Simon Ubsdell
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[Bill Davis] “without inflated rhetoric, I am nothing.”
Not so. You have a great deal to offer.
But when it comes to evaluating the internal workings of Apple hardware, I’m reluctantly going to have to go with Louis rather than your good self.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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Oh dear.
Watch the video, Bill.
And put your inflated rhetoric back in its box.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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It’s a pain to do this in FCP X but very easy in Motion.
Here’s a sample project to show how it’s done.
Essentially all you need to do is layer the two versions of your shot and set the blend mode of the upper layer to Difference. Use the Channel Mixer on the group to create a luminance only version. Then use a Threshold filter (or a simple Levels) to adjust the resulting “matte”.
All you then need to do it apply the matte to the element that you want to cut out by creating an Image Mask for that layer and then adding the group with the difference matte to the Image Mask source well and setting the Source Channel to Luminance.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Ricardo Marty] “You could be right but an app ultimatte would not necessarily kill a hardware ultimatte.”
Yes, there’s no obvious reason not to have Ultimatte as a tool inside Fusion (as well as the completely unrelated hardware offering) but for some reason they decided to build the the brand new Delta Keyer instead – right at the point where it seemed likely they would use Ultimatte instead.
It’s a puzzle as to why they chose that option but choose it they did.
Maybe we’ll see Ultimatte added to the Fusion mix at some point though – with BMD anything is possible!
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Ricardo Marty] “If BM purchased ultimatte why would they par for primatte?”
The reason for the Ultimatte purchase was to sell a realtime studio hardware solution (and make some actual money for once!), not for building into Fusion.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/ultimatte
The reason they introduced the new Delta Keyer in Fusion 9 could well be because they were anticipating dropping the licensing for Primatte.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[David Mathis] “I noticed that when you color grade a clip you must covert it to a new Fusion clip before going to the Fusion page.”
No, you don’t necessarily have to create a Fusion clip unless you want to work with multiple layers. You can still position yourself over the clip and go to the Fusion page.
[David Mathis] “The issue is that any color correction is baked in and when you go back to the color page all the settings are at their default. “
That doesn’t sound right. The Color page happens after the Fusion page in the order of operations so no grades will be baked in.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[David Mathis] “For some reason you cannot have clips stacked on top of each other show up in the Fusion page.”
That’s an easy one.
Stack up as many clips as you want, select them all, right click and choose New Fusion Clip. Select the Fusion page and your stacked clips will appear in a ready made Fusion composition.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Shawn Miller] “I think I would prefer a dedicated Fusion in those cases.”
Yes, I completely agree, as do most long time users of Fusion.
One rather telling thing is that Primatte is no longer in the toolset apparently because of licensing issues. Is that a clue? I do rather get the feeling that the standalone application is now suddenly history.
One comment I read today on WeSuckLess amused me a lot:
The biggest problem with this development is that BM seriously messed up the way they announced it. Not mentioning classic Fusion at all was a huge mistake. Assuming it will still exist outside Resolve, they should have talked about the number of new users who would see the benefits of Fusion and then want to try the “full” Fusion as well as the advantage to third party developers who would have a larger customer base of Resolve users to sell their add-ons to.
Remind you of anything!?
I have to say I’m surprised at how BMD have handled this. But then major change is always a tricky sell.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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The Fusion community is not happy:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=71891
https://www.steakunderwater.com/wesuckless/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2035
This comment more or less sums up the general feeling:
In the name of all Saints…please let there be an announcement from BMD that Fusion will continue as a standalone product.
As cool as it is to have it inside Resolve for the occasional quick fix, or to previz stuff for the comp team,
for major VFX work this is just no solution….Fusion fires up in no time, you add your stuff, build your flow, do your magic. Wham-bam, thank you mam. Next shot.
Having Resolve on every VFX Artists’ desk?
Start Resolve, wait half an eternity for that to happen, select the appropriate Project (or create a new one),
add Media, do some editing (place media on timeline), and then go to the Fusion tab?
That’s like Flame/Inferno workflow back in the olden days…Also, from what I see so far, the pipeline stuff I did (and many others did on this forum) for the last couple years
just won’t work within Resolve. Meaning it’ll bust our entire inhouse pipeline.Again: Resolve is great. Fusion in Resolve is fantastic.
But having a standalone Fusion for the pure vfx work is an absolute must.Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Shawn Miller] “the demo makes me feel like they may have gotten the integration piece right”
I’m on the one hand extremely impressed at how they’ve integrated Fusion – typical BMD genius at work there.
And on the other hand decidedly unhappy that Fusion as a tool for VFX professionals in its own right might be disappearing.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki