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The Fusion Studio Stand-Alone Application
Creating visual effects with the stand-alone Fusion Studio software begins with opening Fusion,
creating a new composition, importing some clips via Loader nodes, and building out your
composite with effects. Just like the Fusion Page in DaVinci Resolve, you add effects using
different nodes from the Effects Library, and you combine multiple layers of imagery using
Merge nodes. Once you’ve created the desired result, add a Saver node to the end of the tree
of nodes you’ve created to render your final result.
Rendering Out Your Final Result
Unlike the Fusion Page in DaVinci Resolve, which renders directly back into the Edit or Cut
page timeline, the final step in Fusion Studio is to render the finished effect to disk as a movie
file or image sequence. The last node in every node tree is a Saver node. Saver nodes
configure the output file format and render the file to disk. You can use as many Saver nodes in
a composite as you need. For instance, you might use multiple Saver nodes to render out
intermediate areas of a composite or to output a composite in multiple formats.
What Kinds of Effects Does Fusion Offer?
In addition to the kinds of robust compositing, paint, rotoscoping, and keying effects you’d
expect from a fully-featured 2D compositing environment, Fusion offers much more.
3D Compositing
Fusion has powerful 3D nodes that include extruded 3D text, simple geometry, and the ability
to import 3D models. Once you’ve assembled a 3D scene, you can add cameras, lighting, and
material shaders, and then render the result with depth-of-field effects and auxiliary channels to
integrate with more conventional layers of 2D compositing, for a sophisticated blending of 3D
and 2D operations in the very same node tree.
A 3D scene with textured 3D text, created entirely within Fusion.
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