General | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio 18 |
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Integrated 2D and 3D compositing in an animation environment. | YES | YES |
Mix and match footage of different resolutions, aspect ratios and formats within a single project. | YES | YES |
Footage of different color depths can be processed in their native color depth within a single flow graph. | YES | YES |
Responsive UI with interactive, real time rendering. | YES | YES |
Render to multiple formats and resolutions in a single pass, with multiple saver nodes at any position in the flow process. | YES | YES |
Resolution independent with support for images over 32K x 32K. | Limited to 16K x 16K | YES |
Support for floating point images. | YES | YES |
Support for Metal, CUDA, and OpenCL GPU acceleration. | YES | YES |
Two-level proxy system for fast interactive response. | YES | YES |
Open and work with multiple comps at once. | YES | YES |
Save Custom interface Layouts. | YES | YES |
Use Independent LUTs for each display view. | YES | YES |
Support for dual displays. | YES | YES |
A/B split view for comparing shots. | YES | YES |
View and edit your project in frames, timecode or feet+frames modes. | YES | YES |
Avid Connect Plug-in for using Fusion from the Media Composer timeline. | NO | YES |
Node Based Interface | Fusion in DaVinci | Fusion Studio 17 |
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Intuitive node-based flow graph interface for building composites. | YES | YES |
Branch and connect tools to multiple nodes. | YES | YES |
Mix and match footage of different resolutions, field orders, aspect ratios and formats within a single project. | YES | YES |
Open and work with multiple comps at once. | YES | YES |
Copy and paste tools into other comps. | YES | YES |
Group and collapse tools into sub-flow for better organization. | YES | YES |
Drag and drop footage into flow directly from file explorer. | YES | YES |
Add notes to any node, or even the flow itself, as reminders or to assist with collaboration. | YES | YES |
Render a comp while working on another. | NO | YES |
Show thumbnails for images in flow graph. | YES | YES |
Integrated Script Debug Console. Step through code, set breakpoints and have multiple scripts open at the same time. | YES | YES |
VR | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Headset support for Occulus Rift, HTC Vive. | Windows only | Windows only |
Pano viewer for no headsets. | YES | YES |
Lag free 90fps viewing. | YES | YES |
Real time viewing of 3D scenes. | YES | YES |
Live action VR playback. | YES | YES |
Stereo VR. | YES | YES |
Conversion between VR image formats. | YES | YES |
VR Paint and Fix workflow. | YES | YES |
VR Motion Graphics and Tiling. | YES | YES |
Stabilization of VR live action scenes. | YES | YES |
VR Color correction. | YES | YES |
Animation Tools | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Display and edit multiple animation splines. | YES | YES |
Use Bezier or cubic splines for animation curves. | YES | YES |
Scale, shape and stretch splines. | YES | YES |
Set looping parameters for ping-pong, relative and number of loops. | YES | YES |
Use keyframe markers as guides. | YES | YES |
Step-in and step-out keyframe modes. | YES | YES |
Set guides, markers and snap-to points. | YES | YES |
Use time value offsets and scaling for multiple selected keyframes. | YES | YES |
Global ease in and out controls. | YES | YES |
Shape box to deform and taper splines. | YES | YES |
Studio Player | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Playback of any format support in Fusion including EXR. | NO | YES |
Playback via BMD Deck Link and UltraStudio. | NO | YES |
Single layer timeline with ability to play a number of shots. | NO | YES |
Set the In/Out trim for each shot. | NO | YES |
Color format control allows for consistent display of shots from different formats. | NO | YES |
Annotation notes can be typed on each clip, version, and project. | NO | YES |
Audio, Scratch track and audio per clip. | NO | YES |
Collaboration, Multiple Artists can access the same projects different machine. | NO | YES |
Remote sync makes multiple Studio Players follow the master, for scrubbing, playing and collaboration around the studio and around the world. | NO | YES |
Shot Versions are stored in the same project to allow for quick access to previous work and for comparison of progress. | NO | YES |
Guide overlays, customisable to show monitor/title safety and crops. | NO | YES |
Scriptable automation tasks using the Fusion scripting engine to control features. | NO | YES |
Timeline | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Non-linear timeline display for adjusting element timing. | YES | YES |
Trim and position multiple clips simultaneously. | YES | YES |
Scrub audio and view waveform within timeline. | YES | YES |
Sift the timeline display to show specific tools or groups of tools. | YES | YES |
Set guides, markers and snap-to points. | YES | YES |
Integrated spline viewer and editor. | YES | YES |
Spreadsheet view for quick editing of animated parameters. | YES | YES |
