Just saw this in another forum. BMD announcement at NAB.
Top notch software and FREE now coming to Mac and Linux.
Honestly with these two appz there's no need to buy other video editing and compositing software.

Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 12
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/release/20150413-01

Blackmagic Design today announced Fusion 8, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, will be released on Mac OS X and Linux.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/release/20150413-02

But there's the rub...

EDIT: Nevermind, also for Windows.

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It will be interesting to take the whole ICLONE scene to Fusion, play around and render.
It will open up an interesting pipeline.

Resolve has always had a free version, and the "restrictions" compared to the full version have only affected those producing professional films. Fusion, up to the present version 7, was only available for use on a Windows PC. After being acquired by BMD there was a free version launched that again was missing some real high end "pro" options.

The upcoming version 8 will be the first to run on all 3 main OS machines.

Both have really high learning curves, and hardware requirements.

Avid will also be releasing a free version of Media Composer later this year with lots of restrictions such as no ability to save project files on a local drive - everything has to be stored of the Avid cloud. Projects saved in the paid for version of MC can not be opened and worked on in the free version. Vastly reduced number of effects, tools and addons. Reduced number of available video and audio tracks - the list goes on and on.

Gerry

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I'm just starting to play wih fusion 7 and from what I'm seeing if you can get your head around substance designer Fusion isn't going to be hard to learn.



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Yep. Pretty similar. I'm moving to these two from hitfilm pro for home use. You can't beat free and the development is just so fast they put 100 coders to work on these appz. Linux and Mac so soon less than 2 years BMD owned it.

I use HitFilm for animated films ( for children ) aimed at the TV market.
Typically, I stick with my pipeline for 3-4 years.

Any compelling reasons so that one would think of Fusion ?

Fusion has linear workflow support. Native exr and buffer support. For work outside of work I need these two. Handling heavier data sets is also better.
Overall the development of hitfilm is pretty slow imo.

Thank you. That sounds nice.

I do not know much about hitfilm but Fusion has support for FBX files this alone does it for me.





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