Learning To Work Quickly Using The Glow Resolve FX (in DaVinci Resolve)

Hey Jason. Thanks for this tutorial – OFX are by far the hardest things to get information on in Resolve. The manual as great as it is, kind of just skims over all the effects.
I have been asking BMD ( in the forums ) to consider not going with the alphabetical representation in composite modes ( blending modes ).
There is a reason that Photoshop has them grouped. The lists in Photoshop are – Normal, Darken, Lighten, Contrast, Inversion, Cancellation and Component. So if you know what you want the composite to do, you can then go to the correct group and then start auditioning the results of the math that needs to be applied.

I think Glow is a favorite of many because it emulates diffusion and the perception of being more cinematic by taking the video edge off the footage. But as most things, some people take it to the point of being distracting and everything then looks like a dream sequence. And there a couple of popular youTubers, that for awhile was putting it on everything.

I thought for sure that you would have included ( maybe you still will ) saving , titling and reusing the effects by creating a series ( or parallel) of nodes with different parameters set on each for Glow. I think that using it that would create a faster workflow to either grab all the different set glows and audition them, or grab the node from a “Display Node Graph” and drag it on to the node tree.
Anyway, thanks for this Jason, looking forward to the rest of this series.

Darken mode with a glow can get you a nice effect too, I think it’s stumbled upon a Harry Potter flashback look with that once…

For me it works best when i set it to Screen, the response is far more natural and it doesn’t shift my contrast. Doing so I can apply it (or not) at the very end of my node tree before the CST without compromising the work that has been done before. Let me know your thoughts about!