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Applying OpenFX to a node

Applying OpenFX to a node

- DaVinci Resolve ships with a number of plugins provided by default here, they're called Resolve Effects Plugins. They're based on the Open Effects architecture. And what I'm going to do is show you how you can apply them to a node and get some specialty effects going with them, and we're going to come back here to shot number eight, where we had done a highlight key. And what I mean by that is if I go into highlight mode, I just keyed out the brightest pixels here in the image, so just the highlights of the image. And now what we're going to do is on this node, we're going to apply an open effect, and it will only affect the pixels that are active here as we see them in highlight mode. What I'm going to do is come up to the Open Effects tab, and I'm going to search for Glow. We're going to use the Open Effects Glow effect. Click and drag it to apply it to this node. You can see that it has a little Open Effects badge now. One…

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