Intro to the Fusion Title Generator - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

- When the Fusion visual effects package was integrated into DaVinci Resolve, one of the side benefits was a new class of title generators called Fusion Titles. Let's take a quick look at how those work, because they are eventually going to launch us into opening up Fusion itself. So here on the edit page, we are going to come down to the effects library, and I'm going to jump into titles, Fusion Titles, and you can see we've got our regular title tools, and anything with this kind of lightning bolt next to it, is a Fusion Title. Now, this text plus is essentially a text generator, we're just going to drop it in there, but it's based on the Fusion engine. Let's turn off the marker display, so we don't have to look at that. I'm going to deselect show marker overlays, and you can see that this has gotten a little wigged out here. I believe what's going on is the render cache option, you see this little blue line here? What DaVinci Resolve is trying to do is render out this particular little clip here, because Fusion Effects do tax your computer, and so it will automatically try to render things out, and I think it's having a little bit of problem with my render cache. So what I'm going to do is come down here to project settings, scroll on down, yeah uncompressed 10-bit, I'm going to pick something that I think it's going to more likely work with, like DNxHR HQ, as my two render cache formats. Hit save, and it kind of pops back in there. So if that happens to you, that's one idea for cleaning that up. Now as I click on this, well how do I adjust this title? I go to the inspector. So with this selected, now I have a full set of tools. This is actually the Fusion Title generator when we open up Fusion. This is what its title generator looks like. It's now been exposed here on the edit page. Let's drop this down, so we can see all the various controls. Honestly you can sit here and knock yourself out, playing with all of these, and also make sure you take a look at all of these various other tools that you've got in here, this is not your grandfather's title tool, it's really really powerful. But that's not what I want to show you right now, let's go ahead and click backspace to remove that. What I'm going to do is come down into these prebuilt Fusion Titles, and you can see that just the description alone tells you that there's something special going in. So for instance, 3D Lower 3rd Plane Slide In, I'll go ahead, drop that in, and we will see what this thing does. So I'll let it render out as the red turns to blue, and by the way I can speed up when the render cache starts kicking in, by coming into project settings, and enable background caching, I'm going to drop that down to one second, so I don't have to wait for it. And now let's play this through and see what happens. There you go. So we've got a slide action happening in here, and as I step through it using the right arrow key, and then hit play, and does it do anything on slide out? And then it slides back out again. Now there are ones that are way more extreme than that. 3D Title in a Box, now this is truly a 3D title. The Fusion visual effects software is a true 3D environment, so you can enable cameras, you can do lights and textures, and that's what this is going on in here, is it's a 3D text effect, hit play. So we've got a long title in a box, and what I can do is, if I want to adjust this, click on it, I've got the inspector open, click on the Fusion tab, and now I can adjust the main text. So let's go ahead and call this Learning Resolve 16, it's starting the render cache back off again, automatically, to help me out here, 'cause it probably won't play back in real-time on this laptop. Once the red turns to blue I'll hit play. Learning Resolve 16. And all of these parameters are fully customizable. Everything from fonts to colors, shadows, you know, just kind of scroll down in here and you can see that all of these are parameters that you can use to customize yourself. So if instead of this cyanish color going on, we could ahead and go with something, let's say, red. And click OK. And now I've got that, now how do I save this off if I want to use this time and time again? Easy, I'll come into my media pool, I'm going to add a bin, I'll call this Custom Titles, click in there, click drag, and now I have this custom 3D title in a box, with my own text and my own color scheme. DaVinci resolves ships with about, I don't know, two dozen of these Fusion Titles, feel free to go through these, you should probably get to know them a little bit, so that when clients or projects that you're working on call for some quick titles, you have an idea of what it is you want to pull up right away, but these are very powerful, and a fantastic way of using 3D tools right here in the edit page.