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1. Intro: Hello and thank you for
joining me in this class. I'm Mark Molochic in this class, we're going to explore layers in the vent resolve fusion and
how we can and them and manage them and manipulate them and apply blend modes and make them appear at
different times as well. When you normally do the
stuff with the layers, going to create something like
this as part of the class and here we have the different layers appear different times. We start with just one video and the graphic in the bottom. Then another video appears. Then we have the
video of the car disappear after a few seconds. These are actually
two separate layers that do appear at the same time to make
it look like it's one, but actually two separate
layers that appear at the end. I hope you're going
to enjoy it and let's get started with working with layers in the venture resolve fusion
with me, Mark Majek. Let's see you in the next video.
2. Create Project and Import Media : Okay, so we'll start by making a new project in
here in Resolve, which I'm calling layers in
Resolve. I will click Create. And there are some media files you can use to follow along. If you want to, you can input some media into your project. I'll go to the media pool, put the media page
first and going into R click Input media and I got
this folder we can work on, which I called layers
and resolve in here. I'm going to open it,
highlight everything. Input. Got some images and videos and a sound
file here as well. I'm just going to highlight
all of these in here and just make a new bin in here. Making to do. You create venous clips. This is going to
be called layers, the same in resolve
as an example. But our focus is obviously
on the fusion page. We're going to
well, first of all, let's actually maybe create
a timeline here as well. Typically, you spend most of the time in the
on the edit page. Here you may want to
create a timeline first. You can just do new
timeline from scratch. I'll go for the
standard full HD. This is going to
be the same layers in resolve or fusion resolve. One track age is
perfect in here. Let's double check the settings. 1920 by 1080, 20
fferent per second. Perfect. Second click
Create in here. And then we're going to start working inside fusion and we
start getting this concept, how we can use so called layers because they're not
really layers as such. Let's just keep it open
and in the next video, we're going to jump into fusion and we start
working in fusion.
3. Create a New Fusion Composition: Okay, so now let's jump
into fusion here in fusion, you can access your
media as well. I got a media pool on the
left hand side in here. Let's pick something maybe
s for the background. I was thinking about
this video called car. So I'm going to drag
and drop it into here into the nodes,
edit at the bottom. And you get this media in move this out of
the way a little bit. Media in is the media
you edit into here. In this case, it's the video. That's the media in one. Media out is what's showing this viewer on
the right hand side here. That's what's going
to show when you say export your
timeline in here. You should have two
viewers by default, there's a viewer two, there's
a viewer one inverse order. For example, te media one, we can drag it and drop
it into the viewer on the left hand side here
to see it in there as well. That's our media in,
that's our media out. Now at the moment, they the same because all we have
here is just a video, nothing else in there, but there will be
more as with Mandan. At the moment we
have this video. Which is going to play? You got some playback controls
in here as well. So you can play in here, you can move the play hat.
This should normally play. There you go. The
video is playing. This would be our output. If we go back to our edit page, you'll see the video on your
timeline in here as well. That's our video, yes, we did just drop the video onto the timeline, but if
you look a bit closer, this clap in here, uh this is actually a
fusion composition here. Because what we're working
on is a fusion composition. Even though we just
have a video in there, even though we just
drop the video into diffusion composition. Remember, any changes
you make in fusion update on your edit page automatically at the
same time as well. So as we continue working
on the fusion page here, just before we add more content. For the viewers,
viewer one Viewer two, if you want to load anything from your nodes into
any of these viewers, you got these buttons in here. This is the viewer one.
This is the viewer two. I can load this into
viewer one and two, or just one or just two. You can decide. You can also use the keyboard choat if
I select this node, one for viewer one,
two for viewer two, two again to disable viewer
two and the same here, one number one for viewer, number two for viewer two,
the same way in here. I'm going to keep them just to make sure you can
see the content. Make sure that your media
in is in viewer number one, and your media two
is in wa number two. Remember you can
drag and drop them, or you can just
press one or two on a keyboard with
the node selected. Let's keep it open.
I'm going to add more content in the next video. You can start
working with layers.
