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i have just recorded a tutorial (for Blender) using OBS and now in Resolve, i need to add some arrows and boxes to highlight certain items in the interface shown in the video. i couldn't find anything in the Resolve Effects Library to help me and i ended spending a long time making an arrow in the Fusion page (thank you to Casey Faris for his tutorial on this). however, this feels very clunky and crude. i could create some vector graphics and bring them in, but then whenever i scaled them the stroke would look wrong. i think this has to be done natively inside Resolve.

therefore, i ask: is there a plugin or workflow or macro that can help me add these informational overlays quickly, easily and with enough control so that i can easily move, rotate and if necessary, animate such overlays in the Edit page?

thx, julian

You might want to consider copying the video to a track above, then crop it down to the element that you want to highlight, then animate the opacity of the original clip from 100% down to 50%, leaving the cropped clip at 100%, to emphasize it. You could also zoom the cropped clip's size so you can see more details.

If you drag a Fusion Comp Effect down to above your video and in Fusion make an arrow that you like, you can then copy and paste that Fusion Comp wherever you need an arrow, then just use Edit's Transform to move ig around, and it's Flip to make it point left or right. Arrows will probably be the same size.

It's a rectangle that scales that's the problem, as you say a non-solid's border will scale if you scale the object.

You could try using a normal text effect and use a font that contains arrows and boxes as characters.

juliandarley wrote:i think this has to be done natively inside Resolve.

I think that's the hard way, at least for the arrow.

Find a graphic with alpha that already exists and use that.

Or, create an arrow with alpha in Photoshop and use that.