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| Developer(s) | eyeon Software |
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| Stable release | 6.1 |
| Operating system | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux |
| Type | Compositing software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Fusion 6 |
Fusion (formerly Digital Fusion) is an image compositing software program created by eyeon Software Inc. It is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for film, HD and commercials. It employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction. This type of compositing interface allows great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context" (while viewing the final composite).
Fusion is available for 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows and 32-bit Linux (via a customized version of Wine).
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Fusion was originally developed in 1987 as in-house software developed for use by New York Production & Design (NYPD), a post production and visual effects boutique based out of Sydney, Australia. The very first version of the software was written in DOS and consisted of little more than a UI framework for quickly chaining together the output of pre-existing batch files and utilities. eyeon Software Inc. was formed specifically to commercialize Fusion, and all operations relating to the software were moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
| Official name | version | date of release | comments |
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| Digital Fusion 1.0 | 1.0 | November 1996 | first public windows release (older versions not commercially available) |
| Digital Fusion 1.1 | 1.1 | March 1997 | support for direct hardware playback/preview |
| Digital Fusion 2.0 | 2.0 | November 1997 | added timeline, 16 bit integer color processing |
| Digital Fusion 2.1 | 2.1 | April 1998 | Render queue/batch rendering. |
| Digital Fusion 2.5 | 2.5 | December 1998 | Network rendering introduced. |
| Digital Fusion 3.0 | 3.0 | October 2000 | UI rewritten, added paint capabilities, advanced text tool, deep pixel. |
| Digital Fusion 3.1 | 3.1 | January 2002 | 2D particle system introduced, added new color corrector. |
| Digital Fusion 4.0 | 4.0 | October 2002 | eyeonscript (Lua based scripting language), float and HDRI color processing, concatenated transforms, nested flow groups, macro tools, new darker UI. |
| Fusion 5.0 | 5.0 | August 2005 | 3D compositing environment, ASCII save files, 16bit float processing, straight node connections. |
| Fusion 5.1 | 5.1 | December 2006 | consoleslave, elbow nodes, multistroke paint. |
| Fusion 5.2 | 5.2 | July 2007 | 3D look up tables, fuses (just in time scripted tools), external python scripting, FBX geometry import |
| Fusion 5.3 | 5.3 | April 2008 | 64 bit executable |
| Fusion 6.0 | 6.0 | June 2009 (preview release) | 3D material shaders, Region of Interest / Domain of Definition, stereo display |
| Fusion 6.1 | 6.1 | July 2010 | GPU Supercomputing framework |
| Fusion 6.2 | 6.2 | June 2011 | World Position Pass Tools / Quicktime 64 bit support /Linux 64bit / SVG import |
Fusion has been used in many movies and TV shows[1], among them:
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