4. Add Videos Layers (Nodes): Okay, so how do you work
these layers in here? Got this video. Let's say I want to put maybe another
video on top of it. We'll take this Mercedes video
and I'll just drag it from the media pool into our
notes on note editor. Now let's just make a
bit more room here. I'll move this down minus. Glass media too. Now, if you want to name
any of the nodes in here, you can right click and you
can just rename IF two, this would be Mercedes
because that's the video or maybe Mercedes,
actually say Mercedes. Say, we can't use spaces here. I'm not sure if
it's MP four MOV, but let's say if I do
MP four, for example, pot media one here as well, this was the car
MPFour and MP four. You also know what.
This Mercedes, if I drag and drop it
here into the viewer, that's the video. This
video looks like. That's the video. At the
moment because we've got different videos in
Viewer one and Video two, that's Viewer, that's Video two. When you hit playback
or space vL, it's playing both in and
out, which is great. Anyway, that's not about. How do we put this video
on top of this one? Then we'll make it
smaller as well. In the node editor here, the order does matter. It's a bit like layers
because if you knew to fusion and if you use
some other applications, you may be wondering,
when you look in here, what are the layers? Well, the nano layers as such. However, we've got here these notes which
do act like layers. If one mercy this to be on top of the car is going
to come next in here. I'm going to move
this video right onto this node line and you should get the
highlight Blue nail. If you don't get the highlight,
just hold the sheet on your keyboard and get this blue and yellow highlight and when you get a highlight, you can releach the mouse button to drop this clip in here, which does create a match
node automatically as well. Here we go. Let me just
move this one like this. This makes more
sense to me. Okay? Now, if we look in the view
on the right hand side, all we see is just Mercedes. Here we can see the car,
but here the Mercedes. Okay. Now we can
only see Mercedes in here because the Mercedes video came on top of the car video. Well, I wanted to
say the same size, but actually Mercedes video is even bigger than the car video. We go back to say media pooling
here, what these videos. If we change the view, you
can see that the Mercedes is 12 80 by 720 and car
is 960 by five oh six. Okay? So the Mercedes video is bigger at on top
of the car video. As you can see, as
you add another clip. We can do the same way if I
move this out of the way, we're going to add some
more clips here anyway. I'm going to grab one more, maybe say this one, I'll drag it, drop it here. And drop it on the line
again holding Shift key. You can see now you can see this may start
making more sense. I just want to move this one. This probably make
more sense now. You can see now that this actually is on
top of the other one. This actually is a clay layer. I should name it as well.
I'm going to rename this. This is the Cloud Studios PNG. Maybe it's not small. Eight. Now this starts
making more sense. This Cloud studios is actually on top of
the Mercedes video. This layer is on top of this layer and this is on
top of this layer here. Let me share a bit more about these quote layers
in the next video.
5. Resizing Layers One Way: Know what you might be
thinking at this stage. These two work like layers. What if I can I move
these before this? I just say highlight these two and move them before
the merge one in here. I'll move these
ones to the right. Well, you could, but it
doesn't work like this. You can move them around, but
I'll show you a bit later. Let's just go back
to where they were I'm going to undo
the last few steps. Let's start maybe tiding
it up a little bit. For example, this Cloud
studios if we select it here, I'm thinking, well,
it's too big. Can we make it smaller? Looking in the inspector,
there's nothing here really. If you select the merge node
and have looked inspector, we do have a scale size in here, so you could make it smaller. I can make it maybe
something like this. I'll keep it in center for now. I could potentially apply
the same to the video, Mercedes, Aces met note. We can just scale it
down and you can see now that these actually
do like layers, can also move the cena
position so you can move it. I was talking about having
this video in the bottom left corner and even smaller, maybe like this here. Yes, you can do it. If you want to resize the clip or you want to reposition
it or change the angle, there's an angle here as well. Or if you want to flip it, you can with the match node. But there's different
way we normally do it. Let me just undo
the last few steps. For all the cloud, studios graphic and
the video as well. I want to show
another technique, a different technique, and
I'll show you this too. I'll show you this different
technique in the next video. Let's keep it open.
