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You do not import a fuse. Drop it in this folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Blackmagic Design\Fusion\Fuses
Important: You will need to restart Fusion for the first time. Up from then you can Reload the Fuse if you happen to Edit it.
Here a quick tool type/source reference
.Fuse is a scripted plugin - meaning that it follows (a subpart, mostly 2D) of the Fusion API and runs pretty much like a native .plugin (see below). However Fuses are written in Lua (JIT since Fusion 7, which speeds up the evaluation by multiple times), can contain multi-threaded parts, even OpenCL code which is evaluated on the GPU/CPU (GPU support in Fusion Studio only).
.setting is a text file (Lua-Table) with values for a particular tool.
This can also be a complete Macro with User-Controls and custom parameters.
You can easily share settings, drop them in from the explorer or Bin.
Also note you can copy paste tools from Fusion which end up very similar to a .setting in the clipboard.
.plugin is a dll (dynamic linked library), probably written in C++ and compiled, so binary and unreadable. You need Fusion Studio to load third party plugins. Additionally you will need to restart Fusion.
.ofx is a special kind of plugin that sits in a very specific folder. It is like a plugin however follows a tight specification so it will work (in best cases) within multiple hosts (=other applications than Fusion).
Also needs restart.
Hope that makes sense.