Blackmagic Design Announces Fusion 8 will be available on Mac OS X and Linux

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Blackmagic Design Announces Fusion 8 will be available on Mac OS X and Linux

May 4, 2015 News Production, Post Production 0

Η Blackmagic Design, τα προϊόντα της οποίας διαθέτει και υποστηρίζει η AmyDV, ανακοίνωσε το Fusion 8, το πιο προηγμένο στον κόσμο λογισμικό οπτικών εφφέ και κινούμενων γραφικών, που θα κυκλοφορήσει και για Mac OS X και Linux. Μέχρι σήμερα, το Fusion αποτελούσε προϊόν μόνον για Windows, και με την κυκλοφορία του Fusion 8, τώρα θα είναι διαθέσιμο σε όλα τα δημοφιλή λειτουργικά συστήματα.

Το Νοέμβριο του 2014 η Blackmagic έφερε την επανάσταση στα οπτικά εφφέ καθιστώντας διαθέσιμο εντελώς δωρεάν το Fusion για Windows και εισάγοντας το ολοκαίνουργιο Fusion Studio στην τιμή των €935 (δεν περιλαμβάνονται οι νόμιμοι φόροι). Παλαιότερα η πρόσβαση σε υψηλής τεχνολογίας εργαλεία οπτικών εφφέ όπως το Fusion κόστιζε χιλιάδες δολάρια, περιορίζοντας τo στην elite των καλλιτεχνών των οπτικών εφφέ του Hollywood.
Τώρα, φέροντας το Fusion σε Mac και Linux, θα είναι διαθέσιμο σε ακόμη περισσότερους χρήστες από ποτέ άλλοτε, ανοίγοντας την πόρτα σε εκατομμύρια καλλιτέχνες κινούμενων γραφικών, broadcast designers, video editors, visual effects compositors και 3D animators

Το Fusion αποτελεί το κορυφαίο εργαλείο οπτικών εφφέ και κινούμενων γραφικών του Hollywood για περισσότερα από 25 χρόνια και έχει χρησιμοποιηθεί σε χιλιάδες ταινίες και τηλεοπτικά projects, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των blockbusters Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 και The Hunger Games, καθώς και στις επιτυχημένες τηλεοπτικές σειρές Battlestar Galactica, Orphan Black και πολλές άλλες.
Featuring a powerful node based interface, Fusion makes it extremely easy to build sophisticated visual effects compositions very quickly. Nodes are small icons that represent effects, filters and other image processing operations that can be connected together in any order to create unlimited visual effects. Nodes are laid out logically like a flow chart, so customers won’t waste time hunting through nested stacks of confusing layers with filters and effects. Unlike timeline based applications, it’s easy to see and adjust any part of a project in Fusion by simply clicking on a node.
With a massive toolset consisting of hundreds of built in tools, customers can pull keys, track objects, rotoscope, retouch images, animate titles, create amazing particle effects and much more, all in a true 3D workspace. Fusion can also import 3D models, point cloud data, cameras or even entire 3D scenes from Maya, 3ds Max or Lightwave and render them seamlessly with other elements. Deep pixel tools can be used to add volumetric fog, lighting and reflection mapping of rendered objects using world position passes so customers can create amazing atmospheric effects that render in seconds, instead of hours.
Fusion 7 and Fusion 7 Studio are currently available for Windows, while the new Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio will be available in Q3 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
With this new update, customers will be able to install and use Fusion on the same computers they use for editing and color correction. Current Fusion 7 Studio customers will be able to use their dongles on the Mac and Linux versions, and projects created with Fusion 8 will be compatible across all three platforms.
“We’ve been working hard to bring Fusion to the Mac as quickly as possible and we’re very excited to be demonstrating Fusion running on the Mac at NAB this year,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “We’re thrilled that so many new artists will be able to use Fusion for the first time and we can’t wait to see what they’re going to create with it! Just like DaVinci Resolve, Fusion won’t have annual maintenance fees, require a monthly subscription, or a connection to the cloud!”Blackmagic Design announced Fusion 8, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, will be released on Mac OS X and Linux. Until now, Fusion has been a Windows only product, and with this new Fusion 8 release, it will now be available on all popular operating systems.
Fusion 8 was demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2015 booth at #SL219 on both Mac OS X and Windows.
In November 2014 Blackmagic revolutionized the visual effects industry by making Fusion on Windows available for free and introducing the all new Fusion Studio for €935 (excluding VAT). Previously, getting access to high end visual effects tools such as Fusion used to cost thousands of dollars, restricting it to Hollywood’s elite visual effects artists.
Now, by bringing Fusion to Mac and Linux, Fusion will be available to even more users than ever, opening the door to millions of motion graphic artists, broadcast designers, video editors, visual effects compositors, and 3D animators.
Fusion has been Hollywood’s leading visual effects and motion graphics tool for over 25 years, and has been used on thousands of feature film and television projects, including blockbusters like Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Hunger Games, as well as hit television shows like Battlestar Galactica, Orphan Black and many more.
Featuring a powerful node based interface, Fusion makes it extremely easy to build sophisticated visual effects compositions very quickly. Nodes are small icons that represent effects, filters and other image processing operations that can be connected together in any order to create unlimited visual effects. Nodes are laid out logically like a flow chart, so customers won’t waste time hunting through nested stacks of confusing layers with filters and effects. Unlike timeline based applications, it’s easy to see and adjust any part of a project in Fusion by simply clicking on a node.
With a massive toolset consisting of hundreds of built in tools, customers can pull keys, track objects, rotoscope, retouch images, animate titles, create amazing particle effects and much more, all in a true 3D workspace. Fusion can also import 3D models, point cloud data, cameras or even entire 3D scenes from Maya, 3ds Max or Lightwave and render them seamlessly with other elements. Deep pixel tools can be used to add volumetric fog, lighting and reflection mapping of rendered objects using world position passes so customers can create amazing atmospheric effects that render in seconds, instead of hours.
Fusion 7 and Fusion 7 Studio are currently available for Windows, while the new Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio will be available in Q3 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
With this new update, customers will be able to install and use Fusion on the same computers they use for editing and color correction. Current Fusion 7 Studio customers will be able to use their dongles on the Mac and Linux versions, and projects created with Fusion 8 will be compatible across all three platforms.
“We’ve been working hard to bring Fusion to the Mac as quickly as possible and we’re very excited to be demonstrating Fusion running on the Mac at NAB this year,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “We’re thrilled that so many new artists will be able to use Fusion for the first time and we can’t wait to see what they’re going to create with it! Just like DaVinci Resolve, Fusion won’t have annual maintenance fees, require a monthly subscription, or a connection to the cloud!”

 

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