Description
Motion Graphics
Titles, Lower Thirds, Credit Rolls, and Image based Graphics with Advanced Animation Control
Compositing
Split Screen, Sky Replacement, Paint Fixes, Tracking, and Green Screen
3D
3D Graphics, Particles, and 3D Set Extension with Camera Tracking
Course Trailer
This Course Offers
- 13h of video instructions
- 14 detailed lessons with unique examples
- Quiz for each lesson
- Accurate English subtitles
- Support from instructor and community
- Exercise package with practice footage and solutions for DaVinci Resolve 16 and 17
- High quality exercise footage
- 30-day money back guarantee - no questions asked!
- Additional exercises and solutions
- Download lesson videos
- Lifetime access
DaVinci Resolve 16 / 17
All recordings are presented in DaVinci Resolve 17. You can also follow the course with Resolve 16, except for the final chapter which specifically addresses new features in Resolve 17.
Free Version of Resolve
All parts of this course can be done with the free version of DaVinci Resolve, except for the 3D Camera Tracking in Lesson 12.
This course is also available in German via DVD-Lernkurs.
All my German courses and seminars are available here.
Chapter Summaries
Understand the Fusion interface and use basic compositing operations with Merges, Masks, Color corrections, and Effects to get started.
Bild great text and image based animations and control them with different animation techniques with Splines, Keyframes, Expressions, and Modifiers.
Perform some of the most common tasks in VFX: Split Screen composites, Sky replacement, Paint fixes, Screen Replacements, and green screen keying.
Create a 3D broadcast graphic with textures and light effects, create steam with Fusion particles, and do a 3D set extension with 3D camera tracking.
Work with Audio Support, Shape Tools and the Anim Curves modifier in Resolve 17.
Should I take this Course?
This course is ideal for you if you:
- are a beginner in Fusion.
- have some experience but want a complete systematic course.
- want to learn all areas in Fusion: Motion Graphics and Compositing, 2D and 3D.
Prerequisites: You should have basic skills with DaVinci Resolve. You know how to open and save projects, work with timelines and media in the Media bin, you can perform basic editing tasks, and you can render your timelines.
Blackmagic Design Certified Training
This course follows the official Blackmagic Design Certification Program for Fusion supplemented with additional exercises and video explanations.
It is equivalent to a three day class room training as it is taught by certified trainers in training centers across the world.
Blackmagic Design offers the book Fusion Visual Effects with DaVinci Resolve 16 as a free PDF on the DaVinci Resolve Training site where you also find a free online exam to test your knowledge after you complete this course.
Start the Certification Program from the beginning?
Blackmagic Design also offers the book The Beginner’s Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16 as a free PDF on the DaVinci Resolve Training site. A corresponding VFXstudy training course is planned for spring 2021.
Further Questions
If you have any further questions, please contact me at [email protected].
Luis Ribes (verified owner) –
Good value? No. The next thing.
This is a very comprehensive, down-to-Earth course for anyone wanting to learn the Fusion workflow. The exercises are relevant and interesting, and help understand the methodology.
Bernd even gives extra knowledge beyond Davinci’s official manual and kind of makes you feel you are in a classroom. A must!
Filmkünstler (verified owner) –
The course is important for beginners and advanced and for everyone who wants to know basic and in-depth about Fusion.
I’ve been working with Fusion for a while, but there is always something new or different approaches to solving a problem.
I think the course is just great, but not super easy.
I can only recommend the course to anyone who works with Fusion.
JiPi (verified owner) –
When I received the email that there was a new course, I did not hesitate and I was not disappointed. Even as a somewhat advanced user, I can absolutely recommend it. It’s just fun to go through the individual topics and to go deeper. And there are a lot of news. The speed of the course and especially the didactic preparation is awesome -> full points 😉
Jesper Kofod (verified owner) –
Very detailed and very nerdy. I love these courses 🙂
Matthew Scott (verified owner) –
This is a superb course. It offers a great introduction to Fusion’s uses and power, but goes well beyond basics while keeping the material clear and accessible. This course focuses on Fusion, but you learn a lot about Davinci more broadly. I am relatively new to Davinci and benefitted greatly from this course. You always hear why you are taking the steps you are taking, and Bernd routinely discusses costs and benefits of different methods. He shows his thinking as he begins to solve a problem. The assigned exercises are well chosen and valuable to do. Definitely follow along doing the procedures as he describes them. It’s often worth exploring what happens if you vary from the exact path he’s laid out, to more fully understand his recommendations.
