Editing, Grading and Compositing

Blackmagic Design Fusion Studio 8 | Advanced visual effects and motion graphics solution

Blackmagic Design

Fusion Studio 8

Advanced visual effects and motion graphics solution

Product Code: BMDDVSTUFUS

Product Discontinued

  • Integrated 2D and 3D compositing an animation environment
  • Resolution independent with support for images over 32K x 32K
  • Mix and match footage of different resolutions, field orders, aspect ratios and formats within a single project.
  • Footage of different color depths can be processed in their native color depth within a single flow graph
  • Responsive UI with interactive, real-time rendering
  • Render to multiple formats and resolutions in a single pass, with multiple saver nodes at any position in the flow process
  • Seamlessly blend floating point, 64 bit and 32 bit images without concern
  • Two-level proxy system for fast interactive response
  • Open and work with multiple comps at once
  • Open unlimited floating display views
  • Save Custom interface Layouts
  • Use Independent LUT’s for each display view
  • Support for dual displays
  • A/B split view for comparing shots
  • View and edit your project in frames, timecode or feet+frames modes
  • Includes Generation studio wide management software for assigning tasks, tracking assets, and versioning shots
  • Includes Avid Connect plug-in for using Fusion from the Media Composer timeline

Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over 25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major Hollywood blockbuster feature films. Fusion features an easy and powerful node based interface so you can construct complex effects simply by connecting various types of processing together. That’s super easy and extremely fast. You get a massive range of features and effects included, so you can create exciting broadcast graphics, television commercials, dramatic title sequences and even major feature film visual effects.

Hollywood’s Biggest Blockbusters
Thousands of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and hit television shows use Fusion to create their groundbreaking visual effects. Fusion has been used on feature films like Thor, The Amazing Spiderman 2, and The Hunger Games, as well as hit television shows like Orphan Black, Breaking Bad, Grimm, Adventure Time, Downton Abbey and the Emmy award winning Battlestar Galactica.

Nodes, A Better Way to Work.
Fusion uses nodes which are small icons that represent effects, filters and other processing which can be connected together to easily build up larger and more complex visual effects. Because nodes are easy to see and connect together, you can combine tools, images, and objects in any order to create unlimited visual effects. Nodes make it easy to adjust any single part of your project simply by clicking on the node and making an adjustment. That’s much faster than a timeline based tool such as an NLE because you don’t need to hunt through nested stacks of confusing layers.

Simply More Features
Whether you need to pull a key, track objects, retouch images, animate titles, or create amazing particle effects, Fusion has a massive toolset that lets you tackle the most demanding visual effects and motion graphics jobs. You get the world’s best 3D workspace along with tools for compositing, keying, painting, animation, stereoscopic 3D and more, all in a single application.

GPU Accelerated Creative Workflow
Fusion is an extremely fast visual effects software tool that’s responsive enough to be used in high pressure, client driven sessions. With its GPU acceleration, you get instant feedback while you work so you can see exactly what you’re doing. Whether you’re working alone or with a client, Fusion gives you the real time control you need so you can spend more time being creative and less time waiting.

Unlimited Render Power
Fusion has the world’s fastest production quality render engine. You can distribute your render jobs across an unlimited number of networked computers for incredible performance. That means you can render complex scenes incredibly fast to meet the intense deadlines of production, without having to sacrifice creativity or quality.

Collaborate with Large Teams
When you’re working with a large creative team, Fusion Studio also includes Generation, multi user management software. Generation is an amazing collaboration tool that helps you manage and track versions of every shot in your studio. You can assign tasks to artists, make notes, and see each team member’s workload to help balance the work and finish projects faster. Fusion Studio also features a bin server to let everyone share and see common assets that are needed for the job. That means you don’t have to copy and track multiple elements on different computers.

True 3D Compositing
Combine live action with 3D models, cameras, lights and more in a true 3D workspace to create amazing, photorealistic effects and motion graphics.

Powerful Keying
Key any element using the included Primatte, Ultra, Chroma, Luma and Differential keyers. You get precise control over mattes to create the best possible composite.

Fast Motion Tracking
Match moves, stabilize cameras and track rotoscope points or paint strokes so objects and effects blend seamlessly and in perfect synchronization.

