The paint tool is now GPU-accelerated, and should generate smoother strokes and the duplicate tool is also now faster, and gets “additional blur, glow and size controls”. The update also adds five new Merge operations, including Conjoint and Disjoint for combining alpha channels, and Mask and Stencil for combining mattes The Merge node gets a number of new blending modes, shown in the video at the top of this story, and imported PSD files should also retain their blend modes. The actual new features in Fusion Studio 18.0 itself include a Custom Poly modifier for creating masks and strokes, which can be animated via expressions. New Custom Poly modifier and blend modes, updates to the paint and duplicate tools Updated 13 November 2022: This is still true on the release of Fusion Studio 18.1: the features listed on the ‘What’s New’ page are actually from Fusion 17.0. In addition, the page has not been updated for the new release, and lists features that were actually added in DaVinci Resolve 17.0 and Fusion Studio 17.0. Released in parallel to the Fusion toolset inside Da Vinci ResolveĪ version of the Fusion toolset is included in DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Design’s colour grading, editing and visual effects software.Īs a result, the feature descriptions on the What’s New page on Blackmagic’s website are written for the integrated version of the Fusion toolset within DaVinci Resolve, and include changes unique to it. New features in Fusion Studio 18.0 include a Custom Poly modifier for creating animatable masks, new blending modes, updates to the paint and duplicate tools, fractional UI scaling, and support for Python 3. Scroll down for news of the Fusion Studio 18.1 update.īlackmagic Design has updated Fusion Studio, its compositing software. Some of the new features in compositing software Fusion Studio 18.0, as covered in Blackmagic Design’s livestream on DaVinci Resolve 18.0, which features a version of the Fusion toolset.

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