Fusion 5 Review

Fusion’s interface is sleek and uncluttered while allowing the artist full access to its suite of tools, supporting multiple OpenGL display views.

Networkable Bins can store your footage, effects and comps making them available to a large production team.

The power of Fusion is really unleashed in its tool set. Included are colour correctors, keyers, trackers, effects, transforms, text tools and a fully integrated paint system.

Fusion’s masking toolset includes B-Splines, Beziers, and Bitmap masks, some of which can support variable edge softness for simulation of motion blur, etc.

One of Fusion’s most unique and powerful tool sets is its 3D system.

You can create full 3D primitives such as image planes, spheres and cylinders which can be fully textured and lit by Fusion’s multiple shadow casting lights.

These can then be composited together and rendered out for direct use with the rest of your composition.

If that was not enough you can import .fbx files, along with camera data and point cloud information from packages such as Maya, boujou and monet.

In a like for like test Fusion was over 7x faster at rendering a 3D cylinder with sky texture map and imported camera data than rendering the same shot in Maya 8.

Other features of Fusion include a full 3D/2D particle system suite, the ability to instance nodes, network rendering, scripting, expressions, and macros.

With all this Fusion still remains extremely interactive, giving real time feedback in most instances and having the ability to quickly create RAM previews at the click of a button.

Overall eyeon’s Fusion is an extremely flexible, robust and powerful compositing system.

£3,095
Upgrade from v4 £355

eyeon Software Inc.
0207 6375319
http://www.eyeonline.com

• Extremely fast and flexible.
• Complete and powerful toolset.
• True integrated 3D system.

• No range deselect on keying.
• No one-click method to colour correct a hue range.