The perfect workflow …

[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Using Fusion Connect to send clips to Fusion for the retouching while at the same time having the power of Resolve grading, and the functionality of the Resolve editing timeline with its very powerful media relinking, was quite simply the best of all possible worlds.”

Fusion sounds very nice. Great… now I have to learn another app. ????

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[Ronny Courtens]

Excellent write-up, Simon. And I agree that, for this particular job, you seem to have found the perfect workflow. I don’t think that FCP X and Motion were ever intended to cater for niche grading or restoration workflows, but for a much larger market instead. Good to hear that Fusion and Resolve can finally fill that gap. The Apple ProApps and BM software seem indeed to be growing into perfectly complementary solutions.

– Ronny

[Steve Connor]

Very suitable and interesting post for this forum Simon, despite Bill’s misgivings.

[Simon Ubsdell]

Thanks, Ronny (and others), for your comments.

One of the things I was highlighting was that increasingly a typical workflow extends beyond the NLE – quite a long way beyond the NLE.

I think, for a lot of us, simply being an editor sitting in front of a closed-system NLE is less and less of an option as the audio-visual world we have to service gets more and more complex and diverse.

And that’s why, for many, it’s the overall ecosystem (and its associated interchange issues/solutions) that becomes the most important part of the equation.

But again, different ecosystems will suit different projects at different times.

For me, Resolve/Fusion represents an ecosystem that works really well, if that’s what you need. BM have managed to mesh together two entirely separate products in a way that delivers great flexibility and lots of power. And they’ve done so with a minimum of fuss and in a remarkably short space of time. It also helps that Resolve talks very nicely to just about every other platform going, in a way that few other products can match. It’s greatly to FCP X’s advantage that Resolve can serve as an interchange “translator”, for instance.

But of course, there are other ecosystems that favour different types of projects …

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Michael Gissing] “I really must wrap my head around Fusion and the connect function. As my workflow is to take edits from all NLEs into Resolve to finish this is totally relevant. “

As I don’t need to tell you, Resolve is a really powerful compositing tool in its own right, so it’s often that one tries to build solutions there, if that’s where one feels most comfortable.

But Fusion Connect really does open up a vastly wider world of possibilities, and solutions that are a bit of a fudge in Resolve can often be implemented a lot more precisely and faster in Fusion.

But really it’s the interplay of the two that is so appealing to me for jobs like this – two world-class toolsets that talk to each other seamlessly and efficiently. What’s not to like?

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Oliver Peters]

[Simon Ubsdell] “But Fusion Connect really does open up a vastly wider world of possibilities, and solutions that are a bit of a fudge in Resolve can often be implemented a lot more precisely and faster in Fusion.”

Ironically Apple had an inkling of this with Color, which included a node-based module, albeit for color effects and not compositing. Still… I guess the Aussie programmers are just a bit smarter ☺

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Oliver Peters] “Ironically Apple had an inkling of this with Color”

And let’s not forget that Legacy FCP had a very useful “Send to Shake” option which took us into very similar territory to Fusion Connect …

Ah, the things that might have been.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Bill Davis]

For the record, I’ve posted my share of arguably “off topic” stuff here as well.

Something OT was not my concern. That’s par for the course.

Something primarily about a topic or topics where there are specific cow forums that seem to be built precisely FOR people interested in those topics – posted ONLY here was what seemed odd.

It’s like posting notices about an upcoming Mass exclusively in a neighborhood Synagogue.

Now if the Synagogue has TONS of attendees and the Church has generally poor attendance, maybe it makes more sense?

; )

FWIW.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “Something primarily about a topic or topics where there are specific cow forums that seem to be built precisely FOR people interested in those topics – posted ONLY here was what seemed odd. “

I think this tends to fall under the umbrella of offline-online. For many, FCPX (and Media Composer and Premiere Pro) are nothing more than creative cutting tools (offline editing) – not finishing tools (online editing). That’s where Resolve comes into the picture. Coupling that with VFX in Fusion makes a pretty complete picture. It’s what Smoke on the Mac wanted to be, though at its price and steep learning curve didn’t really achieve. And so Resolve/Fusion seem to fit quite nicely into a broader FCPX ecosystem.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Oliver Peters]

PS – and FWIW Simon has also posted a number of helpful tips and tutorials over in the BMD Fusion forum.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com