
Andrew has a nice friendly and coherent style which makes his tutorials very easy to follow along with. Trainer Andrew Devis has 13 free Fusion tutorials embedded over on his site, including a helpful two-part introductory tutorial on creatinga a text project in Fusion 8 beta. Thanks to Rick Young from you can get an insider’s perspective on the acquisition from Stuart Ashton, Director of Blackmagic Design, EMEA. Using this you can automate repetitive or complex tasks, customize Fusion behavior, extend functionality and more.” Here are the direct links to the PDF downloads:įusion 8 User Manual – “Fusion 8 instruction manual contains information on how to use Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio to create visual effects, animation, paint, keying, rotoscoping, compositing with both 2D and 3D elements, lighting and particles.”įusion 8 Tool Reference – “ Save time when you are creating animation and effects with the help of this tool reference that includes keyboard shortcuts, tips and tricks to help you work even faster.”įusion 8 Scripting Reference – “This manual is the reference guide for scripting in Fusion using either Lua or Python scripting language for customizing tools, automating tasks and more.”įusion 8 Scripting Guide – “This manual is a guide to getting started with the scripting API of Fusion, known as FusionScript. UPDATE The official Fusion 8 supporting documents are now available to download from the Blackmagic Design site. Of course the best thing to do is simply to download the free beta and start noodling around. In this post I thought it would be handy to draw together some of the best Fusion tutorials and resources available online, to help anyone who is interested in investigating the software get started. Also check out this post on Fusion Studio 9.



UPDATE 2018 – Fusion Studio is being rolled into DaVinci Resolve, learn more about that here. If the development trajectory of DaVinci Resolve is anything to go by, it will be exciting to see not only the entire interface made more user friendly (high-end VFX software always seems to be designed by engineers rather than engineered by designers) but also seeing the effects of Blackmagic Design’s disruptive releasing strategy on this segment of the software industry.įusion 7 is available to buy now, and here is a quick breakdown of the differences between Fusion and Fusion Studio. Fusion, the compositing and visual effects software, recently acquired from Eyeon by Blackmagic Design, is available as a free download under a beta release, for both Mac and Windows users.
