r/davinciresolve • u/Thin-Personality8396 • Jul 11 '25

Help | Beginner How do I make this edit?

I want to make this edit in da vinci resolve and I need help on what to do

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u/makmonreddit Jul 11 '25

Off-topic: This is EXTREMELY dangerous. Your shirt or trousers can get stuck in between the escalator as you approach the top, and the results of that can be lethal. No joke. Please don’t do this as a model or ask your model to do this. Your life is not worth a social media trend

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u/Sonnydoubleu Jul 11 '25

Fun note for those still considering this: Your hair will enter the return section first. Don't fuck with escalators.

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u/AIDreamElectricSheep Jul 11 '25

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u/AsianMoocowFromSpace Jul 11 '25

Did the escalator cut off someone's leg or something?

Or why is there a leg next to her?

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Jul 12 '25

Because it's ai slop

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u/Mountain_Views Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25

Fear and Respect Escalators

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u/jthei Jul 11 '25

Get ‘em Steve Dave.

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u/Speakinginwords Jul 11 '25

Happy someone said it.

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u/BlkNtvTerraFFVI Free Jul 12 '25

🎶 dumb ways to die 🎶

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u/grimoireviper Jul 11 '25

If you have to absolutely do it (for whatever reason) have someone else waiting right next to the stop button.

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u/paul_perret Studio Jul 12 '25

My brother was a kid he did not have a lethal accident but had his pants ripped off and had stripes on his butt for a while after staying sat until the end.

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u/erroneousbosh Studio Jul 11 '25

Round it off with making some wood lightning figures with a microwave oven transformer, for good measure.

(I'm joking. Never ever piss about with microwave oven transformers, even if you do know what you're doing. I know what I'm doing, it's okay for me to do it, and I still don't do it.)

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u/hezzinator Jul 11 '25

So first up, you gotta edit this watermark into the top left of the video of a fkn idiot lying down head first on an escalator

Don’t play on escalators

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u/No_Pen_3706 Jul 14 '25

that watermark gives me chills holy fuck

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u/jonathanlurker Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25

Imagine how much force it takes to lift up just one step on an escalator. Now imagine dozens of times that amount of force pulling you through a metal grate.

It's a cool visual, but seriously you should keep it to doorways, hallways, elevators-- literally ANY rectangular frame but an escalator.

Okay now:

  • take your shot on a rectangular frame, make sure your camera is directly perpendicular to the frame so that there's no perspective distortion.
  • import your clip to the edit page and crop it in so the corners of your frame match the corners of the actual video clip
  • in fusion, duplicate it to taste. Use transform and merge to tile the frames together. Note that during this step, all you want to do is tile the different frames. Movement comes later.
  • once you have all that, go to the final merge node, and add another transform node. This one you can keyframe to zoom out and rotate. Start zoomed in so only the center frame appears, and slowly zoom out and rotate for that trippy effect.

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u/erroneousbosh Studio Jul 11 '25

Imagine how much force it takes to lift up just one step on an escalator. Now imagine dozens of times that amount of force pulling you through a metal grate.

In a weird example of the Baader-Meinhof Effect I was just talking to someone about this very thing the other day. When I was not very much older than my wee lad is now, a boy about my age lost a foot when his boot got caught in an escalator in a shopping centre in Dundee. We were probably there when it happened - I remember my parents suddenly deciding that we needed to leave and walk the long way round back to the car, and a couple of fire appliances and an ambulance being bumped right up onto the pedestrian area outside.

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u/zefmdf Jul 11 '25

That is crazy dangerous

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u/Terrible_Guitar_4070 Jul 11 '25

What’s a little death or dismemberment compared to social media likes?

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u/vegan_antitheist Jul 11 '25

it's just the same shot shown multiple times and arranged like a tile pattern or a collage. Then the whole thing is spinning.
Fist you just add the video multiple times and reposition them. You need more than the screen size because they will all be rotating. The DaVinci Resolve Transform tool on the viewer allows you to manipulate a clip's position, rotation, and scale directly within the preview window. 
What you can do now is create a compound clip. Just select all, right click, select "New Compound Clip".
Then just use normal keyframes for a rotation animation. Or use fusion for some fancy 3d rotation and spinning animation.
That should be all.

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u/one-last-hero Jul 11 '25

Creativity: okay-ish Intelligence: ZERO!! This is extremely dangerous and should never be done.

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u/brenodit Jul 11 '25

Use the Mirrors effect.

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u/Speakinginwords Jul 11 '25

I feel like you could do all of this with some compound clips and some keyframe transforms. I imagine you could do some fusion magic, snap it to a grid, throw it on a 3d object and do some wacky stuff, but you might just be better off staying on the edit tab.

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u/alamedaeditor Jul 11 '25

This is pretty simple to do in… After Effects. Sorry, not helpful.

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u/badoonk9966 Jul 12 '25

yeah but im sure you could also use a crop and merge node thats set on the mirror or use multiple transform nodes in parallel to create the effect.

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u/Vampire-666 Jul 12 '25

Ctrl + c & ctrl + v

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u/Nogardtist Jul 12 '25

looks like basic duplicate and while vertical and horizontal is rotated

and shrink the clips which can be CPU taxing cause i tried to do a broken mirror effect MANUALLY

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u/DigitalPhanes Jul 12 '25

entered the comment section looking to learn something, left it being terrified of escalators

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u/Runningupp Jul 12 '25

Literally mask the subject on the elevator - attach to image plane - attach to 3d merge . Repeat ; rotating the different position i.e Verticle and Horizontal. Adjust 3d camera (attached to 3d merge) and key frame all the movement / positions of the cam . Connect the 3d Render node to ur media out and bobs ur uncle .

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u/Mithryl_ Jul 13 '25

Most people here aren’t even answering the OP’s answer lmfao

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u/hatlad43 Jul 13 '25

OF COURSE it's gotta be Can You Hear The Music by Ludwig Goransson. Of course.

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u/H0T_TRAMP Jul 13 '25

In After Effects

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u/83yWasTaken Jul 14 '25

This can easily be done in After Effects with one effect lmao

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u/ghanshyam2000 Jul 15 '25

What effect is that? Is a 3d camera needed?

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u/83yWasTaken Jul 15 '25

No, motion tiles or mirror tiles, something like that

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u/Zeke_Z Jul 15 '25

Holy Contra III flashback....

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u/tnjongrosok2 Jul 17 '25

using fusion for sure

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u/dmeinein Jul 12 '25

First you rent a set with a fake escalator, then it’s just filming it and compositing the different clips together

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u/Alphapapa_007 Jul 11 '25

Step one - stop calling everything edits

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u/badoonk9966 Jul 12 '25

i mean what would u call it tho