Integrated 2D and 3D compositing in an animation environment.

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
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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

3rd Party Plugin Support

Fusion in DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

Support for Open FX Plugins, including GenArts and RE:Vision Effects.

YES

YES

Native SDK for 3D and image processing tools.

YES

YES

Bins and Media Organisation

Fusion in DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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 DaVinci
Resolve 20

Fusion Studio 20

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