Confusion about how Compositions are organized/saved/changed
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:20 pm
I've watched a few videos that BlackMagic has produced explaining Resolve+Fusion as well as several tutorials made by users on YouTube. Though each video has been helpful in describing how to carry out discrete editing or composition tasks I am still having trouble understanding why things are organized the way they ware and how to maintain a workflow throughout an entire project.
I will try to list some of my points of confusion as simply as possible...
Lets say that in the Media Pool on the Edit page I create 3 Fusion compositions (Dog,Cat and Pony) that are five seconds long in the media pool, each with a different name. I drag each fusion composition onto a different point on the timeline. I drag composition Pony onto the timeline once more so it is on the timeline twice. Each clip segment in the timeline has the same title "Fusion Composition".
When I jump to the Fusion page there are four black boxes on the bottom of the page. Each box has 00:00:00:00 above it.
What does this number indicate if they are each 5 seconds long and arranged on different points in the timeline?
When I right click on each box they all have the same title of "composition 1". I am given the option to rename this composition. What happened to Pony? I can't find any reference to the original titles I gave to these compositions now that I am on the Fusion page. Also I'm given the option to create a new composition within this composition. I'm not sure why I would want to do that.
If I add generators, 3d render windows or clips into the media out of my composition the thumbnail at the bottom of the page still stays black. Is there some way of refreshing the comp to get visual reference in the thumbnail? I can see this getting confusing with multiple comps. Every comp looks identical and is given the same title in the selection bay at the bottom of the page.
It is nice that the Fusion page integrates with the edit page to show whatever is under the play-head when you switch between pages but this only applies to the top layer. If I set thumbnail view in my timeline, nothing displays within my fusion clips.
I realize there are a lot of small questions here but I'm throwing all this out here because maybe I am missing something very basic.
Thanks for reading this or helping anyone.
I will try to list some of my points of confusion as simply as possible...
Lets say that in the Media Pool on the Edit page I create 3 Fusion compositions (Dog,Cat and Pony) that are five seconds long in the media pool, each with a different name. I drag each fusion composition onto a different point on the timeline. I drag composition Pony onto the timeline once more so it is on the timeline twice. Each clip segment in the timeline has the same title "Fusion Composition".
When I jump to the Fusion page there are four black boxes on the bottom of the page. Each box has 00:00:00:00 above it.
What does this number indicate if they are each 5 seconds long and arranged on different points in the timeline?
When I right click on each box they all have the same title of "composition 1". I am given the option to rename this composition. What happened to Pony? I can't find any reference to the original titles I gave to these compositions now that I am on the Fusion page. Also I'm given the option to create a new composition within this composition. I'm not sure why I would want to do that.
If I add generators, 3d render windows or clips into the media out of my composition the thumbnail at the bottom of the page still stays black. Is there some way of refreshing the comp to get visual reference in the thumbnail? I can see this getting confusing with multiple comps. Every comp looks identical and is given the same title in the selection bay at the bottom of the page.
It is nice that the Fusion page integrates with the edit page to show whatever is under the play-head when you switch between pages but this only applies to the top layer. If I set thumbnail view in my timeline, nothing displays within my fusion clips.
I realize there are a lot of small questions here but I'm throwing all this out here because maybe I am missing something very basic.
Thanks for reading this or helping anyone.