Ignite: captions and polish in one pass

Ignite places the captions you approved on their own tracks in Resolve, with the polish you turned on above them.

1. Get there

   Press Start on the Ignite page.

2. Leave

   Done keeps the clips. Back asks first, then removes everything Ignite placed.

Zooms push in and out over the captions without changing the cuts.

Scale

How far an automatic zoom pushes in.

Variance

How much the zoom amounts differ from one another.

Placement

Above Subs zooms the whole picture with the captions. Below Subs zooms the footage and leaves the captions crisp.

Hook

Starts each clip with a hook zoom, settling at the first phrase boundary or cut.

Jump Cuts

Punches in on every cut and back out on the next, keeping the speaker's eyes where they were. 1.00x is off.

Zooms, Hook and Jump Cuts are in every plan.

Reframe tracks the speaker horizontally in Fill clips so they stay in frame, with or without Zooms.

Framing

Stiff keeps the speaker's nose on the mark on every frame. Relaxed follows a second at a time with an eased slide.

Stabilize

Steadies the camera of every take. Auto chooses the safest correction.

Reframe is in Pro and Max. It works on the whole run; the Inspector's Reframe is per clip.

A transition places a plate and its sound over a cut, so the edit changes gear without a hard jump.

• Accent tints the plates with the caption accent colour, following it until you pick one. Accent strength adds more of that hue.
• Shake, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Slide Left and Slide Right move the footage itself and have no plate to tint.

Transitions are included with Pro and Max.

Music puts a song under the voice and ducks it under speech. Your own songs can sit alongside the library's moods.

Folder

Which mood or folder Emberu picks from. All chooses across the library.

Song

The song under every clip in a local project. Auto picks a new one each run; choose a song to pin it.

Local projects

Drop

Locks the song's beat drop to the first cut, the second cut, or neither.

Fallback Duration

Where the drop lands if that cut is not available.

Track

The Resolve audio track that receives the music.

Level

Adds gain to the music bed; zero is Normalize's own level.

Music rows and cut rows

Each clip lists its song with last use and an audition; each cut picks its transition. Shuffle music and Shuffle transition fill them for you.

A Flare shows a card over the captions for a few seconds: a name, a number or a line worth pulling out. The captions underneath go quiet.

Graphics

Which card kinds Flares may use.

Motion

How a card enters and leaves. Auto follows the captions' Links ease.

Background and Background opacity

Put the card on your palette. Font and text colours follow Subs.

Sounds

Adds a soft landing and small ticks as the card's parts arrive.

Rounded

Keeps the card and the Splitscreen plate on the Animation's corners; off makes them square.

Flares are included with Pro and Max.

B-roll puts your footage over the talking head. Put clips in the B-roll bin and turn it on; they land above the A-roll, captions on top.

Coverage and Span set how much of each clip carries B-roll; Splitscreen and Swap decide where it sits. B-roll is part of Pro and Max.

B-roll

Turns B-roll on for this run.

Coverage

Partial starts each stretch after a Stack ending; Full covers the whole clip.

Span

How long each B-roll stretch runs.

Cooldown

The shortest time from one B-roll stretch to the next.

Splitscreen

Slides the speaker into one half and the B-roll into the other, with a seam in the accent colour.

Swap

Splitscreen swap puts the B-roll on top, or right in a landscape frame, instead of the speaker.

Hide Cuts bridges a cut with generated frames, so a talking-head edit plays as one continuous take. No transition plate lands on a hidden cut. Hide Cuts is in Pro and Max; in Resolve it needs Resolve Studio.

Check the bridged moment before delivery, especially hands, faces and moving backgrounds.

Where both are on, Jump Cuts covers the cuts Hide Cuts leaves alone.

LUT gives ungraded clips one colour transform. Turn it on, then pick the .cube file underneath.

The included LUTs convert camera-log to Rec.709; your own .cube files join the list. The LUTs are in every plan.

Sound Effects places sounds on words you choose, and a Special plays its own sound. A missing library still lands the captions, with a warning.

Enhance and Normalize are set on the Ignite page. Enhance cleans the selected voice tracks; Normalize levels the voice and ducks music under speech.

1. Check the frames

   Look over the placed captions and clips: cut points, and every Flare.

2. Change the look

   Change an Animation and the placed captions follow, without another run.

3. Change placed polish

   Zooms, transitions, music and sounds are clips on the timeline. Change a setting and Emberu places that polish again.

4. Undo the pass when it is wrong

   One run is one undo. If the edit went the wrong way, undo it and change the plan instead of patching single clips.

• Animations and Sparks

  The look Ignite places.

• Shuffle: Length and Formations

  The rhythm and motion your captions arrive with.

• Export: renders

  Renders from the timeline you just finished.