Animations: Fusion animations on your words

The Animations module (it used to be called Macro) puts Fusion animations — .setting files — on your Text+ words. Which animation a word gets is decided by the clip colour, by the word itself, or by hand. It works on any Text+ clips, not only ones made by Layout.

Colour → animation

1. In Resolve give your Text+ clips colours (right-click a clip → Clip Color). Layout can do this for you by row.
2. In the Animations window each row is a colour and its animation: pick the colour in the row's list, then the animation — … picks a file, Web and Local open the catalog with previews. + Add color adds a row, ✕ removes one; clips of colours without a row are skipped. A row shows only the animation name; click into it to see or change the full path, so an animation can come from any folder.
3. Set the Tracks that hold your Text+ clips and the time range (ROKLIM reads the I and O marks from Resolve by itself), or tick Selected clips only.
4. Press RUN. Every Text+ clip of that colour in the range gets that colour's animation. CLEAR ANIMATIONS takes them off again.

Fit animation to clip length

A short word clip and a long animation do not match. With Fit animation to clip length on, pick in ⚙ how:

• Share of the clip — an animation longer than the whole clip, 3/4, 2/3, 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 of it is squeezed to that; one that fits stays as it is.
• By clip length — your own table in frames (it squeezes and stretches).

More ways

• ADD ANIMATION adds an animation on top of what the clips already have, by colour.
• ANIMATE SPECIFIC WORDS picks the animation by the word itself: word lists, each with its animation.
• In both you also choose where the animation sits on the clip: Start (plays from the first frame), Center or End (finishes on the last frame).
• EDIT ANIMATION lets you change the animations right on the DaVinci viewer — see below.
• ADVANCED USER (fold it open at the bottom of the window) holds two tools for people who build their own animations in Fusion: Text into Fusion collects the words of a group into one Fusion composition, keeping each word's animation, timing and place; Save as Macro turns nodes you built in Fusion into a .setting file for ROKLIM.

Edit Animation

Press EDIT ANIMATION in the Animations window and open the Edit page in DaVinci Resolve. ROKLIM sits on top of the viewer, and you change the animations right on the picture — no Fusion page, no preview window.

• Pick a word: click its dot on the viewer (Ctrl+click adds more), or select clips on the timeline. Only what is under the playhead — what you see — is changed.
• Path: drag the points and handles of the movement. Double-click the line to add a point, right-click a point to remove it, hold Shift to keep the drag straight.
• Mini timeline under the picture: drag an animation to move it, drag its ends to change its length — or give one parameter (Blur, Opacity, Path…) its own start and length.
• Curve window: click a row of the mini timeline to see its curve; drag keys and handles, use + Key, Mirror, Reset and Fit, zoom with the wheel and resize the window from its corner.
• Panel: Move to frame, Apply duration, Animation color, Animation settings, Undo, Reset edits, Reset macro, Delete and Save as. Number fields change with the mouse wheel or by dragging left and right.
• Image size (pictures): make a picture bigger or smaller without its animation being cut at the picture's edges.
• It follows the viewer when you zoom in, works on vertical and horizontal timelines and on a second monitor, and it shows up in screen recordings — handy for tutorials.
• The panel can sit at the top, in the middle or at the bottom; the mini timeline at the bottom, at the top or under the picture.
• Windows, and macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. On a Mac, ROKLIM asks once for Accessibility and Screen Recording — it needs them to see the DaVinci viewer.

The catalog

Web opens free ROKLIM animations with preview videos; Local shows the animations in your folder, where you can Save preview (render a preview of a word that has the animation) and Delete files you no longer need. You can preview them on the Animations page.

Tips

• Keep one colour per kind of motion (for example orange = slide up, lime = pop) and let Layout colour the rows — then a whole video is animated with one RUN.
• Save as Default and Profiles keep your colour → animation sets between videos.