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Saving a New Fusion Generator
After creating the generator you want in Fusion, you need to save it to the Effects Library to
reuse it in other projects from the Edit page. To do this, you must create a Macro and save it to
the Generator folder.
Ordinarily, macros are used as building blocks inside of Fusion so that you can turn frequently-
made compositing tricks that you use all the time into your own nodes. However, you also use
this macro functionality to build Generator templates for the DaVinci Resolve Edit page.
Start by selecting every node in the Node Editor that you want to include in the Generator
template including the MediaOut node.
Having made this selection, right-click one of the selected nodes and choose Macro > Create
Macro from the contextual menu.
The Macro Editor displaying the parameters of all the nodes you selected.
The Macro Editor window appears, displaying a hierarchical list of every parameter in the
composition you’ve just selected. The order of nodes is based on the order they were selected
in the Node Editor prior to creating the macro.
The Macro Editor is designed to let you choose which parameters you want to display as
custom controls in the Edit page Inspector when the Generator is applied. You can choose a
simplified set of parameters for customization by enabling the checkboxes next to any
parameter name.
Once you enable all the parameters you want to use in the eventual template, click the Close
button, and a Save Macro As dialog appears. Here, you can enter the name of the Transition, as
it should appear in the Edit page Effects Library.
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