Blackmagic Design Fusion Studio for Mac and Windows (Dongle)

• Support for all major VR headsets
• 3D Camera Tracking
• Lag-free 90fps viewing
• Planar Tracking
• Planar Stabilization and steadying
• Planar Rotoscoping
• Delta Keyer and Clean Plate
• Studio Player (supports custom playlists, storyboards, and version tracking)
• Supports ProRes, DNxHR, and MXF support for round tripping between applications
• OpenCL support for GPU acceleration
• Real-time viewing of 3D scenes
• Live-action VR playback
• Supports Stereo VR
• Conversion between VR image formats
• VR Paint and Fix workflow
• VR Motion Graphics and Tiling
• Stabilization of VR live-action scenes
• VR Color correction
• Collaboration—Multiple Artists can access the same projects on different machines
• Optical Flow-Based retiming
• 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 LUTs 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 plugin for using Fusion from the Media Composer timeline

• Intuitive node-based flow-graph interface for building composites
• Branch and connect tools to multiple nodes
• Open and work with multiple comps at once
• Copy and paste tools into other comps
• Group and collapse tools into sub-flow for better organization
• Drag and drop footage into flow directly from file explorer
• Add notes to any node, or even the flow itself, as reminders or to assist with collaboration
• Render a comp while working on another
• Show thumbnails for images in flow graph
• Integrated Script Debug Console. Step through code, set breakpoints, and have multiple scripts open at the same time

Optical Flow Tools

• Built-in 3D cameras with support for eye separation, convergence and toe in, or Parallel mode
• Disparity stereo map generation, with mapping in both left and right eyes
• New Eye tool for generating new left and right images, with convergence and alignment
• Stereo Align tool for adjusting vertical alignment, convergence, and eye separation
• DisparityToZ and ZToDisparity converts Disparity to and from Z depth
• Global Alignment tool for adjusting a stereo pair without warping
• Stereo Stack and Unstack to combine Left and Right images into a single stereo pair
• Support for 3D stereo viewing systems including OpenGL quad-buffering, anaglyph, side-by-side, stacking, and interlace viewing
• Stereoscopic Hardware Support including NVIDIA 3DVision, Planar and JVC monitors, Christie Digital Cinema Projectors, and Mirage Projectors

• Display and edit multiple animation splines
• Use Bezier or cubic splines for animation curves
• Scale, shape, and stretch splines
• Set looping parameters for ping-pong, relative, and number of loops
• Use keyframe markers as guides
• Step-in and step-out keyframe modes
• Set guides, markers, and snap-to points
• Use time value offsets and scaling for multiple selected keyframes
• Global ease in and out controls
• Shape box to deform and taper splines

• Non-linear timeline display for adjusting element timing
• Trim and position multiple clips simultaneously
• Scrub audio and view waveform within timeline
• Sift the timeline display to show specific tools or groups of tools
• Set guides, markers, and snap-to points
• Integrated spline viewer and editor
• Spreadsheet view for quick editing of animated parameters
• Drag-and-drop sorting of tools in the timeline to better focus on timing and keyframes
• Color coding of tools and splines

• Completely multi-threaded rendering, uses every CPU available
• GPU Acceleration of 3D workspace and rendering
• OpenCL Acceleration of computationally intensive tools
• Render and interactive performance scalable with remote nodes
• Designed to work efficiently with extremely large files
• Enhanced file caching for local and networked drives
• Disk and RAM Caching stores processed images for immediate playback
• Cache manager work invisibly in background—no user intervention required
• Multiple tools can simultaneously maintain their own cache
• Improve local performance/interactivity with remote render nodes
• Automatic memory tuning
• Images already in cache do not re-render
• Cache output of any node to either RAM or disk
• Region of interest and user-definable domain of definition speed up image processing
• Infinite Canvas eliminates clipping of image areas outside the project bounds

• A fully integrated 3D compositing environment with lights, camera snap casted shadows
• 3D scene importing via FBX and Alembic, includes models, cameras, lights, and rigs
• Render scenes with many millions of polygons and complex shading
• GPU-based renderer
• Import 3D models from Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, and more
• 3D importing of scenes with matched animation curves, stereo cameras, lighting, and multilevel materials
• Relighting using rich deep pixels and reshading tools to a full GPU renderer
• The GPU render outputs multiple layer types for later processing
• GPU accelerated Ambient Occlusion rendering
• Geometry creation, with primitives and 3D text
• Bending, tapering, and warping of geometry or groups of objects
• Duplicate, Replicate objects to create armies or crowds
• Support for multiple renderers and many scenes in one composition
• Import tracked cameras that match live action and also match 3D animation applications, making a seamless workflow for studios

