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Contents 1 Shake Tools and their Fusion equivalents 1.1 Explanation of the symbols 1.2 Image 1.3 Color 1.4 Filter 1.5 Keyers 1.6 Layers 1.7 Transforms 1.8 Warps 1.9 Other

Shake Tools and their Fusion equivalents

Many Shake tools have equivalents in Fusion. However, many Fusion tools combine the functions of multiple Shake tools into one, and can be more efficient when used this way rather than a straight 1:1 duplication of each individual Shake tool. Taking the time to learn the capabilities of Fusion's toolset will pay dividends in faster comp setup and rendering.

For other Shake tools, the converse is true, and subfeatures of multiple Fusion tools may need to be used to duplicate the effect of a single Shake tool. Again, learning Fusion's toolset may help you to design your comp to efficiently utilise the features that are there.

Alternatively, tools with common settings may be saved as a .setting file (or as the default), or dragged to a Bin window for greater availability. Multiple tools may be selected and dragged to the Bin too, with or without being Grouped, or a Macro can be created from them to expose specific controls.

Explanation of the symbols

 : A similar tool exists in Fusion

 : Similar tool in Fusion which is superior to its Shake counterpart because of more/better functionality

 : Similar tool in Fusion which is inferior to its Shake counterpart because of less/worse functionality

 : A macro exists that provides similar abilites

 : No similar tool in Fusion, but one or more workarounds

 : No similar tool in Fusion, and no easy or obvious workaround

 : Not enough is known to say. Suggestions?
When noted that there is a free krokodov plug in, it should be noted that the free version does not work in Floating point color.

Image

Checker

• See the Checkerboard macro
• SecondMan has also made a macro for this

Color

• Background

ColorWheel

• Background (set to Gradient, Angle mode)
  • The Colors need to be defined, and the wheel needs to be limited by a mask. Macro or .setting file?

Filein

• Loader

Fileout

• Saver

Grad

• Background (Horizontal/Vertical)

Quickpaint

• Paint

QuickShape

• B-Spline and Polygon masks

Ramp

• Background (Four Corner)

Rand

• Background -> Krokodove - Noise (free)
• Shaily has made a macro for this
• SecondMan has also made a macro for this

RGrad

• Background (set to Gradient - Radial)
  • set the start to( .5,.5) , set the first key(small triangle) on the gradient bar as r,g,b,a, = 1.0 and set the last key as rgba = 0.0

RotoShape

• B-Spline or Polygon
  • What is missing from Fusion?

Text

• Text+

Color

Add

• Brightness/Contrast (Brightness control)

AdjustHSV

• Color Corrector (Hue/Saturation/Gain)
• Also Color Gain has related controls
• See also Krokodove Hue|Saturation (free)

Brightness

• Brightness/Contrast (Gain control)

Clamp

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• SecondMan has also made a macro
• Custom Tool with this formula in each color channel:

if(c < n1, n1, if(c > n2, n2, c))

• Color Curves

ColorCorrect

• Color Corrector
  Completly subjective that this is better then the methodology used in shake.

ColorMatch

• Color Curves

ColorReplace

• Krokodove Replace Color (free)
• SecondMan has made a macro for this

ColorSpace

• Color Space

ColorX

• Custom Tool

Compress

• Color Curves
• Shaily has made a macro for this

ContrastLum

• Sandwich a Contrast between two Color Space (to and from HLS) and contrast the green channel only (the Luma component)

ContrastRGB

• Color Corrector

Expand

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• Color Curves

Fade

• Brightness/Contrast (tick "Alpha")
• Shaily has made a macro for this

Gamma

• Brightness/Contrast

HueCurves

• 

Invert

• Channel Booleans (Operation "Negative")
• Krokodove - Invert (free)
• Color Space (Negative) Doesn't seem to affect Alpha, though

LogLin

• Cineon Log

Lookup

• Color Curves

LookupFile

• Color Curves (load LUT)
• File Lut (Fusion 5.1)

LookupHLS

• Sandwich Color Curves inside two Color Space

LookupHSV

• Sandwich Color Curves inside two Color Space

MDiv

• Daniel Koch has made a macro for this
• dts74 has made a macro for this
• Most Color Correction Tools have Premult and Unpremult Options

MMult

• Daniel Koch has made a macro for this
• dts74 has made a macro for this
• Most Color Correction Tools have Premult and Unpremult Options

Monochrome

• Color Space (BW)

Mult

• Color Gain

Reorder

• Channel Booleans
  It is hight subjective to say the channels boolean is superior to the reorder. They are different tools with different thought processes. Channels boolean is like having a reorder,copy, layers all in one. This can be good or bad depending on how you like to build your trees.

Saturation

• Color Gain

Set

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• Custom Tool

SetAlpha

• Custom Tool

SetBGColor

• No Infinite Workspace in Fusion

Solarize

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• Color Curves

Threshold

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• Color Curves

Filter

ApplyFilter

• 

Blur

• Blur

Convolve

• Custom Filter

Defocus

• Defocus

DilateErode

• Erode / Dilate (Fusion 5.0) no subpixel
• (Fusion 5.1) Supports subpixel

EdgeDetect

• Filter (Sobel / Laplacian)

Emboss

• Filter (Relief)
• Shaily has made a macro for this

FilmGrain

• Grain

Grain

• Grain

IBlur

• Chad Capeland made a macro for this
• Shaily has made a macro too
• SecondMan has also made a macro
• using Depth Blur, but it seems to react differently IMO

IDefocus

• 

IDilateErode

• 

IRBlur

• 

ISharpen

• Chad Capeland made a macro for this
• Shaily has made a macro for this

Median

• Rank Filter

PercentBlur

• Blur (tweak values)
• Krokodove - Blur in Space (free)

Pixelize

• SecondMan has made a macro for this
• Shaily has made a macro for this

RBlur

• Directional Blur (Radial)

Sharpen

• Sharpen

ZBlur

• Depth Blur The Resulting blur looks like a blur was screened over the top of the orginal layer when the underlying layer has an alpha when usuing depth blur.

