Make Those Text Message Graphics - Resolve 15 Fusion Tab Tutorial

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Here's a little tut on how to do that text message popup thing in Fusion tab of Resolve 15. Maybe learn some tricks and tips along the way!

[@vshakir622]

Mind blown - for two reasons: first of all that Resolve is so friggin' complicated, and second of all that your ability to break this all down, actually teach us, and make it fun is unreal! Thank you so much, Casey! Can't wait to learn more from you!

[@tyswenson7542]

There aren’t enough DaVinci Resolve videos like this one that are Medium to Hard difficulty. I find most videos on KZbin to be dumb easy or wayyy advanced. I appreciate the content!

[@Aaron_Smith_OM]

I've had Resolve and Fusion for a while. Never messed with Fusion because it scared the piss out of me. But you make it so easy to just go in and see that it's not that intimidating. And really efficient. I prefer it over AE IMHO. Thanks Casey and have a great day.

[@theancientvoice9272]

Great tutorial. That was the one for me. There is always that little thing when you start you don't get, but you can't really put your finger in it, and most experienced people don't highlight it because it's too obvious to them. But once you get it, everything starts to make more sense and it becomes almost intuitive. Thank you very much.

[@SpaceAgeConsulting]

You do a great job of explaining everything at the end. *That* is reason enough to keep watching your tutorials. You have helped me a lot. Keep up the good work.

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[@samlondon7281]

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[@averagejohn47]

It took me an absurdly long time to learn how to do this right a month ago for one editing project (I'm a slow learner). I needed to do this yet again and was able to quick reference this and improved considerably. Thank you so much for this tutorial! For Mac users, when he does the keyboard shortcuts to pull up the tool menu, use "shift" + "space"

[@RoboHighlights]

I'm having problems with my screen size. DaVinci Resolve does not scale properly, and I am unable to see the bottom tabs (The different workspaces). Do you know how to fix this? Thanks

[@omar-thewhale5840]

Man, you deserve more than this amount of subscribers.....please don't stop your videos, I like it soo much.

[@heinhtettunoo]

I can't thank you enough for saving my butt from school assignment. Hope you have a great day Casey!

[@WADATMEDIA]

I actually thought i already subbed, made sure today. Learned an easier way to use the planar tracker and didnt know i could use the merge node to move things around. Well done sir and thank you!! Smashing that bell too.

[@graphguy]

Casey your videos are the best for being patient, thorough and informative - XIE XIE!

[@DaisyDesigner18]

THE BEST TUTORIAL.. thank you for this.. easy to understand..

[@Larr2010]

Hey CaseyI am in the FUSION module in End-to-End high now - this is a great addition...Thanks

[@TerenceKearns]

Thats so cool. Can't believe you did it so quick. This is very encouraging as an incentive to learn Fusion.

[@arielstrafing5225]

Dude! You are a FREAK! Maybe one day I'll achieve this level of artistic grandeur.

[@atalantasiegel3129]

Great video. I was able to follow along and I love your chuckles and sense of humor!

[@ok-cl7de]

Thanks ur videos are super helpful straight to the point ur voice is clear

[@ClaudiaDeyulia]

Thank you Casey, you make it look so easy that encourages me to try. I love your personality and teaching style!

[@ManInTheBigHat]

Great video series. I'll eventually buy some of your advanced tutorials. DaVinci Resolve is like the old FCP was before Apple abandoned film metaphors and went with X.

[@MIHAO]

Cheers bro. Coming from AE, Fusion can be a bit intimidating. This helps clear it all up a lot!

[@teganhumphrey5438]

What about adding the senders name above the text message? Any suggestions on adding this as well? BTW, loving your tutorials! Thank-you for taking the time to explain things so well that all of us newbies can understand!

[@jbasproductioneditorial138]

EXCELLENT, Casey. damnit! Every time I think I know what's going on - you come along and push me further. Great!

[@tacman1123]

Thanks, Casey, great tutorial. This seems like a great candidate for how to build a reusable effect. Suppose someone wanted to reuse the "text message dialog" animation a few times in the timeline or in different projects, and wanted to simple way to use what you've built, then customize the text, animation points, etc. A template? A .settings file? A macro? Anyway, seems like a good candidate for re-use.

