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- Real Name: Cody Predum
I'm wondering if there is a good workflow for using the Resolve color page in conjunction with the Fusion page or Fusion studio in a way that allows more flexibility regarding signal path. My ideal scenario is to be able to have a node that would function as a send between one page and the other that I could insert anywhere in the node tree. Don't get me wrong, I know that's a huge ask but there are some features that exist already that I don't know about. Let me describe my current use case, and maybe someone has some ideas I can try that aren't simply "edit a clip on one of those pages, render it, drop in the timeline, use other page, repeat."
The first place I'm coming from is that I often want to be able to use several of the color page tools that aren't available on the Fusion page before that media comes into my Fusion composition. There are also situations where I wish I could add a node into a Fusion composition that simply took me to the color page and back (like loader/saver nodes, but having the color page be the round trip rather than my hard drive).
The obvious solution is to use the color page first, and then render a new clip to put on the timeline, then do the Fusion stuff on that clip. While that would theoretically work, it's far from ideal, since I might even be going back into the color page again after that, and having to render that many times during the pipeline is a waste of time, not to mention that I would be doing the initial color work without being able to see the clip I'm working on in the context of the Fusion composition I'm going to be using it in. Another example situation that shows how unnecessarily time consuming this workflow can be if is I want to use a certain tracker or keyer from Fusion, but I want to manipulate my media in the color page in order to make it easier for that Fusion tool to find the information it needs.
Anyway, I can elaborate on my use cases if anyone wants me to, but in general, what options are there in terms of going back and forth between Resolve's color page and Fusion (preferably in Resolve, but Studio is fine too if it involves rendering clips less often)? Can it be done with several separate clips from a Fusion composition such that they still come into the color page as separate clips?
The first place I'm coming from is that I often want to be able to use several of the color page tools that aren't available on the Fusion page before that media comes into my Fusion composition. There are also situations where I wish I could add a node into a Fusion composition that simply took me to the color page and back (like loader/saver nodes, but having the color page be the round trip rather than my hard drive).
The obvious solution is to use the color page first, and then render a new clip to put on the timeline, then do the Fusion stuff on that clip. While that would theoretically work, it's far from ideal, since I might even be going back into the color page again after that, and having to render that many times during the pipeline is a waste of time, not to mention that I would be doing the initial color work without being able to see the clip I'm working on in the context of the Fusion composition I'm going to be using it in. Another example situation that shows how unnecessarily time consuming this workflow can be if is I want to use a certain tracker or keyer from Fusion, but I want to manipulate my media in the color page in order to make it easier for that Fusion tool to find the information it needs.
Anyway, I can elaborate on my use cases if anyone wants me to, but in general, what options are there in terms of going back and forth between Resolve's color page and Fusion (preferably in Resolve, but Studio is fine too if it involves rendering clips less often)? Can it be done with several separate clips from a Fusion composition such that they still come into the color page as separate clips?