· hand-drawn look

Make a still drawing look animated by hand.

Flipbook redraws the outline of a sticker, a cut-out, an illustration or a title about 8 times a second, with a rough pencil edge, so a still picture moves like the pages of a flipbook. Drag it onto the clip in DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. No nodes to build, nothing to keyframe.

Flipbook: a vintage flipbook viewer with a running cartoon dog in its lens — Flipbook 1.0

Before and after · the same drawing

Off, the default, and the cut-out look.

The dog from our card. Out of the box Flipbook is gentle, a slow, wide wobble with a pencil fray on every line. Two sliders take it to the loose cut-out look.

OffA still picture.

DefaultBoil 1.5, Size 100.

Cut-outBoil 6, Size 25.

8 new drawings a second, as in the effect. It redraws the outline; it does not move the clip.

On a real edit

A bit of life for a still shot.

I use it on cartoon images, for the same reason I sometimes add camera shake to a static shot: a still picture gets boring fast, and a small effect makes it more fun to watch. Drop it on and the drawing starts to move. Every slider shows the result as you change it.

· seven controls

What you can change.

In DaVinci Resolve everything is on the clip, in the Inspector. Boil and Size are in pixels on a 1080 frame and scale with it, so HD, 4K and vertical look the same.

Boil: How far the outline wobbles. 1.5 is gentle; 6 and up is a loose cut-out look.
Size: How wide each bend of the wobble is. 100 is slow and wide; 25 is a tight scribble.
Rough Edges: A fine fray on every edge, like a pencil line. 0 turns it off.
Frame Rate: New drawings per second. 8 looks drawn by hand; 12 is livelier.
Loop: Off never repeats a drawing. 2, 3 or 4 drawings cycle, the way animators boil a line.
Seed: A different wobble. Change it on one of two Flipbooks so they do not move together.
Hold Frames: The picture steps too, so footage looks animated frame by frame. It only shows on moving footage.

In Premiere Pro: four presets

Flipbook 8, Flipbook 12, Flipbook 8 Loop and Flipbook 8 Hold Frames, dragged onto the clip itself. Each is Premiere's own Turbulent Displace, set up and keyframed for you: the first one is the boil, the second the rough edge. The drawings run for five minutes from the start of the clip; on a longer clip, cut it and drag the preset onto the second part too.

Specification

What you are installing.

Resolve: Free or StudioA .drfx installer. Stock Fusion nodes only: no plugin, no script
Premiere: 2026A preset pack of Premiere's own effects. Nothing else to install
Playback: Real timeOn Resolve's Edit page. In Premiere, Flipbook 8 Hold Frames can stutter: switch Posterize Time off while you edit
Works on: Any clipStickers, cut-outs, illustrations and titles; on plain footage it is a wobble
Install: Windows + MacDouble-click the .drfx, or import the preset file
Price: FreeAnd it stays free

Free, and it stays free

Get Flipbook 1.0.

The Resolve effect, the Premiere presets and an install guide for each, in one download.