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Once you’ve finished, simply go back to the Edit or Cut page and continue editing, because the
entire Fusion composition is encapsulated within that clip, similarly to how grades in the Color
page are also encapsulated within a clip. However you slip, slide, ripple, roll, or resize that clip,
the Fusion effects you’ve created and the Color page grades you’ve made follow that clip’s
journey through your edited Timeline.
TIP: While you’ll likely want to do all the compositing for a greenscreen style effect in
the Fusion page, it’s also possible to add a keyer, such as the excellent DeltaKeyer
node, between the MediaIn and MediaOut nodes, all by itself. When you pull a key this
way, the alpha channel is added to the MediaOut node, so your clip on the Edit page
has transparency, letting you add a background clip on a lower track of your Edit
page Timeline.
How Nodes Are Named
While the documentation refers to nodes by their regular name, such as “MediaIn,” the actual
names of nodes in the Fusion Node Editor have a number appended to them, to indicate which
node is which when you have multiple instances of a particular type of node.
Turning One or More Clips into Fusion Clips
For situations where you know you’re creating a more ambitious composited effect that requires
multiple layers edited together with very specific timings, you can create a “Fusion clip” right
from the Timeline. For example, if you have a foreground greenscreen clip, a background clip,
and an additional graphic clip, you can stack them all on the Timeline as superimposed clips.
You can then use the Edit page slip and slide features to align their timings so they work
together as necessary. You can also edit multiple consecutive clips together that you want to
use in a composition as a series of clips. Once that’s done, you can select every clip in the stack
to create a Fusion clip, so you can easily use all these superimposed layers within a Fusion
composite.
To create a Fusion clip:
1 Edit all the clips you want to use in the Edit page Timeline.
2 Select all clips you want to be in the same composite at once.
3 Right-click one of the selected clips and choose New Fusion Clip from the
contextual menu.
4 A new clip, named “Fusion Clip X” (where X is an automatically incrementing number)
appears in the currently selected bin of the Media Pool and in the Timeline to replace
the previously selected clips.
5 With the playhead parked over that clip, open the Fusion page to see the new
arrangement of those clips in the Fusion page Node Editor.
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