Clipizo Ballpoint

1. Extract the complete ZIP before installing, and read legal/CLIPIZO_PRODUCT_LICENSE.txt.
2. Resolve Studio / Fusion Studio: drag Clipizo Ballpoint studio installer.lua into the Nodes area of the Fusion page. The result appears in the Console. Then restart. The installer also adds the Edit page effect.
3. Resolve Free (works in Studio too): close Resolve and copy Silkizo.fuse (the Clipizo Ballpoint Fuse) into your user Fuses folder, creating it if needed. Resolve Free doesn't run the Studio installer.
4. Windows user Fuses folder: %APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Fuses
5. macOS user Fuses folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Fuses/
6. Edit page effect by hand: copy Clipizo Ballpoint.setting and Clipizo Ballpoint.png into Templates/Edit/Effects/Clipizo inside the same Fusion folder, creating the folders if needed.
7. Keep one copy of Clipizo Ballpoint in your Fuses folders, and restart Resolve after installing or updating.

On the Fusion page, press Shift+Space and type Clipizo Ballpoint. In the Effects Library it is under Clipizo.

Connect footage, a title or a logo to its input, and its output to MediaOut1 or a Merge.

On the Edit page it is under Effects > Clipizo > Clipizo Ballpoint. Drag it onto a clip.

Some controls appear only after choosing the relevant mode.

Strokes

Grow From

Bright Areas or Dark Areas: where the strands start.

Seed Level

How bright or dark an area has to be before strands grow from it.

Threads

How many strands.

Reach

How many steps each strand grows.

Spread

How far each growth step goes. With Reach it sets how far a strand travels. Higher means longer, looser strands.

Thread Weight

How thick the strands are.

Dissolve

How much of each strand fades out toward its tip. 0 is solid to the tip, and 1 fades over about the last 70%.

Physics

Strength

How strongly a strand turns to follow the outlines in the picture as it grows. 0 lets it run straight.

Scan Span

How wide an area is read for outlines. Higher values follow larger shapes and ignore fine detail.

Follow Shape

How much a strand's starting direction follows the outline rather than pointing away from the middle of the picture. 0 makes the strands burst outward, and 1 starts them along the outlines.

Weft Angle / Warp Angle

About 70% of the strands start along the outlines and about 30% across them. Weft Angle turns the first group and Warp Angle the second, from -90 to 90 degrees.

Curl / Curve / Curve Variation

Bend the strands. Curl bends them more toward the tip, and Curve Variation bends each one differently.

Hand Jitter

Adds a hand-drawn wobble.

Reveal

Reveal

Draws the strands on. Animate it from 0 to 1.

Stagger

Spreads the strands' starts over the reveal.

Reveal Order

Random, Brightest First, Center Out, Edges In, Left to Right, Right to Left, Bottom to Top or Top to Bottom.

Pixel flow

Sort By

Sorts the pixels along each strand by Luminance, Hue, Red, Green or Blue.

Flow Toward Tip

Bright Pixels or Dark Pixels: which end of the sort sits at the tip.

Seed

A different arrangement of strands.

Image

Fade

Fades the strands.

Background

Original (your video), Color or Transparent.

Background Opacity / Background Blur

Dim or blur the picture behind the strands.

Color

Line Color

Original Color uses the footage's own colors. Ink Color uses one color.

Tint / Tint Amount

Tint is the ink color. With Line Color set to Ink Color every strand takes it, and Tint Amount has no effect. With Original Color, Tint Amount mixes the tint into the footage colors. It starts at 0.25 with an olive tint, so set it to 0 for pure footage colors.

Bg

The color for Background set to Color.

Not in the tool search

Extract the ZIP, check that the file still ends in .fuse, and restart Resolve after copying it. Use the user Fuses location for a manual install. Avoid installing a second copy of the same tool.

An older interface still appears

Resolve caches Fuse code. Fully restart it, then try a newly added node; an existing node may retain saved values.

Rendering is slow

Very high Threads or Reach values take long. Lower them while editing.

The Edit page effect is missing

The Studio installer adds it. After a manual install, copy Clipizo Ballpoint.setting and Clipizo Ballpoint.png into Templates/Edit/Effects/Clipizo inside the same Fusion folder, then restart.

A Mac blocks the downloaded file

Use System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.

1. Close Resolve / Fusion. Move only Silkizo.fuse out of the Fuses folder where you installed it, to a backup folder outside the Fusion search folders.
2. If you used the Studio installer, check the destination it reported (which can be the shared Clipizo/Fuses folder). Leave other Clipizo files in place.
3. Restart the application. Existing projects using this tool will need it reinstalled to render the same result.
4. Edit page effect: delete Clipizo Ballpoint.setting and Clipizo Ballpoint.png from Templates/Edit/Effects/Clipizo in the same Fusion folder.