[@dubstepzsi]

Awesome video has saved me with a client thank you, much Love :)

[@markw4831]

Simple yet outstanding.

[@leelove452]

Casey great stuff and please... More More More :). Trying to move away from Premiere as fast as I can and watching your tutorials make all of the difference.

[@GreatestSportsHighLights]

Just found out on the forum its (shift spacebar) for me for some reason? Thanx again for the amazing videos!! you rock!! have a great day!

[@henri-julien]

The "awhhh she loves himmm" part really got me lol great content!!

[@tangoseal1]

Thanks man! Learning everyday. Great Tutorial! Learned so many things in addition to doing this from just watching!

[@dicklowryproductions9364]

Very informative and easy to understand. Thanks Casey!

[@HenrikFaehrmann]

Amazing Tutorial! You can understand everything even if you nerver used Fusion before😊

[@toomasvendelin]

I wish I saw this video yesterday instead of learning things the hard way. Thanks! One thing is missing, IMHO: how do you export these elements like speech bubbles and what not? You certainly want to reuse them.

[@watchandproduce]

Very nice job explains this and loved how you did a recap at the end. Thanks!

[@divyaanshuagrawal3383]

Nice use of BG and masks!

[@PainIsntExist]

I love your channel and knowledge and skills. I'm glad that you share it with us.

[@RobertShaverOfAustin]

I like your channel so I'm now subscribed. I love your example here but right away I want to make it into some kind of template. Imagine you have to create a few hundred of these text bubbles. Here's the tools I'd like to use and/or build to make this task uniform and easier. 1. Can you wrap one bubble into a reusable package (like a template) that can be loaded as an asset and used multiple times on the project (and moved to other projects)? 2. Can you make this "template" so that I can change the text but keep the bubble the same? 3. Can you make the "bubble" word-wrap when length of the text reaches the bubble margin? 4. When the text wraps, can you make the "bubble" expand vertical to fit multiple text lines?

[@maumau161]

1. You can select and drag any number of nodes into the "Bin" dialog to save them as presets. These are accessible in any comp you create. This feature is not yet available in Resolve's Fusion page, you need the standalone Fusion for that. 2. If you want to make a template that only exposes specific attributes, create a "macro". (Select the nodes you want to use, RMB -> Macro -> Create Macro) 3. In the "Layout" tab of the text-tool select "Frame" in the "Type" combo box 4. That should work either using publishing of attributes or expressions. ("Height" attribute of the text needs to influence the height of the mask.)

[@HippieP629]

@@maumau161 Thanks for the explanations.

[@KevinStudent]

@@maumau161 This doesn't work for me. Whenever I save a macro, the keyframes get baked in to the project. So, if my macro was created at frames 1-10, if I'm working on a clip in frame 200, and bring in the macro, it'll only work in frame 1-10. Any idea of how to make the macro be relative?

[@mat-ventures]

At 11:51 you should have said "if you build it, they will come" (reference to Field of dreams ;) ) Thanks again for the tutorial

[@tiasmile]

You make it look easy... xD Great job

[@definefilms794]

Casey, awesome content. I'm adding this to a project I have now. Can you give me a tip on how to attach the text node if I want to include the small lettering on top of the text bubble that says who its from? Struggling with that. Thanks

[@hypermatrix8999]

Just use a merge to merge 2 text nodes before they're connected to the merge node that places the text over the background node. So Rectangle + Polygon + Background connect to Merge1. Text1 + Text2 connect to Merge2. Merge2 (which is just the 2 text nodes) connects to Merge1 as the foreground element, while the chatbox listed above connects to Merge1 as the background element.

[@oren.kirschenbaum]

Your channel = gold. Thanks for making these tutorials!

[@CaseyFaris]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@choose2behappy699]

Nice work man! How do u integrate this clip into your whole film you are cutting? Is it just by switching into the mode of Cutting and then there fusion clip is just there?

[@justblinkcode]

As ever, awesome tutorial. Thanks so much

[@ELPLAK]

Nice tutorial... I am trying to avoid to use AE, there is an expression on AE which make the last part on the animation to “bounce” 3 or 4 times decreasing it’s movement gradually. This expression is more advanced that just easy the movement. How can we achieve that on Fusion?