I also enjoyed Bernd’s more advanced compositing course, though parts of it were difficult (appropriately) and parts covered procedures I will not need to do soon. This new Fusion course is better suited to my level and my needs (I do titling and image modifications more than advanced compositing), but I recommend the other course as well.
Bernd is such a fine teacher that he can lead you into areas you would probably struggle to explore on your own. I find that it is valuable to go back to both courses, using them as reminders and reference material.
Craig Wright (verified owner) –
This is my second course that I have purchased from Bernd. I have already completed a majority of the course. During my time watching the course material, I have been extremely impressed with Bernd’s brilliant and natural approach to teaching and this has taught me so much about Compositing. Bernd’s courses are so cheap for the great quality you get with all his lessons that I could highly recommand it to anyone wanting to master Davinci Resolve 16(+17). The course drawls you in from the start and keeps you feeling excited for what is to come. I am really hoping that one day he runs a more advance course for people like myself that has been using Resolve Studio for many years as I work with Blackmagic cameras and the footage straight out of these cameras
Cheers Buddy
Craig Wright.
https://www.youtube.com/user/craig26study/videos
Will Mendez (verified owner) –
Solid Intro course to Fusion in Davinchi Resolve. Bernd’s teaching style is easy to follow and he not only explains the process but also the why and when to apply them. I started learning Fusion after joining Bernd’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8XOaysyWKZ1gX_58QiqUXg and have been following and purchasing his courses since then.
Bernd is very accessible and responsive to my questions and suggestions via email and the courses feedback page. Highly recommend this and any other courses that are available on his site.
William
weeliano (verified owner) –
I have learned a lot from Bernd’s extensive and comprehensive courses. His free YouTube lessons are a gold mine of learning material. It is very hard to find good training materials and Bernd’s course is probably the best out there available. I have purchased both the Compositing In Depth and this ‘Fusion Visual Effects with DaVinci Resolve’ course as a valuable resource and reference for me. I have taken the Zoom instructor certification course conducted over 3 days from Black Magic Design last year and managed to pass the instructor certification quiz on my 2nd attempt. Bernd’s course will allow you to review most of the material that is covered in the certification course from BMD and prepare you for certification. But as Bernd puts it, certification is good and all, at the end of the day, what you create with DaVinci Resolve and Fusion as an Artist is far more important! I strongly recommend this course to anyone interested in a career in Visual Effects!
Michael Gasparini (verified owner) –
I tried different course on web, and I done 2 years ago a course of Davinci resolve with Teacher certified (3 days). But this course that Bernd/vfxstudy offer, is totally better, more specific, more details and more logic to introduce difficult things. I hope that continue to make course! thanks!!
Peter Polak (verified owner) –
I just finished the complete course and most of the chapters were o.K. for me.
Only the Camera Tracker is a little bit confusing me. So I will again walk through this Chapter.
It was a very coprehensive course with a lot of information and tips. I have been gratefull, that Berns added the Chapter for Fusion 17 becouse Blackmagic is developing very fast and book and training cannot keep pace.
I fully satified with that training but still awaiting the course in German Language.
hgpa (verified owner) –
My position in Video-Making:
I’m a beginner in working with DaVinci Resolve.
I came from Final Cut Pro X incl. Motion 5, worked with it since several years, I make so called “Dia-Filme” (in german, therefore also my poor englisch), short videos with a lot of photos and some included videos,
mostly nature films, landscapes, etc, often from my travels of hiking around germany and europa.. The music for these film write I myself.
All works fine with the above programs, but often I have a special wish for a special Titel or effect, and there comes DaVinci to me.
Here I have all possibilities in one program, and so I decided to change.
And there come then these phantastic videos and courses of VFX-Study in my sight.
I looked a lot for good training videos, but in my opinion these courses and also the free training videos of Bernd Klimm seem to be the most
exact and best videos I ever saw.
