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Workaround for effect keyframing

Workaround for effect keyframing - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Workaround for effect keyframing

- [Instructor] I'm going to show you a sort of a cheat, a way to keyframe open effects items. When we add them to a clip, we don't get keyframe capability but when we add them to a node, we do. To show you this, I'm going to go ahead here and go to this clip. I'm going to go to, say, this time we'll go to my curves. I'm going to add an S curve to it. There, it has that sort of contrasty pop we like. And then I'm going to add another node. So I've added a serial node, like I've done before. With the serial node selected, I'm going to go ahead here and go to the OpenFX button. When I do so, the gallery on the left side of the page, it's going to close. I'm going to take the gaussian blur and I'm going to drag it onto node 02. Did you see it get blurry? Here are the controls for it. I can make it very blurry, or very clear. I'm going to leave it very clear. And I'm going to move, say, my play head right to about there. Instead of the scopes, the workaround is to go here to the keyframe…

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