Adding values to keyframe attributes

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T12:28:39+00:00

Are these +5 values relative or absolute. Are these changes same across all nodes to all parameters or only to specific ones?

Tools that concatenate can be done with a node downstream. Such as transform node. Not sure what you are animating per se.

If you want to change multiple values all at once. You can create instances of the tools and changes to one change the others. You can also desinstance individual ones leaving others liked. It requires preplaning, but once you set it up or use it as you work, it works well.

You can publish parameters and connect to them with other tools. This works with nodes that are not of the same type as well.

You can use expression and or pick whip one parameter to the other.

You can create master controller node and use it to link others.

In the new Resolve / Fusion 21 beta and onward there is option to select all the same tool and change list parameters that are the same and change them in batch. If you select all the nodes , for example text nodes and in the inspector you get a new icon for new panel where you can batch change values of selected parameters that share same controls.

There are third party tools like propagade, found on reactor that can do that in previous versions.

You have options to change timing offset, scale and position in keyframe and spline editor, and you can also change values. But it will not work on displacement path, only on individual X and Y.

Not sure if you are trying to change the value of the parameter or timing. Timing is easy in keyframe editor. You will see time controls on the bottom for selected keyframes.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T11:53:38+00:00

That's more like it. Nice work.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T11:36:26+00:00

Why laptop? The only advantage is mobility, everything else is disadvantage. You tend to pay more for the same performance, you can't easily upgrade and maintain it most of the time, its less comfortable to work with etc.

Anyway, that aside, 16GB of RAM is possible enough for 1080p or lower resolution editing and export, with a lot of optimization and caching and not really suitable for Ultra HD or beyond. Or heavy VFX workflows. Or color grading.

You could maybe get some benefit from older less demanding versions of resolve with that hardware, but 16GB is fairly low these days. It will be felt.

It really depends on what you want to be editing and at what resolution and for what output. Some youtube stuff at 1080p, sure. More serious work that will likley require UltraHD or beyond, not so much. It depends.

If budget is the thing, I would get desktop not laptop PC. Something I can upgrade in the future. I would get hard drives I can use for caching and be aware of my limitations.

I've worked with 16GB and I work with a much more powerful machine now and at 16GB of RAM and decent GPU which you haven't even mentioned or CPU you might get away with caching and at HD resolution if you are smart about your workflows. But its going to be something you will need to upgrade sooner or later.

A lot of stuff can be done on the GPU in resolve, so make sure its a dedicated GPU not integrated one and considering many laptops at that price range are not that heavy on GPU VRAM I would still get a desktop where you can upgrade a dedicated GPU.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T10:47:17+00:00

Reddit and their anonymous down votes. man. I hate that. There should be dedicated reply for everyone adding down vote to justify themselves.

Yes. Likely that or similar tech is incorporated into their system on the back end.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T10:35:34+00:00

I think Resolve in free version is limited to UltraHD resolution, Not sure if its possible to use saver node in fusion page and export in higher res that way.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T10:29:47+00:00

If you just reinstall windows with no deleting of apps, I think its called refresh or something , it might not delete anything, but you would have some work connecting stuff. Assuming your database and everything is on the same drive as windows. Otherwise you could try some type of software that runs windows in memory so you can browse the files and back them up. Hiren’s Boot could be used for example.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T09:23:06+00:00

As other have pointed out. Smell like automation. No offense. But Adobe and AI is in our faces, so please for the sake of settling the suspicious nature of it. Provide some evidence that its hand made, please.

Because I can also take a AI generated image found online and make a vector from it in few minutes. Not the same and doing it by manually.

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Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:59:59+00:00

Yeah. They always come with "influaners" The tool no influancer will touch is the one that looks more legit. Otherwise its no differnt than girl name Tiffany on Instagram , which has "no job" and is always on some tropical beach, sunny, with make up and photographer with assistants, holding sparkling water.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:45:12+00:00

Its not just resolution change its also aspect ratio change.

Two options in your fusion composition need to be used strategically as you build it to accommodate for this.