I will have a look at the technique next video.
6. Resizing Layers Another Way: Video, we try to
resize these clips, the graphic and the video, and you can do it. You can do the merge node, that's okay. There's
nothing wrong with that. But there is I would say better way the way
we normally do it. We actually use a
transform node instead. This one here is
our transform node. I'm just going to move the video up and the graphic as well. Got the transform node
here between these two. This will give us more control. Now with the transform node
selected, not the merge node. We can do more.
Also in to keep in mind that if you say resize, move the position, rotate using the merge mode like we
did in the previous video. Because merge node applies
after all of these in here, you may not want to do it to everything you've
done to the clip. At the moment, we only
transforming the graphic, nothing else in here. We can add more stuff here. Now with the transform node selected we'll make it smaller. Also, I'm going to add
the transform note to the Mercedes clap here. You can see as you
dragging and dropping the note from the note toolbar, you get the yellow blue
highlight automatically. If you drop it anywhere and
then drag it, you don't, you just hold the
shift key. Done. With this one, again,
I'll make it smaller. Here we go. Second seat. We'll put it aside,
move the center, maybe like this I was actually thinking to get the same space to the
left and underneath it, I use the same values in here. On this one to make it
easier to remember a 0.3, and the same here as 0.3. This doesn't always work well, it didn't work in
this case because this video and this video have not only
different resolutions, but they also have
different aspect ratios. That's the problem.
In this case, this would have to
be done manually. Say like this, for example, I'm going to close
this media pool for now so I can
see this better, bigger, here we go. Maybe even a little bit smaller. Maybe the cloud a
bit smaller as well. Maybe actually go into
the corner as if it's a logo for a studio
or some company, so maybe here,
even smaller where the trees are maybe here. If you want to move,
resize, rotate, clips, infusion, it's best to use the
transform node in here.
7. Stack Your Layers in Order: You can just keep adding more layers here in the same way. You can go to the media
pool and we can maybe add another graphic here. We can always make them appear
at different times later. Let's say I'm going to
grab maybe this one. Maybe actually this could be also maybe dit actually addient just before
the media out. Going to select the note and press one to see what
this looks like. Because it's going to be well,
we're going to connect it. So if you want to
add match node, you can also add them from here. That's your match node. I can
drag the match node here, drop it on the line. Connect media in here
to the match node, so you can see it or
rename it as well here. This is going to be re
studios underscore PNG. Here we go. I know what this is. Now this appears last
or last at the moment. Again, we'll add a
transform note to this. Drop it right here. I will make it smaller
like we did before. This one is going
to be in the center because I'm thinking this
could be P at the end. I'll do maybe 0.2 for this one. But I'll keep the position as it is because when you drop a clip, it's going to stay in the
center automatically. I have half and half
for the center here. Keep it the center.
You can always make it appear later if you
want to in here. Also remember, as you look at your notes from
left to right, this is going to
be your background and this is going to
be your foregrounds. At the moment, this re
studios logo is on top of Mercedes video in here. Okay. Because it's here
towards the end. Which is actually the way it's intended, the way
it's supposed to be. That's fine. Also, what I wanted to show you and have a look at this
in the next video, but how to say apply blend
modes to these layers here? Because in other applications,
you have blend modes. We do have them here as well. It's just a different
way you apply them. Let's keep it open. Let's have a look at this in
the next video.
8. Apply Blend Modes to Your Layers: Using the logo in the bottom
right corner as an example, which I was thinking about
it stay here all the time. We could make it blend into
the background a little bit, we could apply blend mode
to it. How do we do that? Let's find this clip that's the Cloud studios naming
the nodes helps in here. That's the Cloud
studio. F selected. There's not much in here, media source layer trim, no,
we don't want to trim it, no settings, not really
here, no. Transform, maybe. Not to worry after.
