Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Saving DaVinci Resolve presets with brand settings already applied — fonts, colors, sizes — eliminates the repetitive re-formatting that bleeds hours from professional editing workflows across multiple client projects.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

You edit videos in DaVinci Resolve for more than one client and keep re-applying the same fonts and brand colors to title presets.
You know about Resolve presets but did not realize you could save custom settings with them.
You are a freelance or agency editor juggling multiple brand identities and want a faster effects browser.

SKIP IF…

You edit in Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro — the Fusion workflow shown is Resolve-specific.
You only work with a single brand and the default drag-and-adjust workflow is not costing you meaningful time.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

DaVinci Resolve's default preset workflow makes you re-apply brand settings every time you drop a title. The fix is saving presets with those settings already baked in, either through the native Fusion page (right-click node, Save As, navigate to templates/edit/titles, name a PNG thumbnail at exactly 104x58px) or through a free Fusion script called Preset Saver that handles the whole process in about ten seconds. Either path gives you a per-client folder inside the effects browser with drag-and-drop branded presets that need zero adjustment.

Free for members

Chat with this breakdown — free.

Sign in and you get 23 free chat messages on us — ask for the hook, quote a framework, find the exact transcript moment, generate a markdown action plan. Bring your own key when you want unlimited.

Create a free account →

Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:27

01 · Cold open — the promise

States the problem and previews the free tool fix.

00:27 – 02:02

02 · The broken workflow

Shows the pain: dragging presets and re-applying brand settings every time, or hunting the timeline for a previously branded copy.

02:02 – 05:39

03 · The manual way

Full Fusion page walkthrough: wand button, right-click node, Save As, folder structure, 104x58px PNG thumbnail with matching filename.

05:39 – 08:47

04 · Preset Saver tool demo

Demonstrates the free Fusion script: install once, open via Workspace > Scripts, fill in name/type/subfolder/thumbnail, hit Save New Preset.

08:47 – 10:57

05 · Preset pack pitch + next CTA

Showcases 21 presets from the paid pack and closes with teaser for a tablet-based preset trigger system video.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

Every time you drag a default preset and re-apply brand fonts and colors, you are paying a setup tax you could eliminate permanently in five minutes.
DaVinci Resolve expects preset thumbnails to be exactly 104x58 pixels and named identically to the .setting file — miss either and no thumbnail appears.
The Fusion page folder structure for saved presets must follow templates/edit/{titles|generators|effects|transitions} — creating it wrong means Resolve will not find the preset.
A free Fusion script can compress a five-step manual save process into a single dialog with auto-format conversion for any thumbnail image.
Organizing saved presets into per-client subfolders inside the effects browser gives you a branded library with zero extra clicks at edit time.
The current frame thumbnail option eliminates the need to export and resize a PNG manually.
Resolve's effects browser requires a restart to reflect newly saved presets if they are not appearing after the save.
The same preset-saving workflow works for all four Resolve preset types: titles, generators, effects, and transitions.

Takeaway

Save presets once, never reformat again.

WORKFLOW FIX

The minute you save a DaVinci Resolve preset with brand settings already baked in, every future edit of that type costs zero extra clicks.

DaVinci Resolve lets you save presets with custom fonts, colors, and sizes locked in — the barrier is knowing the correct Fusion page workflow to do it.
The native save path requires right-clicking the Fusion node, navigating to templates/edit/titles (or generators/effects/transitions), and creating a matching 104x58px PNG thumbnail with an identical filename.
Any mismatch between the preset filename and the thumbnail PNG filename results in a blank thumbnail — an easy detail to get wrong that the Preset Saver tool handles automatically.
Organizing saved presets into named subfolders per client or brand creates a drag-and-drop library that scales cleanly across multiple projects.
A free Fusion script (Preset Saver) compresses the entire manual process into a single dialog, making per-brand preset libraries practical even on tight deadlines.
The current frame thumbnail option captures the playhead frame from the edit page without any export step, which is the fastest path to a meaningful preview image.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Fusion page: DaVinci Resolve's node-based compositing environment where title and effect presets are built and their underlying nodes can be saved.
.setting file: The file format DaVinci Resolve uses to save Fusion presets. Placed in the correct templates subfolder, it becomes a draggable preset in the effects browser.
Preset Saver: A free Fusion script by Greg Edits Video that automates saving a custom preset — handling folder structure, file naming, and thumbnail generation — accessible from Workspace > Scripts inside Resolve.
Wand button: The icon in DaVinci Resolve's Inspector controls panel that opens the selected clip's preset on the Fusion page for editing or saving.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

00:09toolPreset Saver (free Fusion script)

09:05productGreg Edits Video Preset Pack (paid, 21 presets)

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

05:40

“You can see why I built a tool for this. Right? Because this is a bit of a faff.”

