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Video Special Effects Using Davinci Resolve (Free Software)

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Add Some Movie Magic To Your Videos

The course shall go through detailed step by step instructions to achieve the following special effects:

What you’ll learn

  • Create fun special effects in Davinci Resolve(Free Video Editor).
  • The effects showcased here can be used in any application, I personally used it for Projection Mapping.
  • Create fun lit animated borders around your subjects.
  • Create particle disintegration effect.
  • Move planes in 3D space.

Course Content

  • Neon Light Effect Intro –> 4 lectures • 3min.
  • Let The Magic Begin –> 3 lectures • 51min.
  • Additional content (Projection Mapping) –> 1 lecture • 5min.

Video Special Effects Using Davinci Resolve (Free Software)

Requirements

  • Decent Understanding of Davinci Resolve.

The course shall go through detailed step by step instructions to achieve the following special effects:

  1. Particle Disintegration Effect
  2. Neon Light Effect
  3. Move Planes in 3D Space

All of the effects shall be achieved in Davinci Resolve which is an extremely powerful free software.

  • Particle Disintegration Effect:This effect is sometimes also known as Thanos effect, made popular by the Marvel Franchise, Avengers. The effect is used when Thanos makes half the world disappear. On the bright side this fun effect can be used to spice up your video content as well 
  • Neon Light Effect:With this cool effect you will learn to add simulated neon lights around any object in your video. The course shall also go over steps to animate the neon light borders as well as control the light intensity, It’ll certainly add some funk to your creations 
  • Move Planes in 3D Space:This section shall go over detailed steps to move simple 2D images without distortion. Traditional pitch and yaw settings do distort an image but  moving them in 3D space helps to create cool motion effects without any distortion

The videos in this particular tutorial go through using these effects for projection mapping application,

The same techniques can used for any video applications like YouTube videos, Commercials and many more.

Can’t wait to checkout your creations,

Best Wishes.

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