[@GreatestSportsHighLights]

Control space bar is not working for me and we just got the new updated version, What are we doing wrong!? We are extremely new to this program! Great video and thanx again for all the help!

[@SliwkaProductions]

Really good tutorial 😁 Thanks for it! ... 100k subscribers soon 🔥

[@SjoerdWess]

Dude, that was crazy helpful. Wow

[@pixel0]

Big important tip for all future videos. When you do a "how to" project, make sure to let it run at least once (if not a couple times) at the end and beginning of the video. Lots of people want to see "what are we doing" and then will follow along. If the end result is there at the beginning/end they see what they need. For this video the only way of seeing the end result is to do it yourself and run it yourself.

[@NairbRevilo]

I swear I saw one you made, maybe a more advanced version, of text message animations but you were able to freeze the center of the bubble and only the edges could grow or shrink. This allowed for longer text messages to dynamically resize the bubble to fit... but I can't find it again 😭😭

[@DaHaiZhu]

Golden, as always! Thanks for the great tutorial

[@AndreasInGreer]

So clever. So simple. It seems it's a lot more about creativity. Sure you have to know the software, but what are you gonna do with all that power?!

[@fernandosousa1484]

Very useful, Casey! Thanks a lot!

[@The1GreenJoker]

Hey there, I am not too sure if someone mentioned this before, But It would be amazing to see the end result in the first 15 seconds of the clip so I could see what the end product would be, if you not showing it because you want people to watch the whole thing first I respect that. But it would be nice

[@chryslerchwe]

I tried to follow through and managed my way around my first animation on resolve. Thanks ! However, when I went back to my editing page, the colours went wonky. Is this due to the fact that I graded my footage already? How can I work around to keep the animations not graded

[@Ghosty4k]

Food = Love

[@FenzirL]

Wow! Thank You somuch! Awesome 👏🏻

[@fredrikkilian9947]

I love your tutorials!

[@okaycloud]

This tutorial is awesome.

[@michalpiskorski9731]

Good stuff man, great video

[@compprufus]

First of all thanks for the video. Secondly, i know it's an old video, but the principles explained oof fusion should work in later iterratians as well, right? I've encountered a problem where one of the thread (backround, rectangle, text) is visible through the whole setup (trasnformed and moved around with set keys) while the other doesn't even show up. No matter what I click to be displayed, a merge (bg and text), a transformation or final merge (between input and output), nopthing shows the second bubble. I palyed with size in all three of them an nothing worked. Any idea what's causing it?

[@skytendence7452]

I dwnload all of your videos, thanks a lot bro

[@kimuyu]

Another informative video Casey. I love where BMD is going with this Resolve. But maybe, just maybe, resolve / fusion is quite finicky with motion graphics. Just wondering why we cannot simply import an EPS for the speech bubble instead of hacking nodes and masks and stuff. Is it possible?

[@CaseyFaris]

You can import all kinds of things, not sure if eps works as i havent tried

[@thinkinginwork4373]

I think they're going to add this. They said something about needing several months to implement Fusion fully.

[@Nicolasleconteht]

I love this one 🎉

[@vd.matheusmacedo]

You're awesome, Casey! Thanks for this!

[@chef_moquin9535]

Are you able to save a group of nodes like a template if you plan on using them multiple times in the future?

[@UCS_BibaswanChakma]

12:05 wow your one looks so organised. mine would be scattered all around. and i might take longer time to find a particular node than to actually edit it lol

[@fhajji]

Messy node graphs are "spaghetti code" visualized. :)

[@martinscholz7882]

Great tutorial. It would be nice at the end to run the final product.

[@Martinkellydop]

Hey Casey. Thanks for this, really great. Quick question. Have you ever had a scaling issue in Resolve / Fusion? On a HD timeline I imported some 4k footage. I scaled it to fit the HD viewer in the edit tab. I jump over to the Fusion Tab and do some work, like in this tutorial of yours. When I jump back to the edit page the footage is now a small square in the middle of the HD frame???? I'm running Resolve Studio, latest version. Thanks again. Martin.

