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I'm using Optimized Media, Proxy Mode, Performance Mode and everything else I can to get playability while on a laptop.

I'm trying to do some compositing now on some clips, but the clips being fed into Fusion are not the Full Res Full Frame clips. I've tried deactivating "Use Optimized Media" and turning Proxy mode off, but it's still not accessing the Full Res clip.

I would try deleting the Optimized Media to see if it's somehow forcing Fusion to see that, but I would have to delete all of my Optimized Media, which I can't do because I'm on a deadline.

Thus.....the rub.

You understood that Fusion is always fed the timeline resolution, right?
There's not much you can do on an underpowered machine.

One trick is to change the resolution for the project, since the full source resolution can come through then.
But this 'hack' might not always work in future versions. Officially you can only have one resolution for timelines in the same project.

I think for the Resolve to Fusion workflow to be viable in an actual VFX pipeline we need to be able to access the full resolution source clips in the composite, and the access needs to be super smooth and easy, otherwise there isn't a lot of point to the integration.

Changing the resolution of the timeline isn't a viable solution because if you're final deliverable is 1080p but need to work on 6K plates for keying, tracking, or anything else, it removes all the convenience of having everything in one software if you have to jump through a bunch of hoops.

My real hope and prayer is that Black Magic is planning on building the Fusion integration as a true high end VFX workflow which the Fusion backbone is fully capable of. I'm hoping it's not planned to be a really stripped down workflow just to track blurs on to faces and doing wedding video text.