OFX Plugin for DaVinci Resolve by MrAlexTech
MagicAnimate
Animation, without the keyframes.
Drop it on a logo, a webcam, a title or a clip. Pick how it arrives, what it does while it sits there, and how it leaves. MagicAnimate handles the timing, the weight and the bounce, so it looks like it was animated by someone who does this for a living. No keyframes. No curves. No fiddling.
Free 7-day trial. Needs DaVinci Resolve 21 or later.
How it animates
Pick how it arrives. The rest follows.
Choose an In and MagicAnimate picks a Mid, an Out and every move in between to match, so the whole thing feels like one animation. Change any of it when you want to.
Drop on and go
Add the effect, pick a preset or an In. The layer is animated before you touch anything else.
In, Mid, Out
How it arrives, what it does while it sits there, how it leaves. Over 80 Ins and Outs, 40+ Mids.
The In drives everything
Choose the In and Auto picks a matching Mid, Out and point-to-point moves. Change any of them when you want to.
Real motion character
Wind-up, overshoot and settle on every move. Snap and Weight per In and Out, and one Playful to Professional dial for the whole feel.
Positions
Add up to six extra positions on the timeline and the layer travels between them, with its own Mid at each stop. Ctrl+zoom a corner to add one where you are.
On-screen controls
Chips and panels right on the preview, a timeline strip with F1 zoom, and a 2D pad for character. The inspector is there if you want it.
The library
Over 80 Ins and Outs. One click each.
Every animation is built on the same motion engine, so a Whip, a Pogo and a Portal all feel like they came from the same animator. Go on, click one.
Flows. 26 signature moves with a story, hand-authored beat by beat: Vault, Pendulum, Drive-By, Jack-in-the-Box, Coin Toss, Faceplant and more. Every Flow In has a matching point-to-point move, and Flip Anim mirrors any of them.
Effects
13 arrivals and exits with a look: Portal, TV On, Glitch, VHS Load, Film Burn, Hologram, Pixelate, Dust, Ink Bleed, Scan, Ripple, Camera Flash and Comic. They follow the layer's real shape, and each has a matching Mid and move.
Ins and Outs
Eleven families: Fade, Slide, Whip, Drop and Rise, Push, Zoom, Spin, Flip and Reveal. Every one has its own duration, snap, weight, spin and arc, and any Out can Return Home instead.
Shapes and face detection
Pick a shape.
Face detection keeps you in it.
Put your webcam in a circle, a pill or a squircle, then turn on face detection. Lean in, shift about, wander off to one side: the shape follows your face and keeps you framed.
Shapes
Five to choose from, with corner radius, edge softness and a crop. The shape can form as the layer lands and open back up as it leaves, and the drop shadow, border and ripped edge all follow it.
Face detection
Tick one box and the shape tracks your face, so you stay in frame even when you move. Follow Speed sets how quickly it catches up, Offset nudges the framing, and Show Tracking shows you what it is following.
It all happens on your computer. It finds where a face is and nothing more. No image, frame or face ever leaves your machine, and it never identifies anyone.
What's in the box
Three effects included
Most people live in MagicAnimate. The other two are there when you want more control, and they share the same looks and presets.
MagicAnimate
The drop-on animator. In, Mid and Out from the full library, up to six extra positions, and Auto builds the rest from your In.
Logos, webcams, titles, photos, sidebars
MagicMove
The path animator. Place the layer, move down the timeline, place it again, and it moves between the points. Each point has its own Mid, speed and character.
Saying exactly where the layer goes
MagicKeyframe
Full keyframe control with an on-screen timeline and curve editor. Position, Zoom, Rotation and Crop each on their own track.
Every frame in your hands
Looks and finishing touches
Make it look finished
Shadows, borders, torn edges and motion blur. Shared by all three effects, and saved in your presets.
Drop shadow
Opacity, distance, angle, softness and colour. Lifts the layer off the background.
Border
A coloured border outside, centred or inside the edge. It follows the shape, rounded corners included.
Ripped edge
Tears the edge like paper, following the shape. From big slow tears to fine and fibrous.
Fit to content
Uses the visible part of the source, so a logo with transparency animates as the logo, not the whole frame.
Motion blur
Real motion blur on the movement, so a fast Whip reads as fast rather than as a jump.
Stop-motion cadence
Set a frame rate for the motion, like 12 fps, and add Handmade Jitter for that hand-made feel.
Lock To Frame
Keeps the picture inside the frame, so you can cram it right into a corner without any of it falling off the edge.
Bounce Off Edges
Leftover momentum bounces off the edges of the frame instead of sailing out of it, so a lively In stays on screen.
Presets
159 presets to start from
A preset is a starting point, not a mode. Picking one sets the controls and gets out of the way, so every preset can be tweaked by hand.
Your own presets, too. Save any setup with a name and a folder. They are plain text files, so you can back them up, share them with a team, or drop someone else’s in. Save As Default makes it what every fresh instance starts with.
How it works
Seriously, it's this easy
Step 1
Drop it on
Add MagicAnimate to a clip. Choose a category and a preset, or pick a shape and place the layer where it should sit.
Step 2
Pick the In
Whip, Pogo, Portal, Coin Toss, whichever fits. Auto sets a matching Mid and Out. Change either, or turn the Playful to Professional dial.
Step 3
Add positions if you need them
Ctrl+zoom a corner to add a position on the timeline. The layer travels there with a move that matches the In, and each stop has its own Mid.
Pricing
Free, or the full thing
Free version
Free forever
- In, Mid and Out
- The same motion engine as the full version
- No licence, no account, no time limit
Full version
$49.99 one-time · 7-day free trial
- Three effects: MagicAnimate, MagicMove and MagicKeyframe
- Over 80 Ins and Outs, 26 Flows, 13 Effects, 40+ Mids
- Up to six extra positions, with Auto
- 159 presets, plus your own
- Five shapes, with face detection to keep you in them
- GPU accelerated on Windows and Mac
- Free updates for life, no subscription
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