Drag and drop sorting of tools in the timeline to better focus on timing and keyframes. | YES | YES |
Color coding of tools and splines. | YES | YES |
Performance | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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2D image processing accelerated by GPU. | YES | YES |
Completely multi-threaded rendering, uses every CPU available. | YES | YES |
GPU Acceleration of 3D workspace and rendering. | YES | YES |
GPU Acceleration of computationally intensive tools. | YES | YES |
Render and interactive performance scalable with remote nodes. | NO | YES |
Designed to work efficiently with extremely large files. | YES | YES |
Enhanced file caching for local and networked drives. | YES | YES |
Disk and Ram Caching stores processed images for immediate playback. | YES | YES |
Cache manager works invisibly in background - no user intervention required. | YES | YES |
Multiple tools can simultaneously maintain their own cache. | YES | YES |
Improve local performance/interactivity with remote render nodes. | NO | YES |
Automatic memory tuning. | YES | YES |
Images already in cache do not re-render. | YES | YES |
Cache output of any node to either RAM or disk. | YES | YES |
Region Of Interest and User-definable Domain Of Definition speed up image processing. | YES | YES |
Infinite Canvas eliminates clipping of image areas outside the project bounds. | YES | YES |
3D Workspace | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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A fully integrated 3D compositing environment with lights, camera snap casted shadows. | YES | YES |
3D scene importing via FBX and Alembic, includes models, cameras, lights, and rigs. | YES | YES |
Render scenes with many millions of polygons and complex shading. | YES | YES |
Lightning fast GPU based renderer. | YES | YES |
Import 3D models from Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and more. | YES | YES |
3D importing of scenes with matched animation curves, stereo cameras, lighting and multi level materials. | YES | YES |
Relighting using rich deep pixels and reshading tools to a full GPU renderer. | YES | YES |
The GPU render outputs multiple layer types for later processing at extraordinary speed. | YES | YES |
GPU accelerated Ambient Occlusion rendering. | YES | YES |
Geometry creation, with primitives and 3D text. | YES | YES |
Bending, tapering and warping of geometry or groups of objects. | YES | YES |
Duplicate, Replicate objects to create armies or crowds. | YES | YES |
Support for multiple renderers and many scenes in one composition. | YES | YES |
Import tracked cameras that match live action and also match 3D animation applications, making a seamless workflow for studios. | YES | YES |
Multi Channel Support | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Use the extra channels in Open EXR files produced by 3D applications to enhance the look of 3D rendered material. | YES | YES |
Depth merging combines two images based on the relative position of their pixels, eliminating the concept of foreground and background. | YES | YES |
3D Z-Depth Blur for true depth of field focusing. | YES | YES |
3D Shader for relighting object based on the information contained in the normals channel. | YES | YES |
3D Fog applies fog to an image based on depth of each pixel, or an external z-buffer map. | YES | YES |
3D Texture to apply reflection maps and replacement textures to 3D rendered objects. | YES | YES |
Use object and material IDs to mask the effect of any tool. | YES | YES |
Use the above tools and techniques with particles and grid warping tools in Fusion, which also produce extra channel information. | YES | YES |
Deep multi channel output for Z buffers, normals, UV texture and World Pass pass, velocity vectors. | YES | YES |
Deep Pixel Compositing | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Generate deep pixel data like World Position, Normals, UV. | YES | YES |
Volumetric Renderer, with full ray casted self shadowing volumes with variable density. | YES | YES |
World Position Pass integration of images with occlusion. | YES | YES |
Masking and Volumetric Atmospherics using World Position Pass. | YES | YES |
GPU accelerated for real time interactivity and rendering. | YES | YES |
Particles | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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3D flow-based particle suite. | YES | YES |
Fully OpenGL accelerated for incredible speed. | YES | YES |
Bitmap, geometric or pixel based particle styles for ultimate flexibility. | YES | YES |
Variable control over spin, size, velocity, angle, spin, fade, blur and color over time. | YES | YES |
Modify particle behavior with physics-based tools like gravitational, wind, friction, tangential, point and gradient forces. | YES | YES |
Control modifier tools with effectors and force emitters, based on bitmaps, shapes or polylines. | YES | YES |
Advanced behavioral controls like flocking, turbulence, spawning and n-body attraction. | YES | YES |
N-GON particle style provides a variety of shaded geometric shapes for particles. | YES | YES |