ZDefocus

• 
• using AFX Plugin lenscare (commercial)

Keyers

ChromaKey

• Chroma Keyer

DepthKey

• Luma Keyer (Channel - Depth)

DepthSlice

• Shaily has made a macro for this

LumaKey

• Luma Keyer

Primatte

• Primatte is available as a plugin

SpillSupress

• Matte - Matte Control and other keyers(Spill Tab)
• Color Corrector can suppress colours

Keylight

• Keylight

Layers

Addmix

• add CCv set to affect alpha only after both fg and bg ;set merge to over

AddText

• Text+ and a Merge Tool

Atop

• Merge (Operator: Atop)

Common

• Difference Keyer

Constraint

• 

Copy

• Channel Booleans (Operation: Copy)

IAdd

• Channel Booleans (Operation: Add)
• You can also use a Merge with Additive = 1.0 and Alpha Gain = 0.0

IDiv

• Channel Booleans (Operation: Divide)

IMult

• Channel Booleans (Operation: Multiply)
• Note that the Multiply operator in a Merge tool is not a mathematical multiply, but is akin to Photoshop's Multiply Blend mode.

Inside

• Merge (Operator: In)
• Channel Booleans (Multiply)

Interlace

• Fields

ISub

• Channel Booleans (Subtract)

ISubA

• Channel Booleans (Difference)

KeyMix

• Dissolve, connect mix image to mask input, or to Gradient input
• Channel Booleans (pick matte channel in the "nuclear tab")

LayerX

• Custom Tool

Max

• Channel Booleans (Maximum)

Min

• Channel Booleans (Minimum)

Mix

• Dissolve

Multilayer

• 

Multiplane

• All the tools to be found under the 3D tab
• Also see Krokodove Planes tool

Outside

• Merge (Operator: Held Out)

Over

• Merge (Operator: Over)

Screen

• Merge (Apply Mode: Screen)

SwitchMatte

• Matte Control (set Matte Combine to Combine Alpha)

Under

• Merge, (Operator: Over, swap inputs)

Xor

• Merge, (Operator: Xor)

ZCompose

• Merge (tick "perform Depth Merge")

Transforms

AutoAlign

• 
• ReadMe Discussion about workaround on PigsFly

CameraShake

• Camera Shake

CornerPin

• Corner Positioner but no concatenation

Crop

• Crop (Shake's "Window" behaves like Fusion's Crop but it's the same with different values anyways)

Fit

• Letterbox (choose "letterbox" or "pan and scan" depending on source material)

Flip

• Transform (Flip Vertically)

Flop

• Transform (Flip Horizontally)

MatchMove

• Tracker

Move2D

• Transform but no Shear
• All the tools to be found under the 3D tab, plus the bender tool to shear

Move3D

• DVE no concatenation
• All the tools to be found under the 3D tab

Orient

• Krokodove Canvas (free)
• Use Crop to enlarge the image, Transform to rotate 90 degrees, then Crop it smaller again.
• Macro, anyone?

Pan

• Transform

Resize

• Resize

Rotate

• Transform

Scale

• Transform

Scroll

• Transform (activate "Wrap")

SetDOD

• No DoDs in Fusion

Shear

• Shaily has made a macro for this
• Restrict the four corners of a Corner Positioner via [[Eyeon:Manual/Tool Reference/Modifiers/Expression|Expression]
• Custom Tool

Stabilize

• Tracker

SmoothCam

• 

Tracker

• Tracker

Viewport

• No Infinite Workspace in Fusion

Window

• Crop

Zoom

• Scale

Warps

DisplaceX

• 

IDisplace

• Displace
• Also Krokodove Offset (free)

LensWarp

• 

Morpher

• See Grid Warp plus Dissolve

PinCushion

• 

Randomize

• Fast Noise plus Displace

Turbulate

• 

Twirl

• Directional Blur (Radial) tweak the angle

Warper

• Grid Warp
• Shake has a Shape Warper

WarpX

• 

Other

AddBorders

• Crop (tick "keep centered")

AddShadow

• Shadow (Output "Image with shadow")

Bytes

• Change Depth
• Bit Depth is also switched in Loader and Creator nodes in Fusion

Cache

• Every tool in Fusion can be cached to disk

DeInterlace

• Fields

DropShadow

• Shadow (Output "Shadow only")

Field

• Fields (strip field1/2)

Histogram

• Fusion can display histograms in the viewer, or in a subview
• Krokodove Analyser
• See also Color Corrector's histogram

PixelAnalyzer

• See the image view's Pixel Inspector subview

PlotScanline

• 

Select

• 

SwapFields

• Fields (tick "Reverse Field dominance")

Tile

• See the [[Settings_and_Macros/Tiler_Description|Tiler] macro
• SecondMan has also made a macro for this

TimeX

• Time Speed / Time Stretcher

TLCalibrate

• 

Transition

• The Dissolve tool has a variety of transition types.
• Use Loader's Clip Lists feature for easy cut transitions.