As some of you might know, I've been on the outskirts of Fusion for the past couple of years, taking a few timid steps away from AE and in Fusion.
With Resolve 15, it's impossible to continue to ignore Fusion, particularly considering the sudden increase in quality tutorials.
A few weeks ago, the perfect project came along for me to force myself to do it all in Resolve 15 and after a couple of weeks of messing with it, I'm not 100% sold — but not on Fusion, but rather on the integration of Fusion within Resolve.
Resolve until now has been a real-time playback environment (give or take some overtaxing OFX or some extreme node configurations). Fusion on the other hand real-time is not regardless of how fast of a machine one runs on. At the very least it requires caching of the frames, as well as running in Proxy mode etc. I find this kinda sorta puts a definite damper on the "flow" that I have enjoyed in Resolve until now. When grading or editing, when Resolve hits that Fusion clip things get sluggish real fast.
So despite Fusion in Resolve sounding really cool on paper, and during the NAB presentation, I am beginning to wonder if, with our current state of technology, VFX and Editing/Grading might be better suited as separate processes after all?
My point is that I do hope that Fusion standalone isn't abandoned, quite the opposite, I hope that it's strengthened in such a way that a Resolve user could start implementing Fusion VFX while in Resolve, then hit a button to switch over to Fusion standalone and continue working without missing a beat.
Anyone else coming to a similar conclusion?
With Resolve 15, it's impossible to continue to ignore Fusion, particularly considering the sudden increase in quality tutorials.
A few weeks ago, the perfect project came along for me to force myself to do it all in Resolve 15 and after a couple of weeks of messing with it, I'm not 100% sold — but not on Fusion, but rather on the integration of Fusion within Resolve.
Resolve until now has been a real-time playback environment (give or take some overtaxing OFX or some extreme node configurations). Fusion on the other hand real-time is not regardless of how fast of a machine one runs on. At the very least it requires caching of the frames, as well as running in Proxy mode etc. I find this kinda sorta puts a definite damper on the "flow" that I have enjoyed in Resolve until now. When grading or editing, when Resolve hits that Fusion clip things get sluggish real fast.
So despite Fusion in Resolve sounding really cool on paper, and during the NAB presentation, I am beginning to wonder if, with our current state of technology, VFX and Editing/Grading might be better suited as separate processes after all?
My point is that I do hope that Fusion standalone isn't abandoned, quite the opposite, I hope that it's strengthened in such a way that a Resolve user could start implementing Fusion VFX while in Resolve, then hit a button to switch over to Fusion standalone and continue working without missing a beat.
Anyone else coming to a similar conclusion?
>>Kays Alatrakchi
Filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA
http://moviesbykays.com
Resolve 18.1.4, Mac OS X 12.6.3 (Monterey), iMac Pro 64Gb RAM, Decklink Mini 4K, LG C9
Mac Book Air M1, Mac OS X 12.6 (Monterey), 16Gb RAM
Filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA
http://moviesbykays.com
Resolve 18.1.4, Mac OS X 12.6.3 (Monterey), iMac Pro 64Gb RAM, Decklink Mini 4K, LG C9
Mac Book Air M1, Mac OS X 12.6 (Monterey), 16Gb RAM