Each point is exactly shown and described and one can follow.
Also a beginner – especially in termes of Fusion – can work best with his courses.
I’m very impressed of his clearness, and – by the way – his very fair prices.
I’m learning a lot by following and making his way again and I’m glad to have these videos.
Many thanks to Bernd!
HG Paßen
Curtis Zimmerman (verified owner) –
I love this course. He explains well. I’m following some other video tutorials that are very boring and repetitive. The other thing that’s hard to argue with is the price. A course I’d like to take, unfortunately, costs about half a years salary. (Slight exaggeration.) I don’t even know whether the things I’d learn in it would be anymore comprehensive than what I’m learning here. So, many thanks!
Christopher Maggard (verified owner) –
I absolutely loved this course and the free beginner Fusion course. Even though I have used some of the Fusion features already, I was able to gain a lot more depth and understanding about each issue through this course. I previously watched trainings by different trainers on Youtube, but they pale in comparison to the explanations and insights given here. I really appreciate being able to follow along in Fusion myself with the training materials provided, and am so happy that I discovered Bernd! Plus, he is so humble and down-to-earth, which is so refreshing.
Joop Vinke (verified owner) –
This is my first course learning Davinci Resolve. In the past I worked with Adobe premiere and After Effects.
As soon as I saw the possibilities of Davinci Resolve I switched to Davinci. I must say I am impressed by the possibilities of this program, but it is hard to find your way on your own. I was happy to find this training from Bernd. Up to now I only followed a few lessons but did learn many things which I would never be aware of. It is a pleasure to follow his lessons and I must say I was also surprised about his follow-up if you have a problem. I described my problem, send it to him in the weekend and got an answer the same day.
I’m sure I will learn many things during this course , after which I will enjoy making my homevideo’s with much more pleasure!
Roman Weber (verified owner) –
I studied the course of Blackmagic a year ago -nice, but with the course of Bernd it was much easier to follow the steps and he has also great hints, that helps a lot! Many thx, Bernd – hopefully you will lunch more courses!!
Andrea Marras (verified owner) –
Bern’s courses are great. From the free course to the more advanced courses. The advanced course may be too complicated if you don’t have a basic understanding of Fusion. I recommend going step by step. Highly recommended
Alan Highet (verified owner) –
I find his teaching style has the right mix between the technical and easy learning. He covers all aspects of the official Blackmagic course but also adds his own thoughts and amendments. There are a number of free courses on Youtube and on this site so it is easy for you to decide whether this course is right for you.
timli182 (verified owner) –
This is great course to start get your feet wet with fusion in resolve. It covers all the foundation knowledge of fusion and ease of use with the program. It also covers 3D techniques if you want to use fusion in conjunction with other 3D programs for further VFX and AR process. You won’t be disappointed with the course content.
mike01300 (verified owner) –
I just started with this course. So far I like most of it. Was enjoying of titles part of it and had a lot of confusing later. Probably my mind is not yet ready to understand the way how to combine two tracked images. do not have enough time to watch every day, so it may take more time to me, but it is okay. I just wish the course was longer to take more training to gradually move from easy part to more complicated.
DrHansAPlast (verified owner) –
This course is worth every cent.
To get the most out of Resolve, you need courses like this.
I’ve already worked with Hitfilm and Vegas and i think I’m not an
absolute beginner, but I’ve learned a lot in this course.
Even if English is not your primary language, Bernd explains all the
content very well and in a comprehensible manner so can easily follow
the course.
Manas Paul (verified owner) –
One of the best courses in Fusion and there are only few you find around. This is not a tricks & tips tutorial rather a walk trough along few areas of a somewhat obscure program. Bernd Klimm is very knowledgeable about Fusion and his teaching method is straight forward and thorough.
Gordon Shumway (verified owner) –
I have taken other Bernd’s courses and they are all excellent, in-depth, and detailed. This Fusion course virtually mirrors the PDF book published by Blackmagic, but having someone visually guide you, and do it well makes for all the reason’s to take his training course for Fusion Certification. Bernd is always available for support or clarification, might be a 24-hour turnaround but certainly, it is great to know he DOES want you to learn!
