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Peter Chamberlain

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Release of Fusion 16 Studio and DaVinci Resolve 16 Studio

PostThu Aug 08, 2019 8:35 pm

Thank you everyone who has participated in the public beta program for Fusion 16 and DaVinci Resolve 16. The feedback has greatly assisted the development.

Today we are pleased to announce that Fusion 16 Studio is now available as a no charge update for existing users on our support web site.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion

We strongly encourage all beta users to update to this release version.

What's new in Fusion Studio 16.0

• Fusion Studio 16 release concurrent with DaVinci Resolve 16
• Support for Metal and CUDA GPU processing modes
• Improved playback performance
• Improved 3D engine performance
• Support for the latest Blackmagic RAW SDK 1.4
• Support for MultiSampling in the 3D Renderer
• Ability to flexibly scale animation with changing clip lengths
• Improved responsiveness of Fusion viewer interactions when using a Wacom tablet
• Improved performance for Change Depth with new Error Diffusion option
• Improved performance and accuracy for Camera Tracker, with support for lens distortion
• Improved performance for Dissolve with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Duplicate tool with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for TimeSpeed and TimeStretcher with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Planar Tracker
• Improved performance for B-Spline rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Vector Motion Blur and motion blur in other tools with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Splitter and Combiner with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for BitmapMask with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for CornerPin and PerspectivePin with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Mask rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Color operations with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance when selecting a paint tool with multiple strokes
• Improved zoom behavior in the keyframe and spline panels
• Improved performance and stability when rendering mask shapes when using the Metal GPU processing mode
• Improved unicode PSD layer name support
• Support for using DaVinci Resolve Studio dongles to run Fusion Studio
• General stability and performance improvements


Minimum system requirements

macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
Windows 10
Linux CentOS 7.3

Minimum 16 GB RAM
GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM which supports Metal, OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 10
Latest graphics driver as recommended by your GPU manufacturer

Installing Fusion Software

Double-click the Fusion Installer icon, follow the onscreen instructions and then restart the computer after installation.
To remove Fusion from your system, double-click the Uninstall Fusion icon.

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/.
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