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Compositing Two Clips Together
As entertaining as it is adding individual nodes to create simple effects, eventually you’ll need
to start adding additional layers of media in order to merge them together as composites. Let’s
turn our attention to another example in which we need to combine a background clip with a
foreground clip that includes a built-in alpha channel, to see simple layering in action.
Adding Additional Media to Compositions
You’ll often find that even though you start out wanting to do something relatively simple, you
end up adding additional media to create the effect that you need.
 In Fusion Studio, you do this by adding additional Loader nodes. If you add a new
Loader node to an empty area of the Node Editor, you’ll add an unconnected Loader2
node (incremented to keep it unique) that you can then connect how you want.
 In the Fusion page, you can open the Media Pool and drag clips directly to the Node
Editor to add them to your node tree. If you drag a clip from the Media Pool to an empty
area of the Node Editor, you’ll add an unconnected MediaIn2 node (incremented to
keep it unique) that you can then connect in any way you want.
The Media Pool as seen in the Fusion page.
Automatically Creating Merge Nodes
If you want to connect the incoming clip immediately to your node tree as the top layer, or
foreground, of a composite, in Fusion Studio select the Loader1 node and then add a second
Loader node. In the Fusion page, drag the new clip from the Media Pool right on top of any
connection line.
In both cases, the new MediaIn or Loader node automatically becomes the “foreground input”.
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