Fusion Tutorials

[El Director]

I'm starting to do some fusion tutorials on my channel (previously had another channel with Nuke/Natron tutorials) and thought I'd start a thread here to share them. If anyone has suggestions for things you'd like to see, let me know.
-El

Nodes for Beginners

Sky Replacement with PERFECT edges (NO HALOS!)

Planar Tracking

VFX Then & Now (A Comparison)

Lightsabers (Version 1)

Keying LOG in Fusion

Why your shot may be black

Why your color node isn't working right with alphas

A Video Copilot classic, in Fusion!

Matte Painting Speed Comp

007 James Bond Gun Barrel

Make a Boring Shot Better!

Object Removal with Projection Mapping

[Paul F]

Very nice. Great pace. Thanks.

[aram]

Good job. Subscribed. Most times I look at a Fusion tutorial it is well beyond my skills, but you have done an excellent job to hitting my level of understanding.

[El Director]

Thanks guys. More coming soon.

[Joshua_G]

Thanks, very useful. Subscribed.

[kevin baggott]

Oh I get it - your father or uncle invented Fusion - Dear Lord those are some serious skills. Thanks for sharing! Subscribing for sure.

[El Director]

I'm glad they'll be helpful! I previously worked as a VFX sup at a small Nuke house and I learnt/came up with a lot of tricks. It's fun figuring them out in Fusion now.

[finlay31]

You earned a new sub!

[El Director]

Added a new video to the first post. Basically, I was digging around an old hard drive for a movie I did 10 years ago and it inspired me to see how I did a shot back then in After Effects and then try the same shot today in Fusion.

[El Director]

One way to do lightsabers. I might show another approach in the near future.

[El Director]

If you're new to Resolve/Fusion and node based compositing, we break it down here. Hope it's helpful!

[El Director]

This tutorial is filled with tips - dealing with LOG footage, keying two types of footage, and using the "hidden" bins templates to generate quick effects. Use the chapters to navigate if you want.

[El Director]

If you're getting a black shot from Fusion in your Resolve timeline, this may be why

[El Director]

[Charlie Ross]

Nice and clear visually in the way you step through things. The pacing is about to where if on a grumpy day I think it's going too quickly, I can always hit pause and back up. I do that a lot anyway.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for not inserting any music background. It's a tutorial - all of my attention is on what you're saying and what I'm seeing. No time for "hamster hip-hop" in my day. Your voice over hit a few random 'plosives especially on the word "problem" - so just create a way to say that word that tones down the p or do the old radio announcer's method - pronounce 'b' which is duller and most people's brains accept it as a 'p' in the context of the sentence. I wouldn't bother with a pop filter.
Last tip - when preparing to record the screen, change your mouse cursor to something larger and brighter that will make it easier to follow. e.g. I keep the arrow shape but select a larger bright yellow option.