• Use the extra channels in Open EXR files produced by 3D applications to enhance the look of 3D rendered material
• Depth merging combines two images based on the relative position of their pixels, eliminating the concept of foreground and background
• 3D Z -Depth Blur for true depth-of-field focusing
• 3D Shader for relighting object based on the information contained in the normals channel
• 3D Fog applies fog to an image based on depth of each pixel, or an external z-buffer map
• 3D Texture to apply reflection maps and replacement textures to 3D rendered objects
• Use object and material ID's to mask the effect of any tool
• Use the above tools and techniques with particles and grid warping tools in Fusion, which also produce extra channel information
• Deep multichannel output for Z buffers, normals, UV texture, and World Pass pass, velocity vectors

• Generate deep pixel data like World Position, Normals, UV
• Volumetric Renderer, with full ray casted self shadowing volumes with variable density
• World Position Pass integration of images with occlusion
• Masking and Volumetric Atmospherics using World Position Pass
• OpenCL GPU accelerated for real-time interactivity and rendering

• 3D flow-based particle suite
• Fully OpenGL accelerated
• Bitmap, geometric, or pixel-based particle styles for increased flexibility
• Variable control over spin, size, velocity, angle, spin, fade, blur, and color over time
• Modify particle behavior with physics-based tools like gravitational, wind, friction, tangential, point, and gradient forces
• Control modifier tools with effectors and force emitters, based on bitmaps, shapes, or polylines
• Advanced behavioral controls like flocking, turbulence, spawning, and n-body attraction
• N-GON particle style provides a variety of shaded geometric shapes for particles
• Image Emitter tool turns each pixel of an image into a particle
• Modify particle attributes with custom expressions
• Produce depth-of-field blurring on particles based on Z-position
• Animate any particle parameter over time
• Apply motion blur to all particle streams
• Choose from a variety of predefined particle styles and brushes
• Merge separate particle streams together with pMerge tool
• Output Z-buffer position for each particle, and depth blur particles together
• Change particle styles based on collision and other 'events'
• Network renderable to slash render times

• Render Fusion comps on remote CPUs using unlimited number of render nodes
• Network rendered previews, tool caches speed the entire production process from start to finish
• Powerful render manager for maximum efficiency
• Assign remote nodes to render groups and submit flow to only specified groups
• Assign priorities to a submitted render to help resolve conflicts in busy environments
• Network render Flipbook previews Disk and Ram caches
• Power Cluster predicatively renders the frames around current time during an interactive session using the remote nodes
• Select the range of frames to be rendered for each flow in the queue, without the need to modify or open the saved flow
• Nodes that become available after a render has begun automatically rejoin the queue

• Use standard layer blend modes like screen, overlay, multiply, and soft light
• Choose between additive and subtractive merge modes
• Perform Z-depth compositing
• Apply 'burn in' overexposure to foreground layer
• Dissolve between layers with standard SMPTE wipes and gradients, or use custom bitmaps to control the dissolve
• Apply calculated motion blur to any tool with animation applied

• Vector-based paint system
• Paint with hard or soft edge brushes or bit map image brushes
• Choose paint styles including Clone, Emboss, Smear, Stamp, and more
• Use strokes and shapes to paint non-destructively on images
• On-the-fly caching
• Individual strokes can be moved, edited, animated, and tracked
• Supports standard pressure-sensitive tablets; brushes can vary by stroke pressure or velocity
• Infinitely scalable brushes with fine softness control
• Flood fill for magic wand-style operations that work over time
• Bezier and stroke wire removal tools for fast and flexible removal of rigging and other undesirable elements

• Complete control over every parameter of a font's color, size, kerning, and layout
• Use any TrueType, Open Type, or PS1 type font
• Layout text along spline paths, to a frame, or circle
• Align text to frame, image or path, including horizontal and vertical justification
• Full Unicode support for international and extended character sets
• Manually adjust the kerning and position of every character
• Mix and match fonts, colors, size, and texture in a single tool
• Extrude Text in 3D
• Custom 3D bevel creation
• Use multiple fill, outline, and text borders
• Use modifiers like Scramble, Timecode, and Follower
• Animate built-in 'type on' effects, rolls, and crawls
• Transform layout, characters, words, and shading elements separately
• Fills and outlines have individual shading, softness, and glow
• Map images and sequences onto text with a variety of mapping styles
• Store commonly used styles in library swatches for future use
• Transform text in 3D, with independent transforms for the layout, character, and shading components

• Unlimited tracking points within a single tracker
• High sub-pixel precision
• Integrated corner positioning, perspective correction, stabilization, and match moving, all within a single tool
• Adaptive pattern acquisition
• Track paths forward and backward
• Stabilization based on an unlimited number of track points
• Smooth and stabilize camera motion without eliminating existing pan or zoom
• Automatic selection of best tracking channel, red, green, blue, alpha or luminance
• Choose a manual rotation axis for stabilization
• Drive the animation of any parameter, path, or tool with tracked data
• Publish and connect individual points on a spline

