Was told at NAB road show Fusion 9 coming shortly

Went to the NAB road show in Portland the other day and asked the BM reps about Fusion. I think it is either Siggraph or another technology show in August or September, but they said that is where they are going to be announcing Fusion 9, and future updates for Fusion will be announced at that show instead of NAB as well. The guy who gave the Resolve Presentation also stated this, and said they made many improvements that 9 will truly be a competitor to Nuke, and that we will be very happy with what they did with it. Asked them about Ultimatte integration into Fusion and they said that is the plan but could not say if it will be in this update and could not talk about it any further. Again, this is what I was told by more than one rep so I am just going off of what they said

I like what i hear!

IBC is almost 3 months away. For some reason i feel kinda sure that we will all be pleasantly surprised.

I think they said Siggraph but it cold be that. I swear they said either August or September but thinking August

As a guy who moved over from Nuke recently I must say I am really enjoying working with Fusion, its taken a while to get my head around a lot of stuff but its great to hear they are pushing forward with Fusion.

Any info about a price drop for Fusion Studio like BM did with Resolve?

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Any info about a price drop for Fusion Studio like BM did with Resolve?

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That is the one question I regret I did not ask and wish I did. However, even if I asked I doubt they would have been able to tell me or even hint at. They keep stuff like that pretty close to the chest

I dont think we'll see a price drop, its for a smaller market and the price is pretty good as it is for the Studio version. I also think any serious compositor would be happy to pay and see that money go into R&D.

I wonder if we'll see a continuation of the free version, as this seems like a major feature update. That said, the current Studio price is very good - can't complain at that.

If they improve it and drop the price to 299.00, then nuke will have a hard time justifying their price. Even Adobe could be affected.

I think Nuke has a hard time justifying their price compared to Fusion as it is.

I think Nuke has a hard time justifying their price compared to Fusion as it is.

eh. hardly.

Apps like Nuke and Houdini are expensive but they provide a lot more functionality than say Fusion. Fusion "Studio" dropping its price down to $299 doesn't mean people will buy it. The difference in features of Studio versus the free version is negligible. Also, BM has traditionally been bad at marketing and even moreso with Fusion. Making a $299 version of Studio while still maintaining a free version, at its current state, won't make it any better than Nuke or even CC when it comes to feature sets. If anything it's hemorrhaging their overhead.

I'm all for BM updating Fusion but I seriously doubt Fusion 9 will compete with Nuke 11. It's great BM employee is jazzed about his app and is telling people it'll compete but pride aside, he probably knows they have a long road ahead to convince a sizable amount of customers to buy Fusion (not free version).

I dont think we'll see a price drop, its for a smaller market and the price is pretty good as it is for the Studio version. I also think any serious compositor would be happy to pay and see that money go into R&D.

Sorry but any compositor (*or any user of any software) isn't going to happily give money to a developer in the hopes that money will go into R&D and further develop the software. You buy a license because you need the functionality that software provides and what your budget can allow. Also, a "serious compositor" probably realizes that $999 he/she paid for their software may possibly fund $199 towards R&D, and a developers day rate is higher than that.

I think Nuke has a hard time justifying their price compared to Fusion as it is.

I agree with what Jeff said in his answer. Fusion Studio can even drop to 0$, there still is nothing to justify for Nuke, because Nuke is not bought instead of Studio due to Studio being 1K$ and lowering this does not change anything. Nuke, currently going for something like 4K$ for standard licence, is bought because it has the tools to pull stuff off and it has a proven track record of massive comps and very good pipeline integration possibilities. If Fusion will start to show similar capabilities, it does not need to lower the price for people to buy it.