On 10 November 2014, Blackmagic Design announced that Fusion 7 – visual effects and motion graphics software – is now available completely free of charge. Fusion 7 for Windows is available for download from the Blackmagic Design website now.
Fusion software 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 show Battlestar Galactica, and many more.
Blackmagic Design believes that offering Fusion 7 free of charge will revolutionise the industry and consumers will be able to watch dramatically better feature films and television shows in the future. The free of charge Fusion 7 is not limited in it’s features. It has a large visual effects and motion graphics toolset that can be used for both personal and commercial work. Fusion 7 features an unlimited 3D workspace and an user friendly node based workflow for quickly building unlimited effects. Customers get advanced 3D compositing, paint, rotoscope, retiming, stabilisation, titling, a 3D particle generator and multiple keyers, including Primatte. Fusion 7 also lets customers import and render 3D geometry and scenes from other applications as well as create their own elements from scratch.
Also announced was Fusion 7 Studio, a complete bundle of VFX and motion graphics solutions with collaborative tools and unlimited network rendering for creative teams and larger facilities. Fusion 7 Studio reduces the cost of setting up multi-user studios and will be available for US$995 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.
The Fusion 7 Studio includes everything found in the free Fusion 7 software, plus adds extra high-end features such as optical flow tools for advanced retiming, stabilisation 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 make use of workflow collaboration and unlimited distributed network rendering.
Unlike other software, Fusion 7 Studio doesn’t require annual maintenance fees, subscriptions, a connection to the cloud, or per node render license costs. That means customers don’t get tricked into hidden or on going costly payments for software they’ve already purchased.
Fusion 7 software for Windows is available for free download now from the Blackmagic Design website.
