u/Nonagon21

I recently lost access to Adobe After Effects and was creating something of the kind in this video and am trying to figure out how to recreate it in Davinci, but I have very little scripting experience and Davinci's node-based UI is wildly different so I am struggling. I understand this is an incredibly involved question so I understand if no one has the time to answer (or if this is not the forum for it) but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit to add: I'm using Mac (OS Sequoia), Free Resolve ver. 21

Welcome one welcome all to the 2026 update to the All-Time Marble League Performance Ranking, spreadsheeted by yours truly. I'll do my usual preamble to remind everyone what my system is and then dive right in. For once I haven't changed anything this year!

Each team's score is calculated as average points per event, and added into the events pool are each qualifier, in which each team that qualifies scores 8.625 (the average event score) and everyone else gets 0. This also applies to teams that miss a league due to not existing yet or having retired. The average is also weighted: all 2026 events are weighted at 100% then every preceding year is weighted at 95% of the following year, now down to 59.87% for 2016. Every main league and showdown score has been redone to match their respective modern counterparts. Team Primary's score includes the five events their members participated in in 2018.

1. Savage Speeders: 9.613 (2025: #1, 9.964). The Speeders are still on top kind of by default because of their illustrious history, but with a tepid 15th place performance this year they now get the distinction of having lost the most points from their previous year's score out of every team in the league. No one has made the spirited charge to topple them yet but surely it's bound to happen someday.

2. O'rangers: 9.298 (2025: #2, 9.414). The O'rangers are likewise still hanging onto their historic position by a thread, saved in part by an eleventh-hour Showdown medal. They, like the Speeders, have been slowly sinking for a few years now, and two failed qualifications do not bode well for this position sticking for much longer. They've already stopped being seen as an unequivocal second-best team a while ago, and I'm honestly surprised they haven't been passed yet.

3. Raspberry Racers: 9.250 (2025: #3, 9.218). This is the fourth League in a row where the Razzies pass the O'rangers in the middle and look, if ever briefly, like they might claim what many have seen for a while as their rightful place as the 2nd-best Marble League team. This year they actually looked like they had it...until blowing it in literally the last event. A 10th instead of a 14th and they would be at #2 right now. You'd think (and I'd think) that having now participated in the same number of Leagues as the O'rangers, having a 100% qualification record, and winning the highest-scoring championship in history would give them the edge but this recent slate of slump years still keeps them down. This gap is at smallest it's ever been at the end of the season, but it still persists.

4. Pinkies: 8.946 (2025: #8, 8.624). A second championship in four years puts the Pinkies squarely on top of the rest of the field under the big 3, and their spirited rise in the rankings over this time sharply contrasts with the slow-motion collapse of the old legends up there. At least, that's how it feels to me right now. Theirs is a redemption story truly in need of study, and it is only because the Pinkies were such a laughingstock before 2021 that they still sit below 9.000 with two championships. When only looking at the 2020s, the Pinkies' performance wipes the floor with everyone else.

5. Hazers: 8.754 (2025: #9, 8.611). The 4–10 fight this League was quite a spectacular brawl, the likes of which I haven't seen there since I started tracking these scores event by event. The Pinkies fairly handily won it, but the Hazers put up a good challenge in the back end, and now sit here as the best team with only one season podium. Not too shabby after the roller coaster they'd been on this decade.

6. Team Galactic: 8.610 (2025: #7, 8.690). Team Galactic continues to putter around averageness, this time in the Showdown. Their gaining a spot this year is absolutely a function of other teams falling down harder, but you could do a whole lot worse than being boringly average if you've already made it up here.

7. Crazy Cat's Eyes: 8.605 (2025: #6, 8.796). Exhibit A in "falling down harder". Obviously this bad season isn't the end of the world for their reputation, and this team has technically performed above the hypothetical average for a team that joined in 2018 (8.540 if a team scores "average" in every event). But as a reasonably solid team surrounded by other reasonably solid teams, they couldn't coast on their singular championship forever, so here they are below Team Galactic again. This is their first time being higher than the Green Ducks though, so that's something.

