Fusion VFX software has been used in many Hollywood blockbusters (Harry Potter, 300 etc), TV series and high-end commercials, but tended to be restricted to the elite end of the visual effects market. Now Blackmagic Design is claiming the move to make Fusion 7 available free of charge will revolutionise the industry.
Fusion 7 features an infinite 3D workspace and a node based workflow for quickly building unlimited effects. Customers get advanced 3D compositing, paint, rotoscope, retiming, stabilisation, titling, a 3D particle generator and multiple keyers, including Primatte. Fusion 7 also lets customers import and render 3D geometry and scenes from other applications as well as create their own elements from scratch.
Official website here & link to direct download here (thanks buzzlight9).
System Requirements:
Processor
Fusion will take advantage of Intel and AMD processors equally well. It is recommended to have at least a Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 processor to operate Fusion. The 64-bit version of Fusion requires dual core and hyperthreaded processors, and thrives when multiple processors are available.Graphics 1
Fusion requires OpenGL capable ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards. Available graphics memory should be 2GB or greater.
The Fusion interface requires a screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels or greater at 32-bit per channel (true color). Higher resolutions are suggested.Graphics 2
Fusion’s graphics card requirements will be higher for 3D intensive composites. For example, 3D scenes employing large numbers of textures, or very large textures will require significantly more memory for the graphics card. Additionally Fusion makes more extensive use of the GPU for many 3D operations. A modern graphics card will have a big impact on interactivity and performance in Fusion.Graphics 3
High-end workstation class graphics cards should not be required; a decent mid-class gaming class card with large
amounts of memory is generally sufficient. Fusion Render Slaves will be unable to render OpenGL 3D scenes unless they have an OpenGL-capable graphics card. Software rendering of 3D scenes will not require a graphics card.Memory
Fusion is designed to make use of every kilobyte of memory available. A minimum of 8GB of memory is required, and
16GB or greater is strongly recommended.Operating Systems
Fusion 7.0 supports the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit
Microsoft Windows 8 64-bitQuickTime
Fusion requires Apple QuickTime to be installed on the workstation and render nodes in order to read and write to the MOV and PNG file formats.
Thanks for that- my daughter will be interested.
I kind of expected it to be larger than 53mb somehow?
Cheers