• Fast Noise tool for quick, high-quality noise patterns
• Mandelbrot generator produces scalable fractal images
• Continuous and discontinuous noise options
• Noise detail and noise brightness maps for precision control over noise generation
• Background generator for solid and gradient type backgrounds
• Generate gradients calculated in RGB, HLS, HSV, or LAB color space
• Unlimited gradient color points for fine control over gradient progression
• Animate gradient procession over time
• Select from one of six gradient types including linear, radial, and square
• Static, repeat and ping-pong modes for out of bounds gradients
• Day Sky simulates the Sky based on time of year and time
• Plasma generator for frequency interference based noise patterns
• Adjustable grain strength, size, softness, and spacing
• Response curves control amount of grain across a gradient for each color channel to closely match film stock grain behavior
• Color differences between grain channels help match non-monochromatic-type grains
• Choose between random or seeded grain noise for repeatable and static noise types

• Industry standard Primatte 5 Keyer
• Fusion's exclusive Ultra Keyer optimized for Blue and Green screen extraction
• Chroma and Luma Keyer for extracting mattes from color or luminance channels
• Five modes of spill suppression to eliminate even the most difficult reflection halos
• Animated garbage mattes for isolating rigging and set elements
• Adjustable edge gamma and fringe color correction
• Matte thresholding for semi-transparent region replacement
• Matte blur, gamma, and contrast control for post-key processing of the matte

• Lens-type defocusing with blooming and NGon elements
• Lens flare-style hotspots with occlusion and lens aberrations
• Glow, soft glow, glow under, and glow thresholding modes
• Pre-masks for glow, highlight, dve, and other tools
• Directional blurs for motion and zoom style blurring
• Erode and dilate filters for burn in and overexposure effects
• Sharpen and unsharpen masking
• Sobel and laplacian edge detection
• Custom convolution kernel filtering

• Transform image with high-quality area sampling for excellent antialiasing
• Concatenated transformations speed operations and improve quality
• Apply displacements, dents, and vortexes to any image
• Choose from one of eight drip deformations with control over amplitude, aspect, frequency, and aspect
• True perspective positioning and correction
• Corner pinning for sign replacement and four-point scaling
• Grid-based image warping over an entire image or a specified region
• Define separate source and destination grids for morphing effects
• Complete bezier and smoothing control over each grid point
• Magnet or static selection types for easy manipulation of multiple grid points

• Linear and Non-Linear retiming of clips
• Animatable frame interpolation and blending for smoother motion

• Create masks using bezier splines, B-splines, paint tool, or bitmap images
• Magic wand-type mask performs color picking over time
• Non-uniform feathering of spline shapes
• Roto Assist to find edges of the subject
• Roto Onion skinning, shows the roto shapes for multiple frames
• Controllable motion blur
• Use masks to limit the effect of any tool to a specified region
• Re-order, copy, paste, and cut masks

• Adjust hue, saturation, tinting, gamma, gain, contrast, and brightness for any color channel or luminance range
• Manipulate levels and image histogram directly
• Spline-based Color Curves tool allows look-up-table color correction for infinite flexibility
• User definable ranges for shadows, midtones, and highlights
• Separate color correction by channel or region
• Color match to a reference image
• Channel Booleans tool to copy and blend image channels based on add, subtract, multiply, and other mathematical operations

• Supports integer and HDRI floating processing of color depth
• Out-of-range color values are preserved through color adjustments
• Industry-standard color spaces including ACES, REC709, REC2020, and Wide Gamut
• Linear Light Color/Open Color IO
• Monitor calibration
• Waveform, Vectorscope, and Histogram displays
• LUT creation, analyzing, and designing tools
• 3D LUTs
• Work in RGB, YUV, CMY, and other color spaces
• Use logarithmic images like Cineon and DPT without first converting them to linear space

• Support for OpenFX Plugins, including GenArts and RE:Vision Effects
• Native SDK for 3D and image processing tools

• Bins for easy access to commonly used Tools, Settings, Macros, Compositions, and Footage
• Bin server for sharing Bin assets over network
• Carry Metadata through a project pipeline
• Read existing Metadata on clips
• Copy and insert custom metadata to any image

• Support for Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras and Cinema DNG format
• Supports over 30 image files formats including OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, JPEG, PSD, and QuickTime
• Support for SVG scalable vector files
• Support for Arri raw format, R3D format, Canon rmf raw, Support for Vision Research Phantom Cameras, and Cine format
• 3:2 Pull Down and Pull Up with automatic sequence detection
• Process fields/frames in NTSC, PAL or HD field orders, control over dominance or field order
• Create clip lists containing multiple files within a single loader
• Load and process common IFL (image file list) formats
• Load full resolution and proxy clips together, toggling between modes on the fly
• Use WAV audio for timing and playback
• View audio waveform in timeline

• Embedded Lua and Python scripting support
• Integrated development environment
• Pre-built scripts to automate common workflows
• Control Fusion scripts from local or remote machines
• Launch and control external tools from within Fusion
• Macro tool combines standard tools to create custom tools
• Fuses tool kit for development of OpenCL custom tools
• Just-in-Time compiling of image processing tools