8. Green Ducks: 8.570 (2025: #5, 8.802). The Green Ducks have likewise managed to maintain an "above average" (for them average would be 8.485) lifetime performance, but a second bad year in a row has kicked them out of the top 5. Their host year was good and they were able to kick around some Showdown teams that one time but other than that they only seem to be dreaming of repeating their glorious debut season.

9. Mellow Yellow: 8.565 (2025: #10, 8.512). This placement doesn't feel as egregiously wrong as it did last year coming off of their fourth podium but it still feels wrong. We all know the song and dance by now: when they're bad they're bad, which averages them out here. This is arguably their first year not booming or busting and just sitting in the middle. They still have double the podium count of anyone not named the Savage Speeders so they're clearly able to do something right, and they put up a spirited fight in the top 10 gaggle in the middle of the season, but alas they couldn't hold it. Next year is an odd year though.

10. Team Momo: 8.557 (2025: #4, 8.864). While the rest of the top 10 were smacking each other around, Team Momo kept sinking like a rock all the way down into relegation. They still have the historic record to keep them at a reasonable margin above #11, but with a guaranteed Showdown next year it's going to be tough to fight off an auto-qualified challenger.

11. Snowballs: 8.280 (2025: #13, 7.915). A second Marble League podium means the Snowballs end a League above 8.000 for the first time ever, and for now appearing to be on a trajectory to challenge for the top 10. They'll need to do well next year for it to happen even with Team Momo relegated, but they've been looking solid, so perhaps it's in the cards.

12. Shining Swarm: 8.175 (2025: #11, 8.445). A strong podium and a Showdown victory keeps their score above 8.000 but relegation this year is rough for their future prospects. Like Team Momo, they sit immediately above an auto-qualified team. Unlike Team Momo, the gap isn't very big.

13. Indigo Stars: 8.097 (2025: #20, 7.412). The breakout star of 2026, the Indigo Stars have broken out of their bottom half obscurity and joined the ranks of promising new blood in the top half. They still have a ways to go for top 10 but hey, they're a Marble League team, and pretty convincingly so!

14. Midnight Wisps: 8.063 (2025: #12, 8.298). On the other side of the coin, here is a team that is slowly deflating through the limbo area, hoping to salvage something in the Showdown next year lest they become the next Thunderbolts.

15. Bumblebees: 8.037 (2025: #16, 7.765). Score-wise the Bumblebees did some solid work this year, but with other teams in the area doing better they more so closed the gap upwards than gained many positions. They'll need another breakout performance if they want to get much higher than middle of the road.

16. Black Jacks: 7.745 (2025: #15, 7.807). A thoroughly mediocre year lets them keep their Marble League team status for now. It still remains to be seen if they're a one-hit wonder or if they actually have something going, but at least they're still here.

17. Kobalts: 7.720 (2025: #17, 7.713). A thoroughly mediocre year keeps them just out of Marble League team status but at least didn't erase any of their gains from their championship. They're autoqualified, so they'll have another chance to get up a little higher, especially if certain other teams hanging around a few spots above them keep going the way they happen to be going.

18. Chocolatiers: 7.716 (2025: #14, 7.894). Believe it or not, this is the Chocolatiers' first time ending a season below 16th, and this is their fourth year in a row ending a League as the highest team with no podiums. Neither of these things mean a ton when they've never cracked the top 10 and more teams keep attaining their first podiums, however. Being mid is simply the Chocolatiers' bread and butter.

19. Thunderbolts: 7.578 (2025: #18, 7.609). They looked alive for the first time in a while this year but blew it in the last two events, so they lose another spot. Not much else to say.

20. Minty Maniacs: 7.502 (2025: #21, 7.356). A Showdown podium gets them back in the the top 20. Hooray. Still nowhere near the glory days when they briefly sat in the top 10 before burning it all away again.

