Text Boxes done Right - in Resolve/Fusion

[@o.l.k.s.n]

This is simply a gem! I was looking for a decent explanation of how I can bind parameters in DaVinci to other parameters and boom, I stumbled upon this video which gives so many advanced techniques. Thank you so much!

[@VFXstudy]

You're very welcome!

[@jeweetzlfpappi]

Another great tutorial, you make complex matter understandable and enjoyable. When I'm looking for tutorials on advanced Resolve stuff I just keep coming back to your video's, they're simply the best out there! Thank you!!

[@VFXstudy]

Great to hear!

[@Temersson]

Thank you so much for this, again. I keep repeating myself but it is such a pleasure to find tutorials that go into detail of the topic instead of "one button solutions" that are aimed for just views/likes and rarely work anyhow. So, once more, thank you so much for time and effort putting together this great content!

[@VFXstudy]

Happy to help - again :)

[@JackVaughan]

Been really appreciating your channel recently and this one came at exactly the right moment, thank you so much.

[@VFXstudy]

Happy to help!

[@Fuck1me2and3U]

Just FYI When doing the text box line at the ten minute mark, you can simply switch the border style from a rounded edge to a squared edge. That will make the dot disappear at 0.0 length and the expression obsolete, unless you need a line with a rounded edge. This is a good video and helped me find exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.

[@VFXstudy]

True, thanks. Though for slower line animations you might want the rounded appearance- well depends on the style 😉

[@sagiciphantom]

Hi, finde deine Videos sind auf einem anderen Lvl und man merkt wie tief du in VFX bzw. Fusion drinne bist. Werde die nächsten Monate deine Videos studieren, Gracias!! 😊

[@steven_porter]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! The info here helped me simplify a motion graphics project from an incomprehensible mess of Fusion nodes that break if the font size changes to a single clean Text+ clip that is fully adjustable and renders perfectly. Fantastic work.

[@VFXstudy]

Glad to hear! Yes quite often making difficult stuff easy is half of the work...

[@nezhava]

This was indeed quite useful. Thankyou for bringing such content.

[@claudiod.7385]

What I like most in all the Bernd tutorials, including this one, is that he explains different options (including advantages and disadvantages of each) to achieve a result and with the excuse to explain the main subject he often explains as well very important/advanced tricks that can be applied on anything else. In this tutorial for example, I found extremely helpful and hugely important: 1) How to create new versions of a project. 2) How to link parameters between nodes or within the same node. 3) How to use data arrays and calculations with them. 4) How to use shape tools to create a brush. 5) How to create you own control parameters. I have just two questions regarding this tutorial: a) How to get the name of the array to manipulate and details about it? b) Can we assign random or specific colors to each star while animating the frame? In the mean time, thank you Bernd to have published another wonderful tutorial.

[@VFXstudy]

A) probably from the scripting documentation or maybe from forum posts. That stuff isn't so well documented - but now you have it here😉 B) not this way. Don't think that would be easy with the paint node. Would probably have to think about some other solution here

[@claudiod.7385]

@@VFXstudy Thanks Bernd. One of the other important positive things about you is that you regularly reply to your followers/students questions. Thank you again.

[@jjisnow]

@@VFXstudy Totally agree - you could do a video solely on locating scripting information for the purposes of expressions to create interesting expression based animations and it would get views!

[@lukalukaluka7000]

You are such a legend. Perfect video for me in this moment

[@VFXstudy]

Glad to hear it!

[@tidatida4145]

Very nice tutorial for Christmas time. A great inventive trick to handle the boxes in a universal way - never have seen this by somebody else. As always I appreciate the comments for the small tips and tricks which teaches how to handle Fusion more conveniently.

[@claudinchenchen]

Sehr gut, auch mit den Expressions!

[@TheSocaMann]

keep them coming...loving these topics

[@LerosOnline]

Great Bernd... th ebest full Tutorial ob DaVinci... Vera ccurate . Thanks a lot for the great job ...

[@josemonkey]

Thanks, this helped me a lot!

[@VFXstudy]

@@josemonkey you're welcome

[@RazendaTV]

Awesome video, helped me out a lot! Thank you so much!

[@YASIR.K]

Thank you ... Have a good Christmas.

[@SuperKitowiec]

Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!

[@jensgeumann7564]

Great Tutorial.

[@dots560]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you.

[@LayerComp]

Awesome video! Thank you so much

[@TimetoTalkwithYevgen]

Thank you very much! Very needed tutorial!

[@CriticasDeCineEn2Minutos]

Great teacher!

[@PatrickNiedermayer]

very helpfull. Thank you!

[@ДмитрийКлимов-ш2к]

С огромным удовольствием смотрю Ваши видео. Хотелось бы поблагодарить за простое и доходчивое изложение материала. Спасибо огромное за Ваш Труд.

[@rezarabbi7419]

Good Job

[@nadamuchu]

thank you so much! I am deaf and this was helpful. Can you please consider adding captions in english too? I was able to solve issue by watching, but it'd be great to understand what you're saying too. thanks again for going in depth on this! its so hard to find any good tutorials with this stuff.

[@VFXstudy]

There should be automatic English captions from KZbin. For new videos I'll generate captions through Resolve and upload.

