Has anyone used Natron's OpenFX plugins in Davinci 15?

I am doing some digging to see if there are any faster GPU based plugins that can help me get faster performance than having to go through Fusion.

I came across OpenFX plugins from a program called Natron. From another thread here it says to copy the plugins folder to the one created by Davinci but nothing shows up when I reboot Davinci.

Has anyone else done this?

I don't know what folder Resolve created but usually OFX has a standard folder

C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins

As far as GPU accelerated OFX I use BorisFX and NewBlueFX. I tried using Red Giant but it always gave me issues.

I was able to use them perfectly fine in Resolve 14, but in Resolve 15 & the Resolve 16 beta, they don't work for me at all.

But that is probably due to some issue where I need to run it in admin mode to prevent Resolve from crashing on the splash.

I thought copying to C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins was all I needed to do plus a restart. Nothing comes up.

I was looking for a corner pin plugin and found one in the Natron bundle.

Boris has corner pin in Sapphire and Continuum but they are both pretty pricey. You would think Fusion would have a corner pin built in.

Fusion has a corner pin function but it is heavy on resources in 4k. I am trying to find a timeline version that's faster.

Sorry for posting late, just wanted to clarify.

You can't use the binary plugins bundled with Natron on any other host, they are built for Natron and require several dependencies included with Natron (that you should not copy over to any other host).

The Natron OpenFX plugins are open source (GPL2) so you could build them yourself:

* https://github.com/NatronGitHub/openfx-io
* https://github.com/NatronGitHub/openfx-misc
* https://github.com/NatronGitHub/openfx-arena
* https://github.com/NatronGitHub/openfx-gmic

openfx-misc has Windows binaries for other hosts than Natron available at https://ci.appveyor.com/project/NatronG ... /artifacts they should work in Resolve.

openfx-io will probably not work in Resolve (untested). openfx-arena is aimed at Natron and will crash Resolve if loaded (I know, I'm the author).

Sorry for posting late, just wanted to clarify.

You can't use the binary plugins bundled with Natron on any other host, they are built for Natron and require several dependencies included with Natron (that you should not copy over to any other host).
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In fact, you can. You just need to add the path to the Natron bin folder in the system environment variable PATH.

I've never used it. Is Natron free? I don't see any pricing on their website.

I've never used it. Is Natron free? I don't see any pricing on their website.

It is free. Basically an open source Nuke clone but only does 2D ops.

i also got the natron ofx running in Resolve years ago still have them on one system i use for testing, an older z800/2x 5680/48g/GTX1070

they run under Resolve 16, but dog dog dooooggggggggg slow, amazingly slow, mind blowingly slow, and even then more than a bit slower than a slow thing can crawl slowly

fo sho, slower than asking fusion to do anything.... and in return you get nothing of real world use...

there might be something in Paul Dore's OFX (also free) that can be of help, they are solid real world tools