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DaVinci Resolve Motion Design Full Course
Seventeen Fusion builds, from bouncing 2D stickers to depth-of-field 3D scenes, made entirely inside DaVinci Resolve.
September 8thThe argument in one line.
Editing can be mostly automated once each client gets a well-named folder of references, brand assets and a written motion-style prompt, which frees your time to sell a high-volume, virality-guaranteed retainer.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A freelance video editor who wants to run several clients at once without hiring, by pointing AI agents at a per-client folder.
- Someone who already uses DaVinci Resolve or a similar timeline editor and wants to hand cutting, color and audio balance to an agent.
- A creator or agency owner looking for an offer structure (monthly retainer, many reel variants, trial-reel testing) built around AI-made short-form edits.
- A person curious how motion graphics can be generated from a screenshot of a style reference instead of built by hand in After Effects.
SKIP IF…
- You want a step-by-step tutorial on prompts and settings; most of the video is workflow overview and the specific tools shown are paid and change fast.
- You edit long-form or cinematic work where a bouncy, always-moving short-form style would be wrong for the client.
- You are skeptical of income claims; the earnings figures and the 'guaranteed virality' pitch are the speaker's own and are not backed up on screen.
The full version, fast.
The video argues that AI editing quality depends on three inputs: motion graphic style references, clear subject shots for B-roll, and a brand package with colors, font, logo and grade. Each client gets one folder holding raw footage, those assets and a written README describing the motion style, so any agent pointed at it knows what to do. The presenter uses a ChatGPT-based agent inside DaVinci Resolve to cut, color and balance audio, Claude for motion graphics, and OpenArt with Kling for B-roll. To get clients he posts viral-looking AI motion graphics with a comment-for-the-prompt hook, then sells a monthly retainer built on testing many reel variants.
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- AI agents work best when you direct them to a folder, so naming every subfolder clearly does more for edit quality than a longer prompt.
- Setting up a client's style references, brand kit and motion README takes effort once, then every later edit for that client reuses it.
- To keep motion graphics from looking AI-made, write explicit rules into a document: bouncy movement and text animation that feels hand-built rather than typed out.
- You can have an AI write the prompt for your future self, save it as a README inside the client folder, and reuse it on every project.
- A screenshot of any editing style can be handed to a chatbot and turned into an animated motion graphic.
- Most people never combine a coding agent with a timeline editor, so that gap is where the income opportunity sits.
- Different agents suit different jobs: one for cutting footage in the editor, another for motion graphics, a third connected for realistic B-roll.
- A clean per-client folder makes onboarding fast: research the niche, pick three or four references, finalize on a call, then build the prompt.
- The best way to get clients is to have them come to you, for example by posting AI motion graphics and asking people to comment for the prompt.
- A comment-keyword automation can send the prompt and capture the commenter's email, turning engagement into a conversation about services.
- The speaker's per-reel price for a decent editor with taste and AI skills is roughly $80 to $100, but he prefers a monthly retainer.
- Guaranteeing virality is made plausible by volume: post 10 to 20 variants of one reel as Instagram trial reels, then move the winner to the main feed.
Structure beats prompts when directing AI agents
WHAT TO LEARN
Clearly named folders, written style rules and a reusable brand kit let an AI agent do repeat creative work with a short prompt instead of a long one.
- Name every folder for what it holds, because an agent pointed at a directory has to work out what each thing is from its name alone.
- Write your style rules once as a README, such as bouncy motion and human-looking text animation, and reuse it on every project instead of re-explaining.
- Ask the AI to write the prompt for your future self, then save that prompt in the folder it applies to.
- Match tools to jobs: one agent for cutting and color inside the editor, another for motion graphics, another connected for generated B-roll.
- Collect three or four strong references per client or niche up front, since reference quality drives the look of everything produced afterward.
- Use viral-looking sample work with a comment-for-the-prompt hook to draw inbound leads, then automate the reply to capture their email.
- Test many small variants of one piece of content as trial posts, then publish only the winner, so volume does the work of guaranteeing performance.
Terms worth knowing.
- B-roll
- Supplementary footage cut in over the main talking shot to illustrate what is being said and keep the edit visually busy.
- Motion graphics
- Animated text, shapes and overlays added on top of footage, such as bouncing captions, callouts and animated titles.
- DaVinci Resolve
- A professional video editing and color grading program with a timeline that an AI agent can be connected to.
- MCP
- Model Context Protocol, a standard way to connect an AI agent to outside tools so it can call them, such as an image and video generation service.
- Trial reels
- An Instagram feature that shows a reel to non-followers first, letting you test several versions before posting the best one to the main feed.
- Brand kit
- A folder of a client's brand colors, logo and font that an editor or agent applies to every video for consistency.
- Retainer
- A recurring monthly fee for ongoing work, as opposed to charging per video.
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I'm about to show you how I run my six -figure editing business with no employees. Well, technically I have employees, I just don't pay them very much. In this video, we will be going deep into advanced b -roll, advanced motion graphics, what this looks like if you have more than one client, how you can set this up, walk away, and get live updates on your phone, and finally how to set up an extremely appealing offer to potential clients or even just to use on yourself now the majority of people on this planet don't realize you can take a screenshot of any editing style throw it into a chat bot and it will animate it into an advanced motion graphic now even if everybody did know that you'd still have the majority of people not thinking twice about doing it themselves as soon as you say claude code and timeline editor in the same sentence you lose about 95 of the population and so that alone creates infinite income opportunities for people like you and people like me.
I've personally used all of these tools, and I'm going to show you the only ones I use that have essentially allowed me to work one to two hours a day and get paid more than a brain surgeon. As you can see, I have folders for each client. Not only does this hold the raw footage, but it also holds other folders with style references.
