How to Build Your Own Transitions in DaVinci Resolve - No Templates Needed

0:00 So today I want to show you a few ways to make some cool transitions without having to spend a lot of money using some of the very basic features that we've talked about many times here on the channel. The fundamentals. Let's dive in. So here I've got some video clips that I brought into my project. Let me bring some of these down. We'll go with the football stadium arena. Put that in the timeline on one track. And right next to it, we're going to put a clip of someone punting a football. Now if I put them side by side, it creates just a standard cut. Goes from one clip to the next clip. But if I wanted to do something more interesting than that, yes, we know you could go up to the

0:31 effects tab, you could go down to video transitions, and you can grab all kinds of transitions that you can see how they would look from one clip to another just by hovering your mouse over either one. It'll show you what that transition would look like if you pasted it between these two clips. But one cool thing that you can do is you can actually go find some other footage and use it as a transition. Let me show you what I mean. So, I've got a piece of green screen footage of just a football that's just rotating around in a circle. If I put that into a track above my two clips, watch what I can do here. First of all,