Blackmagic Design Fusion 8 Studio (50 User License Pack)

General

Integrated 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment;

Resolution independent with support for images over 32K x 32K;

Mix and match footage of different resolutions, field orders, aspect ratios and formats within a single project;

Footage of different color depths can be processed in their native color depth within a single flow graph; and

Responsive UI with interactive, real-time rendering;

Render to multiple formats and resolutions in a single pass, with multiple saver nodes at any position in the flow process;

Seamlessly blend floating point, 64 bit and 32 bit images without concern;

Two-level proxy system for fast interactive response;

Open and work with multiple comps at once;

Open unlimited floating display views;

Save Custom interface Layouts;

Use Independent LUT’s for each display view;

Support for dual displays;

A/B split view for comparing shots;

View and edit your project in frames, timecode or feet+frames modes;

Includes Generation studio wide management software for assigning tasks, tracking assets, and versioning shots; and

Includes Avid Connect plug-in for using Fusion from the Media Composer timeline on Windows.

Node Based Interface

Intuitive node-based flow graph interface for building composites;

Branch and connect tools to multiple nodes;

Open and work with multiple comps at once;

Copy and paste tools into other comps;

Group and collapse tools into sub-flow for better organization;

Drag and drop footage into flow directly from file explorer;

Add notes to any node, or even the flow itself, as reminders or to assist with collaboration;

Render a comp while working on another;

Show thumbnails for images in flow graph; and

Integrated Script Debug Console. Step through code, set breakpoints and have multiple scripts open at the same time.

Animation Tools

Display and edit multiple animation splines;

Use Bezier or cubic splines for animation curves;

Scale, shape and stretch splines;

Set looping parameters for ping-pong, relative and number of loops;

Use keyframe markers as guides;

Step-in and step-out keyframe modes;

Set guides, markers and snap-to points;

Use time value offsets and scaling for multiple selected keyframes;

Global ease in and out controls; and

Shape box to deform and taper splines.

Timeline

Non-linear timeline display for adjusting element timing;

Trim and position multiple clips simultaneously;

Scrub audio and view waveform within timeline;

Sift the timeline display to show specific tools or groups of tools;

Set guides, markers and snap-to points;

Integrated spline viewer and editor;

Spreadsheet view for quick editing of animated parameters;

Drag and drop sorting of tools in the timeline to better focus on timing and keyframes; and

Color coding of tools and splines.

Performance

Completely multi-threaded rendering, uses every CPU available;

GPU Acceleration of 3D workspace and rendering;

OpenCL Acceleration of computationally intensive tools;

Render and interactive performance scalable with remote nodes;

Designed to work efficiently with extremely large files;

Enhanced file caching for local and networked drives;

Disk and Ram Caching stores processed images for immediate playback;

Cache manager work invisibly in background - no user intervention required;

Multiple tools can simultaneously maintain their own cache;

Improve local performance/interactivity with remote render nodes;

Automatic memory tuning;

Images already in cache do not re-render;

Cache output of any node to either RAM or disk;

Region Of Interest and User-definable Domain Of Definition speed up image processing; and

Infinite Canvas eliminates clipping of image areas outside the project bounds.

3D Workspace

A fully integrated 3D compositing environment with lights, camera snap casted shadows;

3D scene importing via FBX and Alembic, includes models, cameras, lights, and rigs;

Render scenes with many millions of polygons and complex shading;

Lightning fast GPU based renderer;

Import 3D models from Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and more;

3D importing of scenes with matched animation curves, stereo cameras, lighting and multi level materials;

Relighting using rich deep pixels and re-shading tools to a full GPU renderer;

The GPU render outputs multiple layer types for later processing at extraordinary speed;

GPU accelerated Ambient Occlusion rendering;

Geometry creation, with primitives and 3D text;

Bending, tapering and warping of geometry or groups of objects;

Duplicate, Replicate objects to create armies or crowds;

Support for multiple renderers and many scenes in one composition; and

Import tracked cameras that match live action and also match 3D animation applications, making a seamless workflow for studios.

Multi Channel Support

Use the extra channels in Open EXR files produced by 3D applications to enhance the look of 3D rendered material;

Depth merging combines two images based on the relative position of their pixels, eliminating the concept of foreground and background;

3D Z -Depth Blur for true depth of field focusing;

3D Shader for relighting object based on the information contained in the normals channel;

3D Fog applies fog to an image based on depth of each pixel, or an external z-buffer map;

3D Texture to apply reflection maps and replacement textures to 3D rendered objects;

Use object and material ID’s to mask the effect of any tool;

Use the above tools and techniques with particles and grid warping tools in Fusion, which also produce extra channel information; and

Deep multi channel output for Z buffers, normals, UV texture and World Pass pass, velocity vectors;

Deep Pixel Compositing

Generate deep pixel data like World Position, Normals, UV

Volumetric Renderer, with full ray casted self shadowing volumes with variable density;

World Position Pass integration of images with occlusion;

Masking and Volumetric Atmospherics using World Position Pass; and

OpenCL GPU accelerated for real time interactivity and rendering.

