Explaining Anim Curves in DaVinci Resolve

hi my name is pj let me not waste your time today i'll be going over everything i know about davinci resolve 17's animal curves so what are adam curves and curves is a modifier that allows you to customly animate specific controls in fusion in an easily reusable way let me show you here i have the same transition made with anom curves and regular keyframes i wanted to extend this clip with the keyframed values you can see that the transition stays the same and is unchanged but with the anal curve transition if i extend the adjustment clip then the keyframe placement will follow the length of the adjustment clip depending on certain situations you may want to use one over the other but for now let's take a look at the way we can use anom curves common way that i use adam curves in my edits is with the blur that i use which i also made a tutorial on recently if you like to go check it out first i'm going to grab an adjustment clip and put it over the time where i want the blur to last and then we're going to go into fusion in my blur tutorial i use the reactor node defocus gamma but to not confuse you i will show you how to use the regular blur the node so we're going to hit shift space and type in blur and add it to our node tree in order to activate the modifier what we are going to do is go to the setting that we want to be adjusted in this case it will be the lower control we are going to right click it go to modify with and then choose anom curves once that is done and the setting is keyframed then you can go to the modifiers page at the top here it will show you all the settings you can just with the atom curves in the first tab you have the curve shape which houses the source and the type of curve in the source you can choose between transition duration and custom time you choose duration the spline that is made with the anom curve will last the whole adjustment clip or whatever fusion composition you are in if you choose transition it will also do the same thing but you were to shorten the adjustment clip from the left side and the motion will start within the middle of the curve instead of the values that you set down here so i would try to avoid using that despite what previous tutorials have told you lastly is a custom source where you can keyframe where you want to start and the end of the curve by using the value 0 representing the start of the curve and 1 representing the end of the curve for what we are doing we're going to choose duration to modify the curve so what curves am i referring to i'm talking about these curves right here in the second drop down menu here you can pick a linear spline which is just a straight line from one value to another easing which gives you pre-made curves that the program gives you my favorite is the elastic out and custom curve which allows you to modify the spline yourself what we're going to focus on today we are going to use the custom curve now once you click that let's skip down at the scaling column here you have the scale and the offset settings that you can adjust the offset setting controls the start of the value of your curve so if we set it to zero and look at the first frame we will see the blur is zero now if we mess with the scale setting this controls the value of how the offset number moves so if we put a value of two for scale i'll have an offset value at zero then the curve will go from a zero blur to a tubular you can check this by going back to the tools page and looking at the values but if we change the offset value to one the ending value will be a three blur let's check offset is our one the scale is at two so the value of the keyframe will be three that is how the scaling values work now since we are using custom curve we can change the spline to adjust these values during the clip we can add a keyframe if we like we can make very sharp curves and we can even control if the value even scales at all i put the last keyframe down on the bottom of the graph the value of the blur will not increase you can see when i mess with the keyframe that these in and out values down here will change this is the value of zone the in value controls what part of the timeline we are on so if the value is one then we know that as the last keyframe of the spline if the value is zero then we know we're the start of the spline the out value controls how intense you are allowing the scale to move so at zero it will not move at all and at one it will move to its maximum value that it is set at at point five it will go halfway of what the scale value adjustment is the last part of the animal curves is the timing controls and i think it will be better shown while using atom curves on a transform node so i'll make that right now just to show you all right here i have the transform node and i put another occurs on the y value the source as duration and the curve as the last two curve so the animation will make a jiggling kind of movement like this in order to see these time adjustments i'm going to open up the spline graph and i'm going to select the position y check mark box just above the lookup box if we hit the zoom to fit we can actually see the curve that we selected as you can see since we chose elastic it's in the shape of a wave with time scale we can increase or decrease the length of the curve to make the movement sharper or softer the lower the number the softer the movement and the further the spine graph will expand now if we reset that and adjust the time offset we are adjusting the time when the curve will start to activate the lower the number the further along the curve we will see it and the larger the number the bigger the delay the curve will have so everything i just explained are the most important controls that you need to understand atom curves there are these boxes named mirror and invert which mess with the direction of the graph and then there's these clip high and low boxes which i'm not sure they do so i'm not going to explain it but if we go back to the blur node the way i would use anom curves to adjust this value by using the custom curve on duration with my ideal values so starting from somewhere like five and going down to zero would be ideal so in order to do that i'm gonna put five for the offset and negative five for the scale that will give you a graph that is stuck to each end of the adjustment clip and that i can adjust the length in the edit page so i can have it last longer or shorter or however i want now that you know how to use anal curves you can implement it in your presets that you've made for example i use another curves for the shake the exposure and the blur that i have over here what i used to do this is just a brightness and contrast node with the ant occurs on the gain control and i have it adjusted with a custom curve and then the source is going to be duration but yeah that's my explanation of atom curves if you enjoyed this video i appreciate it if you give it 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Length: 5min 4sec (304 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 29 2022