Image Emitter tool turns each pixel of an image into a particle. | YES | YES |
Modify particle attributes with custom expressions. | YES | YES |
Produce depth of field blurring on particles based on Z-position. | YES | YES |
Animate any particle parameter over time. | YES | YES |
Apply motion blur to all particle streams. | YES | YES |
Choose from a variety of predefined particle styles and brushes. | YES | YES |
Merge separate particle streams together with pMerge tool. | YES | YES |
Output Z-buffer position for each particle, and depth blur particles together. | YES | YES |
Change particle styles based on collision and other ‘events’. | YES | YES |
Network renderable to slash render times. | YES | YES |
Network Rendering | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Unlimited free Render Nodes. | NO | YES |
Render Fusion comps on remote CPUs using unlimited number of render nodes. | NO | YES |
Network rendered previews, tool caches speed the entire production process from start to finish. | NO | YES |
Powerful render manager for maximum efficiency. | NO | YES |
Assign remote nodes to render groups and submit flow to only specified groups. | NO | YES |
Assign priorities to a submitted render to help resolve conflicts in busy environments. | NO | YES |
Network render Flipbook previews Disk and Ram caches. | NO | YES |
Select the range of frames to be rendered for each flow in the queue, without the need to modify or open the saved flow. | NO | YES |
Nodes that become available after a render has begun automatically rejoin the queue. | NO | YES |
Layer Blending Tools | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Use standard layer blend modes like screen, overlay, multiply, and soft light. | YES | YES |
Choose between additive and subtractive merge modes. | YES | YES |
Perform Z-depth compositing. | YES | YES |
Apply ‘burn in’ overexposure to foreground layer. | YES | YES |
Dissolve between layers with standard SMPTE wipes and gradients, or use custom bitmaps to control the dissolve. | YES | YES |
Apply calculated motion blur to any tool with animation applied. | YES | YES |
Paint | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Vector based paint system. | YES | YES |
Paint with hard or soft edge brushes or bit map image brushes. | YES | YES |
Choose paint styles including Clone, Emboss, Smear, Stamp and more. | YES | YES |
Use strokes and shapes to paint non-destructively on images. | YES | YES |
On-the-fly caching for amazing interactive performance. | YES | YES |
Individual strokes can be moved, edited, animated and tracked. | YES | YES |
Supports standard pressure-sensitive tablets; brushes can vary by stroke pressure or velocity. | YES | YES |
Infinitely scalable brushes with extremely fine softness control. | YES | YES |
Flood fill for magic wand-style operations that work over time. | YES | YES |
Bezier and stroke wire removal tools for fast and flexible removal of rigging and other undesirable elements. | YES | YES |
2D/3D Text Creation | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Complete control over every parameter of a font’s color, size, kerning and layout. | YES | YES |
Use any TrueType, Open Type or PS1 type font. | YES | YES |
Layout text along spline paths, to a frame, or circle. | YES | YES |
Align text to frame, image or path, including horizontal and vertical justification. | YES | YES |
Full Unicode support for international and extended character sets. | YES | YES |
Manually adjust the kerning and position of every character. | YES | YES |
Mix and match fonts, colors, size and texture in a single tool. | YES | YES |
Extrude Text in 3D. | YES | YES |
Custom 3D bevel creation. | YES | YES |
Use multiple fill, outline and text borders. | YES | YES |
Use modifiers like Scramble, Timecode, and Follower. | YES | YES |
Animate built in ‘type on’ effects, rolls and crawls. | YES | YES |
Transform layout, characters, words and shading elements separately. | YES | YES |
Fills and outlines have individual shading, softness and glow. | YES | YES |
Map images and sequences onto text with a variety of mapping styles. | YES | YES |
Store commonly-used styles in library swatches for future use. | YES | YES |
Transform text in 3D, with independent transforms for the layout, character, shading components. | YES | YES |
Tracking | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Planar Tracker. | YES | YES |
Planar Stabilization and steadying. | YES | YES |
Planar Transforms of Roto. | YES | YES |
Camera Tracker with full 3D output of camera motion and pointcloud. | YES | YES |
Unlimited tracking points within a single tracker. | YES | YES |
High sub pixel precision. | YES | YES |
Integrated corner positioning, perspective correction, stabilization, and match moving, all within a single tool. | YES | YES |
Adaptive pattern acquisition. | YES | YES |
Track paths forward and backward. | YES | YES |
Stabilization based on an unlimited number of track points. | YES | YES |
Smooth and stabilize camera motion without eliminating existing pan or zoom. | YES | YES |
