Fusion 8 has just been released on OS X devices for the first time ever. Rejoice, Mac users, for the world's most advanced integrated 2D and 3D compositing and motion graphics software can. Blackmagic's compositing software has been used on over 1,000 major Hollywood blockbusters, including Thor and The Hunger Games, and now you can use it at home.

It has a ton of great features, but the best part: it's completely free. Instead of timeline workflows, Black Magic has opted for a node-based platform. The small icons represent effects, filters, and other processing tools which can then be connected to build up larger and more complex visual effects.

These nodes are organized on the screen in a tree—similar to a flow chart—that allows you to break down and visualize your scenes. It's much faster than timeline-based tools or non-linear editing systems because you don't need to hunt through stacks on stacks of confusing layers.

The free version of includes: • A massive toolset featuring paint, rotoscope, tilting and animation • Multiple keyers including Primatte an amazing 3D particle system • Advanced keyframing • GPU acceleration • Support for importing and rendering 3D models and scenes from other applications 'Avatar' image courtesy of Prime Focus World If you scroll through the more in-depth list of features on and find that the free version just won't cut it, you can always opt for their Studio Version for $995. Quite the opposite. If you do complex effects, it sooo much easier to track what you are actually doing in a node based editor than it AE. Each single node can (optionally, if enabled) show an image of what it is currently doing. That way you can quickly understand the 'flow'. In fact, node based is nothing else than the visualized flow chart of the steps you do to make up your final composited image. Check out the free edition and see why its such a useful tool.

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We use it since nearly 25 years over here.!!! April 11, 2016 at 5:21AM. Its a very different thing. Your not doing lower 3rd graphics in Fusion. It's really for high end VFX i.e.

Compositing, green screen, rotoscoping, 3D integration etc. It's in the same ball park as Nuke and FLAME though not yet as complete, I don't think it has a 3D camera tracker (though most people use something like PFTrack or Syntheyes anyway). Free lunix product for internet cafe wifi hotspot with mac spoofing protection.

Although people can do that stuff in it's like drawing on a computer with a mouse, it's possible but a lot harder, for worse results, than using a Wacom pen. Shines in design and motion graphic uses, way better Illustrator and PhotoShop integration etc. April 4, 2016 at 9:35PM. Speed wise: Multiple times faster on many projects.

True multi threading, render farm computing (pro version), GPU rendering for several effects, efficient memory handling. We have seen projects coming in from customers, done originally in AE. They consulted us because AE told them 500 hours of rendering blowing their deadlines. We rebuild the whole thing in Fusion in a few hours and rendered in 2 hours. Its not always THAT extreme, of course not. But the idication is: Complex stuff is handled way faster in Fusion than in AE.