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Hi all,

a few features request for upcoming Fusion8 :

-gamma and exposure sliders for viewer, without to have to go to the lut menu

-pipes in flow for expressions with a specific color (differents of classic pipes)

-expressions in filename field of loaders and savers

-per saver render range in the same .comp file

-3d navigation from most common 3D app (maya, max, houdini...)

-in the console script , let us have more than one line to enter code.

Thanks.

3d navigation from most common 3D app (maya, max, houdini...)

I very much agree!
I work in Maya, Houdini and Nuke and the Fusion controls are confusing. An option to change these to something else would be really appreciated.

cheers

Actually:

For me, even though Fusion looks like it got everything I need, I can't really consider it until the controls are adjustable in a way so that I can work with multiple applications at the same time.
And to be honest, I think this is an issue for a lot of potential customers.

Also it would be nice if they added:

A 3d tracker

A way to import materials and Model with pre-made materials.

Tim McGilly wrote:Also it would be nice if they added:

A way to import materials and Model with pre-made materials.

Import FBX already does this. All the materials / maps are loaded and connected to the correct meshes.

Of course if you have vertex data needed by the material that Fusion doesn't support, then it's not going to work. While Fusion itself can support things like vertex color, the FBX loader doesn't.

phantom-studio wrote:Hi all,

a few features request for upcoming Fusion8 :

-gamma and exposure sliders for viewer, without to have to go to the lut menu

-pipes in flow for expressions with a specific color (differents of classic pipes)

-expressions in filename field of loaders and savers

-per saver render range in the same .comp file

-3d navigation from most common 3D app (maya, max, houdini...)

-in the console script , let us have more than one line to enter code.

Thanks.

+1

phantom-studio wrote:H

-per saver render range in the same .comp file

you can already do that: you can animate the blend slider in the saver to the range you want it to be active.

and there is already a nice script for this:
http://www.steakunderwater.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=278

michael vorberg wrote:

phantom-studio wrote:H

-per saver render range in the same .comp file

you can already do that: you can animate the blend slider in the saver to the range you want it to be active.

and there is already a nice script for this:
http://www.steakunderwater.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=278

The script is great, and the blend slider works, but you have to admit that a render range input would be nice. By default on the work area set in timeline, or a custom range input. Seems like that wouldn't be hard to implement or go against Fusion's way of doing things.

It should work with the ranges in the timeline, though, right?

Customizable 3D navigation is a must for me. Would be amazing if I could match it to Cinema 4D's navigation.

Amazing job on the new UI!

Getting ready to pull the trigger on Fusion Studio...

Thanks for the hard work!

- Shawn

i would vote for:
start each (lua/python) script as a own thread or at least each user dialog, so i can have many customs panels and scripts open and use them all

michael vorberg wrote:i would vote for:
start each (lua/python) script as a own thread or at least each user dialog, so i can have many customs panels and scripts open and use them all

Can't you already do that? If you launch the thread outside of Fusion, but connect to the active Fusion instance, wouldn't that do it? I seem to remember Daniel showing an example of that to make non-modal dialog boxes.

Sure you can do that with studio, but then you can't attach a keyboard shortcut or a link in the menu

I think you can also launch a pyqt dialog as separate thread but I didn't try it yet

Oh, you might be right about studio, but hotkeys and menus should be fine, you would just launch the script externally, like with executebg(), right?

Hi there

I work as broadcast designer mostly in Cinema 4D and use After Effects for compositing.
There are some features that would be fantastic to have in Fusion to replace After Effects:

-customizable viewport navigation
-light wrap node
-Frischluft-like adjustments in Depth Blur Node
-I think it would be wonderful to have an Optical Flares-like system in Studio version, I mean more subtle adjustments
-import of Cinema 4D lens distortion data
-3D and planar tracking

Thank you for attention

Yes to all of these please. But I don't think we'll see any of it until Fusion 9. F8 seems to be a interface tweak and the addition of the Mac version. Have there been any new features added to Fusion 8 over 7?

Any news on this:
-3d navigation from most common 3D app (maya, max, houdini...) ?