[@CaseyFaris]

Wow... uh nope havent seen that

[@Martinkellydop]

@@CaseyFaris Cheers for getting back to me. All the best.

[@Martinkellydop]

Found a solution. Drop 4k clip onto HD timeline. Resize and perform all camera moves and position changes, then...and only then....right click the clip and create a fusion clip. Then all scaling and movement remains the same when switching over to Fusion and back to Edit....wonder if anyone else has this issue? Cheers.

[@yarrokon]

I LIKE DOING STUFF & This is very cool Stuff! Thank you.

[@aloomia826]

It made sense I am glad😄

[@anttiheik]

Excellent tutorial!

[@berechiah2024]

Very helpful More like the please! More real world practical videos give great experience.

[@steviestl2269]

Do you think the book from Blackmagic about DaVinci is worth buying?

[@DanielRolfe]

Great video , very helpful

[@eddu4361]

Super video! Thx!

[@santonia3886]

If i press in the notes, ctrl spacebar it woundt come up. can i find the tools another place?

[@OzZkar]

Could you do a video about aligning stuff in fusion?

[@michaelnjio]

I have always wondered how some Netflix movies do that.

[@bryce2485]

I basically want to get an outline of a building and have it be motion tracked to stick to it. I'm not that great with fusion, so I have made use of the power windows for highlighting the object and having it tracked. But I cannot seem to figure out how to make the inside not colored. What am I missing?

[@Uthu777]

Real neat, thank you my man

[@zack91907]

You are my biggest fan.(cover eyes)

[@mw3559]

I have a problem at 8:30, please help me - I can't connect "planarTransform" with "Transform" and Merge :((

[@dgwdgw]

I love the GPU memory full error because it's the most realistic thing about this tutorial even in Resolve 17 😂

[@jojo890xd4]

Amazing

[@yudingzhou8683]

Very handy!

[@seangalbraith6837]

This is amazing

[@donfreeman686]

Your GPU memory is full. What causes that message and how to deal with it?

[@Falorepus]

thx great work, but maybe you have to animate the text in the blue bubble (like writing)

[@CaseyFaris]

Animate the "Write On" property in Text+

[@Nutric835]

but man, stupid question, how do I take the work that I just made in fusion back to my edit "tab"?

[@thilinaalagiyawanna3680]

Thank youu

[@jmalmsten]

I kind of want to consolidate a few nodes with the logic of, if they are supposed to be the same, then the can be one node. Like the bubble nodes before they are colorized by the background nodes could be two masks instead of four. Thugh I'm a bit conflicted as to how it would solve instances where the text needs to be longer with taller boxes. AndI also somehow want to merge the chat boxes before the planar transform since they need to be connected anyways. But yeah, that's nit picking and not the point of the video. So I'll willfully ignore it. :P

[@CaseyFaris]

Haha yeah. Ive learned a lot since this vid.

[@jbasproductioneditorial138]

Casey: What is the Mac keyboard shortcut for CTRL SHFT (access the Fusion/Node menu)?

[@DavidTabachnikov]

Shift-Space is on the Mac

[@jbasproductioneditorial138]

@@DavidTabachnikov THANK YOU soo much!

[@ZeeGeeSims]

Thank you

[@eagles9]

Sound effects? Does fusion do those too or does the typing sound have to be added in edit tab?

[@wouterbmx072]

Isnt sound done in the fairlight tab?

[@CaseyFaris]

Edit or fairlight

[@iBradenStevens]

Thanks for the vid

[@Veptis]

How would I color this but keeping the graphics as they are? only output the graphics with transparency and make a 2nd clip in the edit timeline?

[@thinkinginwork4373]

You can right click the video before animating it in fusion and then select fusion clip then you would do your animations and when finished on the dot page again you can right click the sequence and select open in timeline, then it will open another timeline in which you can grade your video. For further informations see JayAreTV.

[@sorgulabiraz3161]

Thank you :)

[@RudzaimieNordin]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RedBeardRelicHunter]

You're the man

[@echxudn]

you can do this in powerpoint

[@BrysonTheTomato]

At this point I am more comfortable with the fusion tab than the edit tab