Honest self-aware aside after the painful manual process — lands as a punchline→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

00:00

“Rebuilding the same animations and branded titles on every video is losing you hours of time, and it's completely avoidable.”

Clean problem-statement hook with no setup needed→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

The Script

Word for word.

Read-along

Don't just watch it. Burn it in.

See every word as it's spoken — crank it to 2× and still catch all of it. The same dual-channel trick behind Amazon's Kindle + Audible.

00:00Rebuilding the same animations and branded titles on every video is losing you hours of time, and it's completely avoidable. I built a free tool that lets you save your own custom presets within seconds.

00:15And now I've got hundreds of animations and branded presets saved in my effects browser, and they're all ready to be dragged and dropped straight onto the timeline with all of the correct settings, fonts, and colors already applied.

00:29So in this video, I'll show you exactly how to build your own library of saved presets using both my free tool and the manual way so you can get all of those wasted hours back. So here's the problem. When you use a preset, you drop it into your timeline like this and then start changing the font, the size, and the colors to all match the branding of the video that you're editing.

00:53And because these titles all have default branding on them, you end up doing these same changes every time you add a new title in. Or you might have to scroll out of your timeline and then search for one that you've previously branded before and then copy and paste it over to where you're now working and it's just wasting you time.

01:12Whereas if you save your presets with your custom settings applied, then you can have a setup like mine here where I've got different folders for all of these different clients down the side here, and inside of them I've got branded titles and assets that are all ready to go. So here's a folder for Ed Lawrence with his titles.

01:30Here's one with Rubix and their branded titles. So I can just add them to my timeline and they're done.

01:37No extra clicks or faffing around. I can just get on with the actual edit and it means that the videos all have a consistent fill to them which is ultimately better for the viewer. And you can do this with any type of preset.

01:50So effects, transitions, titles, and generators like this custom zoom in that you can see on screen right now for example.

01:58So how exactly do you save presets with custom settings? Well, there's two ways to do it. So I'll show you the manual way first and then I'll show you the tool that I built which makes the whole process take about ten seconds.

02:11So here's the manual way of doing it. I can drag in a preset to my timeline. So for example, I'll use my sidebar preset and I'll set it up in Ed Lawrence's branding.

02:21So I'll select his font, the text size, and set the background to this nice gradient that he likes. Then I'll click on this wand button in the controls.

02:30This button will open that preset in the Fusion page, and then you just need to right click on the node for that preset, which is this one because you can see it's called Greg edit sidebar. Come down to the settings and then hit save as. This will open this box up, and it will either place you in the macro or the settings folder.

02:49So you then need to come down to the templates folder like this. And if you're on Windows, you can just click up here to come back to the fusion folder, and then you can open the templates folder here.

02:59If the templates folder is empty, then you need to create a folder called edit. And then inside of that folder, need to create four more folders called titles, generators, effects, and transitions.

03:11This is where the presets for those four different types will go. And then you open up the folder for the type of preset that you're saving, which in this case is a title. So I'm opening up the title folder.

03:22And then in here, can create a subfolder, which will basically be this folder here where it's the name of that brand or however you want to organize it. So for this I'm gonna call it Ed Lawrence and then you can change the name of the preset up here.

03:35So I'm calling this one Ed Lawrence sidebar and then hit save. Now you come back over to the edit page, open up your titles and you should see your new subfolder here with your preset inside.

03:48If it's not showing then just restart resolve to refresh your effects list. But as you can see there's no thumbnail image for the title. So to make the thumbnail image, you need to create a PNG that's a 104 by 58 pixels and then name that PNG the exact same name as the preset file and save it next to it.

04:07So you would then need to create the image that you want. So this is how you create that image. So for this sidebar for example, let's say that we want the image to just look how it does here.

04:17So we would have to open it back up on the fusion page, click on the presets node, hit shift space to bring up the select tool search bar, type in resize, and then double click this one here. If you've already got your preset selected, then it will add it in between the two nodes.

04:32Meaning, you can then just change the width and the height to one zero four by 58, and then right click on the image, hit save, and then just save it somewhere like your desktop for now. And then the next step is to bring that image over to your preset.

04:46So you can see why I built a tool for this. Right? Because this is a bit of a faff, but let's carry on because we're new there.

04:52So the easiest way to find the folder that your preset's been saved into is to come over to the fusion page and then open up your effects browser, right click on templates, which might freeze DaVinci for a few seconds, but that's normal, and then hit show folder. And then from here, you can navigate to your preset, which in this case is this dot setting file here.

05:13So then you can get your thumbnail image, copy and paste it next to the preset, and then make sure it's got the exact same name as your preset. So the preset is called Ed Lawrence sidebar dot setting.

