Making REALISTIC FIRE in Fusion | DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

In this DaVinci Resolve tutorial we will learn how to add realistic fire In Fusion. We will cover step by step on compositing a fire stock footage from ActionVFX into a real-world environment in the Fusion tab of DaVinci Resolve. This tutorial is for beginners and advanced users alike!

ActionVFX Collections Used:
Ground Fire Vol. 1 (Free for Subscribers until November 30th)
Ground Fire Vol. 2
Fire Embers
Small Scale Smoke Plumes
Burning Steel Wool

00:00 Intro
00:10 Background plate preview & planar tracking
01:36 Adding the fire elements
02:31 Re-timing and speed
03:37 Color correcting the fire
04:27 Coloring Ground Fire Vol.1
04:55 Adding exponential fire glow
08:12 Refining the look of the fire
09:14 Creating a grass surface texture
10:29 Adding the ground lighting
11:58 Compositing smoke and embers
13:43 Heat distortion, motion blur and flicker

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[Troydpierce]

I am starting a project TODAY in Davinci wanting to composite fire here instead of After Effects. MANY thanks for this timely tutorial 🙏 Truly a life saver!

[Javaughnhenry_]

Great stuff! Just watching your workflow gives me a great start on learning how much delicate work goes into making VFX look realistic. Thank you for sharing this tutorial!

[snandor]

Thank you for the fantastic tutorial! I struggled to remove the dark smoke around the flames but was excited to find that applying the "Screen" mode in the Merge node eliminated the black contour. Now, I aim to isolate the flame without the background for overlaying in Edit mode onto an image. Could you guide me on disconnecting the background in Fusion or suggest another node for achieving the Merge/Apply mode: Screen effect? Appreciate your assistance!

[林仲偉-kc]

This tutorial is very handy and awesome! You saved my project.

[gosalh]

Thank you ActionVFX for doing Fusion and Resolve tutorials

[jkartz]

This one is great!! Looking for more fusion based tutorials with your packs!!

[cesaralfaro]

Thanks for a great fusion tutorial! Keep them up!

[VFXDobleC]

thanks for fusion tutorials! continue with it ACTIONVFX :)

[daysoflight]

I learned a ton of great stuff in just 16 min!

[RichardTurner-de]

This was great. I’m doing a something similar and just wondered how you found playback and rendering.

[ScreengageLLC]

Great video. More Fusion tutorials please.

[JaiJaiDoVFX]

I saw Resolve / Fusion. I press like button.

[naifox]

Can you please a tutorial in fuse with Gas explosions

[sunteem]

Great video! Can you do this with the free version of Davinci?

[EMNM]

Waiting for the rain on glass for davinci ❤

[RajneshDomalpalli]

Thank you for this tutorial. Please create more in Fusion. Here are a few example requests: A parameterized forest fire, Smoke and Fire inside a burning hut, magical fire in a person's hand etc. Thanks again. Best.

[naifox]

incredible how many nodes have to be made to compose a fire, It's good How to know how to do all those nodes to compose a fire but the best would be to make it easier to copy all the nodes and simply replace the node with the old node of the fire and replace it with the node of the new fire.

[Ishai]

I have a suggestion for a new Resolve/Fusion tutorial. Using the uVolume nodes added in the new 19 beta to import vdb files and render some explosions. It's basically a "how to use our stuff in Resolve" tutorial, since you have lots of those assets

[mikeben]

Nice, if you use plates that are good to track. You said you prepared the plate and reduced the flickering. But how you did that, you don´t show. So if someone buy stuff by action vfx and try it in his own plates, there are maybe problems they don´t know where they come from

[SianCKB]

this is so awesome! although it's really time consuming D: what if I have a scene with lots of vfx like fires explosions smoke, dust particles etc etc it will take me years :(