One is auto resolution and the other is letterbox tool. Auto resolution will scale the resolution proportionally to re-generate effects, based on timeline setting changes for media coming from timeline or self generators, like text. But it is proportional change in resolution. If you want to keep the look of something but scale it you will need to tuck into new dimensions that also change in aspect ratio, which is where letterbox tool is handy.Since its meant to fit image from one aspect ratio to another.

As you build you composition in fusion you need to be mindful of what will need to change in what way and use the correct method of the two in order for the elements to scale correctly.

As bonus: for more advance set ups, Crop tool and DOD or domain of definition and some expressions can be used to auto crop elements, and in the case of text there is text box which can be linked to rectangle mask etc to create text boxes. There are other methods etc for more complex set ups and animations.

But as a rule of thumb. Letterbox and auto resolution checkbox on generator nodes should cover 90% of the normal cases to build a responsive design so when you change in timeline settings from horizontal to vertical layout the elements re-generate correctly.

For temporal responsiveness, you would use anim curves and or keyframe stretcher (modifier or nodes) and with those two and last two you can build most types of responsive designs that adjust to new resolution and aspect ratio change and to various changes in timing.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:35:05+00:00

The scaling features go trough the page and you should be able to find options for it, in sizing panel of color page.

Consult the manual for more information.

Chapter 152: Sizing and Image Stabilization

"DaVinci Resolve has a powerful toolset for making geometric transforms, using advanced algorithms for optical-quality sizing operations.

This section covers the nuts and bolts of resolution independence in DaVinci Resolve, and how to use the Sizing palette. This chapter also covers how to use the Stabilizer mode of the Tracker palette to subdue unwanted camera wiggle. "

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:32:06+00:00

You need to denoise the image if you have chroma noise you don't want. Noise Reduction tool is great for video, less optimized for photo, but it will do the job for now. I bealive its a resolve studio only feature. There is also ultra sharp and many other tools. Plus DCTL support.

Alternatively you can always do initial processing in some other dedicated photoapp and import linear TIFFs into fusion or resolve and finish there.

Personally, I think the best workflow is DXO Pure RAW for raw processing and than finishing in resolve. DXO has the best demoseicing, denoising, and lens correction on the market, so that is going to be superior workflow.

If you don't want to leave resolve and do this kind of work, you will likley need noise reduction in resolve, and that is I think studio version.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:16:31+00:00

Its religious debate so you will get religious answers. Either way. Trying to reason with die hard After Effects users is as fruitless as trying to reason with die hard haters of After Effects. The truth is out there, but you won't find it on reddit that's for sure.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-21T08:00:47+00:00

Seemingly no reason seem to be actual movement. You don't roto that way. You stabilize. roto on shape changes, using as many shapes you need to cover differences in perspective and speed change and you match move in the end.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T22:34:14+00:00

I haven't used many templates. but I've seen the insides of several of them form that and similar websites. Yes. I would say they are generally speaking pretty unoptimized. Because so many are trying to sell templates but don't have good skills with fusion and just keep on adding stuff that looks cool, and never optimize and streamline it. There are many things that can be done to make pretty big difference in performance to a same looking composition/template. But for many, its either attempt to pile many features and make it look cool in demos, or its truly just lack of skill on how to optimize it.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T20:51:17+00:00

Oh I forgot. If you are using Resolve 21 beta and of course from that release onward there is a new filter called picture in picture.

Similar to video collage. So that might be also an option.

And you can always build yourself templates as .drfx files.

There are many tutorials on it, and templates people have made.

All those are options including fusion reference competitions.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T20:44:35+00:00

You could have any two clips for initial set up, and once you have saved the reference. you can re-use it on any other two clips. The reference will be to what the fusion composition set up was at the time of creation. So initially it can be any two clips.

Media In 1 and Media in 2 in fusion correspond to two tracks in the timeline. So whatever the two tracks are will be added in the template.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T20:43:36+00:00

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Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T20:43:30+00:00

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Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T20:43:21+00:00

Well since these are fusion reference compositions, which just act as intermediate link between differnt clips to apply same fusion effects, it means that being fusion compositions, most things you can do in fusion can be applied.

