DaVinci Resolve: Animating titles with keyframes

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Casey Faris·Jul 2025

Demo summary

Casey demonstrates how to create a text title and use keyframe diamonds in the Inspector to animate its position over time.

Step-by-step

Select the title clip in the timeline
Open the Inspector and switch to the Settings tab
Move the playhead to the desired end time and click the diamond icon next to Position to set a keyframe
Move the playhead to the start of the clip and adjust the Position values to set a second keyframe
Click the diamond icon on the clip in the timeline to open the keyframes panel
Drag the keyframe diamonds closer together to increase the animation speed
Click the curves icon to open the graph view
Select the final keyframe and click the flatten handles button to apply easing

Options

Adjust individual X and Y position keyframes separately
Move the entire Transform group of keyframes simultaneously
Open a secondary keyframe panel in the media pool area for a larger graph view

Watch out for

The 'greater than' arrow indicator means a keyframe exists further down the track
Linear keyframes without easing can cause the animation to jerk to a stop

Tips

Push keyframes closer together to make an animation go faster
Use easing (flattening handles) on the final keyframe so the movement slows down naturally before stopping
Adjusting a property at a new time automatically creates a new keyframe if the diamond is active (red)

Highlights

“that's generally how you'll animate stuff in Resolve... that same kind of way of animating things by setting a key frame and adjusting the distance between the two key frames.”

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