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Versioning
Creating visual effects is almost always an iterative process. You’ll often need to create
revisions after your first pass at the effect. Built into Fusion Connect is a versioning feature that
lets you create multiple revisions of an effect and switch between them from within
Media Composer.
Create New Version
This checkbox creates a copy of the current comp without affecting the original.
Any changes that are rendered in the copy will be written to a new folder and become another
version of the rendered result played on the Avid Timeline. Previous versions of the comp and
their rendered results are accessible using the Version slider.
Version
This slider selects which version of the comp is used in the Media Composer Timeline. It can be
used to interactively switch from one version to the other in order to compare the results.
About RAW Images
Fusion Connect creates a Fusion RAW file image sequence for intermediate folders between
Avid Media Composer and Fusion Studio, in order to preserve all the image information. This
allows the images to reside on disk and not take up space in RAM. The benefits of using Fusion
RAW include:
The ability to continue the editing process while an effect is rendering
The ability to take advantage of network rendering
The ability to retime footage
The ability to run Fusion Studio remotely
About Color Depth
Fusion Connect derives its images directly from the RGB data within Avid Media files. This
allows the images to be codec agnostic. All RAW files from Avid that begin as 8- or 10-bit
images are remapped to 16-bit float in Fusion. Rendered results from Fusion are processed in
16-bit float to maintain the full color fidelity supported by Media Composer.
Manual vs. Auto-Render
While Auto-Render is the easier workflow, the manual approach offers faster renderings in
Fusion and more control over the performance and memory usage on your system.
In the manual workflow, Fusion Studio is not required to be installed on the AVID
system itself but can reside on any other computer.
For Auto-Render, Fusion Studio must be installed on the local computer.
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