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Implied in a timeline-based system is that higher numbered video tracks appear as the more
forward, or frontmost, element in the viewer. Video track 1 is the background to all other video
tracks. Video track 3 is in the foreground to both video track 1 and video track 2.
TIP: If using DaVinci Resolve, you can bring all three layers from the Edit page into
Fusion by creating a Fusion clip. For more information on creating Fusion Clips, see
Chapter 54, “Getting Clips into Fusion” in the DaVinci Resolve manual or Chapter 3 in
the Fusion Studio manual.
A stack of clips to use in a composite (top), and
turning that stack into a Fusion clip in the DaVinci Resolve’s Edit page (bottom).
In Fusion, each video clip is represented by a MediaIn in the Fusion page or a Loader in
Fusion Studio.
In our example below, the MediaIn2 is video track 2, and MediaIn 1 is video track 1. These two
elements are composited using a Merge node (foreground over background, respectively). The
composite of those two elements becomes the output of the first Merge node, which becomes
the background to a second Merge. There is no loss of quality or precomposing when you
chain Merges together. MediaIn3 represents video track 3 and is the final foreground in the
node tree since it is the topmost layer.
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