Three ways to use your template in Resolve.

Easiest: install the .drfx

1. Download the .drfx file from your generation result.
2. Double-click it.
3. DaVinci Resolve opens (or comes to the front) and asks to install the template. Click Install.
4. The template appears on the Edit page in the matching tab:
   • Effects (for an effect template)
   • Titles (for a title template)
   • Transitions (for a transition template)
   • Generators (for a generator template)

Use the .setting directly on the Fusion page

If you’d rather drop it straight into a comp without installing:

1. Switch to the Fusion page on a clip.
2. Drag the .setting file into the node graph area.
3. Wire it up:
   • Effect / Transition: connect MediaIn into the macro’s input and the macro’s output into MediaOut.
   • Title / Generator: connect the macro’s output into MediaOut (no input needed — it makes its own image).

If you connect only the output of an effect, Resolve shows “no frame available for MediaOut1”. That means the macro has nothing to work on — wire its input to the clip.

Manual install (advanced)

Put the .setting in your DaVinci Resolve Fusion folder, then restart Resolve:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\
• Linux: ~/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/Fusion/

Inside that folder use:

• Macros/ — shows up on the Fusion page node menu
• Templates/Edit/<Category>/ — shows up on the Edit page in that tab

Updating an installed template

Re-importing a new version of the same name? Fully quit Resolve first (⌘Q / Alt+F4) — Resolve caches installed templates and won’t see your new file until restart. Applied instances are also baked at apply-time, so delete the old instance and drag the updated template onto your cut again.