[@pascalfurst7864]

Nice and helpful tutorial. But how would you set it up so that the shape scales with the Text, if f.e. you have a typewriter style textanimation and the box should "grow" with it

[@VFXstudy]

Hmm, not easy since the layers don't use the write start/end animation. So you probably have to manually animate it or go via DoD.

[@pascalfurst7864]

Nice and helpful tutorial. How would you set it up so that the background shape follows a write on effect of the text? I tried it with your expression but the rectangle would scale from it's center and not adjust to the bbox of the text. And is it possible to set individual rounding values on the corners of a rectangle?

[@VFXstudy]

With expressions it should be possible. If you go via DoD, then you might need to change the expression to keep one corner fixed and expand towards the other, or manually set up an independent animation.

[@TynkaTopi]

I noticed when using Playpack -> Timeline Proxy Resolution -> half or quarter, for faster workflow, will also change DoD size values half/quarter. So those will mess your expression locations/sizes and mine too :)

[@VFXstudy]

Oh, in this case, you would also need to adjust the size. The image output has a parameter Width / Height and also OriginalWidth / OriginalHight. The latter will give you the frame resolution, the former should adjust based on the proxy. So if you use the correct combination of proxy or original resolution to calculate relative position, then you should get again the correct relative coordinates (independent of the proxy).

[@TynkaTopi]

@@VFXstudy Thank you ! Width/Height solved my proplems, I thought the macros were not working properly. On one session macro works and ten minutes later not, all because of proxy changes and not knowing correlations.

[@2424rocket]

You look like you’re having so much fun doing this… Good for you. Do you have any beginners tutorials… Or the best way to learn fusion for beginners?

[@VFXstudy]

Yes, there's a free 5 hour beginner course on my website VFXstudy.com That's a good place to start 😀

[@Google_Features]

Thank you so much sir My issue is fixed 15:23 sec 🎉🎉🎉

[@msongs]

so I want to make a box the dimensions I want with the background color I want. Then drag it around the screen the way I want it. Then I want to put text on top (in) the box of the size text I want and move the text around inside the box to where it should go. Can Davinci do this? Seems pretty simple to me.

[@VFXstudy]

Yes, you can. Box with mask for the background, then merge Text+ over the foreground and use Text+ center or Merge Center to move it around. It's also possible to create custom sliders that restrict the movement etc. Though building that yourself from scratch requires a bit of effort. Alternatively use shading layers within text+ you can create outline and boxes there as well and move them relative to the text.

[@Abdlmnn1]

Hi. I tried using the on animated text but the box size scales from the middle. I tried adding transform node to control the anchor but it doesn't work properly. I'm trying to create type write animation where the box will only appear after the letter is revealed.

[@MeinVideoStudio]

Very nice :)

[@fredschenk_VVD]

If you have a star form as input (like the last example), can you add keyframes and animations to the star form (most likely: let it turn) and will this show up in the result?

[@VFXstudy]

Sure you can. It's just an image input. You can connect whatever you like and it'll use the image from each frame, if the star is animated on each frame you get a different input...

[@fredschenk_VVD]

@@VFXstudy good to know. That is a powerfull addition.

[@alain-roger]

What is you want to animate the text and make it coming from under the rectangle and fade in. At this time, the width and height of text are outside boundaries of rectangle and therefore to have both (rect and text) aligned on center can not work. So what is the solution in this case ? thx

[@johnny.decimal]

This is amazing. Thanks. The ceil() trick blew my mind.

[@DanielKutz]

That's a great tutorial. I have a question - If I have a few lines of text and I make them align left, they align to the axis so the box is not in the right poisiton... I tried to compensate with a simple expression to the Rectangle position (something like - Template.Center+(Template.Output.DataWindow[4])/2) but id didn't seem to work. Any solutions?

[@gmcoutinho]

Hi Daniel. I am facing the same problem. When I align the text left, the rectangle is in a strange position. Did you figure it out how to solve? Thanks!

[@DanielKutz]

@@gmcoutinho Na, I didn't find a solution except to move the rectangle manually each time.

[@jmalmsten]

This made me revive an old project of mine. But I am a bit stumped as I kind of want to use the expressions like one does in After Effects. But I have not found any way to write multi-line expressions. Maybe I can brush off some of ye olde algebra trickery to compact the procedure to a single line... but still... I would love to find any way to make multi-line expressions. Anyone know of a way to do that?

[@VFXstudy]

How about creating some temp parameters (e.g. via edit controls). You can use expressions on parameters that in turn use expressions.

[@timkeklinker]

Hi, I'm working on a big project (a company built around educational content about DaVinci Resolve), is there any way to get in touch with you, other than via the KZbin comments?

[@VFXstudy]

Sure, check my website, you find contact details there...

[@mongolen_klaus9844]

For such a simple thing so complicated. For someone who needs such things 2-3 times a year, impossible to keep. So for today's time, much too complicated for such a simple thing

[@VFXstudy]

Adding a box is simple, but I've shown some more advanced developer options for people who want to go further and build custom templates etc.

[@MAGAMAN]

Not bad. Would be better and shorter if he cut out all the parts where he is on camera.

[@VFXstudy]

Sure, without explanation it's always shorter :)

[@_pierre_]

I apologize in advance for my directness. You have wonderful projects to show. However, the duration (read as - for me - 50%+ redundant talk) keeps me from seeing your projects. Again, read line 1.