A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

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Thomas Martin

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A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostSun Apr 22, 2018 6:58 pm

I would greatly appreciate if I had the option to use Resolve 15 as an extended Fusion.

A wishful workflow for me would be: I start on the Fusion page and select a MediaIn node and
Resolve automatically generates a timelime and a clip on the edit page as a container for the awaited Fusion composition.

This comp may be a completely syntetic motion graphics clip, using e.g. the Krokodove plugin, without any external input or with some auxiliary footage like pics, FBX or clips without the need to first load them in some timeline or so.
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Re: A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostSun Apr 22, 2018 7:50 pm

I support that.
This is extremly important for motion grafics and such things....
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George Deierling

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Re: A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostSun Apr 22, 2018 9:31 pm

Be able to use a Fusion flow as a media clip in Resolve, which would just link to the output node....
That would keep the Fusioneers happy, they can just keep working in the standalone version and still have integration.
For unrendered parts, Resolve would just show a missing media icon, and leave all the heavy lifting to Fusion.
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Re: A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostSun Apr 22, 2018 11:19 pm

you can have as many saver nodes in fusion as you like. sometimes to prerender a certain part of the composition, sometimes to render to different formats at once (a uncompressed exr and a jpg for fast preview, a full size and a half size rendering, different crops for different end usage, ...)

which saver/media out would make it into the timeline?
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Re: A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostMon Apr 23, 2018 4:31 am

There could be a dialog to choose one if more than one Saver was found. Or perhaps all the Savers could be added to the Media Pool, and the user could treat them just like normal (though frequently off-lined) clips.

It might still be difficult to manage versioning, particularly for those of us who use sub-versions.

Honestly, for a good Resolve-Fusion link, all I really required was the ability to script Resolve. As a compositor or a TD, I don't really care about having Fusion inside Resolve, but I love that I could now theoretically build pipeline around Resolve.
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Re: A wish for an optional Fusion centric workflow

PostTue Apr 24, 2018 8:13 am

Top Marks to Grant and his devoted BMD team for integrating Fusion into Resolve !

Although I understand the desire to have Fusion as an external app for dedicated pros, I see more and more post budgets pushing for faster, lower costs and more editors doing grading and VFX works.
The current Fusion Tab makes it appear very difficult to decide an order for video effects ie: source ->NR ->Motion Stabilization->Speed Reduction->Grade->add specific coloured text->add Film Grain.

I'd love to see the Fusion VFX facility dropped into a node in the Color node tree, so we can do VFX before or after OFX or grading Nodes. I guess the Color Tab would than become a composite VFX tab able to do everything except edit alignment. ie A Fusion Node Tree inside a Color node the existing Color Node Tree. Could easily be recursive and visually clearer to describe what we are trying to achieve ?

I trust this workflow could also solve the VFX duplication/confusion of OFX/ResolveFX/FusionFX for the same effects type ie: "Slow-Motion with Optical Flow" that doesn't work so well in OFX but I guess should work better in Fusion (atleast as good as FCP or Premiere).

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