Blackmagic Design Fusion Studio

The world’s most advanced visual effects, 3D, VR and motion graphics solution!

Fusion is the world’s most advanced 2D and 3D compositing, VR and motion graphics software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers, and 3D animators.

Over the last 30 years, Fusion has been used on thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies and television shows. Fusion features a powerful node based interface that lets you quickly and easily create sophisticated effects by connecting different types of image processing tools together! You get a massive range of tools, incredible VR and 3D support, GPU accelerated performance, unlimited network rendering and more! Fusion gives you everything you need to create exciting broadcast graphics, dramatic titles, and even major feature film visual effects!

WHAT’S NEW IN BLACKMAGIC FUSION STUDIO 18.0

• Fractional UI scaling support, including 150%, in preferences.
• Support for setting user interface to French, Spanish, and other languages.
• Multi-button mode selection in the inspector for multiple tools.
• Support for all modern and future python 3 versions for scripting.
• Support for OpenColorIO 2.1.1.
• Support for OpenEXR 3.1.4.
• Support for live previews when using the Text+ color picker.
• New expression animated Custom Poly modifier for masks and strokes.
• Faster GPU accelerated paint tool with smoother strokes.
• A faster duplicate tool with additional blur, glow, and size controls.
• Improved Linux installation and compatibility.
• Improved Open FX compatibility.
• Improved text renders with better tessellation and cleaner outlines.
• Multiple new composition blend modes.
• Improved tracker pattern grabbing behavior.
• Clearing the Fusion disk cache is now more selective.
• Improved OpenEXR zip compression type compatibility.
• Support for H.265 renders from savers on Mac.
• New dropdown menu for Macro editor window.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Fusion Studio Features

BUILD YOUR OWN EFFECTS WITH CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES

Fusion effect templates let you create any effect imaginable and apply them to clips on the edit and cut pages! Simply build a composition, save it as a macro, define the parameters you want to make visible, and save it in the correct location. Just drag Fusion effect from the library onto any clip!

AUTOMATICALLY RETIME ANIMATIONS

Animation curve modifiers let you easily stretch or squish keyframes and add bounce, mirror, or loop animations that automatically change when the duration of the composition changes. When you drop Fusion titles or effects onto the timeline and change its duration, the animation adjusts accordingly!

SYNC AUDIO ANIMATIONS

The Fusion page can now playback audio from the edit or cut page timeline. You can choose a mixdown from the timeline, or you can listen to the source clip’s audio. Waveforms are displayed in the keyframe editor, allowing you to create precisely timed animations that are in sync with the audio!

CUSTOM VECTOR SHAPES

Vector shape tools make it easier to create motion graphics! You get ellipsis, rectangles, polygons, and stars, along with boolean operators for combining shapes to create intricate designs. Grid, jitter, offset and transform, let you customize animations. Shapes can also be used as particle sources!

GPU ACCELERATED RESOLVE FX

The Fusion page has 27 new GPU accelerated Resolve FX. This includes the color page’s noise reduction and sharpening tools, along with lens blur, light effects, color effects, revival image restoration tools, and more. You also get the texture and stylize, temporal effects, warping, and beauty tools.

PERSONALIZE YOUR WORKFLOW

Node tree bookmarks let you quickly navigate to any part of the node tree in a large composition. Customizable toolbars let you quickly switch toolbars based on the current task. Vertical node tree layouts give you more room to view the spline and keyframe editors when creating animations and more.

Hollywood’s Biggest Blockbusters

Thousands of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and hit television shows use Fusion to create their groundbreaking visual effects. See Fusion used in feature films like Ant-Man, Red Sparrow and London Has Fallen. In addition, see it in hit television shows like Empire, NCIS, and Emergence. Fusion also plays a major role in the development of cinematics for major video games such as Dawn of War III, Halo 5, and more!

Nodes are a Much Faster Way to Work!

Nodes are incredibly easy to use, especially as scenes become more complex. Fusion’s nodes are small icons that represent effects, filters, and other image processing operations. To explain, easily connect nodes together to build larger and more complex visual effects. Tools, images, and objects can be combined in any order to create unlimited visual effects. Simply click on a node to quickly adjust any single part of your project. That’s much faster than a timeline-based tool because you don’t need to hunt through nested stacks of confusing layers and filters!

Get the most Powerful VFX Software Available!

Whether you need to pull a key, track objects, retouch images, animate titles, or create amazing particle effects, Fusion has a massive toolset that lets you tackle the most demanding jobs. You get a true 3D workspace along with tools for compositing, keying, painting, animation, virtual reality, stereoscopic 3D, and more. Fusion combines effects and motion graphics, along with 3D modeling and rendering into a single toolset. That means you can import and render 3D models and scenes with the rest of your composite in Fusion. You don’t have to pre‑render assets or transfer between multiple applications.

