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Fusion Generators
The Fusion Generators section of the Generators panel contains Fusion effects that have been
made into reusable generators. By default, a single generator, Noise Gradient, appears as an
example of how these work. Fusion Generators work like any other generator. Once edited into
the Timeline, they act like any other clip, and when selected, they expose customizable
parameters in the Inspector that let you tailor their effect to meet your needs.
However, Fusion Generators are highly customizable. Simply opening the Fusion page while
the playhead intersects a Fusion Generator on the topmost track of the Timeline exposes all of
the Fusion nodes that create that generator’s effect, enabling you to rebuild the effect to do
whatever you need. Furthermore, if you know how to create effects in Fusion, you can create
your own generators by making Fusion Macros and saving them to the Effects Library, so they
appear in the Fusion Generators section of the Effects Library. For more information on how to
do this, see Chapter 57, “Node Groups, Macros, and Fusion Templates.
Using Stills
You can import still images into the Media Pool, and edit them into the Timeline as clips with
custom durations. By default, imported stills are 10 seconds long, but you can extend a still
image’s Out point to a maximum of 17 hours and 40 minutes in length, which ought to cover just
about any project you’re planning on working on, so long as you’re not Andy Warhol.
DaVinci Resolve is correspondingly capable of importing still image clips referenced by XML or
AAF project files, so long as they’re in a supported format.
DaVinci Resolve supports the use of stills in the following formats:
File Format Alpha Channel Support
.tif Yes
.png Yes
.jpg No
.dpx No
.exr Yes
.dng No
.psd No
.tga Yes
.heif No
Once edited into the Timeline, still image clips have the same Composite, Transform, Cropping,
Retime, and Scaling attributes as any other clip.
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