Blackmagic Design announced Fusion 16 Studio Beta 7. Last major release version 16 present all of the improvements made to Fusion built into DaVinci Resolve available to VFX artists using the stand alone version of Fusion Studio.

The Fusion Studio 16 Public Beta 7 improves the reliability of paint tool overlays in the viewer and addresses general application stability when opening large projects, previewing wand or range tools with mask inputs, and when changing the histogram type in the color corrector node.

Blackmagic Fusion 16.0b7 - Release Notes:

- Addressed an issue where opening some Fusion comps could cause the application to hang
- Addressed an issue where enabling overlays for the Paint tool would not work correctly in the viewer
- Addressed an issue where previewing a Wand or a Ranges tool with mask input would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where changing the histogram type in the ColorCorrector node would cause the application to hang
- General performance and stability improvements



About Fusion 16 Studio. Fusion 16 Studio is actually the successor to 2017's Fusion 9 Studio - the hike in version numbering seems to have been to bring it in line with DaVinci Resolve.

Blackmagic Design's press release describes it as "the biggest update we've ever released for Fusion software" - although in practice, the features aren't entirely new, just new to the standalone edition.

The update rolls out the changes the firm to the Fusion compositing toolset when it was incorporated inside DaVinci Resolve 15 last year.

As well as an "updated and more modern user interface" - a mixed blessing, judging by early user feedback - that means expanded GPU acceleration.

All 3D operations are now GPU-accelerated, along with key features including time effects, dissolves, vector motion blur and stereoscopic 3D and colour tools.

GPU processing now supports Nvidia's CUDA and Apple's Metal APIs as well as the open standard OpenCL, which should improve performance on those companies' hardware.

Existing OpenCL add-ons will need to be rewritten before they work with the new architecture.

There are also more general performance improvements - Blackmagic Design's announcement singles out planar and camera tracking, and mask operations - and improved memory management on large comps.

The old free edition of the software, which worked on footage up to UHD resolution, has now been discontinued, although most of the tools are still available in the free edition of DaVinci Resolve.

Tips on parallel installation, performance updates and general first impressions related to Fusion in DaVinci Resolve 16 and Fusion Studio 16.

About Blackmagic Design. Blackmagic Design creates the world's highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design's DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company's Emmy award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia.

Product: Blackmagic Design Fusion Studio
Version: 16 Beta 7
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page :
Language: english
System Requirements: PC *
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 10 Creators Update
Size: 665.1 mb

Most software developers publish system requirements, and while they're accurate, they can be difficult to interpret; not everyone's comfortable with the jargon employed and older components are often referred to long after they've left the market.

Here are current specs for pre-built machines capable of handling DaVinci Resolve 16.

Minimum
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 or better
Video Card : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or better
Memory: 16 GB or better