User Manual

What Is Fusion?
Blackmagic Design Fusion is powerful 2D and 3D visual effects compositing software with over
thirty years of evolution serving the motion picture and broadcast industry, creating effects
seen in countless films and television series. It is available as a stand-alone application as well
as a page within DaVinci Resolve.
In its purest form, Fusion is a collection of image-processing engines called nodes. These
nodes represent effects like blurs and color correctors, as well as images, 3D models, and
spline masks. Similar to effects you may be familiar with, each node includes a set of
parameters that can be adjusted and animated over time. Stringing different nodes together in a
graphical user interface called a node tree allows you to create sophisticated visual effects. The
nodes, node trees, and all settings you create are saved in a document called a Composition,
or “comp” for short.
The Fusion Page within DaVinci Resolve
Merged right into DaVinci Resolve, the Fusion page makes it possible to jump immediately from
editing right into compositing, with no need to export media, relink files, or launch another
application to get your work done. Now everything you need lives right inside DaVinci Resolve.
The Fusion page in DaVinci Resolve, showing viewers, the Node Editor, and the Inspector.
How Do I Use the Fusion Page?
The relationship between the Edit page and the Fusion page is similar to the relationship
between the Edit page and the Color page. Each clip can have a grade applied to it in the Color
page, and similarly every clip can have a composition applied to it in the Fusion page.
If you use the Fusion page to create any kind of effect or composite, a badge appears on that
clip in the timeline to show that clip has a composition applied to it.
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