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Custom Node Settings
When a node is added to the Node Editor, its parameters are set to the default values for that
type of node. If you find yourself constantly readjusting the parameters of a node to a preferred
starting point as soon as it’s added to the node tree, you can override the default node settings
with your own custom settings.
To save new default settings for a particular type of node:
1 Create a new node.
2 Open the Inspector and customize that node’s settings to the new defaults you want
it to have.
3 Right-click that node in the Node Editor, or right-click that node’s control header in the
Inspector, and choose Settings > Save Default from the contextual menu.
TIP: You can also save six different settings for a node in the Node Editor using the
Version buttons at the top of the Inspector. For more information, see Chapter 59,
“Editing Parameters in the Inspector” in the DaVinci Resolve manual or Chapter 8 in
the Fusion Studio manual.
Managing Saved Settings
Custom node default settings are saved to a folder on your hard drive that’s based on the Path
Map > Defaults preference in the Fusion Settings. This path is customizable for facilities where
multiple compositing artists use a common set of facility defaults, stored somewhere commonly
accessible. The default paths are:
For macOS systems, this path defaults to: /UserName/Library/Application Support/
Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Defaults.
For Windows systems, this path defaults to C: \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\
Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Fusion\Defaults.
For Linux systems, this path defaults to: ~/.fusion/BlackmagicDesign/DaVinci Resolve/
Fusion/Defaults.
If you browse this directory, the settings for each node are saved using a name taking the form
INTERNALNAME_PUBLICNAME.settings, where INTERNALNAME is the internal name of the
Fusion tool, and PUBLICNAME is the name of the Node that’s derived from the internal Fusion
tool. For example, the default setting for a Blur node would be called Blur_Blur.setting. This
naming convention is partly to ensure that third-party plug-in nodes don’t overwrite the defaults
for built-in Fusion nodes that happen to have the same name.
Resetting Defaults
Even if you’ve created new default settings for new nodes, you can always reset individual
parameters to the original default setting. In addition, it’s easy to restore the original default
settings for new nodes you create.
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