Automatic selection of best tracking channel, red, green, blue, alpha or luminance. | YES | YES |
Choose a manual rotation axis for stabilization. | YES | YES |
Drive the animation of any parameter, path or tool with tracked data. | YES | YES |
Publish and connect individual points on a spline. | YES | YES |
Creator Tools and Grain | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Fast Noise tool for extremely quick, high quality noise patterns. | YES | YES |
Mandelbrot generator produces extremely scalable fractal images. | YES | YES |
Continuous and discontinuous noise options. | YES | YES |
Noise detail and noise brightness maps for precision control over noise generation. | YES | YES |
Background generator for solid and gradient type backgrounds. | YES | YES |
Generate gradients calculated in RGB, HLS, HSV or LAB color space. | YES | YES |
Unlimited gradient color points for fine control over gradient progression. | YES | YES |
Animate gradient procession over time. | YES | YES |
Select from one of six gradient types including linear, radial and square. | YES | YES |
Static, repeat and ping pong modes for out of bounds gradients. | YES | YES |
Day Sky simulates the Sky based on time of year and time. | YES | YES |
Plasma generator for frequency interference based noise patterns. | YES | YES |
Adjustable grain strength, size, softness and spacing. | YES | YES |
Response curves control amount of grain across a gradient for each color channel to closely match film stock grain behavior. | YES | YES |
Color differences between grain channels help match non monochromatic type grains. | YES | YES |
Choose between random or seeded grain noise for repeatable and static noise types. | YES | YES |
Keying/Matte Tools | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Delta keyer, high end keyer with fine tuning controls. | YES | YES |
Clean plate pre keyer to smooth lighting differences in screen color. | YES | YES |
Industry standard Primatte 5 Keyer. | NO | YES |
Fusion's exclusive Ultra Keyer optimized for Blue and Green screen extraction. | YES | YES |
Chroma and Luma Keyer for extracting mattes from color or luminance channels. | YES | YES |
Five modes of spill suppression to eliminate even the most difficult reflection halos. | YES | YES |
Animated garbage mattes for isolating rigging and set elements. | YES | YES |
Adjustable edge gamma and fringe color correction. | YES | YES |
Matte thresholding for semi-transparent region replacement. | YES | YES |
Matte blur, gamma, and contrast control for post key processing of the matte. | YES | YES |
Image Processing Filters | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Lens type defocusing with blooming and NGon elements. | YES | YES |
Lens flare-style hotspots with occlusion and lens aberrations. | YES | YES |
Glow, soft glow, glow under and glow thresholding modes. | YES | YES |
Pre-masks for glow, highlight, dve and other tools. | YES | YES |
Directional blurs for motion and zoom style blurring. | YES | YES |
Erode and dilate filters for burn in and overexposure effects. | YES | YES |
Sharpen and unsharpen masking. | YES | YES |
Sobel and laplacian edge detection. | YES | YES |
Custom convolution kernel filtering. | YES | YES |
Transforms and Warping | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Transform image with high-quality area sampling for excellent anti-aliasing. | YES | YES |
Concatenated transformations speed operations and improve quality. | YES | YES |
Apply displacements, dents, and vortexes to any image. | YES | YES |
Choose from one of eight drip deformations with control over amplitude, aspect, frequency and aspect. | YES | YES |
True perspective positioning and correction. | YES | YES |
Corner pinning for sign replacement and four point scaling. | YES | YES |
Grid-based image warping over an entire image or a specified region. | YES | YES |
Define separate source and destination grids for morphing effects. | YES | YES |
Complete bezier and smoothing control over each grid point. | YES | YES |
Magnet or static selection types for easy manipulation of multiple grid points. | YES | YES |
Retiming | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Optical Flow based retiming. | YES | YES |
Linear and Non-Linear retiming of clips. | YES | YES |
Animatable frame interpolation and blending for smoother motion. | YES | YES |
Rotoscoping Tools and Masking | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Planar tracked roto. | YES | YES |
Create masks using bezier splines, B-splines, paint tool or bitmap images. | YES | YES |
Magic wand-type mask performs color picking over time. | YES | YES |
Non-uniform feathering of spline shapes. | YES | YES |
Roto Assist, to find edges of the subject. | YES | YES |
Roto Onion skinning, shows the roto shapes for multiple frames. | YES | YES |
Controllable motion blur. | YES | YES |
Use masks to limit the effect of any tool to a specified region. | YES | YES |
Re-order, copy, paste and cut masks. | YES | YES |
Color Tools | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Adjust hue, saturation, tinting, gamma, gain, contrast, brightness for any color channel or luminance range. | YES | YES |
