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Light Sweep

A clean band of light that sweeps over people, products, logos and titles. Drop it on, no Fusion nodes.

FreeEffectResolve 21 (tested on Mac) · Free and StudiomacOS + Windows29 controls

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Real frames from the plugin: Sweep on a coin · Grid texture in green · Edge Trace · Leave Behind wash · Gold sweep

What it is

What it does

Sends a soft band of light across your clip, the shine you see on outfits, products and logos. On a cut-out subject or a title the light stays inside its shape; on normal footage it can hit only the bright parts or the whole screen. Switch to Edge Trace to send the light around the outline, leave a wash behind for disappear and outfit-change moments, add a dots, grid or lines texture, and pick any colour. Works in free Resolve.

Shine on the subject (clip shape), the bright parts, or the whole screen
Sweep or Edge Trace around the outline
Leave Behind: the light leaves a wash on the subject
Dots, grid or lines texture inside the band
Any colour, Glow or Paint blend, direction and tilt
Play at start, at end, on loop or across the whole clip

Use it for

Outfit, product and logo reveals
'Disappear' and outfit-change moments with Leave Behind
Glints on titles and text
Neon-style outline traces around a cut-out person

Tips

On a small cut-out, raise Path Start and lower Path End so the light spends its time on the subject.
A thin, soft band (low Width, low Softness) looks the most premium.
White on white won't show: pick a colour or the Paint blend for light objects.
Leave Behind near 0.8 makes a clean 'ghost out' for disappear transitions.

Install · about a minute

Four steps

01
Unzip the download, then double-click the .drfx file inside. Resolve installs it for you.
02
Restart DaVinci Resolve.
03
On the Edit page, open Effects › Effects › anukalp.wip.
04
Drag it onto your timeline, select it, and change everything in the Inspector.

Double-click doesn't work? Copy the .drfx into ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/Templates/ on Mac, or %APPDATA%\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Templates\ on Windows, then restart Resolve.

Full guide with every control (PDF) →

Troubleshooting

If something's off

It isn't in the Effects library. Restart Resolve after installing. Still missing? Use the manual install path above.
It looks different from the demo. Check you're on Resolve 21, then compare your Inspector settings with the defaults in the guide.
Known issues: none reported for this version yet.

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Compatibility

Version 1.0.0

Works on	macOS, Windows
DaVinci Resolve	21 (tested on Mac) · Free and Studio
Released	5 Nov 2026
Download size	960 KB

What's new in 1.0.0

First release: Sweep and Edge Trace, subject / bright parts / whole screen, Leave Behind wash, dots, grid and lines textures, 29 controls.

Free download · 960 KB

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