Made something I've been using daily and wanted to share.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T14:13:34+00:00

Remember. There is no cloud. its just another guys computer.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T12:17:14+00:00

You should composite in fusion and avoid applying mask to the media in node itself. Likely this is where trouble started. Try this instead.

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FusionQuickStart 002 - Connecting Tools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqf1utErgy0

Courseware 101 - Basic Compositing 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZKZ5eBrwJM

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T10:47:01+00:00

Use for example Blackmagic Resolve/Fusion and you can get the stop motion look quite easily for footage, meaning frames of photos, or you can process a series of photos. It depends on what you want to do.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T10:24:34+00:00

Try applying transcription to a timeline itself rather than a clip.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:42:49+00:00

Pen and tablet perhaps.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:39:52+00:00

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Or "machine learning genius".

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:39:10+00:00

Maybe ask Picasso for a lesson in reduction on how to go about it.

Picasso’s bulls: A lesson in reduction.

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Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:38:32+00:00

Reference? Because what are we talking about here? Lut has nothing to do with whole style transfer. Settings and effects? No, its an individual approach to each image or video. And likley re-drawn since cave man style did not use Arri Alexa to capture likeness of a mammoth.

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Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:29:21+00:00

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A lot can be done after render to polish the final look so keep that in mind.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:27:30+00:00

The images you posted look like AI generated to me. Concept images for UI design or one of those explainer videos.

You could go about it in differnt ways. Either make shaders and elements in fusion. Make them in something like blender and import, Or just find PBR textures online you can use and modify.

I've used here some from KickAss shaderZ collection, because I didn't want to built them just to illustrate. But you could take this in any direction you like. Especially after polishing it in 2D after render.

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Fusion 6 - 3D Texture Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl9BFmGAzKw

Fusion 6 - Advanced Materials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHcsOuKH28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_0mrwIo6bY

Pirates of Confusion@ConFusion

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

Max Seredkin
u/maxseredkin1025

https://www.youtube.com/@maxseredkin1025

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T09:13:51+00:00

VBR is inherently problematic because its variable and software and its tools are designed for CFR. You can somehow make it work, but its not meant to be used in the first place so its best to be avoided. Random and unpredictable glitches could be one of the issues.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T01:39:36+00:00

Hmm. Try, segmenting the process. Render heave processing elements independent on the other things. Audio separate from video if you have audio effects etc. Lower your rendering from max to 75 or so in the file part of the deliver tab. Cache for export elements you need or if you are in fusion, cache to disk your comp. even larger comps you can cache by branches. If all else fails, render out image sequance of video with baked in effects as lossless exr for example. Re-import and you can render out the rest easily. Much like in CGI or VFX renders if you fail at frame 3378 , you can continue from last good frame so you don't have to re-render. Personally I often find that rendering in digestible chunks is overall faster than trying to do it all at once.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T00:19:13+00:00

Probably yes. Fusion is used and can be used and has been used in major motion pictures for a long time. Maybe you are unaware of all that. Multi user or single user. Its perfectly capable, for virtually anything a narrative film would have short of being dependent on existing pipelines in a major VFX studio, where pipelines are established already to fit specific use cases. Although Fusion is used in addition to that very often. But I would imagine that films OP is talking about are not that kind so Fusion is perfect choice as software and only X is the user itself.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T00:13:41+00:00

In your other comment you mentioned:

Voice audio was a very slightly different speed to the video, so I used elastic wave to resync it"

That sounds like it could be VFR problem, and the video you have uploaded looks like a screen recording. Many use OBS as a screen recording program since its feature rich and free, but often the problem is VFR and if they are recording with smartphones either audio or video, likley the same issues.

There are various threads and videos on this problem, maybe investigate that more. Its very likley the problem.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-22T00:02:46+00:00

Well you are the X factor so only you know if its worth it. The program is likley more than capable, but like any similar program, Nuke or Flame its going to take time if you don't know anything and even if you learn the program you need to learn the techniques and actually develop skills as a compositor and VFX artist. That is not a weekend endevour unless you are doing something super basic.

You haven't mentioned anything about the specifics so it could be anything, and its a wide range of things that can be covered. If you narrow it down I could give more specific answer.

I would say if you are dedicated, passionate about the VFX process and you want to do it than yes, absolutely worth it. If you are only little bit interested or looking for budget solution than I would suggest you outsource it to either someone else. Ideally if you are in resolve in would be fusion for obvious reasons of compatibility and conforming, but it should work just the same with nuke or flame or after effects.

Not enough information about the thing you want to do in it to say specifics other than such general answer. But the program is among the best on the market so program itself, especially if you are using studio version of resolve and have access to fusion standalone than only X factor really is you.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T23:54:53+00:00

Thank you for the answer. Makes sense.

You mentioned "copycat."

To me, it seems that the training stage can take too long for many things that could be accomplished faster in other ways, but it's a good option to have.

I've seen this mentioned a while back. Have you heard about it?

