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About Fusion
Fusion is Blackmagic Design's standalone compositor for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphics designers and 3D animators. Effects are built by connecting image processing tools as nodes, with 3D and VR support, GPU acceleration and network rendering.
Fusion 21 lets compositions be saved as templates for use on DaVinci Resolve's edit and cut pages, adds animation curve modifiers for retiming, and brings audio playback with waveform display. The same engine appears as a page inside DaVinci Resolve.
Strengths
- Node-based compositing for complex effects
- 3D and VR support with GPU acceleration
- Network rendering
- Templates shared with DaVinci Resolve
Limitations
- Node workflow takes time to learn
- Proprietary
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumA free version is available; Fusion Studio is a paid edition.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Blackmagic Design
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- VFX and motion graphics artists who prefer node-based compositing
- Categories
- Video editing, 3D and CAD
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Fusion
Compare allSoftware that can replace Fusion for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Nuke
Node-based compositing software from Foundry used for visual effects in film, TV and animation.
Nuke is also node-based, with more than 200 nodes, deep compositing and OpenEXR and USD support, but its commercial pricing is aimed at studios and it has no free tier.
Natron
An open-source, node-based video compositing application similar in scope to After Effects and Nuke.
Natron is free and open source node-based compositing on Windows, macOS and Linux with Python scripting, though its ecosystem is smaller than commercial compositors.
Adobe After Effects
Adobe's desktop application for motion graphics, visual effects compositing and animation for film, TV and web.
Adobe After Effects uses a layer-based approach within Creative Cloud for motion graphics and compositing, is subscription only and drops the Linux support Fusion offers.
Fusion as an alternative
Listings that name Fusion as an alternative.
Cavalry
A procedural, real-time 2D animation and motion design application for macOS and Windows.
Fusion offers node-based compositing and motion graphics with 3D support on Windows, macOS and Linux, and a node workflow that takes time to learn.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
DaVinci Resolve
Professional editing, colour grading, visual effects and audio post in one program, with a free version that is genuinely capable.
Glaxnimate
Vector animation and motion design application.
Adobe Premiere
Adobe's professional video editing and post-production application for Windows and macOS, formerly Premiere Pro.
Topaz Video
Video enhancement software that uses AI models to upscale, stabilize, sharpen and interpolate frames in footage.
VapourSynth
A Python-scripted video processing frameserver with a plugin ecosystem for filtering and restoring video.
