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Turn footage, titles and logos into ASCII art, halftone dots, shapes or image tiles, then reveal or explode them character by character. Free to download.

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Overview

Connect footage, a title or a logo to Rasterizo and pick a Character Set: text characters, blocks, binary digits, dots, squares, circles or diamonds, your own characters, or your own picture or sprite sheet. Cell Size sets how big the marks are, and Color Mode colors them with the footage, one color or a limited palette.

On the Animate page, Reveal brings the marks in from a side, at random or from the center, and Explode blasts them away from a point with scatter, spin and gravity. With Fly Across Composition on, a small logo can explode across the whole frame.

Requirements

Software
DaVinci Resolve 21.1 or newer, Free or Studio, on the Fusion page, or Fusion Studio
Operating system
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit; macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon (Resolve 21.1's minimum)
License
None: no key, no activation and no account
Download
One ZIP for Windows or macOS with the Studio installer and rasterizo.fuse

Questions about your setup? Ask in the Clipizo Discord or send us a message.

Key features

  • Character sets: Classic, Blocks, Minimal, Binary 01, Dots and Custom (your own characters), or Square, Circle and Diamond marks drawn as clean shapes.
  • Image and Sprite Atlas: use your own picture as the marks, or a sprite sheet with a tile for each brightness level. A sample sheet is in the download.
  • Color: Monochrome, Original, one Foreground Color or a Limited Palette of 2, 4, 8 or 16 colors.
  • Tone: Brightness, Contrast, Gamma and Invert, Edge Detection, and Contour Characters that draw lines along strong outlines.
  • Output: marks on a background, marks only on transparency, or marks over your footage, with Effect Mix and a mask input.
  • Animate: Reveal in six orders, and Explode with Blast Center, Blast Radius, Distance, Shockwave, Scatter, Spin, Gravity and Fade Out.
  • Six presets to start from: Green Phosphor, Warm Paper, Amber Terminal, Cool Contours, Portrait Detail and Graphic Print.
  • Uses the GPU when there is one, and the CPU otherwise.
  • Free download, no key.

Best for

  • Retro terminal looks
  • Halftone print looks
  • Logo and title reveals
  • Exploding logos
  • Music videos
  • Stylized portraits
Setup & help guide Install, find it in Resolve, the controls, common problems, uninstall

Rasterizo v1.0, the ASCII art and halftone Fuse.

Install
  1. Extract the complete ZIP before installing. Everything is in its Rasterizo 1.0 folder, with Rasterizo Guide.txt. Read legal/CLIPIZO_PRODUCT_LICENSE.txt.
  2. Resolve Studio / Fusion Studio: drag Rasterizo studio installer.lua into the Nodes area of the Fusion page. The result appears in the Console. Then restart.
  3. Resolve Free (works in Studio too): close Resolve and copy rasterizo.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. Presets: drag a .setting file from the Presets folder into the Nodes area.
  7. Keep one copy of Rasterizo in your Fuses folders, and restart Resolve after installing or updating.
Where it appears in Resolve

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

Connect your footage to Input and the output to MediaOut1 or a Merge. Image and Sprite Atlas also use the Glyph Image input.

It is a Fusion node, not an Edit page effect.

Controls in plain words

Some controls appear only after choosing the relevant mode.

Main
Character Set
Classic, Blocks, Minimal, Binary 01, Dots, Custom, Image, Sprite Atlas, Square, Circle or Diamond.
Custom Characters
For Custom: up to 64 characters, from dark to light.
Cell Size
The width of a cell in pixels. The default, 4, reads as a fine texture. Use 8 to 16 for readable characters. Larger cells render faster.
Cell Aspect
The cell's height against its width. Text reads best around 1.3 to 1.5. Use 1 for round dots.
Glyph Size
Fixed, By Brightness (brighter areas get bigger marks) or By Threshold (two sizes).
Color Mode
Monochrome, Original (the footage's colors), Foreground Color or Limited Palette.
Brightness / Contrast / Gamma / Invert
Adjust the tones the marks are picked from.
Edge Detection / Contour Characters
Bring out outlines. Contour Characters draws short lines along strong outlines.
Image and Sprite Atlas
Connect a picture to Glyph Image. Image repeats it in every cell. Sprite Atlas picks a tile for each brightness level, set with Atlas Columns and Atlas Rows.
Output
Output
Glyphs and Background, Transparent Glyphs Only or Glyphs over Original.
Background / Background Opacity
The color behind the marks.
Effect Mix
0 shows the original footage, 1 the full effect.
Effect mask
Connect a Fusion mask to fade the effect against the original footage.
Animate
Reveal
Off, Left to Right, Right to Left, Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top, Random or Center Out. Animate Reveal Progress from 0 to 1.
Explode
Blasts every mark away from Blast Center. Keyframe Explosion from 0 to 1.
Blast Radius / Distance
How far from the center marks are affected, and how far they travel.
Shockwave / Scatter / Spin / Gravity / Fade Out
Shape the blast: a wave from the center, varied directions, rotation, a pull downward and a fade.
Fly Across Composition
Lets animated marks leave the image, so a logo or title can explode across the whole frame.
Common problems
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.
The picture looks like a fine texture
Cell Size starts at 4. Raise it to 8 to 16 for readable characters.
It is slow at 4K
Small cells on large frames take long. Raise Cell Size while editing.
Image or Sprite Atlas shows text characters
Connect a picture to the Glyph Image input. Without one, Rasterizo uses Classic.
A Mac blocks the downloaded file
Use System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.
Uninstall
  1. Close Resolve / Fusion. Move only rasterizo.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.

Still stuck? Contact Clipizo with the plugin version, Resolve version, operating system and the exact error message.

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