Release of Fusion Studio 18.5

[Peter Chamberlain]

We are pleased to announce the release of Fusion Studio 18.5. This release is available at no charge for existing customers from our support web site.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... and-fusion

What's new in Fusion Studio 18.5

• Support for importing Universal Scene Descriptor (USD) files.
• Introduction of the USD toolset for managing USD assets.
- uLoader
- uMerge
- uTransform
- uCylinder Light
- uDisk Light
- uDistant Light
- uDome Light
- uRectangle Light
- uSphere Light
- uImage Plane
- uShape
- uCamera
- uRenderer
• Support for USD Hydra based renderers including Storm.
• New multi-merge tool for compositing multiple layers.
• Support for a native AI-based depth map tool.
• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.3.
• GPU accelerated Clean Plate.
• GPU accelerated Anaglyph.
• Up to 3x faster renders when using splitter tool.
• Support for OpenEXR DWA compression level in saver nodes.
• Support for BMD Film Gen 5 in CineonLog tool.
• Support for previewing individual shape tools.
• General performance and stability improvements.