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So I have been trying many times to get Fusion inside of Resolve to work for motion graphics, or even just to make simple titles and it has been an 'interesting' experience. I has kind of left me head scratching as to what the intention of it is. It's not that there's just a small number of bugs or inconveniences. The whole thing just feels more like a proof of concept than actually finished software.
First of all: I really would like this to work. I would love to have an alternative to After Effects. And also Resolve needs a way to make titles. Premiere works with After Effects, FCPX works with Motion, Resolve needs something.
Just a few examples for those who haven't tried themselves:
- Try adjust a value inside a box: if there's no slider (for instance x and y value of text!) you can put the cursor in there and move the mouse to adjust the value but if you move too far (invisible off screen?) the value jumps to something impossible big. Then you have to click in de box and try to find a value that make sense again (how about 0? was it 1? no it's 0.5!). This makes adjusting values very slow and frustrating. Just to position your text.
- Opening a fusion composition: the only way seems to be to put the timeline cursor over the clip and then click the fusion tab but then it will open the top most clip. So if your composition is under something you are left wondering what to do.Double click doesn't work, as does right click and you can't open a composition from the media pool... Instead the only way seems to be to HIDE any clip on top and then go to the Fusion tab. Is that really how it was intended to work?
- The text box is small and you can't type on-screen in a Fusion composition, you also can't format text within a text element so for every font change you need to make a new element and merge and so on
- A text size of 1 is HUGE, normal text size is something like 0.04. Why?
I could go on and on but my objective here is not to complain, it's kind of free after all?
There's some good things as well, like the shading tab gives a lot of options for automatic font styling that would be difficult to do in After Effects without plugins and I am happy that Adobe fonts now actually work in Fusion.
But I am just left wondering if it makes any sense to invest more time in learning Fusion or if I should just give up? Will a next version of Resolve fix all these things or is the focus now on new features like a Cut page and is Fusion left as is?
First of all: I really would like this to work. I would love to have an alternative to After Effects. And also Resolve needs a way to make titles. Premiere works with After Effects, FCPX works with Motion, Resolve needs something.
Just a few examples for those who haven't tried themselves:
- Try adjust a value inside a box: if there's no slider (for instance x and y value of text!) you can put the cursor in there and move the mouse to adjust the value but if you move too far (invisible off screen?) the value jumps to something impossible big. Then you have to click in de box and try to find a value that make sense again (how about 0? was it 1? no it's 0.5!). This makes adjusting values very slow and frustrating. Just to position your text.
- Opening a fusion composition: the only way seems to be to put the timeline cursor over the clip and then click the fusion tab but then it will open the top most clip. So if your composition is under something you are left wondering what to do.Double click doesn't work, as does right click and you can't open a composition from the media pool... Instead the only way seems to be to HIDE any clip on top and then go to the Fusion tab. Is that really how it was intended to work?
- The text box is small and you can't type on-screen in a Fusion composition, you also can't format text within a text element so for every font change you need to make a new element and merge and so on
- A text size of 1 is HUGE, normal text size is something like 0.04. Why?
I could go on and on but my objective here is not to complain, it's kind of free after all?
There's some good things as well, like the shading tab gives a lot of options for automatic font styling that would be difficult to do in After Effects without plugins and I am happy that Adobe fonts now actually work in Fusion.
But I am just left wondering if it makes any sense to invest more time in learning Fusion or if I should just give up? Will a next version of Resolve fix all these things or is the focus now on new features like a Cut page and is Fusion left as is?