Hey there good people, my name is Scott and you are watching Sword & Shield Studio.
Right now we are going to learn the basics of how to create your own custom transitions
in DaVinci Resolve 17 and save them for later. In addition, I will you show you how you can save
these as a .setting file so others can install them too. Right, so let's get right into it.
Okay, so I am on the Edit Page in Resolve now where I have two clips on my timeline that I
want to transition between. So the first thing you have to do to create a custom
transition is drag one of the presets from the Effects Library at the top left of Resolve here,
and under 'Toolbox -> Video Transitions' just drag any one of these presets onto your edit
point where you want to create the custom transition. It doesn't matter which one you
choose because it is fully modifiable unless you want to use one of these as a jumping off point
then choose the one that is most similar to the effect that you are going for.
In my case I am just going to drag the Cross Dissolve transition onto the edit point. Then
right click the transition and hit 'Convert to Fusion Cross Dissolve' from the drop down menu.
Then I will right click it again and hit 'Open in Fusion Page'.
This will open the transition in the Fusion page and give you the entire
node tree which shows all of the inner workings of the animation.
Next, you can modify this transition however you like. You can either make a completely new
transition from scratch or modify what's already there in a specific way if you want. I am just
going to double click the CrossDissolve group and left click the Dissolve node and change it from
a regular dissolve to a Random Noise Dissolve, just for the sake of this tutorial.
When you are done modifying your transition, go back to the Edit Page
and right click the transition that you modified and hit 'Create Transition Preset' from the drop
down menu. And you can name this whatever you want, I am just going to name it 'Random
Noise Dissolve' and hit Enter or Okay to save it. And this will add, if you have not created
a custom transition before, this will add a new 'User' section in your Video Transitions in the
Effects Library where you will see we have the Random Noise Dissolve there that we just saved.
Just to show that this works I can delete the transition I have on the timeline, drag this over,
and it will work just like any other preset in Resolve. If you want to save out your transition
as a .setting file to pass along to other people to install, it is relatively straight forward.
Right click the transition on the Edit page and hit 'Open in Fusion Page' from the drop down menu.
Next, if yours is not already grouped together like mine is, hold left click and box select all
of your nodes between the MediaIn nodes and the MediaOut node and hit 'Ctrl+G' on your
keyboard to group them. And then right click that group, making sure that it is the only
node selected on your node tree, and go to 'Settings' from the drop down menu
and hit 'Save As'. This will pop up a prompt in your OS to save the file. You can save this
wherever you like. I am going to rename it to 'Random Noise Dissolve' and hit Enter to save.
Now, in order to install the transition or test it out, copy the .setting file
to one of the directories I posted in the video description depending on your operating system.
The transition should show up in the Effects Library along with your other video transitions
if you installed it properly and you should be able to pass this .setting file on to anyone
else you want to give it to. Well that does it for this tutorial. You know this is one of the nicest
new features in DaVinci Resolve 17, this ability to create and share your own custom transitions.
In the past, you might have had to have create an adjustment clip with an additional video track to
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