Now, in this case, we're looking for the
merge node in here. Merge node. Now there's no
blend modes here as such. But in resolve, you got a supply mode which
is like a blend mode. We can apply these
blend modes basically. You may know this from
some other applications. You could try different ones
screen is going to actually, I was thinking about
cloud studios. Let's just do Cloud studios
merge two, this one here. And we could do
probably multiply, which will keep the
dark Epixel height of the light epixels. You can screen probably as well. There's a bit of blending
going on here or dissolve. You can have a look at
these different ones and just find something
we like in here. Depends what you want
this to look like. You can try different
blend modes. Probably going to
stick to screen, but we got color
Dodges, for example, not too bad or linear Dodge, maybe Linear Dodge
for now in here. If you want to apply a blend
mode to a clap in here, you would also use
a match node. Okay. It may be a situation
where you just want to add a clip in here, you
just want to blend it, so you drop it into fusion and you add a merch node to it, and then you apply apply mode, which applies to blend mode. You can also adjust
the blend in here as well. That's the blend mode. Now what I want to
show in the next video is how to change the stacking order for
these layers here. Because at the moment,
as an example, the RStudio's logo is on top
of the Mercedes logo here. We zooming a bit closer
here. Here we go. You can see that the
rest studios is on top, the play had you'll see better. Here we go. Because the
video behind is moving. We'll have a look at
this in the next video.
9. How to Move Layers Front & Back: Change the stacking order of
layers in here in resolve. You may be right thinking that based on what we were
talking about earlier, you just need to change the
order of these nodes in here. For example, the re studios maybe we go slightly
behind the video messages. In other words, these, we need to go before
the Mercedes. How do we do that? Let's
just make some room here. First, what we
tried earlier is we selected these notes as we
drag them all together, you can see the moving together. We want to move them right after car before, right
somewhere here. But then you can see, it's
not really what we after and there's no highlight here either. It's just doing this. Well, you know what
we need to do. We need to move
them right in here. So there's two ways
you can do it. We can just disconnect
this holding Shift key. Here we go. You can move
them say here for now. Then as you move them, you hold the shift key and
you drop them right here. Now the re studios
appears behind the Mercedes because it
comes in before Mercedes. That's why it's below it. This is our layer number two. But here's a quick way if
you just undo and undo. So as we highlight
all these notes, we're going to start
dragging them. Hold the shift key. I'm still holding Shift key down. Okay? Ease the shift key and then just hold the shift key
as you move them right here. You drag them holding
the Shift key and you keep holding Shift
key down and release. Now they're here
in the right place as a layer in a
stacking order in here. This was the same way,
whatever you want to move it. If I want to move it back here, but instead of undoing, we'll just make sure that
all of these highlighted. Click hold, hold the shift key, keep holding Shift key drag
it and drop it right here. Just right there. This is layer number one, layer number two, layer number
three, layer number four. Again, if we go
back to Edit page, all we're going to see is
just our fusion composition. But we'll see all of these
as layers layers in here. That's how you can manage or move the layers
in here as well.
10. How to Manage Your Layers Timing: Another feature I
wanted to show you. We have these layers
here and they appear one on top of the other
in certain order. But what if you
want them to appear maybe not all at the same time? Maybe you want the studios to appear at the end as an example. Okay. So here's what we can do. I was thinking, what
about Mercedes? Maybe we can make this appear, say after 1 second, for example. Tell you the mercedes video. If we select the video
node in our note editor, if you look in inspector panel, you could global in and out. Where you can trim the content. The moment the Mercedes
video starts from the beginning zero,
but if we trim it, if I move this in to 24, which is going to be 1 second because this timeline
is 24 fends per second. What's going to
happen now is if we move display head here
towards the beginning, there's no video in the first
second. How cool is that? If I play it, the video of the Mercedes appears
after 1 second. Okay. We can also make
it disappear later, we can adjust the
end here to make it disappear before the
end, for example. Let's do with the graphic, this one, studios. Select it. Not this one, one, R
studios or select it. We'll make it start maybe after 2 seconds or maybe after
3 seconds, actually. 204-40-8702 for the start,
M it stay to the end. Initially, it's just
a background video. And then we get the video and then the
residos logo later on. Right in here. Let me just zoom out so we can
see everything in there. Background, Mercedes
video, then re studios. How about actually, how about we make the
Rstudios appear at the end? Mercedes video is
quite a long one. But let's say we
make it stop after 5 seconds, 120 frames. So Mercedes, 120,
that's 5 seconds. The message will disappear. At the moment, can
see the ending here. It looks like our tablin is only 119 frames.
