So if I connect this to a generator, I grab this ellipse and connect it to the blue input of our text, it's going to limit the text to just be under this mask. Just do it right here, okay? So depending on what kind of node you connect the mask to, it's going to have different effects. It's almost like a node that just kind of goes off to the side that says, 'Hey, hey, hey. If a node is doing something, connecting a mask is like saying, 'Just do it here.' I think that's a great way to think about it because again, it can get confusing, like if you want to run something through a mask or if you wanna put a mask over something. And really what this is going to do is anything that we connect this mask to, it's going to limit that node to this mask. It just by clicking on various parts of the shape and moving that around.

And so I can grab this overlay and resize. No matter what you have a node connected to, if you select a mask, you can always see the mask overlay in the viewer. And as we have that selected, we see this little overlay here in our viewer. I'll just grab a circle mask and drag that down. You can make a mask by using any of these little outlines here towards the middle of our interface. A mask is really a way to limit what is happening in a specific node. So here in our flow, down here in our nodes, you might notice that all of these nodes have this little blue input.

But what's going to take things to the next level is using masks. If you can wrap your head around this, like, man, you can do almost anything you want so far. So just knowing these, you can do a ton of stuff in Fusion. We've learned about generators and we've learned about merge nodes. So we've been learning about a bunch of different kinds of nodes.

Masking in davinci resolve fusion