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Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 20.2
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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Blackmagic Designs NAB 2025 livestream announcing its latest product updates. The new features in Fusion are shown at 2:26:15, shown here in the Fusion page inside DaVinci Resolve.Originally posted on 7 April 2025. Scroll down for news of the Fusion Studio 20.2 update.Blackmagic Design has begun its Fusion Studio 20.x releases, its latest annual series of updates to the 3D compositing software.Fusion Studio 20.0 itself is a sizeable release, adding a complete new deep compositing toolset, and support for multi-layer EXR workflows, 180 VR formats, and Cryptomatte matte ID data.Also available inside DaVinci Resolve 20A version of the Fusion toolset is included in DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic Designs colour grading, editing and visual effects software, version 20 of which has also just been released.DaVinci Resolve gets more promotional support than Fusion Studio at the time of writing, the Fusion Studio 20 product webpage still lists features from version 17 so the video above shows the Fusion page within DaVinci Resolve 20.0, but the new features should be the same.Fusion Studio 20.0: complete new deep compositing toolsetThe main change in Fusion Studio 20.0 is support for deep compositing.Deep compositing, long supported in VFX-focused apps like Nuke, makes use of depth data encoded in image formats like OpenEXR to control object visibility.It simplifies the process of generating and managing holdouts, and generates fewer visual artifacts, particularly when working with motion blur or environment fog.Fusion Studios implementation makes it possible to import deep images and inspect them in a viewer or by converting them to point clouds within the 3D environment.For manipulating deep image data, a new set of nodes, shown in the screenshot above, make it possible to merge, transform, resize, crop, recolor and generate holdouts.It is also possible to convert between deep and standard images, and to convert deep images to points.For exporting data, it is now possible to render deep images from the 3D environment.Support for multi-layer workflows and Cryptomatte dataThe update also introduces full support for multi-layer workflows, with all of Fusions nodes now supporting multi-layer images such as PSDs or layered EXRs.Users can preview image layers in the viewer, and access and manipulate layers independently inside any node, removing the need to generate multiple separate renders of a source file.Fusion also now natively supports Cryptomatte ID matte data in EXR files.Supported as standard in other VFX tools, Cryptomatte data makes it possible to isolate individual objects or sub-objects in rendered images, and manipulate them independently.New optical-flow based vector warping toolsetOther new features include a vector warping toolset, for image patching and effects like digital makeup or mapping an image onto a deforming surface: for example, a logo onto clothing.The toolset is optical-flow-based, so it can also be used for more general tasks: other suggested uses include motion-vector-based noise reduction.Support for 180 VR workflows for virtual reality contentUsers creating virtual reality content get support for 180 VR workflows.Key tools, including PanoMap, the spherical stabilizer, LatLong patcher, 3D VR camera and the 3D viewers have been updated to support 180 as well as 360 angles of view. It is also now possible to render 3D scenes to VR 180.Other changes: new 3D dome light, updated text tools and performance improvementsOther changes include a new 3D scene Dome Light, making it possible to use 360 HDRI images as background environments and to light scenes more realistically.The text tools have been extended, with the release adding a new MultiText tool and updating the Text+ tool to make it possible to control the layout of on-screen text more precisely.Workflow improvements include the option to set a start frame for compositions, and to search for tools based on effects category.Performance improvements include GPU support in the PanoMap and spherical stabilizer tools.For pipeline integration, the update moves Fusion Studio to ACES 2.0 and OpenColorIO 2.4.2, newer versions of the color-management standards.Updated 11 August 2025: Blackmagic Design has released Fusion Studio 20.1.The update builds on several of the key changes in Fusion Studio 20.0, with the new deep compositing toolset getting the option to cache deep composites to disk.When working with Cryptomatte data, it is now possible to make selections based on regular expressions.The MultiText tool gets support for indents, paragraph-level styling, built-in character-level styling, and the option to import .csv files as column-aligned MultiText text boxes.Support for Magic Mask 2Fusion Studio also now supports more of the new features introduced in DaVinci Resolve 20.0.The most important is probably Magic Mask 2, the new version of the softwares AI-based matte-generation system, which now operates in a single mode for both people and objects.However, the update also expands support for the Swizzler tool, used for rearranging layers in multilayer workflows.New features for creating immersive content for Apple Vision Pro XR headsetsIn addition, Fusion Studio gets some of the new features for creating immersive content for Apple Vision Pro XR headsets introduced in DaVinci Resolve 20.1.They include a new immersive option in the 360 Views menu in the viewer, and a new immersive patcher tool.Other feature and workflow improvementsOther changes include the option the option to edit individual tool controls from the Inspector context menu, and the option to downscale clip compositions to timeline resolution.In addition, the Shape Duplicate tool has been updated, with style, jitter and aligned rotations.Blackmagic Designs release video for DaVinci Resolve 20.2. The changes to the softwares Fusion page many of which have also been made in Fusion Studio 20.2 are shown at 4:40.Updated 12 September 2025: Blackmagic Design has released Fusion Studio 20.2.Key changes include support for multi-layer workflows in the 3D renderer. The release notes dont go into detail, but the launch video for DaVinci Resolve 20.2 (embedded above), show the corresponding changes in the softwares integrated Fusion toolset.It is now possible to preview the individual passes generated by the Renderer3D node in the viewer: the video shows Shadow, Diffuse, Specular, Ambient, Reflect, Refract and Fog passes.USD workflows, introduced in Fusion Studio 18.5, have been extended, with the USD tools now supporting animated image inputs, and multilayer AOV channel support in the USD renderer.In addition, the Surface Tracker, which tracks organically deforming planar surfaces for example, for adding logos to clothing is now up to 2x faster.Pricing and system requirementsFusion Studio 20.2 is compatible with Windows 10+, Rocky Linux 8.6+ and macOS 14.0+. The update is free to existing users. New perpetual licenses cost $295.The Fusion toolset is also available in the free edition of DaVinci Resolve, with a maximum image resolution of 16k x 16k and no network rendering capabilities. See a feature comparison.Read a full list of new features in Fusion Studio 20.0 in the online release notesRead a full list of new features in Fusion Studio 20.1 in the online release notesRead a full list of new features in Fusion Studio 20.2 in the online release notesHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.
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