Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio (Dongle) - Manual (Page 279)

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Lesson 10
Creating Graphics and Effects in Fusion
Adding the first effect
To understand the basic principles of working with nodes instead of layers, let’s add a
simple effect to this clip. The most common tools or effects that you will want to use are
located in the toolbar.
1 Hover your mouse pointer over the first tool in the toolbar to display a tooltip with the
name of the tool.
A thin divider separates each of the six toolbar categories. From left-to-right the
categories are: generators, color, compositing/transforms, masks, particles, and 3D.
Generators Color
Compositing/
transforms Masks 3D Particles
You build effects by connecting tools between the media in and media out nodes.
In this example, you’ll add a color corrector tool from the color category.
2 Move your mouse over the first tool after the first divider in the toolbar.
3 Drag the color corrector tool over the connection line between the ACTRESS node and
the OUTPUT node.
4 When half of the line turns blue, release the mouse button to insert the color corrector
tool as a new node.
5 In the node editor, select the color corrector, and press the 2 key.
The color corrector results appear in viewer 2, while the original clip remains visible
in viewer 1.
When a node is selected in the node editor, the parameters for adjusting that node
appear in the Inspector.