For compositing a shot where the camera moves, being able to track it in 3D space is a big help.
Fusion allows you to handle complex tasks such as tracking a moving camera, and placing objects in 3D space while combining it with your 2D footage.
This is an especially fun lesson involving pirates and a pirate ship!
In this video from Blackmagic Design, you’ll learn about:
- Renaming nodes
- Defining tracking area with a Polygon node
- Polygon paint mode
- Adding & configuring a Camera Tracker
- Exporting a Camera Track & viewing in 3D space
- Adding an image into 3D with Image Plane 3D Node
- Ambient Light
- Color correcting an object
- Enabling motion blur
- Time stretcher & clone tool to paint out section
- Matte Control node
- Camera projection
- Catcher node
- Fast Noise generator
- Channel Boolean node
- Pinning a tool in the inspector
- Displace 3D node
Follow along with the sample projects that can be downloaded from the official DaVinci Resolve Training page.

Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.
This will take some time to understand, more to copy, and use. amazing