DaVinci Resolve Fusion: Back to the Basics Part 1

New to Fusion? Here’s Why One Simple Title Effect Teaches You Everything You Need to Get Started

Have you been meaning to explore DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion page but never quite found the right entry point? Maybe you tried it once, got overwhelmed by the interface, and retreated to familiar territory. You’re not alone – and this Insight is designed specifically for you.

This tutorial kicks off a new beginner-focused Fusion series, and the approach is deliberately slow and methodical. Rather than rushing through features, you’ll build one simple title animation from scratch – and in the process, learn the core logic that makes node-based compositing so powerful. Whether your goal is motion graphics, compositing, or VFX, the principles you pick up here apply to everything you’ll do in Fusion going forward.

You’ll start on the Edit page with any clip you have available, jump into Fusion, and orient yourself with the interface – two viewers, the node area, the inspector, and the toolbar. From there, you’ll connect your first nodes, merge a text element over your background, and then discover the real magic: reusing a single Text+ node in two completely different ways within the same flow.

“You can create elements independently… You can repurpose them, you can use them multiple times, process them in different ways, [and] bring things together so you can build more complex and advanced two-dimensional logic…which you cannot do in layers as easily.”

Bernd Klimm, VFX Artist

Key Takeaways

By the end of this Insight, you should understand how to:

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