User Manual

The Work Area
You probably won’t see the term “the work area” used much, in favor of the specific panels
within the work area that you’ll be using. Still, the area referred to as the work area is the region
at the bottom half of the Fusion user interface, within which you can expose the three main
panels used to construct compositions and edit animations in Fusion. These are the Node
Editor, the Spline Editor, and the Keyframes Editor. By default, the Node Editor is the first thing
you’ll see, and the main area you’ll be working within, but it can sit side-by-side with the Spline
Editor and Keyframes Editor as necessary. You can make more horizontal room on your display
for these three panels by putting the Effects Library and Inspector into a half-height mode, if
necessary.
The work area showing the Node Editor, the Spline Editor, and the Keyframes Editor.
Interface Toolbar
At the very top of Fusion is a toolbar with buttons that let you show and hide different parts of
the user interface (UI). Buttons with labels identify which parts of the UI can be shown or
hidden. In DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion page, If you right-click anywhere within this toolbar, you
have the option of displaying this bar with or without text labels.
The UI toolbar of the Fusion page.
The UI toolbar of Fusion Studio.
These buttons are as follows, from left to right:
 Media Pool/Effects Library Full Height: Lets you set the area used by the Media Pool
(DaVinci Resolve only) and/or Effects Library to take up the full height of your display,
giving you more area for browsing at the expense of a narrower Node Editor and
viewer area. At half-height, the Media Pool/Templates/Effects Library are restricted to
the top half of the UI along with the viewers (you can only show one at a time), and the
Node Editor takes up the full width of your display.
 Media Pool: (DaVinci Resolve only): Shows and hides the Media Pool, from which
you can drag additional clips into the Node Editor to use them in your Fusion page
composition.
 Effects Library: Opens or hides the repository of all node tools available to use in
Fusion. From here, you can click nodes to add them after the currently selected node in
the Node Editor, or you can drag and drop nodes to any part of the node tree you like.
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