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Textmation

Motion-graphics titles for DaVinci Resolve

A panel beside the Edit page that turns a template and your own words into an animated title, built for the exact length of the clip it lands on. Pick, type, set the accent, apply. You never open the Fusion page and you never set a keyframe.

Templates are data and the animation is shared between all of them, which is why the library is a library rather than one design in fifty colours — and why a title lays out correctly on a vertical reel, a feed crop and a widescreen cut without a second version of it.

Delivery
Licensed DaVinci Resolve panel. Activate it, then use it on this computer.
Category
Workflow Integration plugin
Evaluation
Free to install and explore, with no time limit.
Includes
  • 273 distinct title templates
  • Built for vertical, square and landscape formats
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.1 or newer
  • Perpetual licence — it never expires

  • When the first three seconds have to work

    Kinetic hooks that arrive a word at a time, dialled from calm to loud with one control rather than forty.

  • When it will be watched without sound

    Caption styles built on the subtitle track you already have, sized to stay clear of the platform's own buttons.

  • When the words change after you have applied them

    Park the playhead over a title and the panel loads what you used, so changing a word is not rebuilding a composition.

Perpetual licence

Explore the complete panel free

No account and no time limit. Browse every template, preview it and edit every control; a licence is needed only when you apply a title to the timeline.

You'll get a ZIP containing the panel folder to copy into DaVinci Resolve's Workflow Integration Plugins folder — how to install it.

Buy once. Apply titles to your timeline.

Activate on up to 3 computers with a perpetual licence. The panel, template library and every editing control are already in the free download above.

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Need help installing or activating? Read the Textmation help page.

Guides

Say it on screen, in the time it takes to say it.

Textmation builds kinetic titles, captions and lower thirds on the Edit page — inside the platform's safe area, at a speed the words can be read, and editable again afterwards.

Type the words. It builds the composition.

Textmation opens as a panel beside the Edit page. Pick a template, type what it should say, choose a font and an accent, decide how hard it should land, and apply. An animated title arrives at the playhead as a Fusion composition, built for the exact length of the clip it landed as.

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.

It knows what shape you are cutting for

Nothing in a template is measured in pixels. Positions and sizes are fractions of the frame, so the same title lays out correctly on a vertical reel, a four-by-five feed crop and a sixteen-by-nine cut without a second version of it.

The safe area is the platform's, not the frame's: the top bar, the caption block, the rail of buttons down the right of a vertical video. Text is fitted inside that, and when it will not fit the panel says so before you apply rather than after you deliver.

It tells you when nobody can read it

A title that animates beautifully and leaves before it can be read is a failure, and it fails invisibly to whoever made it, because they already know what it says. Textmation works out how long the words need, compares it with the clip, and tells you which way to fix it.

The same check reports the things you cannot see: that the font the template was drawn in is not the font on this computer, that the design was never composed for this aspect ratio, that the text reaches under the platform's own buttons.

Titles stay editable

Park the playhead over a title you applied and the panel recognises it, loads the settings you used, and offers to update it. Change a word, change the accent, apply again. Trim the clip and it rebuilds for the new length.

The version it replaced stays on the clip for one step, so there is an Undo that puts back exactly what was there — not a computed reversal, the thing itself.

Two things to know before you buy it

Titles go where the playhead is. DaVinci Resolve does not tell a plugin which clips you have selected on the Edit page — the only clip it will name is the one under the playhead. So that is what Textmation targets, and the panel shows the timecode and the clip name at all times so it is never a surprise.

A title fills the clip it lands as. There is no way for a plugin to set a clip's length, so the animation is built for the length Resolve gives it, and the panel recommends a length rather than imposing one. Trim the clip and the title rebuilds to fit.

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.

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.

See how these controls work by hand.

Each tutorial builds the effect from Resolve's own tools first, so you can judge what the plugin is actually saving you.

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