Fusion in DaVinci Resolve 20 Made Easy Part 1 (Beginner Guide) New for 2026

Hi, this video is part one of a series of Fusion page tutorials for absolute beginners. Today we'll cover how the Fusion page is laid out, followed by a number of easy lessons to ease you into Fusion at a friendly and relaxed pace. If you're working on a project in Da Vinci Resolve, do you often find yourself avoiding the Fusion page? If you do, then I'm fairly confident in saying that you're not alone. I think most people know of its existence and that it's for creating effects and motion graphics. But I think if you've never really used it that much, it's very difficult to imagine how you could use it to benefit your project and what you might be able to get out of it. I think the thought of using it can be quite intimidating, but all it needs really is a starting point. And I think once you start having a go with it, you'll realize that it's not your enemy. It's actually a friend. You'll soon realize the stuff that you can actually do with it could be really useful. And in this video, that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going to find a starting point and from that, we're going to familiarize ourselves with the Fusion page. Hopefully, you'll find yourself using it a lot more in your project. So, we're going to start at the very beginning. Da Vinci Resolve is made up of seven integrated applications. Each application has a specific purpose. The applications are all interconnected. When you're working on one application, you can switch to a different application and carry on working on the same project. And you can flip and switch back and forth from one application to the other without having to save and close your application and open up another application like you would do in After Effects or something like that in uh Adobe. D Vinci Resolve is far more integrated. It's a lot better. So, we're opened up at the Fusion page and we'll just have a quick look around at the most important areas. First of all, you've got this checkered area and that's called the node graph and that is like your workspace where you create the effect that you want to produce on your project. Above that is the toolbar and on the toolbar there are various integrated tools that you can drag on to your node graph when you're building up an effect. And above that we've got the viewing panel or in this case panels. And these are where you can display your before and after.