could you please show us how to change aspect ratio to timeline then using dynamic zoom? Problem occurs then having stills in another ratio than timeline. Best regards

[@MassiMilani1]

where does Davinci 17 Store the "User Transitions files" with "setting" extension? I am not able to get the ones from the 16.

[@WilliamJusticeMedia]

Great explanation. I have been messing with the AnimCurves as well. Very Awesome and super easy to use.. Do you know what the Clip Low and Clip High settings do? Have not been able to figure that out yet

[@MrAlexTech]

Thanks dude! I haven't yet, it's annoying me😆! I'd also like to find a way to ease in, hold and then ease in, seems like it could be a great way of animating titles etc. How you getting in with 17 so far?

[@WilliamJusticeMedia]

@@MrAlexTech 17 is good so far. Still exploring and learning... finding things i wish they did a bit different but overall I like it. For the animate and hold you can definitely do it the the AnimCurves.... In my last video on my channel I did a few experiments. I animated a graphic with the anim curves setting the displacement on a path modifier for the position. Pretty much the same as your vector result..... To get a value to hold you can use the custom curves. Just set the curve to be flat. So you curve up to a point, keep the curve at that point for a while and then move it. Really very flexible. It will all be percentage based. but it works. There may be other options for holding using expressions this in combination with some expressions but would have to think about it.

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Thank you guys William and Alex, for helping guys like me via your tutorials.

[@youMEtubeUK]

I understand the anim curve plays over the timline dureation and adjust accordingly if the timeline is extended or shortened. Is there a way to loop it so that an animation plays more than once over the duration of the timeline? Like you can do the spline editor for keyframed animation. Or can you do a duplicate object that is being affected by the anim curve and then offset maybe?

[@swaminathank.3766]

Hi MrAlex.....Thanks dude for your videos. You are doing an awesome work. I know how difficult it is to bring out one video of this sort. I have become an ardent follower of you. After watching this video, one thing is nagging my mind and putting me through sleepless nights. How do you control the width and transparency of the border in the barn-door transitions in the intro and outro. There is no provision for that in the free version of Resolve 17. Is it an exclusive studio feature? Or is it a fusion work? Can you please help me make one like this? Sorry if I am troubling you. Thanks always my friend. God bless.

[@MichaelThomas-xc6vy]

Hi Alex, I'm new to your channel. Love the transitions which is where I'm having an issue. With or without a transition effect, my clips are not transitioning smoothly. The video gets choppy right before and after the transition. Then it clears up. The video source is xbox windows 10. Resolution is 1980x1080 hd, 60 fps. Any ideas would be appreciated! Also, when we have a small video layered over a full frame video, is there a way to gradually increase the small one in the time-line to full frame? Thanks Mike

[@alex_m3rc3r]

hey i just wanted to know whether your transition packs for davinci resolve 16 work on davinci resolve 17 as well???

[@OntheFringeGolf]

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong but when I hit "convert to fusion cross dissolve" the fusion page just shows media in and media out with no split and dissolve nodes like shown in this video. maybe Davinci changed their settings

[@marysolzetina]

what camera are you using to film this video ? and also the aperture etc,.

[@paulfeghalii]

Im new to davinci resolve and I wanted to ask if I should learn using davinci resolve 16 or just go straight to 17

[@Snapiex]

hey, when i open any of your transitions in fusion page, i don't get options to change any of the settings Can you help me? :) Is it possible because you used some of the effects that are only in PRO version and i have free version? Because if i want to edit new davinci resolve 17 transitions in fusion i get options to change settings for individual effects

[@wahabdilawar]

Please teach us how to create a text flowchart diagram in Davinci Resolve. I want to record a lecture with flowcharts description.

[@harrymalm]

Just what I was looking for! One question, wouldn’t you just be able to use the motion blur already in the transform node?

[@MrAlexTech]

You absolutely can, it's just really heavy so chugs a bit! This video is quite old though and motion blur has improved a little since then!

[@madebymarcin]

Alex, did you encounter any problems with resolve 17.1? I do have problem with black footage with some clips only after I color grade them using serial node. When I remove serial node it works correctly. I use Panasonic G9 with h264 codec. It worked ok with 16 version of Resolve.

[@Anti_Woke]

I've ordered the speed editor. Don't know what the wife would say; just as well I'm divorced.

[@aerofart]

RE: the effects drag/drop bug, you should try dragging the effect onto node connection (line) rather than just dropping onto the canvas.

[@bbeast9755]

Is there another way to bring up the fusion page? Right-clicking isn't bringing a dropdown menu for me.

[@kepemimpinangerejaabad2169]

QUESTION: I just downloaded the MrAlexTechSliceTransitions. There is no instructions for use, but I discovered that you just drag the .setting file into Fusion. My problem is all the vertical slice transitions cause the second clip to come out upside down. (The others seem to work fine). What am I missing? (My procedure: 2 clips on the edit line, place 1 sec adjustment layer over the 2; open Fusion, drag setting into the adjustment clip.)

[@jhPampoo]

hope you create tutorial on making transition for title

[@aerofart]

To get the blur technically correct, the blur amount should be modified with the same Exponential function used in the frame motion (position). This eliminates the guess work and complication of the method shown in the video as well.

[@rne1223]

Which website shows the curve's paths?

[@heiko4297]

That is so unbelievably delicious...bruh.

[@ardinsmith7377]

Hello how edit music-video in davinci resolve 17??

[@A2plePie]

vector result is greyed out what can I do

[@MrShaville]

When I try change to a up/down whip it cuts off the background clip for some reason?!?! I have changed both angles to 90 and the origin on clip 2 to -0.5 on y origin... Don't know what I'm doing wrong ?!

