If the Windows version creates ripples in the industry, then the OS X flavour will produce waves that you can surf on. So, some big news for a Monday morning and we hope that we shall see Mac versions announced at NAB 2015 with the same pricing structures. Want to see Fusion in action? Make sure you check out the tutorials posted on the Blackmagic website. This is one feature we really would love to see in FCPX from Blackmagic, Apple or a third party. This is an effect in Avid that you can apply to a clip or a stack of clips and Fusion will create a composition from those elements. If you dig down past the first page of Blackmagic's Fusion webpage, you'll come across a section about Fusion Connection. The node based compositing structure will look familiar to those who spent many hours in front of Shake which Apple purchased from Nothing Real in 2002 and then EOL in 2009. The paid version is called Fusion 7 Studio, retails from their site at $995 and also includes Generation (project management) and unlimited render nodes. The free version has all of the features apart from plugins, multi-user, multi processing and stereoscopic functionality. That means customers don’t get tricked into hidden or on going costly payments for software they’ve already purchased.' 'Unlike other software, Fusion 7 Studio doesn’t require annual maintenance fees, subscriptions, a connection to the cloud, or per node render license costs. ![]() We particlulary like a line in the press release which seems like a direct pop at Adobe & Autodesk: DaVinci Resolve has been hugely successful and we imagine that Fusion will be popular too, you can't beat free. Tools that once cost tens of thousands of pounds for colour grading and VFX can now be downloaded for free. That last sentence from Grant is worth thinking about. “Now, with the free version of Fusion, everyone from individual artists to the biggest studios can create Hollywood calibre visual effects and motion graphics! When combined with DaVinci Resolve Lite, customers can get the world’s most advanced tools for editing, grading, 3D compositing, visual effects and motion graphics, all absolutely free!” ![]() Consumers are screaming for more exciting movies and television programs and so we need to do everything we can to help our customers create stunning visual effects,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “Visual effects software has been expensive for way too long and it’s time that this changed. ![]() The new pricing by Blackmagic is going to create many ripples in the industry and straight away we can see this being a problem for Autodesk's Smoke, which is still overpriced on the Mac. When Blackmagic announced at IBC 2014 that they had acquired Eyeon, we all knew it wouldn't be long before they released a new version of Fusion under their very competitive pricing structure.įusion is a high end visual effects and motion graphics tool with a pedigree stretching back over many years and many Hollywood feature films. The bad news? Only for windows at the moment, will that change at NAB? In a move that was't totally unexpected, Blackmagic Design has released two new versions of Fusion, one of which is free.
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