Broadcast Graphics and Titles

ANIMATED TEXT

Powerful character generators let you create incredible animated 2D or 3D text and title sequences in any language!

3D MOTION GRAPHICS

Create advanced motion graphics with incredible depth using Fusion’s infinite 3D workspace to seamlessly combine vector graphics, live-action, and 3D objects!

3D PARTICLE SYSTEMS

Create amazing 3D animated particle effects with real-world physics like gravity, wind, and collision so particles can interact with objects in your scene.

Visual Effects and Compositing

TRUE 3D COMPOSITING

Combine live action with 3D models, cameras, lights, and more in a true 3D workspace. Create amazing photorealistic effects and motion graphics.

FAST MOTION TRACKING

Match moves, stabilize cameras, and track rotoscope points or paint strokes. Then, objects and effects blend seamlessly and in perfect synchronization.

POWERFUL KEYING

Key any element using the new Delta keyer, Ultra, Chroma, Luma, and Differential keyers to create the best possible composite.

VECTOR PAINT AND ROTOSCOPING

Advanced vector paint and rotoscoping tools let you create masks and mattes for applying effects and image corrections to specific parts of an image.

OPTICAL FLOW IMAGE ANALYSIS

Fusion uses advanced optical flow algorithms to generate motion vectors. Quickly fix shots, retime, steady, and morph images with astounding results!

STEREOSCOPIC 3D TOOLS

Fusion includes the world’s most advanced camera matching, stereo alignment, convergence, and spatialization tools for creating realistic, eye-popping stereo 3D!

UNLIMITED FILTERS AND EFFECTS

Fusion includes hundreds of built-in tools. In fact, combine them together or with third-party filters to create an unlimited number of effects!

VIRTUAL REALITY AND 3D – PANORAMIC VIEWER

Use the new Panoramic Viewer to work in 360º VR environments, or wear popular VR headsets and get incredible interactivity so you can see your work in realtime!

IMPORT AND RENDER 3D MODELS

Import full 3D models from applications like Maya, 3ds Max, and Cinema 4D. Then, use Fusion to light, shade, composite, and render with full GPU acceleration!

DEEP PIXEL COMPOSITING

Take advantage of both RGB color and XYZ position information in each pixel when using OpenEXR files so you can blend 2D images with 3D elements like volumetric fog and lights with interactive control.

SCRIPTING AND AUTOMATION

Built on an extensible and customizable framework, Fusion allows game developers, 3D feature film animators, and media artists to use its open architecture to extend their own internal systems! Fusion supports both Lua and Python, a popular and intuitive scripting solution used by animators worldwide. In fact, save time by writing scripts to create custom tools, pass data back and forth between Fusion and other applications, automate repetitive tasks, and even add entirely new features!

GPU Accelerated Workflow

Fusion engineers designed Fusion for extreme speed and responsiveness. Feel good about Fusion in high-pressure, client-driven sessions. With its Metal, CUDA, and OpenCL GPU acceleration, you get instant feedback while you work. In other words, you can see exactly what you’re doing. Fusion 17 features more GPU pipelining than ever so whether you’re working alone or with a client, you get the real-time control you need. In other words, you’ll be able to spend more time being creative and less time waiting! Fusion is so fast that you can even work in VR while wearing a headset and still get over 90 frames per second of interactivity!

Unlimited Render Power

Indeed, Fusion has the world’s fastest production quality render engine! Distribute your render jobs across an unlimited number of networked computers for incredible performance, at no additional cost! There are no “per node” render license fees. To summarize, install it on as many render nodes as you need! Render complex scenes incredibly fast to meet the intense deadlines of production. And, without having to sacrifice creativity or quality.

Fusion Connect

Fusion Connect lets DaVinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer editors take advantage of Fusion’s massive visual effects and motion graphics toolset, right from their timelines! Editors can select individual clips or layers of clips and send them to Fusion. Not only that, a new Fusion composition is automatically created and linked dynamically back to the timeline. You can work on the VFX and motion graphics yourself or, if you’re on shared storage, let another artist work on them for you. Once the Fusion composition is rendered, the shots are automatically updated back in the DaVinci Resolve or Avid Media Composer timelines!

Collaborate with Large Teams

When you’re working with a large creative team, DaVinci Resolve’s color management and API scripting allow the automated creation of timelines for review and approval of VFX. To explain, this means shot review, storyboarding, version, and annotation can be easily be shared with everyone on the team. Fusion Studio also features a bin server which means to see common assets you don’t need to copy, paste and track multiple elements.