The DaVinci Resolve 19 beta is out. There's new features and
improvements in every single page. This video focuses
on Fusion and graphics. Here's what's new. This is a really cool feature. To explain what
reference Fusion compositions do, let me give you some context. Imagine there's a complex effect that you want to apply to
multiple clips in your timeline. I'm going to
demonstrate with a simple effect, but in practice I'm
talking about something more complex than you create with
the effects in the edit page. Before I show you how
Fusion reference compositions work, let me show you how we
used to do things previously. You could build directly
on a clip as a Fusion composition, or perhaps better yet, you
could create a separate Fusion clip. Head to the Fusion page. and I'll add a Media In node. and set it to background mode. This pulls into Fusion whatever is
underneath the Fusion clip on the edit page. We love this technique
because it maintains the ability to edit the underlined
footage with the power of the edit page. I'll build a quick composition. I'm going for a film
gate style rounded border. I'm building that with a
rectangle node and a background node. Once it's set up,
I'll merge it onto the image. Finally, let's put the
text "Travelcam" in the middle. I'll merge that on top and
tweak the text till I'm happy with it. Let's head back to the Edit page. It's easy to add
this effect to the next clip. I can simply
extend the Fusion composition. That's fine as long
as the clips are continuous. To add the effect to
these two clips down here, I'd have to make a
copy of the Fusion composition. That's fine, but if I
travel back to the Fusion page to modify, say, the color of the text, When I head back
to the Edit page, you will see that that
change has not propagated to the original Fusion composition. These Fusion clips are not linked. Now that you
understand that problem, it will enhance your
appreciation for the significance of the new Reference Composition feature. I'm just going to
pop back into the Fusion page and copy the
Fusion composition I had created so I don't have to
build it from scratch again later. Back to the Edit page. Let's delete those Fusion
compositions so we can start again. This time, right
click on the clip we'd like to add the effect to
and go to Create Reference Composition. Let's name it something sensible. You can see that it
has appeared in my Media Pool. To load it into the Fusion page, you can double click on it in
the Media Pool or as my play head is already over it in the
timeline, we can head directly to the Fusion page. I'll paste the
composition that I had previously created. Remember, I copied it to the clipboard. Now I can connect it to the node tree. Let's change the
color of the text to make it obvious that
this is a new composition. Back in the Edit
page, you can see it's been applied to that one
clip, but not to the next. If I want to apply
it to the next clip, I'll make sure the
Reference Composition is selected in my Media Pool, which it already is. Select the clip in the timeline I want to apply it to, right
click and go to Link to Reference Composition. Brilliant. That worked perfectly. Let's apply it to
the other clips as well. Now, here's where the magic happens. You can see I have
the last clip selected. If I go to the Fusion
page and change that text color... When I head back to
the edit page, you can see that it's changed the
text colour on all of the clips. That's because they are all
linked to the same reference composition. That's already pretty
cool, but it gets even better. Further down in the timeline, I have
several stacked clips on top of each other. It's possible to
build referenced compositions that affect clips
stacked on top of each other. Select the clips
you'd like to be included, right-click, and go to
Create Reference Composition. The reference composition is
associated with the topmost clip in your stack. Let's open it in the Fusion page. Here you can see it's
using the MediaInNodes timeline mode to pull the different
clips located on different tracks. I can confirm that by loading each
MediaInNode to the left viewer, one at a time. Alright, this is cool. Let's build a quick
composition using both clips. We're working quickly here. I'm building a 2-up split screen
with a similar style to the previous effect. I'm rearranging the node graph so
the composition has a black background. I'm using rectangle
nodes to mask out the two images, and I'm using the Merge's
Transform controls to position the images. Remember the focus here is
not the composition I'm creating, it's the fact that
it's a referenced composition. That's good enough for now.
