Tips for Realistic VFX in Resolve (2024) - Blackmagic Fusion Visual Effects Compositing

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In this video, I review my best tips for making realistic VFX in Fusion. These are perfect things to practice for making your videos pop to sell your scenes!
Let's make 2024 the year of better VFX!
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[@CaseyFaris]

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[@berndfachinger6000]

If there is something readable in the reflection, don't forget to flip it horizontally!

[@gabrielt8466]

You're such a good teacher. Love your ability to keep it entertaining and intuitive even through the more technical bits. Thanks!

[@CarlNelsonScience]

I love your thinking of, "hey it's good enough for your 2 second clip". Put your energy where it will make a difference!

[@JFikeVisuals]

Great stuff, Casey. Always enjoy your videos. One thing I was missing from the reflection in the glasses was the reflection of the passing scenery. Reflections on the wall of the train suggest there are windows across from the woman, so those reflections would be in her glasses too. Maybe duplicate the main footage, relocate the wall over the glasses, mask & track them like you did the train interior image, set to screen mode, and lower the transparency? That way the timing and shapes are the same as what's seen on the wall.

[@josefrogoschewsky6458]

Was thinking the same thing. Then add some barrel distortion to the sunglasses's mask reflection to better sell it.

[@little_moments514]

Thanks Casey!!!! Learned a lot today!! Your videos not only teach us but also help us build confidence to use fusion more often!!

[@furunkis]

Your videos are so entertaining. Plus, I learn a lot. Great job!!

[@Toogzyoutube]

thank you casey ! another stellar tutorial , thanks to you mr alextech and all the other da vinci creators i have been able to grow my edit game significantly ! Much love ! you guys are amazing.

[@TheScottAckerlund]

Amazing as always, Casey. Great work

[@fattanehtoycolletor9120]

wowwww. I love this. thank you for giving away all these knowledge

[@JasonYadlovski]

Great vid man!

[@kotsiajohn-xx2rz]

respect man, thanks for helping by providing knowledge

[@IntergratedAcres]

Casey you are the best. Interesting and fun too!

[@patrickgoethals3235]

Lots of interesting facts that I can use great tutorial. thx 4 the vid.

[@waddl]

In this scenario adding blur to the reflection would probably help too, since the shot has a relatively shallow depth of field.

[@thestagepodcastt]

What a great video, man. Great explanation.

[@petrusvanbiljon4130]

Love your work!

[@camerastooge]

This was awesome!

[@suvigyatiwari3000]

Insane video!

[@skapeedits]

Great vid! More vfx in the future pls

[@team2films]

Love it. Awesome.

[@nithinsuku]

This is mind blowing!

[@MagnusOgnedal]

This was an awesome video, more of this stuff, please! 😊 And where have "Dr. Fusion" been all my life?!?

[@x5or]

Great show man 👏

[@DenysLukoshkin]

Great video, thank you! Lens blur on a reflection would be grade =)

[@user-dp5gf7qc9k]

This is sick Casey, I've always wanted to do this stuff for like over ten years and you're such an amazing resource. I've sort of spammed some of your videos to my other friends who's just started as well. 😂 tysm p.s. fusion is wicked awesome

[@CaseyFaris]

Ahhh yeah! Super cool!

[@HobysVid]

Very nice tutorial. To create a kind of lens effect, you could map the tracked reflection map to a 3D Sphere and compose it into the glasses.

[@bobvine]

Fab ! And I thought I was the only one who remembers Fog Horn Leghorn 😜

[@theLoneWolf9182]

Hi Casey!! It would be nice if you are also are providing the assets so some of us could download them and try to replicate what you are doing. Just a suggestion! Great Video!!

[@ifell3]

That's awesome 👍

[@behzadebadi4717]

PerFect Casey 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@jasonvaughn1658]

Tons-O-Fun!😃

[@stuartsimmons956]

Awesome

[@JimRobinson-colors]

Hey , I came in here for the dead giveaway. I heard you mention it a few times - but didn't hear when that was happening. Kidding aside - I enjoyed the humor in this one. Thanks Casey. Entertaining ( and informative ) as usual. I think you should have put a persion being murdered on the glasses for some mystery and intrigue- kind of a hitchcock thing. cheers

[@badGamr]

Very nice! My only issue here is the static highlights on the glasses. I would be inclined to mitigate that or animate it somehow I think. Not sure how you would do that tho LOL.

