FREMONT, CA — Blackmagic Design is offering its Fusion 7 visual effects and motion graphics software completely free of charge. Fusion 7 for Windows can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Design Website (www.blackmagicdesign.com).
The free release makes Blackmagic’s tool available to anyone looking to create high-end visual effects, and the company hopes it will result in dramatically Fusion has been around for 25 years and has been used on thousands of feature films and television projects, including Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Amazing Spider-man 2 and The Hunger Games. The free release is not limited in its features. Customers get advanced 3D compositing, paint, rotoscope, retiming, stabilization, and titling tools, along with a powerful 3D particle generator and multiple keyers, including Primatte.
Blackmagic Design has also announced Fusion 7 Studio, a complete bundle of VFX and motion graphics solutions with collaborative tools and unlimited network rendering. The release is designed for creative teams and larger facilities. Fusion 7 Studio helps reduces the cost of setting up multi-user studios and will be priced at $995. It includes everything found in the free Fusion 7 software, plus adds extra high-end features, such as optical flow tools for advanced retiming, stabilization and stereoscopic 3D production, support for third party OpenFX plug ins, and distributed network rendering so customers can render jobs on an unlimited number of computers at no additional cost. Fusion 7 Studio also includes Generation, a studio-wide, multi-user workflow and collaboration tool that helps creative teams manage, track and review versions of every shot in a production. Customers can also move projects from the free Fusion 7 software to a workstation running Fusion 7 Studio and take advantage of workflow collaboration and unlimited distributed network rendering.
Fusion 7 Studio doesn’t require annual maintenance fees, subscriptions, a connection to the cloud, or per node render license costs. Existing Fusion 7 customers and customers on a current Fusion support plan can upgrade to Fusion Studio at no additional charge.