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Better yet, with the playhead parked on your new Text+ “Fusion Title,” you can open the Fusion
page and access its parameters there too, if you want to start building upon this single
generator to create a multi-layered motion graphics extravaganza.
Opening the Text+ node in the Fusion page
reveals it as an actual Fusion page operation
For more information about the extensive capabilities of the Text+ generator, see Chapter 89,
“Generator Nodes.”
Fusion Titles and Fusion Templates
The abundance of other Fusion titles in the Effects Library are custom-built text compositions
with built-in animation that expose custom controls in the Inspector.
A Fusion title creating an animated lower third, with controls open in the Inspector
In actuality, these text generators are Fusion templates, which are Fusion compositions that
have been turned into macros and come installed with DaVinci Resolve to be used from within
the Edit page like any other generator.
It’s possible to make all kinds of Fusion title compositions in the Fusion page, and save them for
use in the Edit page by creating a macro and placing it within the /Library/Application Support/
Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/Edit/Titles directory, but this is a topic
for another day.
There’s one other benefit to Text+ generators and that is they can be graded like any other clip,
without needing to create a compound clip first.
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