[@souviksamanta8938]

Please make a video how can we edit gopro hero 9 5k 30fps to 5k 60fps and 120fps without lagging with best colour grading using new resolved 17. Please please 🙏

[@A470RCSoaring]

Just opened up Resolve expecting to see the 17 update but nothing. Checked for updates and it says I have the latest update 16.2.7?

[@ruagod]

17 is in "public beta" status, so you have to download it from the Blackmagic web site and install it. 17 requires a database update, so you won't be able to revert easily to 16 if you want to, without doing a database backup before you install 17.

[@mywebguy]

Please tell me what is the light panel you use behind you in the opening of this video? I don't see it in your lists. Looks just right size for what I need.

[@MrAlexTech]

It's the Fovitec 600xb, I'm currently in the process of making a video on it 🙂👍

[@mywebguy]

@@MrAlexTech Thanks, squire. Make sure you put an affiliate link :-)

[@vhsfootball2020]

So I downloaded 17 and it crashed 3 times in 4 minutes whenever I tried to do anything to an MP4 video. 3 of those minutes were restarting DR. Uninstalled it but now 16 won’t install properly.

[@twohatsgoneviral9254]

Hi Alex just wondering if anyone else is having issues with resolve 17. I upgraded from free version 16 to free version 17 but 17 crashes as I cant switch to the GPU and uses loads of cpu and I understand the new version is GPU orientated. I dont think its my hardware as I have AMD Ryzen 7 with rtx 2070 and plenty of storage etc. So I am wanting to get going with 17 studio but Blackmagic has a package for studio and this comes with a free speed controller. However, they are not supplying it yet. So the issue is, miss out on the speed contoller, get 16 studio and get automatic 17 upgrade that allows me to set to GPU or am I missing something fundamental. Any advice is very much welcome...I just want to have a go with the new features and try out your brilliant tutorials. Bren

[@XRaym]

Nice tut, thx! Just a negative point; directional for motion blur is bad, cause if you adjust transition length, you would assume less blur. But mostly, the problem is that it works center bases (for each pixel, it blur it left and right) and not in direction on the movement. It is pretty obvious it is fake. :S Fortunately, we have ways to have real motion blur :P

[@crazyjinxie4639]

Quick question, why can't I put a transition? the box of transition doesn't appear.

[@PabloRogat]

im so desperate...... i have the app store version of DR17 Studio, and keeps crashing every single time i use or put my mouse over a Fusion Title, Fusion Transition... anything that uses Fusion, crashes my DR17...... im so sad..... :(..... The free version works perfect !!! Can you believe that ???

[@joeydonuts9469]

Hi, MrAlexTech, I thought I would post this here as this is your most recent update. I viewed your video about the live streaming of DR17. You went through all the new things that it can do like seeing the transitions and the text fone and titles and so one. I was impressed by the new version so I downloaded it. I inadvertently downloaded the paid version it ran for a while then I realized my mistake, I removed it and uploaded the free version and none of what you show in the video workes here at all. I went to the DV Forum and people are saying much the same crashing all the time, Problems in start-up and it goes on and one to the point many went back to DV16. Maybe you can address this in an upcoming video as I will be going back to DR16 which I would rather not but I have no choice. I love all the features that 17 has but not the problems. I am more than sure if you send them a message asking why are so many people having problems in the install subsequent problems they might get back to you faster as you are a supporter of DR. Many thanks, I have my notification bell on and will be waiting to hear back.

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

Alex can you do a tracking text to moving footage.. sometime soon... I filmed my old school with my drone and would like to name the old classrooms from the air if that makes sense..love the channel....Milly...

[@Anti_Woke]

Can't find one by Alex, but I quite like this one by Jason youtube com/watch?v=-wbhqxuUxvU

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

@@Anti_Woke Thanks Ant ill have a gander...

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

Do you edit with a SSD based Pc ? And if so is it much better...

[@Anti_Woke]

@@iiiiiMILLYiiiii I don't, yet. I have a 1TB SSD waiting to be fitted to my PC but otherwise use a 3TB HDD. As an IT guy first, I'd say the thing that would make most difference is having extra RAM. It is a matter of balance, though. If you've got less than 32GB RAM, that upgrade will cost you about the same as a 1TB SSD (~£100). Just to make things more complicated, you also have to consider whether it's your graphics card and its RAM that is the problem instead.

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

@@Anti_Woke i currently have 16 ram I7 4 core Nvidia Graphics card... and have just purchased a ssd card today... My editing runs OK but sometimes lags . So will be interesting to see if it gets better with new card

[@hampussoderholm]

Between some clips I’m not able to place a transition. Why could that be? Different frame rates?? Thanks in advance

[@spaceexpireaudio666]

no it`s probably because you didn`t trim those clips, you need to cut a bit from each one, depending on how much you cut you`ll be able to add transition of a certain size

[@hampussoderholm]

@@spaceexpireaudio666 Yup, saw it somewhere and yeah, that makes sense thanks anyways.

[@vhsfootball2020]

Can anyone help me? I installed 17 and it crashed every time I touched a video so I tried to go back to 16, but it won’t install properly now. Says the local DB is wrong. It’s got a 17 local DB and I need a 16. I’ve even deleted every folder I can find labelled black magic. I’ve even gone into the registry and deleted BM from there. Can anyone help with this? The black magic forum have been as helpful as tories are with starving kids. When I try to instal 16 it says it can’t install panels, then can’t install keyboards, then gives me the local DB thing.

[@ruagod]

The "read me" for 17 says it requires a database update, so unless you backed up your 16 database before you installed 17, you may be up a creek.

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To complicated. Genius is in simplicity.

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