21. Wolfpack: 7.460 (2025: #27, 6.933). Having participated in fewer scored events than every team here but one, the Wolfpack's score is still incredibly volatile. A Showdown win net them half a point and six spots. Last time they made a League they gained more than double that and two spots. This team is still mostly potential more than anything, and are in a prime position to be next year's Indigo Stars or Kobalts or Black Jacks if they can qualify and keep the results up.

22. Team Plasma: 7.396 (2025: #25, 7.040). We're hanging around in the area where a near-dead average score in the Marble League will apparently gain you a ton. It's not going to get them much higher than this, but it's something.

23. Gliding Glaciers: 7.361 (2025: #19, 7.443). They didn't lose a ton of points all things considered but when the teams around you are qualifying or winning Showdowns you're not gonna hold onto many positions.

24. Jungle Jumpers: 7.307 (2025: #22, 7.235). Ditto.

25. Oceanics: 7.265 (2025: #24, 7.068). We're hanging around in the range where a near-dead average score in the Marble League will gain you some points but the Oceanics' score is harder to swing because of their long history. With their two Marble League podiums they stick out like a sore thumb down here until you realize that when you account for the rest of their career, those two podiums are what saves them from being at rock bottom. Next year's qualifiers will be critical.

26. Rojo Rollers: 7.013 (2025: #23, 7.154). This team really won the Friendly, won the Showdown Relay, and fell into a coma. All the goodwill they gained in 2023 and 2024 are gone.

27. Team Primary: 6.859 (2025: #28, 6.889). Basically the Balls of Chaos sucked harder this year.

28. Balls of Chaos: 6.793 (2025: #26, 6.959). Oh my god.

29. Turtle Sliders: 6.768 (2025: #30, 6.304). A second Showdown podium just makes this team's sheer inability to qualify even worse. This team was close to passing Team Primary and the Balls of Chaos on this ranking until those two teams corrected themselves last minute, and I'm taking that as evidence that I think they do want it more than those legacy disasters, but they're still somehow comically bad at qualifying.

30. Solar Flares: 6.756 (2025: #31, 5.949). The anti-Turtle Sliders, if you will, because in the Showdown they're hot garbage but at least they can qualify. And with two 7ths in a row, they've shown that they are capable at not being garbage. Still not quite out-performing the Turtle Sliders by the metrics of this ranking, but they have the distinction of improving their score by the highest margin this season so congratulations to them for that. It feels about as exciting as getting fastest lap in 18th place in Marbula One, but it's not nothing.

31. Limers: 6.425 (2025: #29, 6.511). They may not have been relegated but they tied a team that did, and they don't have any Marble League podiums buoying them up. This is somehow their first time ever being second-to-last on this ranking but when the Solar Flares are qualifying and doing consistently better in the main league than anything Limers have managed to do up there, I guess this was inevitable.

32. Jawbreakers: 6.095 (2025: inactive, 5.371). Welcome back! Their score is depressed due to the long period of inactivity so please don't take this placement too seriously. It's already better than anything the Purple Rockets have ever managed. I'm sure if they actually want to be here they'll get off the ground. 4th in the Showdown on this first ride back is promising.

See the 2025 write-up here.

https://preview.redd.it/l3ydherjqo8h1.png?width=656&format=png&auto=webp&s=f334c084737d547d7ea9e1e9b3b75a36399c586c

https://preview.redd.it/at9dwdrjqo8h1.png?width=2772&format=png&auto=webp&s=2367e9711ffb3c8fb5ba2da105a15ece8335c756

Super seasonally appropriate question, I know.

Has anyone ever recorded an alternative suite for Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (i.e. a different set of scenes/movements from the Tchaikovsky's own suite)? Mainly asking because I was trying to put together a suite that includes the Pas de Deux which isn't in the suite, but also just out of curiosity. I know everyone and their mother has their own personal suite for Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet so I'd be interested to see if anyone has any for Nutcracker.