Release of Fusion Studio 18.6

[Peter Chamberlain]

We are pleased to announce the release of Fusion Studio 18.6. This release is available at no charge for existing customers from our support web site.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... and-fusion


What's new in Blackmagic Fusion Studio 18.6

• Support for Resolve FX Color transform, ACES transform.
• Support for Resolve FX gamut mapping and gamut limiter.
• Support for Resolve FX Relight.
• Support for Resolve FX Chromatic Aberration Removal.
• Support for Resolve FX Chromatic Adaptation.
• Support for extruding and beveling 3D shapes.
• Support for polygon shape tool.
• Support for rendering scenes with MaterialX materials and OpenVDB volumes.
• New MaterialX tools to load .mtlx files and apply them to objects.
• Support for selecting and adjusting imported cameras and lights.
• Support for selectively transforming and hiding USD objects.
• New tool to select between variants of an USD object.
• Improved USD Loader with trim, loop and reverse support.
• New scene tree dialog for object selection in USD.
• Context menu option in the nodes and keyframes views to reset tool trims.
• Support for DaVinci Intermediate conversion options in Fusion tools.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum System Requirements

• Mac OS 11 Big Sur.
• Windows 10
• Linux CentOS 7.3

• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB+ for improved performance.
• GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM which supports Metal, OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 10.
• Latest graphics driver as recommended by your GPU manufacturer.


Built in Resolve FX tools.
Fusion Studio has 7 new built-in Resolve FX tools for Relight, color transform, ACES transform, gamut mapping and limiting, chromatic adaption and chromatic aberration removal. Similar to Depth Map and Magic Mask, these tools are fully scriptable and have access to splines, keyframes, anim curves, expressions and other Fusion native toolsets.

Additions to the Shape Toolkit.
sPolygon: The sPolygon tool allows users to draw custom shapes. Through intuitive point manipulation, this tool allows users to effortlessly generate intricate forms, curves and lines, which tie in with the existing shape tools in Fusion. It provides the freedom to design custom elements, making it a valuable tool in motion graphics design.

Extrude3D: The Extrude3D tool operates on Fusion’s shape tools, taking flat shapes and transforming them into dynamic, three-dimensional objects through controlled extrusion, pushing the shape’s edges into the Z-axis. Additional beveling can be applied to create polished edges and chamfers.

From the cloud icon in the bottom bar, users can monitor status, pause syncing and access local storage, cloud storage and settings. Users can also drag in other files - notes, scripts, DCTLs, fonts etc - to the local folder which synchronizes between users for a complete remote workflow.

Multiple USD Enhancements.
MaterialX: The MaterialX framework is now available in Fusion’s USD environment, providing a consistent way to use intricate materials.
Users can load MaterialX files (.mtlx) from the the improved USD Loader and use the new uReplaceMaterial tool to assign imported materials to a nominated USD object to achieve a desired look.

New USD Scene Tree: The Scene Tree window uses an intuitive visual hierarchy to represent USD scenes. Users can select, filter, isolate and choose elements in a USD asset to focus on logical components and make targeted adjustments.
Using the uVisibility and uVariant tools, users can toggle element visibility and change variants used in selected element groups, useful when animating scenes.
Lastly, USD tools including cameras and lights can have multiple attribute overrides.

Installing Blackmagic Fusion Software

Double-click the Fusion Installer icon, follow the onscreen instructions and then restart the computer after installation.

Additional Information

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Some applications may use third party code under license. For details please refer to the included "Third Party Licenses.rtf" document.

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Updated Sep 12, 2023.

Thanks for the release! this is an excellent update! maybe in a later update we could even make Mtlx Materials natively? that would be incredible also hoping to get at some point the sTrace node.