Particles

3D flow-based particle suite;

Fully OpenGL accelerated for incredible speed;

Bitmap, geometric or pixel based particle styles for ultimate flexibility;

Variable control over spin, size, velocity, angle, spin, fade, blur and color over time;

Modify particle behavior with physics-based tools like gravitational, wind, friction, tangential, point and gradient forces;

Control modifier tools with effectors and force emitters, based on bitmaps, shapes or polylines;

Advanced behavioral controls like flocking, turbulence, spawning and n-body attraction;

N-GON particle style provides a variety of shaded geometric shapes for particles;

Image Emitter tool turns each pixel of an image into a particle;

Modify particle attributes with custom expressions;

Produce depth of field blurring on particles based on Z-position;

Animate any particle parameter over time;

Apply motion blur to all particle streams;

Choose from a variety of predefined particle styles and brushes;

Merge separate particle streams together with pMerge tool;

Output Z-buffer position for each particle, and depth blur particles together;

Change particle styles based on collision and other ‘events’; and

Network renderable to slash render times.

Network Rendering

Render Fusion comps on remote CPUs using unlimited number of render nodes;

Network rendered previews, tool caches speed the entire production process from start to finish;

Powerful render manager for maximum efficiency;

Assign remote nodes to render groups and submit flow to only specified groups;

Assign priorities to a submitted render to help resolve conflicts in busy environments;

Network render Flipbook previews Disk and Ram caches;

Power Cluster predictively renders the frames around current time during an interactive session using the remote nodes;

Select the range of frames to be rendered for each flow in the queue, without the need to modify or open the saved flow; and

Nodes that become available after a render has begun automatically rejoin the queue.

Layer Blending Tools

Use standard layer blend modes like screen, overlay, multiply, and soft light;

Choose between additive and subtractive merge modes;

Perform Z-depth compositing;

Apply ‘burn in’ overexposure to foreground layer;

Dissolve between layers with standard SMPTE wipes and gradients, or use custom bitmaps to control the dissolve; and

Apply calculated motion blur to any tool with animation applied.

Paint

Vector-based paint system;

Paint with hard or soft edge brushes or bit map image brushes;

Choose paint styles including Clone, Emboss, Smear, Stamp and more;

Use strokes and shapes to paint non-destructively on images;

On-the-fly caching for amazing interactive performance;

Individual strokes can be moved, edited, animated and tracked;

Supports standard pressure-sensitive tablets; brushes can vary by stroke pressure or velocity;

Infinitely scalable brushes with extremely fine softness control;

Flood fill for magic wand-style operations that work over time; and

Bezier and stroke wire removal tools for fast and flexible removal of rigging and other undesirable elements.

2D/3D Text Creation

Complete control over every parameter of a font’s color, size, kerning and layout;

Use any TrueType, Open Type or PS1 type font;

Layout text along spline paths, to a frame, or circle;

Align text to frame, image or path, including horizontal and vertical justification;

Full Unicode support for international and extended character sets;

Manually adjust the kerning and position of every character;

Mix and match fonts, colors, size and texture in a single tool;

Extrude Text in 3D;

Custom 3D bevel creation;

Use multiple fill, outline and text borders;

Use modifiers like Scramble, Timecode, and Follower;

Animate built-in ‘type on’ effects, rolls and crawls;

Transform layout, characters, words and shading elements separately;

Fills and outlines have individual shading, softness and glow;

Map images and sequences onto text with a variety of mapping styles;

Store commonly-used styles in library swatches for future use; and

Transform text in 3D, with independent transforms for the layout, character, shading components.

Tracking

Unlimited tracking points within a single tracker;

High sub pixel precision;

Integrated corner positioning, perspective correction, stabilization, and match moving, all within a single tool;

Adaptive pattern acquisition;

Track paths forward and backward;

Stabilization based on an unlimited number of track points;

Smooth and stabilize camera motion without eliminating existing pan or zoom;

Automatic selection of best tracking channel, red, green, blue, alpha or luminance;

Choose a manual rotation axis for stabilization;

Drive the animation of any parameter, path or tool with tracked data; and

Publish and connect individual points on a spline.

Creator tools and Grain

Fast Noise tool for extremely quick, high-quality noise patterns;

Mandelbrot generator produces extremely scalable fractal images;

Continuous and discontinuous noise options;

Noise detail and noise brightness maps for precision control over noise generation;

Background generator for solid and gradient type backgrounds;

Generate gradients calculated in RGB, HLS, HSV or LAB color space;

Unlimited gradient color points for fine control over gradient progression;

Animate gradient procession over time;

Select from one of six gradient types including linear, radial and square;

Static, repeat and ping pong modes for out of bounds gradients;

Day Sky simulates the Sky based on time of year and time;

Plasma generator for frequency interference based noise patterns;

Adjustable grain strength, size, softness and spacing;

Response curves control amount of grain across a gradient for each color channel to closely match film stock grain behavior;

Color differences between grain channels help match non-monochromatic-type grains; and

Choose between random or seeded grain noise for repeatable and static noise types.

