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Ok, this is properly one of those stupid question, but i feel like to ask this question anyway!.

Is the Fusion 7-8 really complety free ?.

I have been playing around with after effects trial.
Allso i have some experince in powerdirector which i bought long time ago.
I don't know how Fusion works but in Foundry Nuke , any media has to be imported as a
sequence of picture, which then is composed and rendered to a Avi file etc, i believe
this is the most common aproach for most composit software.
I don't know if it is possible to import a AVI file directly into Fusion.
Was'nt there a hardware license lock for Fusion 7?.
I admit i don't have much experince in video compositing.

I've did checked it out.
Black Magic Design Fusion 7-8 is
free.

Thanks!.

You can import avi and other video formats from the loader node. There are two versions of fusion. On is called fusion and the other is called fusion studio. The main difference is in fusion studio you can use stereoscopic(make things for 3d tv and cinema) and have a unlimited free render farm and only out put to ultra hd but other than that there isn't much difference.

If you need OFX support, that is available only in the Studio version. Fusion is becoming my tool of choice when it comes to adding some flare to a single scene. Speaking of which, open up the bin and there are some lens flare, even in the free version.

Fusion is completely free and you got the differences between the free and Studio version here...

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/se/pro ... on/compare

And you can import/export anything into Fusion that you can in Nuke or AE as all three use the Quicktime server for handling the footage - but compressed formats usually suck for handling so using image sequences for your footage and assets are recommended unless you're inputting Prores, r3d or alike.

In regard to rendering, say you output your heavy comp to a videofile, what if your 4 minute a frame render crashes at the next to last frame? You're screwed. So once again, better render to an image sequence and then reimport it and render it out to your preferred video format.

Thank you very much for the help.
My main things is using Cubase, vst plugin,
recording audio, which i have lot of experince,
not compositting video.
I would like to use blender ( have some ezperince!),
and export the animated video to a series of
image sequence, to imported to Fusion 7-8.
From Fusion i could do the compositing, like add
3d particle like snow, then i would like to render
every thing from Fusion to a AVI etc.
I don't know if this is the way of doing things?.
It is simply because i am used to premiere and
Powerdirector , which is working complety different
from Fusion, atleast powerdirector which is mainly
for beginners , dosent let you import image sequence.
Premiere can import image sequences, i believe.
I look forward to the audio part in Fusion.
I own a couple of vst plugin, maybe Fusion can
read vst plugin?.

Fusion is specialised in the 2D/3D Graphics & Compositing Part. So there is nearly no Audio support (only for reference), especially no VST Plugin Support. Audio Stuff you have to do in a Video Editing Software.