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The following diagram shows typical workflows for manual and automatic renders.
Add Connection effect
Manual Workflow
1
Click Export Clip2
Click Edit Effect
Create a comp file when first clicked, but will not
overwrite this file when clicked again. Attempts to
launch Fusion and load the comp. If Fusion is not
installed locally, the comp can be accessed manually
from a different machine via the network.
3
Edit comp in Fusion
Work your magic here.
4
Save comp in Fusion
This step is important!
Do not forget to save the comp.
5
Render comp in Fusion
You can continue working in AVID while Fusion renders.
Your Timeline will update automatically with any frame
that is succesfully rendered.
6
Render clip in AVID
Optional step, but recommended.
7
Creates Fusion RAW files at the given location on the
media drive. These files are not deleted automatically,
and manual cleanup of old files will be rquired to
avoid running out of disk space.
Add Connection effect
Ensure thatAuto-Render is ticked.
Auto-Render Workflow
1
In this case, both the Fusion comp and the AVID clip
will be rendered simultaneously. If a full-size rendered
frame is not found, the full size/depth source frames
are exported automatically for that time. Fusion is then
instructed to start rendering from that point.
The resulting frame is loaded and returned to MC,
and process is repeated for each frame thereafter.
Creates Fusion RAW files as Export Clip would do.
Also creates a comp file when first clicked, but will
not overwrite this file when clicked again. Launches
Fusion and loads the comp.
Work your magic here.
This step is important!
Do not forget to save the comp.
Click Edit Effect
2
Edit comp in Fusion
3
Save comp in Fusion
4
Render clip in AVID
5
AVID/Fusion layer to comp relationship for auto and manual renders
Once the initial trip from Avid to Fusion is complete, depending on the type of clip to which you
assigned the effect, in Fusion Studio you will be presented with one of the following:
 A Loader node representing a single clip.
 Two or more Loaders connected to Merge nodes representing layers.
 Two Loaders connected to a Dissolve node representing a transition.
In all three node tree layouts outlined above, there will also be a Saver node. The Saver node is
automatically set to render to the directory that is connected back to the Media Composer
Timeline with the correct format. If for some reason the file format or file path are changed in
the Saver node, the Fusion Connect process will not render correctly.
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