[@dack42]

Nice one! How about the advanced version with head turning. 3D track the head position, render out 3d glasses model in Blender (with HDRI for reflections), and composite and color match it in fusion.

[@ArcanePath360]

I would add distortion at the edges of the lenses to really sell it, as glasses are not completely flat, the lenses taper off. Not sure how I'd go about it though, Maybe the warper tool run through the same planar tracker. Then I might add specular highlights that adjust with the motion, maybe just rotoscoping a gain mask that moves across the face. Then I would wonder what I'm doing with my life since people would have already been sold on the effect long ago.

[@CaseyFaris]

Hahah yup

[@eie_for_you]

Cool😁

[@mishukx]

GREAT

[@kellysprayberry8163]

Excellent video. I’m sure it’s been suggested, but it would be really awesome if you posted links to the assets you use if you can legally, so that others can practice and follow along. No matter what still a neat video.

[@daveruble5150]

You cagey bastid! I'M IN!

[@jmalmsten]

I would be so tempted to put a camera and crew in the reflection, just to really sell it. :D

[@ewob52h74]

My soda just came out my nose with your Brainiac Head effect! hahahaha!!

[@mazman9355]

at 1:00 I was really expecting a secret message (or magic msg?) on the bottom of the mug...😇

[@HeIsHarsh]

Loved the way he said "Magic of Internet comments" with a smirk 🤣

[@doug_vickers]

That just needed a couple of slices of toast Casey and it would have been perfect. 😉

[@karolisputnikas7327]

8:38 why we duplicated the transform and planar transform nodes and runned them through the mask of the glasses if we already tracked the glasses before?

[@CaseyFaris]

It was to apply the movement to the mask separately. The mask still needs the movement applied, even though it's not being merged with the glasses themselves.

[@TheFeralFarmgirl]

AI is still pretty limited at this time anyway. Most of the time I have to heavily edit the result anyway to get what I want.

[@Wyntrfang]

Sounds strange and it's not a big deal unless going for super-realism imo, just glorified speculation (hah) on how to push things a little more, but it's no big deal cuz it's super miniscule to what's already in the tutorial It's like, with the glasses moving, the slight curve in the lenses would sort of distort the reflection as her head moves; it's nothing big but it's a little uncanny valley with the lenses being so "flat" That and the lenses being plastic or coated glass, it has this sort of subsurface effect with the reflection, that and even with the high glare there might be a slight see-thru effect that might catch a bit of her eye, maybe like a soft/feathered mask in the middle of each lens to affect curvature and a very very small opacity? Thank you so much for the insight, learning so much about Fusion thru your vids!

[@CaseyFaris]

Ahh yeah good tips for sure

[@kryskaone]

😂amazing

[@StuartHetzler]

What are the instance lines doing here?

[@CaseyFaris]

Copying a transform so I can move the lens masks and the glasses at the same time.

[@KenRossPhotography]

👍

[@seoulstories753]

Yes, you can do this with AI! CAIsey FAIris said so! Great tutorial though! ❤

[@andreikhokhlov3204]

Bro got Jonsi's hairstyle

[@jammusique]

Great info, but too much clowning around on this one!

[@RaphaelChan888]

You want engagement? YOU want engagement?! HERE'S YOUR DAMN ENGAGEMENT!!!! With a side-serving of over-reacting. Seriously, does that help with the algomagicalrithms?

[@ProjectHelisexuality]

"you could just do this with AI" - no no no 😂 Some things you have to put the hard work in for them to look good.

[@NicoleSummer8]

Awesome tutorial and it is useful!👍💪👏✌🏻🫶🏻😄

[@briantierney6992]

What kind of sorcery is this?..

[@JakeWipp]

bUT CaN't yoU JuST uSe AI fOR thAt?!?!

[@JakeWipp]

Great video Casey!

[@Jessiekim]