Your first animated title

On the Edit page, choose Workspace → Workflow Integrations → Textmation. The panel opens beside your timeline and stays there while you work — you never leave the Edit page.

If the menu has no Textmation entry, Resolve did not find the plugin folder. That is an install question, not a plugin question — the install guide covers the folder it must sit in.

The library is organised by job — hooks, captions, lower thirds, titles — rather than by look. Search for what the title has to do (“hook”, “caption”, “sale”), or star the ones you reach for and find them under Favourites next time.

Hover any tile to watch it animate. The preview plays the real template, so what you see is what lands on the timeline. Click a tile to open it in the editor.

Type in the content field and the canvas preview updates as you type. Then work through the tabs: Type for font, size and colour, Layout for where it sits in the frame, Motion for how it arrives. The accent colour is the one control that changes the whole design at once — set it to your brand and the template follows.

Everything is measured in fractions of the frame, not pixels, so the same title lays out correctly on a vertical reel and a widescreen cut without a second version of it.

Scrub the timeline ruler to preview any moment. The In / Hold / Out bar shows how long the title takes to arrive, sit still and leave — drag its dividers and the animation retimes itself.

For finer control, add keyframes to any property with the diamond button, then open the Speed graph: drag the curve's handles, or pick an easing preset, until the move feels right. You never have to get this perfect — the next step rebuilds the title for the clip it lands on.

Park the playhead where the title should start and choose Apply to timeline. A preflight checks the title first — it checks reading time and safe areas before creating the title. Insertion starts at the playhead. Resolve determines the inserted clip’s duration; the panel reads it back and fits the animation to that actual duration.

The title is an ordinary composition. If you ever want to take it apart by hand, open the Fusion page and it is all there.

On Resolve 21.0.4 or later, select exactly one Textmation title to edit it. On older hosts, or without one clear selection, park the playhead over the title. The panel loads its settings and offers Update title. Change a word, change the accent, then update. After trimming the clip, refresh its context and update to fit the new length.

The panel keeps the previous composition for one-step restoration. Resolve’s own undo history remains separate; applying or updating is not promised as a single grouped Resolve undo step.

For talking-head videos, you do not have to build titles one at a time. Paste your script, review the beats it finds, choose a visual system, and generate a storyboard — then apply the whole sequence to the timeline in one go.