Vector Paint And Rotoscoping
Advanced vector paint and rotoscoping tools let you create masks and mattes for applying effects and image corrections to specific parts of an image.

3D Particle Systems
Create amazing 3D animated particle effects with real world physics like gravity, wind, and collision so particles can interact with objects in your scene.

Animated Text
Powerful character generators let you create incredible animated 2D or 3D text and title sequences in any language.

3D Motion Graphics
Create advanced motion graphics with incredible depth using Fusion’s infinite 3D workspace to seamlessly combine vector graphics, live action and 3D objects.

Import And Render 3D Models
Import full 3D models from applications like Maya, 3ds Max and Cinema 4D, then use Fusion to light, shade, composite and render with full GPU acceleration.

Optical Flow Image Analysis
Fusion Studio uses advanced optical flow algorithms to generate motion vectors so you can fix shots, retime, steady and morph images with astounding results.

Stereoscopic 3D Tools
Fusion Studio includes the world’s most advanced camera matching, stereo alignment, convergence and spatialization tools for creating realistic, eye popping stereo 3D.

Unlimited Filters And Effects
Fusion includes hundreds of built-in tools that can be combined together or, in Fusion Studio, with third party filters to create an unlimited number of effects.

Deep Pixel Compositing
Take advantage of both RGB color and XYZ position information in each pixel when using OpenEXR files so you can blend 2D images with 3D elements like volumetric fog and lights with interactive control.

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Major announcements from Blackmagic Design

Not just some new products and technical updates from Blackmagic Design. No, these are major new products and massive technical updates.

Blackmagic Fusion Studio 8.2.1

  • UI and workflow improvements
  • General performance and stability improvements

Notes

Some features of Fusion Studio require network access, including network rendering, network licensing, shared bins, and some external scripts. To use these features, the following ports must be opened in your system’s firewall (if any):

  • TCP port 1144
  • UDP port 1144
  • TCP ports 49152-49159
  • UDP ports 49152-49159

Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed Render Node crash on exit
  • Edit box contents are reselected after pressing enter if Auto Control Advance is disabled
  • Operations in range control edit boxes weren't being evaluated after pressing enter
  • Fixed creation of undo events for multiline text edits
  • Ensure bin state is saved on exit
  • Stop an occasional inadvertent attempt to replace a tool with itself when pasting in the flow view
  • Macro tools weren't available for toolbar customisation until after the Tools menu had been used
  • Comp file requester would always browse to Comps: rather than the path of the last loaded comp
  • Fixed flow group background in HiDPI/Retina
  • OFX plug requests for images outside of normal render processing will now get them at the current comp quality instead of always high-quality, non-proxy
  • Allow OFX plugins to force interactive rendering in some cases

Fusion Studio 8.2

  • Fusion Studio for Linux
  • Fusion Render Node for Linux
  • UI and workflow improvements
  • General performance and stability improvements

Notes

Some features of Fusion Studio require network access, including network rendering, network licensing, shared bins, and some external scripts. To use these features, the following ports must be opened in your system’s firewall (if any):

  • TCP port 1144
  • UDP port 1144
  • TCP ports 49152-49159
  • UDP ports 49152-49159

New Features

  • Improved DNG support: Resolve matching
  • Double click in the empty area of comp tabs to create a new comp
  • New animation indicator shortcuts:
    • double-click to animate, or set key if already animated
    • ctrl/cmd+double-click to add expression
    • shift+double-click to remove modifiers/expressions
  • Can now add expressions to non-master colour wheel inputs. The expression edits will only be visible for the currently active wheel range (ie. master, low, mid, high).
  • Changed default font for Text+ and Text3D to Open Sans, for platform consistency
  • Can now specify multiple license servers (semicolon-separated) in FUSION_LICENSE_SERVER env var, * to scan local subnet (8.1)
  • Added Global Options/Background Color options to image view's menu
  • Added Save Version to the File menu
  • Can now set Gamut control custom values with a context menu
  • Can turn off image view description/RoI/DoD labels.
  • F1 brings up the PDF help files, with context awareness where possible
  • New Hotkey Manager

Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed occasional random crash on some platforms
  • Fixed highlighting of animated tools in timeline view
  • Audio playback improvements
  • Fixed occasional corrupted Loader tooltip
  • Scripts can load comps again even when Allow Network Renders is off
  • Fixed updating of some menu items like Allow Network Renders
  • Improved playback “fast” mode timing calculations
  • Fixed luminance clipping during some YUV conversions
  • View LUT macros work again
  • .viewlut files now show up in all cases, and fixed selecting them from the menu
  • Deleting Loader and OpenCL cache folder works again
  • Double clicking on the control window title zoom icon now works like a normal click
  • Fixed a RenderNode startup crash on systems without OpenGL
  • Improved .ma file compatibility with Maya 2016
  • View activation improvements
  • Fixed possible crashes when closing comp
  • Fixed possible crash with tear-off menus
  • GamutViewLUT can optionally apply gamma to alpha
  • Can now use file names containing extended chars with QuickTime on Windows.
  • Gamut Custom inputs can be set from standard colour spaces from a context menu. Groups labels let all custom chromaticities or gamma option be set at once.
  • Dragging expanded flow group edges no longer re-centres the reference point.
  • Clicking in an empty flow area anywhere will deselect tools, instead of needing to click in the group that had the active tool.
  • Can now insert tools into and remove tools from pipes that lead outside flow groups. There are still restrictions, such as not being able to disconnect a pipe leading outside a group if that would cause the group's link to be connected to nothing inside the group, or itself (eg. its output to its input). The pipes themselves can't be dragged/moved either.
  • Fixed crash when deleting an inner nested group.
  • A mouse click isn't ignored in the flow view if it was made active due to the application becoming active without a mouse click (eg. Windows alt+tab).
  • Adding a tool by dropping from the toolbar into GLView will now add after the viewed tool even if it's within a group.
  • Fixed possible hang with Monitor Output on Windows
  • FuServer as a service now gets restarted if it fails, after a 30sec delay
  • Improved hotkey mapping to better support non-US keyboards
  • Fixed a crash with FBX importing
  • Arrow keys now work in the Add Tool box on Linux
  • Fixes and improvements for fullscreen flipbooks
  • Fixed Bins permissions issue in some installation cases
  • Fixed Render Manager queue autosave backups on Linux
  • Fixed script crash in FuView:GetAttrs()
  • User and Tool Manual improvements
  • LUT cube fuses get context help
  • Various stability improvements

User Interface

  • New (actually noticeable!) console warning indicator
  • New larger, clearer icons for File Requester
  • Lighter image view background colour
  • Depth control buttons layout changes
  • Default control width expanded by 25 pixels
  • Improved graphics for console icons & slider/screw controls
  • Fixed flow view link positioning when changing active tool
  • Better timeline colours
  • Timeline bars are drawn brighter when selected
  • Fixed loader arrow at right edge of timeline bar
  • Better centering of timeline text
  • Tips don't affect the initial console icon
  • Improved control label rendering
  • Fixed maximising of floating views
  • Fixed view visibility on layout changes
  • Improved active-view border drawing in some cases
  • Fixed view border when fullscreen.
  • Fixed arrow & tab key handling in LUT and Mesh controls
  • Fixed context menu on fullscreen flipbooks on Windows
  • Disallowed other views on floating Image views (use floating frame instead)
  • Better drawing of time ruler when using fields
  • Fixed status bar negative time display on audio scrubbing

Fixes & Improvements since Beta 2

  • Fixed BMD Film output for URSA Mini 4.6K files
  • Render Node About box and Status dialogs get close buttons on Gnome
  • Many memory handling improvements on Linux
  • Timeline performance improved

Blackmagic Fusion Studio 8.2 Beta 2

  • Linux Render Node beta
  • UI and workflow improvements
  • General performance and stability improvements

Notes

Some features of Fusion Studio require network access, including network rendering, network licensing, shared bins, and some external scripts. To use these features, the following ports must be opened in your system’s firewall (if any):

  • TCP port 1144
  • UDP port 1144
  • TCP ports 49152-49159
  • UDP ports 49152-49159