05:25So the PNG is gonna be called Ed Lawrence sidebar dot PNG. And now when you come over to your effects browser on the edit page, you can see that it's got the thumbnail next to it and the preset has finally been saved. So yeah, the tool I've made will do all of that within about ten seconds.

05:45So here's how to use it. You can download the tool for free in the description below. It's called Preset Saver.

05:52It works with both the paid and free versions of DaVinci Resolve, but they just look slightly different due to the limitations in the UI of the free version. So I'll show you how to use it on the paid version, but you'll see that the same instructions apply to the free version as well. I've also made a PDF which walks you through how to use both versions if you need.

06:11So the file for both versions is this one file here. So to install it, just open up the Fusion page and then drag and drop the preset saver file onto the Fusion page like this, and then hit install. Once you've done that once, you don't have to do it again.

06:27It'll now be installed. Now if we come back to the edit page, I can drag in a preset. So I'll use my wipe titles preset from my preset pack, and then I'll set it up in Rubik's branding.

06:38So I'll select their font, the text size, their branded color, and then I'll click the wand button in the controls to open the preset up on the Fusion page. Don't worry. You don't need to know anything about the Fusion page or click anything in there to use this tool because we're just gonna come up to workspace, scripts, and then click on preset saver.

06:58And then it pops up like this. Here, you can give your preset a name. So I'm gonna call it Rubik's wipe title.

07:05Next, we're just gonna make sure the type of preset is correct. So this is a title, so I've got title selected, but it could either be a title, effect, transition, or a generator, which you can see in the drop down here. This won't always be automatically correct because it would just give its best guess.

07:21So always just double check that it's right. And then subfolder is the folder you'll see on the edit page. So like I showed earlier, how I have the Ed Lawrence folder under titles, it's just creating that folder there.

07:33So you can either type in the name of a subfolder to create a new one, or you can just use the drop down to pick from the ones that are already there. So I've already got one called Rubik's, so I'll just select that.

07:45Or you can use the choose folder button to open up the folders if you prefer that view. Then lastly, you can choose the thumbnail. So again, the thumbnail is this little preview image here, and there's a couple of options to do this.

07:57You can either have no thumbnail or you can choose custom thumbnail, which then pops up with the browse button, which then lets you select an image to use as your thumbnail.

08:07And it doesn't matter what format or dimensions your image is because this tool will convert it into the correct format and dimensions for you, which makes things so much easier. The other option which is even easier is you can choose current frame.

08:22This will take whatever frame the playhead's currently on on the edit page and use that as the thumbnail. So for this title, it's perfect because it looks like this on the edit page. So we know that that's going to be the thumbnail, which works.

08:36And then just make sure you're still on the Fusion page and hit save new preset, and it saves it all for you. Now back on the edit page, I can open up my titles, come to Rubix, and here it is.

08:49And I can drag and drop it onto the timeline and it's all ready to go. If it's not showing up straight away, you might just need to restart resolve to refresh it, and then it will show up. And the best thing about this is you can do this with any preset in the effects browser that has this one symbol in its controls.

09:07And if you've brought my preset pack, then you can do the same with all those presets as well. So for example, if you want to animate in a picture in picture effects, then you can set that up with my animated mask preset.

09:19Give it a colored border to match your branding and then save that preset ready to use when you need it. So you can add it to your clip and it'll do the exact animation that you set up before. There's 21 time saving effects, titles, generators, and transitions in the pack, and loads of extra customized presets that I've set up like all of these in and out transitions that I've made with custom animation curves so they look nice and smooth.

09:46And you can create your own customized versions of these presets and save them for yourself. So if you always want something to fly in from the left with a bit of rotation and blur, then you can set that up in seconds like this. Or if you want it to nicely scale in with a fade and blur, you can do that really easily as well because my presets have got so many options to customize them.

10:07And then you can save these so you can reuse the same animations again and again. You can check out my preset pack in the description below if you want to save even more time when you're editing. So now go through your presets and set up a few of them for each of the brands that you're working on.

10:24So you've got folders of presets like this that are all nicely organized and ready to go. But even after you've done that, you're still losing time by even opening up the effects browser to get to the presets. Whereas you could be taking it a step further and having your preset images set up on a tablet like this where you can just tap the one that you want and it comes straight to your cursor on the timeline.

10:47So watch this video to see exactly how you can set up this system that I've had hundreds of people emailing me about, how it saved them days of time.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Every freelance editor has done it: drag in a preset, then spend two minutes retyping the font name, re-entering the hex code, nudging the size. The host opens by naming that invisible tax — and then shows you how to pay it exactly once.

Frameworks