There's also a document inside each client folder explaining the client's editing styles, fonts, and brand identity. There's also a custom document explaining different types of motion animations so that this doesn't come across as an AI edited video. So for example here, we have keeping the movement very bouncy and text animations that look human made and not just typed out like a robot.
And by the way, you really want to take your time with this because you only have to set it up once. and then you're done forever keeping things in separate individual folders for each client is perfect because remember when we prompt an ai agent we can direct it to a folder this also makes the onboarding process for new clients super fun and easy so for example you can do a bit of research on a niche pick three or four really good references and then when you hop on a call you can finalize the decisions and then begin building out your prompt and custom folder from there so now i'm going to show you how to build out your own folder that will get you results like this I'm about to show you how I run my six -figure editing business with no employees.
In this video, we will be going deep into advanced b -roll, advanced motion graphics, how you can set this up, walk away, and get live updates on your phone, and finally, how to set up an extremely appealing offer to potential clients, or even just to use on yourself. So the quality of your edit really comes down to three things we need to focus on.
motion graphic references, clear shots of the subject for advanced b -roll, and then a really solid brand package. This will include things like main color theme, font, logos, and color grade. And then everything else will be taken care of by the prompt, which will include things like cutting up the footage.
Now the next step is the tools and agents we're actually using. I'm on like week number three of trying different agents. And so far, GPT -6 Astra inside of DaVinci Resolve is by far the best for cutting up footage.
Cloud Code is by far the best for motion graphics. And then I also connect OpenArt to my agents for realistic B -roll. Cling 4 .0 is out and you genuinely 1 billion percent cannot tell it's AI.
If you leverage that correctly, you can get some really cool shots that will amaze your clients. So I'm going to open a new folder on my Mac and I'm going to name it... Zane, or if it's for one of your clients, you can name it their name.
And I'm going to click this folder. And then inside, I'm going to add another folder called a raw footage. And it's really important we name everything because remember, we're directing an AI agent to come here and it has to figure out what is what essentially.
I'm going to add in another folder named subject assets. This is for like super clear face shots, as well as like your client's clothing. We're going to add in another folder here called motion graphic style references.
Now I'm going to open up my first document here and I'm going to open up another tab with cloud code and I'm going to write generate a prompt for your future self when animating motion graphics. I want all the motion to be very bouncy. I want all the text animations to have lots of motion and I want you to analyze my timeline and take certain sections of my footage and integrate it within the actual motion graphics.
This edit should not feel static in any way. There should always be some form of motion, whether that's a camera zoom or motion graphics, it should always feel very interactive. See my style references attached in the motion graphic reference folder.
Now it's going to spit out a very solid prompt here, and we're going to copy and paste this prompt into the document here and then download that document and drag it into our folder. I'm also going to name this read me for motion movement style. So you can start to see how each client folder points to a completely different editing style based on the folder.
Now we're going to add one more folder in here and we're going to drag in the brand colors, logo, and a font. And we can name this folder Brand Kit. Now we're going to open up ChachiBT and select Astra.
We're also going to open up DaVinci Resolve. We're going to select File, Setup AI Assistance. and select Codex in ChatGPT.
We're going to go to the Open Art website, and by the way, all this stuff is linked in my description. We're going to select the MCP, and then we're going to click ChatGPT, and... connected.
And so now we have everything set up here, and usually if you wanted to just press one button and then walk away, you'd have to give it a super long prompt. But since we have everything built out in our folders, we can essentially just say the following. I have DaVinci Resolve open.
I want you to edit my video inside of DaVinci Resolve. Go to my downloads and find the folder labeled Zane. Extract my raw footage, head out the spaces, color grade my footage, and balance my audio.
Analyze everything I say in the video and generate me multiple pieces of realistic b -roll that I can use later. Use cling 4 .0 inside of open art. Place the b -roll clips in my media pool.
So this is going to give us a fully cut color graded video and also generate us a bunch of b -roll. So now we can open up Claude here and select Opus 5 .5 and then I'm going to set it to high. And so essentially we can do the same thing but this time we're going to direct it to our motion graphic reference folder.
as well as the document explaining the motion so now you have the blueprint if you want you can buy a bunch of mac minis i just have multiple laptops you can have one set up for each client and then slowly just optimize everything over time these models are extremely powerful and you can't fully grasp it until you try it yourself with all of this setup we now have infinite time to go out and get more clients I will admit it's a bit easier for me because I have subscribers and I've been doing this for four or five years, but by far the best strategy to get clients is to have them come to you.
So one form of that could look like posting viral looking AI motion graphics on Instagram, and then tell people to comment down below for the prompt, and then just do multiple different types of motion graphics to attract different types of people. At least with my feed on Instagram, it is filled with that type of stuff and it just has tons of engagement.
and then obviously from there you can set up an automation that automatically sends them the prompt and then from there you can grab their email address or start a conversation about your services. So as far as what you can charge, as long as you have good taste, you're a decent editor, and you have AI skills, you can easily charge about $80 to $100 a reel.
But that's not how I price things. I set up a monthly retainer. I would basically set up your offer in a way where you guarantee virality.
You can have Claude basically take the same reel and change little tiny things, and then you can spam 10 to 20 different versions of that same video on Instagram trial reels. You then see which one performs the best for the client, and then you post that winner to the main feed. This is the strategy a lot of the top people on Instagram are using, and I only know that because I'm friends with people who run some of the biggest pages on Instagram.
But you can start to see how easy it is to make a very extreme offer, like 1 -200 videos a month, and then guarantee virality. Like, that seems impossible, when in reality, it's very possible because we have access to agents. To sum this up,
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
A $49,540-a-month claim sits in the title, and the first spoken line promises a six-figure editing business with no employees. What follows is a screen-recorded walkthrough of the folder system behind it.