New Features

  • Improved DNG support: Resolve matching
  • Double click in the empty area of comp tabs to create a new comp
  • New animation indicator shortcuts:
    • double-click to animate, or set key if already animated
    • ctrl/cmd+double-click to add expression
    • shift+double-click to remove modifiers/expressions
  • Can now add expressions to non-master colour wheel inputs. The expression edits will only be visible for the currently active wheel range (ie. master, low, mid, high).
  • Changed default font for Text+ and Text3D to Open Sans, for platform consistency
  • Can now specify multiple license servers (semicolon-separated) in FUSION_LICENSE_SERVER env var, * to scan local subnet (8.1)
  • Added Global Options/Background Color options to image view's menu
  • Added Save Version to the File menu
  • New Linux install dirs: /opt/BlackmagicDesign/Fusion8, /opt/BlackmagicDesign/FusionRenderNode8
  • Linux Render Node executable is now named FusionRenderNode
  • Can now set Gamut control custom values with a context menu
  • Can turn off image view description/RoI/DoD labels.
  • F1 brings up the PDF help files, with context awareness where possible
  • New Hotkey Manager

Fixes & Improvements

      • Various Linux Installer/Uninstaller improvements
      • Fixed occasional random crash on some platforms
      • Fixed highlighting of animated tools in timeline view
      • Audio playback improvements
      • Fixed occasional corrupted Loader tooltip
      • Scripts can load comps again even when Allow Network Renders is off
      • Fixed updating of some menu items like Allow Network Renders
      • Improved playback “fast” mode timing calculations
      • Fixed luminance clipping during some YUV conversions
      • View LUT macros work again
      • .viewlut files now show up in all cases, and fixed selecting them from the menu
      • Deleting Loader and OpenCL cache folder works again
      • Double clicking on the control window title zoom icon now works like a normal click
      • Fixed a RenderNode startup crash on systems without OpenGL
      • Improved .ma file compatibility with Maya 2016
      • View activation improvements
      • Fixed possible crashes when closing comp
      • Fixed possible crash with tear-off menus
      • GamutViewLUT can optionally apply gamma to alpha
      • Can now use file names containing extended chars with QuickTime on Windows.
      • Gamut Custom inputs can be set from standard colour spaces from a context menu. Groups labels let all custom chromaticities or gamma option be set at once.
      • Dragging expanded flow group edges no longer re-centres the reference point.
      • Clicking in an empty flow area anywhere will deselect tools, instead of needing to click in the group that had the active tool.
      • Can now insert tools into and remove tools from pipes that lead outside flow groups. There are still restrictions, such as not being able to disconnect a pipe leading a group if that would cause the group's link to be connected to nothing inside the group, or itself (eg. its output to its input). The pipes themselves can't be dragged/moved either.
      • Fixed crash when deleting an inner nested group.
      • A mouse click isn't ignored in the flow view if it was made active due to the application becoming active without a mouse click (eg. Windows alt+tab).
      • Adding a tool by dropping from the toolbar into GLView will now add after the viewed tool even if it's within a group.
      • Fixed possible hang with Monitor Output on Windows
      • FuServer as a service now gets restarted if it fails, after a 30sec delay
      • Improved hotkey mapping to better support non-US keyboards
      • Fixed a crash with FBX importing
      • Arrow keys now work in the Add Tool box on Linux
      • Fixes and improvements for fullscreen flipbooks
      • Various stability improvements

User Interface

      • New (actually noticeable!) console warning indicator
      • New larger, clearer icons for File Requester
      • Lighter image view background colour
      • Depth control buttons layout changes
      • Default control width expanded by 25 pixels
      • Improved graphics for console icons & slider/screw controls
      • Improved UI font rendering on Linux
      • Fixed flow view link positioning when changing active tool
      • Better timeline colours
      • Timeline bars are drawn brighter when selected
      • Fixed loader arrow at right edge of timeline bar
      • Better centering of timeline text
      • Tips don't affect the initial console icon
      • Improved control label rendering
      • Fixed maximising of floating views
      • Fixed view visibility on layout changes
      • Improved active-view border drawing in some cases
      • Fixed view border when fullscreen.
      • Fixed arrow & tab key handling in LUT and Mesh controls

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