Part of the present appeal with Fusion, too, must surely be the Blackmagic ‘eco-system,’ which includes DaVinci Resolve for color grading. “And now, with Fusion 8 for Mac and adding Linux next, we are opening up Fusion to work across any workflow.” The Fusion 8 workflow. “It is already a product that vfx artists are familiar with and are comfortable with,” said May. Blackmagic tells us that it has been used by various vfx studios on such recent films as London Has Fallen, Mockingjay Part 2, The Martian, Ant-Man, Spy and Kingsman: The Secret Service. To be clear, Fusion in all its previous incarnations has already enjoyed a considerable presence in visual effects production over the years. By combining it with DaVinci Resolve 12, which is also free, independent artists can edit, grade, 3D composite, and create visual effects, all for free.” “It breaks down barriers for vfx artists that might not have been able to afford an advanced solution before. So why is there a free version of Fusion 8? “To give people the ability to try Fusion and realize that they can and should be working with vfx,” Dan May, president, Blackmagic Design, told Cartoon Brew. If you want to deploy Fusion 8 Studio to a multi-seat facility, then of course there are multi-user licenses available at progressively cheaper prices. Fusion 8 on Mac OS X.Ī more advanced version of Blackmagic’s software, Fusion 8 Studio, retails for US$995 and includes capabilities for optical flow image analysis for stereoscopic work, support for third-party OpenFX plugins, and unlimited distributed network rendering, among other extras. Fusion 8 can also be used for any purpose (The Foundry offers a free version of Nuke, too, but it’s strictly for non-commerical use).

That’s certainly incredible considering the software once costs thousands of dollars to buy.

The fully functioning Fusion 8 is ready to download right now for Windows and Mac OS X, for no cost.

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