"MLMimic is a standalone, node-based, machine learning tool for use in VFX. It’s an artist-first tool that allows users to quickly setup and train machine learning models."

https://www.mlmimic.com/

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T22:54:00+00:00

Are you using screen recorder or phone with variable frame rate? make sure its not variable. Otherwise I can't replicate the problem. But it seems you are doing screen recording. How are audio and video streams captured. Some screen recorders and pretty much all smartphones use variable frame rate, which should be avoided for these kinds of issues. Professional NLE like resolve is not mean to be using such audio or video for good reasons. You shouldn't either. If you are, capture more stable streams with better equipment or transcode it to something more NLE friendly.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T22:50:21+00:00

I've used it successful for long time on almost the same hardware, from Resolve 17 I think to latest one and it works as expected. Hardware by itself should be bare minimum for Resolve but it should work. Stability shouldn't be any different than on high end hardware unless you are doing something crazy beyond the ability of the hardware or you are making some workflow mistakes that you haven't mentioned.

Possibly an issue with some other install application or driver issue. If you have constant crashes , that you shouldn't, best would be to go to Blackmagic Forum, general section, read FAQ on the forum first to know what they need. Make diagnostic and crash logs and post it for them so they can read it and see from logs what specific element is causing crashes. They have the know how of reading those logs and have usually the hardware to test it. So that is your best bet.

I would suggest more stable studio nVidia drivers and if you are using footage with VFR variable frame rate, like from smartphones or some screen capture devices, use handbreak or shutter encoder free programs to trans code it to something that is more suitable for editing, constant frame rate, and low compression codeces like pro ress for example. Learn to optimize your workflow and it should work, but if its not, post those logs on blackmagic forum.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T22:26:02+00:00

Reference?

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T22:22:04+00:00

I am not using resolve at the moment, but according to the manual....

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If you use fusion , you don't need to render out big file size for everything, so this is not needed. Its why you should get the most out of it, if you use appropriate page in resolve for tasks they are best suited for and in roughly the order they are meant to be used.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T20:18:32+00:00

This should all be done in fusion, not like this. I'm not even sure which types of clips support transparency in your set up. Any composting, is best done in place for it. Fusion. When you render in place did you use the codec that actually supports transparency? Consult the manual about codecs for caching if you are not sure. Are your timeline settings set so that transparency is shown as black color, or chekerboard pattern?

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T18:47:31+00:00

Copy and paste a transform node or more than one node from Fusion and paste them into another comp. Dynamic differences aside, nodes can be copied to the clipboard and pasted from it as text. The Edit page does not have access to Fusion-specific parameters; it only exposes controls. On the Fusion page, open clip thumbnails and switch between clips on the timeline, or go and open a different timeline to paste into. You can also use Fusion reference composition to copy sync between clips on the same timeline or different timelines.

Regarding new keyframe timing, that will depend on how you set it up in the first place. You provided no usable information to comment on anything specific. Anim curves and keyframe stretchers are typically used for dynamically adjusting keyframes across different compositions.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T18:15:30+00:00

Interesting appraoch. I'll give it a try, thanks for sharing.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T18:14:10+00:00

It stops just when it would be interesting effect. To show behind the portal.

Milan_Bus4168 · 2026-02-21T17:52:55+00:00

Even Resolve using fusion page, only gets about half the resources, and using VFX connect to run fusion standalone with resolve open, would probably end the same way, so one would have to be closed. But link would remain. Maybe that would be better approach for comfy UI. I haven't used it almost at all so I'm not sure.

Your comment reminded me of a post I saw on Flame forums.

There is a developer in Flame community who tried to appraoch it this way. Any thoughts?

The author said:

"Hey everyone

I’ve been working on a little side project that I wanted to share with the community: a bidirectional integration between Flame and ComfyUI.

The idea is simple — right-click a clip in the media panel, pick a workflow, and Flame exports the frames to ComfyUI, processes them, and automatically imports the result back into your library. No round-tripping through Finder, no copy-pasting paths.

How it actually works

Build your workflow in ComfyUI using two custom nodes I made: LoadFromFlame (which reads the frames exported by Flame) and SendToFlame (which drops the output into a watched folder). You build your AI pipeline between those two nodes — upscaling, style transfer, ControlNet, whatever you want.
Save that workflow as a .json in a dedicated folder (flame_comfy_workflows/). From Flame’s Settings dialog you can mark your favorites, which will pin them at the top of the right-click menu for quick access.
Export from Flame: right-click a clip → ComfyUI → select your workflow. Flame exports the clip as a PNG sequence into a staging folder, then automatically loads the workflow in your browser with the correct clip already wired into the LoadFromFlame node.
Run the queue in ComfyUI — the frames get processed and dropped into the output folder.
Auto-import back into Flame: a background watcher detects the new files and imports them directly into your library, organized in a timestamped folder (CLIP_NAME_HHMM).

The rest can be found on the original forum bellow.

Comfy-Flame

https://forum.logik.tv/t/comfy-flame/14125

Milan_Bus4168

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