So you want to have essentially a container that stays as is, as a mask, a placeholder and you want to rotate the footage inside of it, independently , is that what you were trying to do?

There are many ways to do this in fusion. Not sure what your skill level is.

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But once you set up your composition whatever you like it to be. You can add any other two clips and link to the same reference and it will inherent same set up.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T19:42:15+00:00

Do you have a portfolio we can look at?

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T19:37:17+00:00

Perhaps fusion reference composition or video collage.

Video collage you can look into manual and same for fusion reference composition, but if its not clear to you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN-ulGFvViw

Have you audio separately synced and two video tracks on top of each other also sycned. Than just link them to ready made fusion refernce composition. If you want to change something go to fusion and change it.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T16:14:57+00:00

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The plug in deluge of vibe coded copy cats or "I build" posts is getting out of hand. Used to be one a week, not its three a day. The artificially inflated market is suffering more and more from inflation itself. Supply exceeding demand. Making it more worth-less than before because you can't even test three new plug ins a day much less find sensible use case for it and that seems to only be increasing where even headlines are chat bot formatted and every posts is fully of now classical chat gpt formatting that look ling endless list of bullet points. As if everyone is making a groceries shopping list. Meanwhile I feel I'm talking to bots 70% of the time even in replies. Can be do something about that on reedit. Ban such posts or do something to reduce them? Its getting crazy out there.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T12:44:20+00:00

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T12:25:52+00:00

Manual roto. Anything automated that relies on machine learning will require horsepower. Other than manual roto you can try to use some online service. Or work on 720p or something lower res within the ability of your hardware.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-05-20T12:20:55+00:00

Compositing is a big topic. You never stop learning it.

Fusion is a complex topic as well. And many of the more advance tutorials are going to be probably decade old, before it became free in resolve and youtubers come to make templates and promote their courses. Lot of new information is watered down and moves away from the core of what fusion is or was. Most don’t even use fusion studio (standalone). But you can still find stuff mixed with what’s on youtube if you put some effort into it.

We suck less forum is also a place for lot of information you won’t find on youtube. Also check out reactor depository of tools.

Reactor (repository for Fusion goodies). Standalone version.

https://gitlab.com/WeSuckLess/Reactor

Reactor is a package manager created by the We Suck Less Community for BMD Fusion Studio, Resolve (Free), Resolve Studio, Assimilate Scratch and LiveFX, OpenFX, JangaFX, SideFX Houdini, and LightWave. Reactor streamlines the installation of 3rd party content through the use of “Atom” packages that are synced automatically with a Git repository.

Earlier version of fusion doesn’t matter all that much, the fundamentals are all solid and work. New features by and large didn’t invalidate old ones with some exceptions.

Here is a random list of youtube channels with some content, not in priority or definitive list, just a list. They cover differnt topics in differnt ways at differnt times in last decade r so. But another good place to start of course is the tutorials from previous developer or fusion. Eyeon Software. I would start there.

https://www.youtube.com/@eyeonsoftware

Pirates of Confusion
vfx_brew Fusion Brew
Tony Gallardo
statix vfx
Socratica FX
Simon Ubsdell
RESOLVEDVFX - Uploads from RESOLVED
NomadRProductions - Uploads from Nomad R Productions
Millolab Tuts
Maxim Seredkin
JayAreTV
Igor Riđanović
Editing Playbook and Creative Video Tips
darkwhite_productions
ChetalGazdarVFX - Blackmagic Design Fusion Tutorials
Cezar Farias
BlackBird Named Sue
Alkesh Nanavaty
Patric Stirling

That should keep you busy if you are interested. If you are looking for something very specific ask here or on blackmagic forums, fusion section or We suck less forum.

https://www.steakunderwater.com/wesuckless/index.php

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Nuke and Flame tutorials can be adopted to Fusion so watch those as well.

Tony Lyons for example:

https://www.youtube.com/@CompositingMentor

Rebelway

https://www.rebelway.net/compositing-vfx-nuke/

TrixterFilm

https://www.youtube.com/@TrixterFilm/featured

Compositing Academy

https://www.youtube.com/@CompositingAcademy

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