This is a popular effect for good reason.
It looks cool!
It’s a fun and simple way to draw your attention to a person or object.
In this video from Casey Faris, you’ll learn about:
- Adding a Freeze Frame with Retime Controls
- Opening the clip in Fusion
- Adding a Matte Control tool
- Cutting out your subject with a polygon mask
- Adding a color stroke around your subject
- Animating the stroke with a polyline stroke in the Paint Tool
- Inserting and styling Text
- Drawing an arrow and animating it
- Scaling the whole effect separate from the background
- Adjusting timing using Spline panel

Gedaly is the Managing Editor of DVresolve.com. He is a professional editor, having cut national commercials for major companies, and does color & VFX for indie films at Mask & Feather. He’s also a filmmaker, writing and directing shorts & features. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor and former marketing strategist for large brands.