Let's head back to the Edit page. That's brilliant. You can see my split
screen and the edit page. Further down in my timeline, I have another two clips that I would like
to apply this effect to. I'll make sure I
have the reference composition selected in the media pool. Now I can select the
topmost clip in this stack, right click and link
to the reference composition we just made. The effect is applied perfectly and just like before, if I edit either
one of these Fusion comps, the changes will
propagate across all the clips linked to this reference composition. Reference Fusion
compositions will help you create reusable assets that can
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using the link in our description. That's insane value. Supporting our sponsors is an awesome way of supporting our channel. So thank you and thanks for watching. Fusion viewers are now color managed. Previously, because
Fusion manages color differently to the other pages in Resolve, it was difficult but
not impossible to get Fusion to match the viewer
and the edit or color page without displaying some sort of shift. That's in the past now. Turn on color management
like normal in the project settings, head to Fusion, and
what you see will match the image on the edit page. However, please note, in
Resolve's order of operations, Fusion comes
before color page operations. So the image in Fusion
will match the image in the edit color page as long as
you've not done any work in the color page. As soon as we add a
color grade, because Fusion works on the image before color,
it will show the original image, not the fully graded image. That makes perfect sense
though, because if the viewer showed you the color graded
image, it would affect your ability to work on it. Perhaps Blackmagic will add the ability to view the image
post color in the Fusion page in the future. In the meantime, if you
want some awesome tips on how to grade complex
Fusion comps in the color page, watch our Fusion Masterclass. The link is in the description. Multi-poly. The
new multi-poly node allows you to draw multiple
polygons in a single node. It's as if they put
the multi-merge node and the polygon node into a
blender and this is what came out. If you've used either,
it's going to feel very familiar. As you add additional shapes,
they will appear in this list here. Those shapes can be
controlled using the same toolset you'd work
with in the polygon node. Here in the viewer
and here in the inspector. It should be noted B-splines
can be created in multi-poly nodes too. The multi-poly node
should be particularly popular with those performing
rotoscoping and manual masking. Now complex masks
can be broken into multiple shapes without the
need to create multiple nodes. You might have
seen in our previous Fusion Masterclass we chose to
build our Magic Mask in the color page and export it as a matte
because of how much it better performed. Now, the Fusion Pages
Magic Mask has been greatly improved. On short clips, its
performance is now on par with the color page. As before, this is a studio-only feature. IntelliTrack. We're covering this
feature in our Fusion video, but it's actually available in the color
and Fairlight pages as well. IntelliTrack is a new AI tracking
algorithm. As it uses Resolve's neural engine, that means this is a Studio-only feature. In the Fusion page, the
IntelliTracker can be accessed in the Tracker node. By default, instead of Point
Trackers, this tool now uses IntelliTrack. You'll notice, unlike the
Point Tracker, you can't change the size of the tracked
feature, or the size of the search area. There's no settings to
configure, just position the tracker and go. It's much more resilient than the
regular Point Tracker. It's not as susceptible to changes in lighting or
interference from objects passing in front. That's because
instead of tracking a pattern, it's intelligently
tracking objects in the scene. The IntelliTracker can
also be used for panning audio in the Fairlight page and
tracking windows in the Color page. Check out our Audio version 19
updates video to see that in action. Other new features. There's a whole
bunch of USD related tools including ones for importing volumetric VDB
files into a USD environment. OpenColor.io is now supported,
meaning Fusion Better supports OCIO workflows. You'll see new options
in the Viewer LUT drop-down. There's a new Shape Text tool called
S-Text. It works much the same way as the regular TextPlus tool, but it's
designed for use in the Fusion Shape environment. That means instead
of exporting an image, it generates shapes
based on the text you enter. TextPlus controls have been improved.
This includes the ability to directly edit text in the Viewer, in
the Edit page and Fusion page. In the Edit page to access
these new controls, make sure the Fusion Overlay option is
selected. Then just start clicking. If you want to learn even more about
the new Fusion tools in version 19, can we recommend two videos
for you to go watch next? AC Ferris and Bernd Clem have
fantastic updates on Fusion 19. We'll link them below. There's also new
features in every single Resolve page. If you'd like to learn
more about the new editing, audio and color features,
check out our other update videos. And don't forget, if you're learning
to use DaVinci Resolve, let us be your guide. Check out our brand new
DaVinci Resolve for Editors course. I hope you enjoyed
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for watching and see you soon.