Fusion 9 maybe?

I would love to see a middle mouse scrub on all numerical input boxes. I would like to be able to scrub hue, sat value in the color chooser. Also would be helpful to have shift snapping of the values; say snap to .01 or maybe 1 degree in angle entries.

1)I hope to see the proper working description of ACES (and for ACEScc as well, covering all the right working methods to do just that) workflow between Fusion and DaVinci.
Also willing to see support for BMC DNG footage(so the image appears the same as viewed in DaVinci and with the same raw settings, and backwards in the DaVinci).
2)Keyframes and masks and trackers and color curves exchange between the two. Name the rest...
And the rest is... If only it could use the same Optimized Media that was generated previously in DaVinci... But that's too much I guess, at least this as a request:
3)DaVinci's fast and robust Optimized Media - like workflow for Fusion (What do I mean: select all the footage to be optimized, click one button - Bam - OM is done! Switching between the source and OM with one button - no problem! (The current Cache to Disk and Proxy option in the Loader is way-way away from the OM in terms of speed and usability))

Eugene Afanasiev wrote:3)DaVinci's fast and robust Optimized Media - like workflow for Fusion (What do I mean: select all the footage to be optimized, click one button - Bam - OM is done! Switching between the source and OM with one button - no problem! (The current Cache to Disk and Proxy option in the Loader is way-way away from the OM in terms of speed and usability))

most of this can be done right now:
create a script that adds a saver to each selected node, fill in the path and settings for the new media, put the path from the new media in the proxy field of the orignial loader, render the new media, delete the new saver nodes and your done.
now switching to proxy mode uses the new created (compressed, optimizied) media and without proxy the original files.
only thing that takes some time is rendering the new media files.

Yeah, I've heard it a hundred times on Fusion forums, but one missing link though: how learn and how much time is it to learn to be able to write scripts like that in no time so it won't be bothering you as writing a script like that would cost you less time than doing everything by hand.
To me writing a single string expressions takes lots of time while I'm debugging for errors. So instead of already compositing for a half an hour I would be developing a script of an absent functionality within a software that could only help me start doing my actual job oif compositing, I'm more into scripts that could actually get better results with compositing itself, for ex doing some complex math for me.

Eugene Afanasiev wrote:Yeah, I've heard it a hundred times on Fusion forums, but one missing link though: how learn and how much time is it to learn to be able to write scripts like that in no time so it won't be bothering you as writing a script like that would cost you less time than doing everything by hand.
To me writing a single string expressions takes lots of time while I'm debugging for errors.

Exactly. Clients don't pay us for creating tools but for using them

Anyway, apart from more UI convenience I would like to see better alembic data support (not just meshes, but also cameras and transform data) and being able to retime alembic animations.
And it needs much easier handling of LUT and Colorspaces.

Anyway, apart from more UI convenience I would like to see better alembic data support (not just meshes, but also cameras and transform data) and being able to retime alembic animations.
And it needs much easier handling of LUT and Colorspaces.

You can currently import cameras with their animation through alembic ( at least in 7.7..not sure about 8, but I don't see why you couldn't). As far as retiming it's animation, I'm not quite sure. There used to be a time3D fuse out there. I wonder if it would work on alembic caches...

Joël Gibbs wrote:I wonder if it would work on alembic caches...

Does.

Chad Capeland wrote:

Joël Gibbs wrote:I wonder if it would work on alembic caches...

Does.

Supercool, thanks.

Joël Gibbs wrote:

Anyway, apart from more UI convenience I would like to see better alembic data support (not just meshes, but also cameras and transform data) and being able to retime alembic animations.
And it needs much easier handling of LUT and Colorspaces.

You can currently import cameras with their animation through alembic ( at least in 7.7..not sure about 8, but I don't see why you couldn't). As far as retiming it's animation, I'm not quite sure. There used to be a time3D fuse out there. I wonder if it would work on alembic caches...

When I tried to import cameras it only gave me ma, aes and lws format as option.

You have to import it through the Alembic importer, not the camera. It will create a camera node with it's transforms for you.