Let's have a look. Let's have a look in
the edit page for that. Yes, because our
clip is 5 seconds. No problem. We'll
just extend it here. We'll just make it longer. Make it say 7 seconds. For example, let's
double check here. The mercedes appears later
and then the logo appears. But let's say the
logo will appear once the mercedes disappears. Back to fusion, the Mercedes
disappears at 1:20, re studios will start
at 1:20 and finish, let's say, give it
another 2 seconds, 48, so 168, for example. I have the background,
Mercedes video. We got the Cloud
studios here as well. Then when the Mercedes appears, the video got three studios. Maybe a tiny bit later, maybe after a couple of frames.
It's not straight away. M. So the studios, so the rest studios. Maybe not 120, maybe 124, for example, phos frames later, which is one sixth
of a second here. So we have a look at this,
I don't want to lip, no, just normal play playback. Or we could even make
the say background video disappear towards the
end. The car P four. The studios at the
moment appears at 1:24. Let's say maybe we'll do
actually a bit later. 120 when the video disappears, we give another second 144. There'll be 1 second gap
between these two here. 14044, we make the
car video disappear. Car video will
disappear at 1:44. Say, beginning or have
something like this. We may need to make our
composition longer. Back here, give it
at least another second Make it eight back to fusion page. Let's
have a look at this. Just just to give
you some idea here, how you can actually
work with layers, how you can make the layers
at different durations, like rest studios, starts
144, finishes 168. And the car disappears in 144. I actually going to
make the car stay here, I'll sell it all
the way to the end. The car will stay
as the background, they will have the rest
studios at the end. We can make it disappear,
just let it stay there. Rest studios could
also stay 191. Same here, 191. Get something like this.
11. Add a Text Layer: Pretty much it when it comes to working with layers in here, but I want to leave you
with one more here. As you add layers, you can
also add text layers here. We got a text here, text plus. If I just move the media out, say initial text will stay
on top of everything here. Add a text node, we just
drop it right on here. We have the text on the top.
This will add a merge node. That's our text. With text, you've probably worked
with text already. If you haven't you won't
see the text initially because when you add a text
node, it's actually empty. We just need to put
some text in here. Let's say I do re studios, we do London go I'm going to pick a font and font
properties make it light smaller. There's a lot we can do with the text in here
to customize it. I'm going to adjust the
tracking, maybe not, but maybe vertical anchor, want to move it down a bit. And actually for movement, I will use the
transform instead. I'm going to add transform note here as
well, like we did before. Right here and
just move it down. This will give us
much more control. Going back to the text,
this is still too big. I want it to be actually
underneath the word studios. We could also do this here. With text. Speaking of text, you may not want to use
the transform note. You can just do
it with text like this because it gives you more
control at the same time. London, maybe like this. Have text here in there. The only problem is, this
will be here all the time. When should this
appear? Let's see. I should name this as well, ideally, say London text. The studios starts 144. London text will also start 144. They start at the same time. They look like they
together, but they actually two separate
layers in here.
12. Outro: Right, I hope you enjoyed
these videos about using layers inside
DaventRsolve, fusion. I didn't want to
make it too long. I want it to be
easily digestible, so you could just jump into it and start
working with layers here and animate them in a way. So you can do you can make
them appear different times. What we managed to
accomplish here is quite a bit of these
different layers appearing at different times. We also looked at
blend modes as well. And add different layers, images, videos,
and texts as well. I hope you enjoyed it.
Thank you for watching. Marchmogic and have a look at some other classes I have in here on the Winter
serve as well. Thank you for watching and
see you soon. Bye bye.
Marek Mularczyk
