Advanced Davinci Fusion Courses / Videos

Dear all

i watch a lot of youtube videos about davinci fusion. Unfortunately, the youtube videos rarely go beyond the beginner level. I am looking for courses / DVD's / videos that go into more detail. At the moment I am especially looking for tutorials that deal with how to achieve highly professional results with object removal / cloning / tracking for advanced users. Can you recommend me materials / courses / (free) videos / DVDs that cover these and other fusion topics in detail?

Many thanks and best regards,
Silvan

Can you recommend me materials / courses / (free) videos / DVDs that cover these and other fusion topics in detail?

If you've not already seen it, our own Bryan Ray has written a whole book on Fusion, available for free on his website:

http://www.bryanray.name/wordpress/comp ... -contents/

In terms of videos:

VFX Study's YouTube channel goes to the intermediate level. He has several videos on tracking, and many other topics. He then also has a free 5-hour and paid-for 40 hour course that go into much more detail. I've bought the 40-hour course and can recommend it to a Fusion newbie who wants to learn the software, and techniques, in detail:

https://www.youtube.com/c/VFXstudy

Vito "Pirates of Confusion" is a Fusion master and one of the most comprehensive producers of advanced Fusion videos. They're not totally tutorials, more like watching over his shoulder as he shows you through compositions he's already made (with entertainment aspects as well). He has a Patreon with a ton more videos, including some lengthy demonstrations/tutorials. The Patreon is well worth signing up to to get access to the other videos. He's a really skilled artist, so his videos are really high quality.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ConFusion/videos

Millolabs Tuts are shorter and less numerous, but as another Fusion VFX professional all this videos cover advanced and cool techniques, including a couple on tracking. He has a great 3D tracker tutorial, and another using the third-party Mocha Pro planar tracker in Fusion for beauty touch-up work. Emilio is also a prolific producer of excellent and powerful macros, available for free (optional donation) in the Reactor plugin manager (available on WSL), many of which are used in his videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGSBbc ... amksICiwrQ

Simon Ubsdell has a range of Fusion tutorials including a great series on the basics of compositing, that I'd highly recommend for any new user. Most of his recent videos are on Motion, but he's done at least 20 Fusion videos. He shows some really powerful techniques in several videos, including using the Custom Tool for advance control of images, macros/expressions, and more. Can't recall if he has any videos on tracking.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonUbsdell

Sander, another regular of this forum and WSL, has a channel with some good "quick and dirty" tutorials, including at least one that uses the standard Tracker to replace a background area (look for "Tutorial: Tracking a Mask").

https://www.youtube.com/user/ShadowMakerSdR/videos

He has also done longer tutorials for ActionVFX, available in this playlist:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uukwAwxLE&list=PLBSv4d-cVGxM9xOFMhtpk4ug1_kjSMp7r

(I put it in code tags because this forum usually screws up any YouTube links with playlists)

Noah Hähnel, who is also occasionally here and more often on WSL (UserNoah), has a newer channel but with some really advanced tutorials, especially in the area of particles. No tracking that I recall:

https://www.youtube.com/c/NoahH%C3%A4hnel

Another Bryan, going by the name Prophetless, has a number of videos using Fusion, including a detailed and lengthy examination of the 3D Camera Tracker, and at least one using tracking for painting/clone work. He also has several tutorials on Syntheyes, a third-party camera tracker that's much more powerful than Fusion's:

https://www.youtube.com/c/prophetless

I'm sure there's more out there I've forgotten, but that should keep you going a while!

PS. If you're hoping to do high quality tracking-based work, you may need to go beyond the tools in Fusion. Pretty much all the VFX professionals I've spoken to use Mocha Pro instead of Fusion's built in Planar Tracker, and for camera tracking many of them use Syntheyes or PFTrack.

Syntheyes is beyond my budget, but I have started learning Mocha Pro as I can pay for that month by month as I need it. It also has a 15-day free trial.

BorisFX have a lengthy and pretty decent "Essentials of Mocha" tutorial which I can recommend. It's all done in After Effects, but all the concepts should carry over to Fusion. For a demonstration of how to use it in Fusion see Millolab's tutorial on beauty touch-up with Mocha.

https://borisfx.com/free-training/mocha-essentials/

our own Bryan Ray has written a whole book on Fusion,

Well, about 85% of a book at any rate. It's still missing the automation chapter, about a third of the compositing math appendix, and the glossary. Seems like there was another appendix that I was contemplating, but I don't remember it now.