Blackmagic Design announced that the beta version of Fusion 8 Studio, the most advanced program on the market in terms of special effects and graphic animations, is now available for download on the Blackmagic Design website, both for Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.
The new beta platform Fusion 8 Studio continues to develop all the tools included in the free program and adds others, such as optical flow for resynchronization tasks, image repair, color smoothing and transformation of different images. In addition, it has rendering capability in resolutions higher than UHD and incorporates stereoscopic functions to convert 2D content to 3D, as well as compatibility with plugins developed by third parties, remote automation capability and Avid Connect, which allows users to operate the program directly from Media Composer timelines.
Projects created with the free version of Fusion are compatible with Fusion 8 Studio, regardless of the platform on which they were created. It also includes the Generation tool, a program for organizing files, tracking versions and reviewing and approving shots, which supports various users.
In turn, this version allows users to install an unlimited number of rendering nodes on additional computer equipment for free, thus eliminating the considerable costs of purchasing licenses. In this way, people dedicated to the professional production of feature films and television programs in major studios will now be able to streamline the processes, distributing the rendering tasks among all the equipment connected to their network, without limit of users.
Fusion has been one of Hollywood's preferred tools in special effects and graphic animation for more than 25 years and has been used in thousands of feature films and television projects, including Mars, Thor, Edge of Tomorrow, the Hunger Games trilogy, Grimm, The Fall of the White House and Battlestar Galactica. among others.
Fusion makes it as easy as possible to create sophisticated special effects very quickly through its innovative nodal interface. Nodes are small icons that represent different masks, filters, and other functions related to image processing. These can be connected in any order to create an unlimited number of effects and are organized just like a flowchart to avoid users the need to search for different elements among an infinity of overlapping layers. Unlike other timeline-based applications, Fusion allows you to easily view any part of a project and make the necessary adjustments simply by clicking on a node.
