How do you animate a mouse cursor to move naturally in DaVinci Resolve Fusion?

Animate the cursor's position along a curved B-spline path instead of straight point-to-point keyframes, then select the keyframes in Fusion's Spline editor and press S to apply ease-in/ease-out. Curved paths plus eased keyframes are the two things that make cursor motion read as human rather than mechanical.

Build the cursor as its own element first: import a cursor graphic with an alpha channel (a PNG, or a shape drawn with a mask) and Merge it over your screen footage or screenshot in the Fusion tab.

1. Drive position with a path, not linear keyframes. Keyframe the Merge or Transform node's Center for the cursor's start and end targets, then right-click the Center control and use Modify With to convert the motion to a path (XY Path / B-Spline). A curved B-spline path instead of a straight keyframe path is what makes the movement feel human and organic — nobody moves a mouse in a perfectly straight line. Blackmagic's Fusion manual covers path modifiers on any position control.

2. Shape the curve between targets. Drag the path's points so the cursor travels in shallow arcs between click targets, with a slight curve into each destination rather than a dead-straight approach. Small deviations are the realism; keep them subtle.

3. Ease every move. Open the Spline editor, select the position keyframes, and press S — this applies an ease-in/ease-out curve so the cursor accelerates out of rest and decelerates into each target, the way real hand motion behaves. Unsmoothed linear keyframes are the single biggest tell of a fake cursor.

4. Vary the timing. Real cursor use isn't constant-speed: make long travels faster, short corrections slower, and hold the cursor still for a few frames at each click target before it moves again. Set these holds as flat keyframes on the path's displacement.

5. Sell the interaction. If a click spawns a UI element, animate its pop-in with the width and height keyframes offset by 1–2 frames and the same S-key easing — the offset makes the entry feel bouncy and organic rather than a mechanical scale-up.

The cursor move is one component of a fuller cinematic screen-animation build in Fusion — the same documented workflow layers vignettes, luma-keyed overlays, bevels via the Quick Bevel node, and a slow camera zoom over the desktop shot. The whole build took the creator 5–10 minutes, and these hand-made Fusion elements are exactly what separates polished output when composited alongside AI-generated footage — one documented workflow used custom Resolve animations like this to lift shots generated through the invideo agent to a high-budget finish.

Watch some of these to see what works for you:

that took us like 5 or 10 minutes. It was not complicated at all, and it looks better than 99% of the stuff on YouTube.

— creator of the documented DaVinci Resolve Fusion screen-animation workflow