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Liquid Glass

The liquid glass UI look on any clip. Drop it on, pick your glass, no Fusion nodes.

FreeEffectResolve 21 (tested on Mac) · Free and StudiomacOS + Windows43 controls

Download free 1.2 MB

Real frames from the plugin: Clear · Frosted · Tinted · Prism polygon · Bubble

What it is

What it does

Puts a piece of real-looking glass over your video: the picture behind it bends at the edges, with a soft rim light, a thin rim line and a shadow. Pick Clear, Frosted, Tinted, Prism or Bubble glass, then a rounded rectangle, pill, circle or your own polygon. You can put text inside the glass or leave it empty, and it pops in and out with a liquid wobble. Only the controls for the options you pick show in the Inspector. Works in free Resolve.

5 glass types: Clear, Frosted, Tinted, Prism and Bubble
Rounded rectangle, pill, circle, or a polygon with 3 to 12 sides
Real refraction at the edges, rim light, rim line and shadow
Text inside the glass, or none
Built-in In and Out animations with a liquid wobble
Only the controls for your choices show in the Inspector

Use it for

Buttons, labels and lower thirds in reels
Subscribe and follow callouts
Tech, UI and product-style edits
Magnifying a detail with the Bubble glass

Tips

Glass needs something behind it to bend: it looks best over busy, colourful footage or text.
Bubble with Magnify up makes a lens that enlarges what's under it.
Polygon with a low Corner Roundness gives crisp gem-like shapes.
Turn Liquid Wobble up for a jelly-like pop, down for a clean UI pop.

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.

Report a bug or ask for a feature →

Compatibility

Version 1.0.0

Works on	macOS, Windows
DaVinci Resolve	21 (tested on Mac) · Free and Studio
Released	4 Nov 2026
Download size	1.2 MB

What's new in 1.0.0

First release: 5 glass types, 4 shapes, text inside, liquid In and Out animations, 43 controls.

Free download · 1.2 MB

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