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Hi my esteemed listmates,

I'm not sure what the Effect is called but I'm looking to create falling snowflakes around a subject in a video.

Would you please share the name of that effect and how to create that in the Edit Page?

Thank you kindly.

Go to youtube and search for Davinci Resolve Snow, you will find many tutorials of different ways to add snow to your footage.

You can buy packages of keyable snowflakes (the weather-related / non-political kind) from companies like these:

http://rampantdesigntools.com/
https://www.actionvfx.com
http://www.fxelements.com/
http://www.motionelements.com/l
https://www.motionvfx.com
https://www.enchanted.media/
https://www.rocketstock.com
https://www.detfilms4k.com/index.html
https://footagecrate.com/

I have a lot of the libraries from Rampant, ActionVFX, and FXElements, and they're very good. A lot of the other stuff is highly-compressed H.264 or low-res files, and won't work as well as the ProRes 444 or PNG files.

There are ways to create random pattern effects in Fusion and After Effects and so on, but I don't think they're as "random" and realistic as actual photographed snow, rain, smoke, and fire done with a camera.

If you are looking for something free, there is "Particle Illusion". It can save out with an alpha channel. so you can use it as an overlay in DR. The particles can look a bit cheesy, but depending on the scene you may get away with it.

If you need higher quality, follow Marc's advice.

Hi good people,

I absolutely respect what you're sharing re: library of effects (as I'm saving you're helpful reply).

We have no budget at s small, rural library and the person who created the snowflake doesn't have advanced DR skills. She's not accessible so I can't ask her how she created that snow falling effect but she would have had to have used DR/Effects. I am teaching myself DR and have tried to watch several YT videos but they are mostly badly created in low resolution so when you watch even with near perfect vision you can't discern the words in the video. Imagine learning MS Word and not being able to read File, Edit or Tools - that's how bad the DR YT videos I've found have been.

Any further thoughts re: creating snowflakes (even cheesy ones!) within DR (Effects of otherwise) are greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Fusion page has a snow template (not realistic though)

Go to edit page and drag from the effects library a fusion composition inside your timeline.
Right click on fusion composition -> Open in Fusion Page

When fusion page opens, go to effects library -> templates -> particles, find the snow template and drag it to nodes area, you will see a bunch of nodes after this, connect the Renderer3D2 output to MediaOut1 and you are ready to go.

You can adjust the parameters of the individual nodes to achieve a different look. You can control size, speed, randomness etc.

Hi Panos,

I will try that.

Thank you so kindly!

Hi panos, Thank you so much for sharing those steps to create a snowflake effect.

I follow all your steps except when I reach "drag it to the nodes area ... and connect the Renere3D2 output to MediaOut1.."

I've attached a jpg of what I see and how I tried to "connect" or drag that effect to the nodes area. I've never visited the Fusion Page before so I really appreciate this entree!

Thanks so much to you al for all your helpful insights which I'm trying to find time to explore!

The free tutorial on Fusion by BM is really helpful, go for it.
Or use Particle Illusion for free, they have video tutorials too. It's not that cheesy, has 3D now and presets for snow which you can start from to modify.

If everything fails - there is also a ton of free Snowflake clips on Youtube.