Textmation

Type the words. It builds the composition.

Textmation opens as a panel in DaVinci Resolve (Workspace, then Workflow Integrations). Pick a template, type your words, choose a font, colours and a motion style, and click Apply to timeline. The animated title goes on a new Textmation track at the playhead, as a Fusion title.

You never open the Fusion page. You never set a keyframe. If you want to, everything it writes is an ordinary composition you can open and take apart.

The templates are data. The animation is the engine.

A template says a headline sits low in the frame, splits into words, enters with a spring and leans on one of them. It does not carry its own copy of what a spring is, how words are measured, or where the safe area sits at four by five. That lives in one place and every template shares it.

Which is why the library is a library rather than one design in fifty colours. Every template has its own layers, its own animation and its own reason to exist, and a test refuses two that are the same design once the palette and the font are taken away.

One title for every shape

Nothing in a template is measured in pixels. Positions and sizes follow the frame, so the same title fits a vertical 9:16 reel, a 4:5 feed post, a square video and a 16:9 cut without a second version.

The editor shows title-safe and action-safe guides, so you can keep words away from the edges and from the buttons that apps put over vertical video.

Turn a script into a reel

Paste a script or drop a file: plain text, Markdown, SRT, WebVTT or CSV. Choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds and edit the beats. Pick one of five looks, set the pace, and choose how captions show: none, one line at a time, or the word being spoken. Then apply the whole sequence at once.

Titles stay editable

Put the playhead on a title you applied (or select it, in Resolve 21.0.4 or newer) and open the same template. Your settings load and the button changes to Update title. Change a word or a colour and click it. If you trimmed the clip, Update also rebuilds the title for the new length.

Undo puts back the version you had before, exactly as it was. Your text styles and brand colours are saved on your computer for the next video.

Two things to know before you buy it

Titles go at the playhead. Before Resolve 21.0.4, Resolve does not tell a plugin which clip you selected, so Textmation uses the playhead. In 21.0.4 or newer you can select one clip instead. The check screen before Apply shows the timeline, the playhead, the format and the length, so it is never a surprise.

A title is built for its length. The animation is timed to the clip it lands as. If you trim the clip later, click Update title and it is rebuilt to fit. It does not change by itself.

What it needs

DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.1 or newer, on macOS or Windows. Workflow Integration panels are a Studio feature and do not exist in the free edition. In Resolve's preferences, set External scripting to Local.

Everything works on your own machine. Browsing the library, previewing a template and changing any control need no licence at all; putting a title on your timeline is what a seat buys.