Manipulate levels and image histogram directly. | YES | YES |
Spline-based Color Curves tool allows look up table color correction for infinite flexibility. | YES | YES |
User definable ranges for shadows, midtones and highlights. | YES | YES |
Separate color correction by channel or region. | YES | YES |
Color match to a reference image. | YES | YES |
Channel Booleans tool to copy and blend image channels based on add, subtract, multiply and other mathematical operations. | YES | YES |
Colorspace Processing | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Supports integer and HDRI floating processing of color depth. | YES | YES |
Out of range color values are preserved through color adjustments. | YES | YES |
Industry standard color spaces including ACES, REC709, REC2020, and Wide Gamut. | YES | YES |
Linear Light Color/Open Color IO. | YES | YES |
Monitor calibration. | YES | YES |
Waveform, Vectorscope and Histogram displays. | YES | YES |
LUT creation, analyzing and designing tools. | YES | YES |
3D LUTs. | YES | YES |
Work in RGB, YUV, CMY and other color spaces. | YES | YES |
Use logarithmic images like Cineon and DPT without first converting them to linear space. | YES | YES |
Optical Flow Tools | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Optical Flow analysis for generating forward and back vectors. | YES | YES |
Change the speed of a clip using optical flow analysis. | YES | YES |
RepairFrame regenerates a frame using optical flow between its two neighbors. | YES | YES |
SmoothMotion for smoothing of color or aux channels using optical flow. | YES | YES |
Tween interpolates between two non-sequential images | YES | YES |
Stereoscopic 3D Toolset | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Built in 3D cameras with support for eye separation, convergence and toe in, or Parallel mode. | YES | YES |
Disparity stereo map generation, with mapping in both left and right eyes. | YES | YES |
New Eye tool for generating new left and right images, with convergence and alignment. | YES | YES |
Stereo Align tool for adjusting vertical alignment, convergence, and eye separation. | YES | YES |
DisparityToZ and ZToDisparity converts Disparity to and from Z depth. | YES | YES |
Global Alignment tool for adjusting a stereo pair without warping. | YES | YES |
Stereo Stack and Unstack to combine Left and Right images into a single stereo pair. | YES | YES |
Support for 3D stereo viewing systems including anaglyph, side-by-side, stacking and interlace viewing. | YES | YES |
YES | YES |
3rd Party Plugin Support | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Support for Open FX Plugins, including Boris FX and RE:Vision Effects. | YES | YES |
Native SDK for 3D and image processing tools. | YES | YES |
Bins and Media Organisation | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Bins for easy access to commonly used Tools, Settings, Macros, Compositions and Footage. | YES | YES |
Bin server for sharing Bin assets over network. | NO | YES |
Carry Metadata through a project pipeline. | YES | YES |
Read existing Metadata on clips. | YES | YES |
Copy and insert custom metadata to any image. | YES | YES |
File Format Compatibility | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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MXF, DNxHQ, DNxHR. | YES | YES |
FFMpeg Bridge for further Codec Support, customer must download separately. | NO | YES |
EXR 2.2. | YES | YES |
Support for Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras and Cinema DNG format. | YES | YES |
Supports over 30 image file formats including OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, JPEG, PSD, and QuickTime. | YES | YES |
Support for SVG scalable vector files. | YES | YES |
Support for Arri raw format, R3D format, Canon rmf raw, Support for Vision Research Phantom Cameras and Cine format. | YES | YES |
3:2 Pull Down and Pull Up with automatic sequence detection. | YES | YES |
Process fields/frames in NTSC, PAL or HD field orders, control over dominance or field order. | YES | YES |
Create clip lists containing multiple files within a single loader. | YES | YES |
Load and process common IFL (image file list) formats. | YES | YES |
Load full resolution and proxy clips together, toggling between modes on the fly. | YES | YES |
Use WAV audio for timing and playback. | NO | YES |
View audio waveform in timeline. | YES | YES |
Extensibility | Fusion in Resolve | Fusion Studio |
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Embedded Lua and Python scripting support. | YES | YES |
Integrated development environment. | YES | YES |
Pre-built scripts to automate common workflows. | YES | YES |
Control Fusion scripts from local or remote machines. | YES | YES |
Launch and control external tools from within Fusion. | YES | YES |
Macro tool combines standard tools to create custom tools. | YES | YES |
Fuses tool kit for development of custom tools with build in compiler. | YES | YES |
Just-In-Time compiling of image processing tools. | YES | YES |
Information source: Blackmagic Design product information for Fusion.