ZechM (verified owner) –
Davinci Resolve Fusion is unfortunately not very intuitive and user-friendly. It’s great that there are such competent instructional videos like the one by Bernd Klimm. You notice that he is a master of Fusion, that he enjoys working with Fusion and that he can convey the content in an understandable and understandable way. This enabled me to quickly achieve my own successes and implement small projects with Fusion. Highly recommended.
Tarek Abdelhafez (verified owner) –
I have already completed the Composting course with Bernd. However, for few parts, I did not fully digest them all especially the heavy ones. When I received the mail for this new Visual Effects course I had some doubts that it will add value as I already went through the more advanced one. However, I decide to go for it as I always trust Bernd’s courses add value in a way or another. I found it exactly what I need to fill the puzzled parts that I did not get in the compositing course.
This course is the best for Fusion beginners and advanced users who need to enhance their skills with tips and efficient workflows. As usual, Bernd is very keen to ensure students get the full knowledge about the topic via deep explanations and very good exercises & quizzes. What is distinguishing Bend’s courses that it shows ‘why’ we are doing things not only ‘how’ like in the step-by-step tutorials. In addition to the high quality of the course in terms of materials, audio, and video. On top of that, it’s “Return of investment” is very high. 😊
I recommend this course to any one looking for learning Fusion on solid bases and go extra steps in the world of VFX.
Nigel M (verified owner) –
I have just completed this course having already done the free course and the Fusion 9 one. Although there is naturally some overlap in all three, this is no bad thing as different examples are used and really reinforces the learning. What I really like about Bernd’s courses is not only does he tell you what to do but also why you’re doing it, together with other ways of achieving the same result. This is so much better than most tutorials which simply say do this and this and you’re none the wiser as to what you’re actually doing! I’m really looking forward to starting the compositing course next.
Michael Karius (verified owner) –
I finally completed this course and it´s totally worth it. Now that I´ve got the basic knowledge in Fusion, I will continue with Bernd´s Compositing course. There was a lack of good resources for learning Fusion compared to After Effects or Nuke for a while.
But Bernd fills the gap. I really like his way of teaching. Highly recommended!
Sebastian Katzer (verified owner) –
I’m midway trough and can absolutely recommend this course. Bernd’s explanations are understandable and straight forward…. and a bit nerdy too. Like it!
remcodewilde (verified owner) –
I found the courses of VFX Study on YouTube, and bought this course, everything is explained in enough detail to keep focused and no annoying jump cuts giving you time to absorb what is told, even if something goes wrong or the computer crashes you see it, just like in real live.
If you got a question you can ask here on the website or via mail and you get an answer back even if it is on something you are trying.
Got my certificate from BMD after this course, only by playing around in fusion and trying some stuf during and after the course.
I am a try on error type and I am not so good in learning using books, but with this training you have a good start
On to the advanced training.
Herbert Heyduck (verified owner) –
Fusion Visual Effects with DaVinci Resolve:
I would never have been able to finish my last project without Bernd’s instructions on how to use “Fusion” properly. Nevertheless, it is essential for me to go through the lessons a few more times so that everything remains in my memory. The course was the best investment in recent times.
Lots of ideas only came when Bernd showed what is possible and how to proceed.
Although there are many YouTube lessons for every problem on the Internet, the concentrated form that Bernd uses is the most impressive and lasting for me, which has led me to my goal and I hope for more courses from Bernd under VFXstudy.
Phil Deglos (verified owner) –
I am extremely satisfied with this training. Bernd takes us into the depths of the software with great pedagogy. He explains the “whys” and “hows” in great detail and with many tips and tricks.
A course to follow for all those who want to invest in fusion!
Merci From France 😉
Phil
Jibran Ahmed (verified owner) –
I am new to Fusion and this course was a fantastic way to start learning. Bernd does a great job explaining the basics and has gotten me excited to dive even deeper into all the Fusion can do!
James Butler (verified owner) –
Fantastic training, I had been playing with fusion for a while, but this gave me exactly what I needed, clear step by step training, I took the exam and passed first time after completing this training, I now use fusion with confidence.