10 DaVinci Resolve Plugins to Amp Up Your Effects & Workflows

Plugins are a great way to add functionality to your video post-production software. If you’re not familiar with plugins, they are essentially an extra software component you can add to a program, such as Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. A plugin will add a tool or feature that wasn’t originally available within the software. And the good news is, there are already loads of DaVinci Resolve plugins available on the market!

Today, we’re going to break down some of the most useful DaVinci Resolve plugins. Hopefully, by the time you’ve finished this article, you’ll have found some new tools that are going to improve the quality of your videos or speed up your workflow, all within the convenience of DaVinci Resolve.

Summary

• Part 1: Top DaVinci Resolve Plugins

• Part 2: How to Install Plugins in DaVinci Resolve

Part 1: Top DaVinci Resolve Plugins

There are plugins suitable for everyone, from ones for the beginner filmmaker to ones for heavy lifting post-production work. Here’s our list of plugins suited to a range of budgets and workflows!

1.  Motion Array

If leveling up your assets is what you’re after, Motion Array currently has a variety of DaVinci Resolve products designed to help you produce videos faster. From animated titles to effects and transitions, you can browse what’s available to download for free or get unlimited downloads with a paid membership .

The membership includes access to 250,000+ assets for DaVinci Resolve and other leading programs, including stock footage, royalty-free music, and LUTs. With unlimited downloads each month, it’s easier to make high-quality videos quickly.

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2. False Color

False Color is a plugin that makes it quick and easy to use the false coloring method to analyze the exposure of your footage or a reference image. If you’re not familiar with the method, each exposure level (that is, the varying brightness in different parts of your image) will be represented by different hues on a color scale.

By mapping each exposure level to a color value, it’s easy to see at a glance the brightness of each area of the composition. Many colorists and filmmakers like to use this to plan shots, or even as a 3D representation of brightness in post-production. If you are planning the look of your shots, False Color even lets you export your false color settings as a LUT to use with your camera monitor and try to match your footage’s exposure on the set to your reference image.

False Color for OFX—compatible with DaVinci Resolve—is currently $29.99.

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3. DEFlicker

Revision FX’s DEFlicker plugin is great for removing the flicker that can sometimes appear in the footage. Whether you’re shooting at a high frame rate or a time-lapse, sometimes artificial light, in particular, can cause an annoying flickering effect in your footage. DEFlicker smooths this out on almost any quality of footage by using pixel tracking and color analysis.

This plugin could be particularly useful if you shoot a lot of time-lapses or sports content that requires a high frame rate and currently comes in at $250.

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4. Neat Video

Believe it or not, the main purpose of Neat Video is to make your footage look cleaner from noise. Noise profiling technology helps to make reducing any type of noise in your footage happens fast. The most recent version, Neat Video 5, includes improved features to reduce scratch and dust from your footage and to improve sharpening or even flicker reduction.

The full OFX licensee for Neat Video is $250, but a demo version can be downloaded for free.

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5. Beauty Box

If you’re looking for a plugin that will reduce time correcting the skin of your subject, this might be for you. Beauty Box allows you to easily track your subject’s face and smooth their skin tone through an automatically created mask. The plugin gives you control over a number of values to control the strength of the effect.

You can currently purchase Beauty Box 4.0 for DaVinci Resolve for $199.

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6. AudioDenoise2

If you’re looking for ways to speed up your audio editing workflow within DaVinci Resolve, then this audio plugin from FXFactory may be an affordable way to save you some time.