Keying / Matte Tools

Industry standard Primatte 5 Keyer;

Fusion's exclusive Ultra Keyer optimized for Blue and Green screen extraction;

Chroma and Luma Keyer for extracting mattes from color or luminance channels;

Five modes of spill suppression to eliminate even the most difficult reflection halos;

Animated garbage mattes for isolating rigging and set elements;

Adjustable edge gamma and fringe color correction;

Matte thresholding for semi-transparent region replacement; and

Matte blur, gamma, and contrast control for post key processing of the matte.

Image Processing Filters

Lens-type defocusing with blooming and NGon elements;

Lens flare-style hotspots with occlusion and lens aberrations;

Glow, soft glow, glow under and glow thresholding modes;

Pre-masks for glow, highlight, dve and other tools;

Directional blurs for motion and zoom style blurring;

Erode and dilate filters for burn in and overexposure effects;

Sharpen and unsharpen masking;

Sobel and laplacian edge detection; and

Custom convolution kernel filtering.

Transforms and Warping

Transform image with high-quality area sampling for excellent anti-aliasing;

Concatenated transformations speed operations and improve quality;

Apply displacements, dents, and vortexes to any image;

Choose from one of eight drip deformations with control over amplitude, aspect, frequency and aspect;

True perspective positioning and correction;

Corner pinning for sign replacement and four point scaling;

Grid-based image warping over an entire image or a specified region;

Define separate source and destination grids for morphing effects;

Complete bezier and smoothing control over each grid point; and

Magnet or static selection types for easy manipulation of multiple grid points.

Retiming

Linear and Non-Linear retiming of clips; and

Animatable frame interpolation and blending for smoother motion.

Rotoscoping tools and Masking

Create masks using bezier splines, B-splines, paint tool or bitmap images;

Magic wand-type mask performs color picking over time;

Non-uniform feathering of spline shapes;

Roto Assist, to find edges of the subject;

Roto Onion skinning, shows the roto shapes for multiple frames;

Controllable motion blur;

Use masks to limit the effect of any tool to a specified region; and

Re-order, copy, paste and cut masks.

Color Tools

Adjust hue, saturation, tinting, gamma, gain, contrast, brightness for any color channel or luminance range;

Manipulate levels and image histogram directly;

Spline-based Color Curves tool allows look-up-table color correction for infinite flexibility;

User definable ranges for shadows, midtones and highlights;

Separate color correction by channel or region;

Color match to a reference image; and

Channel Booleans tool to copy and blend image channels based on add, subtract, multiply and other mathematical operations.

Colorspace Processing

Supports integer and HDRI floating processing of color depth;

Out of range color values are preserved through color adjustments;

Industry standard color spaces including ACES, REC709, REC2020, and Wide Gamut;

Linear Light Color/Open Color IO;

Monitor calibration;

Waveform, Vectorscope and Histogram display;

LUT creation, analyzing and designing tools;

3D LUTs;

Work in RGB, YUV, CMY and other color spaces; and

Use logarithmic images like Cineon and DPT without first converting them to linear space.

Stereoscopic 3D Toolset

Built-in 3D cameras with support for eye separation, convergence and toe in, or Parallel mode;

Disparity stereo map generation, with mapping in both left and right eyes;

New Eye tool for generating new left and right images, with convergence and alignment;

Stereo Align tool for adjusting vertical alignment, convergence, and eye separation;

DisparityToZ and ZToDisparity converts Disparity to and from Z depth;

Global Alignment tool for adjusting a stereo pair without warping;

Stereo Stack and Unstack to combine Left and Right images into a single stereo pair;

Support for 3D stereo viewing systems including OpenGL quad-buffering, anaglyph, side-by-side, stacking and interlace viewing; and

Stereoscopic Hardware Support including NVIDIA 3DVision, Planar and JVC monitors, Christie Digital Cinema Projectors and Mirage Projectors.

3rd Party Plugin Support

Support for OpenFX Plugins, including GenArts and RE:Vision Effects; and

Native SDK for 3D and image processing tools.

Bins and Media Organization

Bins for easy access to commonly used Tools, Settings, Macros, Compositions and Footage;

Bin server for sharing Bin assets over network;

Carry Metadata through a project pipeline;

Read existing Metadata on clips; and

Copy and insert custom metadata to any image.

File Format Compatibility

Support for Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras and Cinema DNG format;

Supports over 30 image files formats including OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, JPEG, PSD, and QuickTime.

Support for SVG scalable vector files;

Support for Arri raw format, R3D format, Canon rmf raw, Support for Vision Research Phantom Cameras and Cine format;

3:2 Pull Down and Pull Up with automatic sequence detection;

Process fields/frames in NTSC, PAL or HD field orders, control over dominance or field order;

Create clip lists containing multiple files within a single loader;

Load and process common IFL (image file list) formats;

Load full resolution and proxy clips together, toggling between modes on the fly;

Use WAV audio for timing and playback; and

View audio waveform in timeline.

Extensibility

Embedded Lua and Python scripting support;

Integrated development environment;

Pre-built scripts to automate common workflows;

Control Fusion scripts from local or remote machines;

Launch and control external tools from within Fusion;

Macro tool combines standard tools to create custom tools;

Fuses tool kit for development of OpenCL custom tools; and

Just-In-Time compiling of image processing tools.