This New DaVinci Resolve Tool Aims to Help Editors Avoid the “B-Roll Time Sink”

As any video editor can tell you, there are a lot of aspects of the job that can feel endless. You know the feeling, when you’re working on a tedious part of an edit where the hours just drip by like you’re stuck in quicksand.

When it comes to working with b-roll specifically, this can be a particular type of “time sink” that often feels unavoidable. But, lucky for us, there’s a new tool available that might help. Let’s take a look at the B-Roll Fade & Finish PRO System, a tool for DaVinci Resolve that promises to help solve some of the biggest bottlenecks in editing by saving hours on cropping, styling, and animating b-roll.

Here’s what you need to know.

B-Roll Fade & Finish PRO System

Created and shared by Alejandro Urman, this tool for DaVinci Resolve has a pretty simple promise: to solve the “B-Roll Time Sink” we mentioned above. Designed for solo creators looking to make YouTube videos or for bigger teams tackling commercial projects, the problem is largely the same.

Cropping, styling, and animating hundreds of overlaid clips can be tedious and time-consuming. What the B-Roll Fade & Finish PRO System offers is a completely redesigned crop system, which features an all-new preset system with starter presets, a web‑based Bulk Preset Manager, advanced animations, a cleaner UI, a built‑in grid overlay, training videos, direct support, and future updates.

While perhaps not for everyone, it’s a unique solution that appears quite intuitive and helpful. Here’s the breakdown of everything set to be included in this new PRO System:

• The Toolkit: Lifetime access to the full-featured PRO versions of both the B-Roll Fade & Finish and A-Roll Blur & Dim tools.
• The Preset Starter Pack: Get a head start with the exact same presets I personally use in my own projects, so you can start getting great results right out of the box.
• Comprehensive Training: Get the most out of this system from day one with a Quick Start Training Video and a detailed Reference Manual covering every feature.
• Lifetime Updates: Stay up to date with all future updates released for Version 1.x of these tools. All bug fixes, optimisations & new minor features I might potentially add along the way are yours.
• Direct Support: Get peace of mind with a direct line to get in touch with me, so we can make sure that the tool is set up correctly and works well for you.
• Bulk Preset Manager (Bonus): A web-based tool that allows you to upload your presets and update their values across the entire batch instantly.

Price and Availability

Originally released as a free tool, there’s both a free “Essentials” version and this new PRO option, which includes all the features above and is available as a one-time purchase for $59 on Alejandro’s website here.