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9 A Render Settings dialog appears, which lets you choose how you want to render the
output, with options including the Quality, Frame Range, and Size of the media being
output. If the default settings are good, click Start Render. A progress bar indicates how
long the render will take. For more information, consult the Fusion User Manual.
10 Once rendering has finished, save your Fusion project, reopen DaVinci Resolve, and
you should see that the VFX Connect clip in the Timeline has updated to show the new
effect you created in Fusion.
How Clips are translated
into Node Trees
In Fusion, each clip that you send appears as a Loader node that is linked to that clip’s media on
disk. If you selected multiple clips, each clip is superimposed over the one just below it using a
Merge node, which lets you merge two images at a time with an Over operator by default.
Two superimposed clips sent to Fusion as represented in the Fusion node tree
With this as your starting point, you can add nodes (called Tools in Fusion) to apply operations
of your own, in order to create more sophisticated effects and composites. For more information
about using Fusion, see the Fusion User Manual, available from the Support page at the
Blackmagic Design web site.
Altering VFX Connect Clips
If, at any point, you want to modify the Fusion composition, you can reopen the project in
Fusion, or right-click the VFX Connect clip in the DaVinci Resolve Media Pool and choose VFX
Connect > Open in Fusion. Once in Fusion, make whatever changes you want to, and then
re-render the clip to overwrite the previously rendered media. When you create new versions in
this way, each version’s Fusion project file and rendered output is maintained and preserved,
so you can always go back and forth.
When you return to DaVinci Resolve, you may need to right-click the VFX Connect clip you just
opened, and choose VFX Connect > Refresh to make sure that DaVinci Resolve correctly sees
the re-rendered media from Fusion.
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