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Fusions Place in the DaVinci Resolve
Image-Processing Pipeline
When working in a single unified environment like DaVinci Resolve, it is important to understand
the order of operations among the pages. DaVinci Resolve exposes some of this via the order
of the page buttons at the bottom of the screen, with the Media, Cut, and Edit page at the
beginning of the chain and the Color, Fairlight, and Deliver page at the end. However, this isn’t
the whole story, especially when it comes to the Fusion page. The following sections describe
where the Fusion page fits in the image-processing chain of DaVinci Resolve.
Source Media into the Fusion Page
For ordinary, single clips coming in from the Edit or Cut page, the MediaIn node in the Fusion
page represents the source media, as modified by the Clip Attributes window. Although you
select the clip from the Edit or Cut page Timeline, in the Fusion page, the clip is accessed from
the Media Pool.
TIP: The decoding or debayering of RAW files occurs prior to all other operations, and
as such, any RAW adjustments will be displayed correctly in the Fusion page.
This means you have access to the entire source clip in the Fusion page, but the render range
is set to match the duration of the clip in the Timeline. You also use the full resolution of the
source clip, even if the Timeline is set to a lower resolution. However, none of the Edit or Cut
page Inspector adjustments carry over into the Fusion page, with the exception of the Lens
Correction adjustment.
When you make Zoom, Position, Crop, or Stabilization changes in the Edit or Cut page, they are
not visible in the Fusion page. The same applies to any Resolve FX or OpenFX third-party
plug-ins. If you add these items to a clip in the Edit or Cut page, and then you open the Fusion
page, you won’t see them taking effect. All Edit and Cut page timeline effects and Inspector
adjustments, with the exception of the Lens Correction adjustment, are computedafterthe
Fusion page butbeforethe Color page. If you open the Color page, you’ll see the Edit and Cut
page transforms and plug-ins applied to that clip, effectively as an operation before the grading
adjustments and effects you apply in the Color page Node Editor.
With this in mind, the order of effects processing in the different pages of DaVinci Resolve can
be described as follows:
Source
Media
RAW
Debayering
Clip
Attributes
Fusion
Eects
Edit/Cut Page
Inspector
Adjustments
Edit/Cut
Plug-ins
ResolveFX
Color
Eects
TIP: Retiming applied to the clip in the Edit page Timeline is also not carried over into
the Fusion page.
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