Blackmagic Fusion

Blackmagic Fusion

Fusion 5 green-screen composition
Developer(s) Blackmagic Design
Stable release 8
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Type Compositing software
License Freeware, Commercial
Website Blackmagic Fusion 8

Blackmagic Fusion (formerly eyeon Fusion and briefly Maya Fusion, a version produced for Alias-Wavefront) is an image compositing software program created by eyeon Software Inc, now developed by Blackmagic Design. It is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for movies, TV-series and commercials. It employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final composite). Upon its acquisition by Blackmagic Design, Fusion was released in two versions: the freeware Fusion, and the commercially sold Fusion Studio.

Fusion is available for Microsoft Windows, and Linux, and with the release of Fusion 8, Mac OS X

History

Fusion was originally developed in 1987 as in-house software developed for use by New York Production & Design (NYPD), a post production and visual effects boutique based out of Sydney, Australia. The very first version of the software was written in DOS and consisted of little more than a UI framework for quickly chaining together the output of pre-existing batch files and utilities. eyeon Software Inc. was formed specifically to commercialize Fusion, and all operations relating to the software were moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2014, Blackmagic Design acquired eyeon Software Inc, and is now developing the Fusion software.

Version history

Official name version date of release comments
Digital Fusion 1.0 1.0 November 1996 First public Windows release (older versions for DOS or not commercially available)
Digital Fusion 1.1 1.1 March 1997 Support for direct hardware playback/preview
Digital Fusion 2.0 2.0 November 1997 Added timeline, 16 bit integer color processing, SCSI tape I/O
Digital Fusion 2.1 2.1 April 1998 Render queue/batch rendering.
Digital Fusion 2.5 2.5 December 1998 – 2000 Network rendering, deep-pixel processing, AE plugin support.
Digital Fusion 3.0 3.0 October 2000 – 2001 UI rewritten, added paint capabilities, advanced text tool.
Digital Fusion 3.1 3.1 January 2002 3D particle system (2.5D UI) introduced, added new color corrector.
Digital Fusion 4.0 4.0 October 2002 – 2004 eyeonscript (Lua based scripting language), float and HDRI color processing, concatenated transforms, nested flow groups, macro tools, new darker UI, OpenEXR, OpenFX plugins.
Fusion 5.0 5.0 August 2005 3D compositing environment, ASCII save files, 16bit float processing, straight node connections.
Fusion 5.1 5.1 December 2006 consoleslave, elbow nodes, multistroke paint.
Fusion 5.2 5.2 July 2007 3D look up tables, fuses (just in time scripted tools), external python scripting, FBX geometry import
Fusion 5.3 5.3 April 2008 64 bit executable
Fusion 6.0 6.0 June 2009 (preview release) 3D material shaders, Region of Interest / Domain of Definition, stereo display
Fusion 6.1 6.1 July 2010 GPU Supercomputing framework
Fusion 6.2 6.2 June 2011 World Position Pass Tools / QuickTime 64 bit support /Linux 64bit / SVG import
Fusion 6.3 6.3 November 2011 Additional color tools / New version of Primatte - 5 / Direct support for "KONA 3G - AJA Video Systems" (already existed as plugin from AJA)
Fusion 6.4 6.4 July 2012 Connect to AVID, new camera formats, advanced 3D and geometry particles, LPeg scripting, PFTrack lens distortion, DirectX view spanning, Windows 8 compatibility.
Fusion 7.0 7.0 June 2014 Animation Indicators, Drag and Drop Layout, User Interface Templates, Learning Environment, Multi Projects/Documents, Connected Node Position and Prediction, Templates, Native Camera Support, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, 3D Custom Vertex, Alembic Import, Latest FBX Library, Replace Normals 3D, 3D Interactive Splines, 3D Ribbon, UV Render and Super Sampling, 3D Text Bevel Shaper, Dimension – Optical Flow and Stereoscopic Tools, Just-In-time Compiling, Script Development Interface, Linear Light Color/Open Color IO, Roto Onion Skinning
Fusion 7.5 7.5 November 2014 Logo redesign, slight UI changes, addition of Free version lacking stereoscopic 3D, network rendering, and third-party plugin support.
Fusion 8.0 8.0 1 April 2016 New Mac version, UI redesign including a new darker background colour, new multi-user licenses.

Uses

Fusion has been used in many movies and TV shows,[1][2][3] among them:

References

  1. ↑ "Current Productions". Eyeon. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Productions". Eyeon. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Ten reasons why you need Fusion". Eyeon.
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnM1oN9H0A

External links

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