Export Clips

By pressing the Export Clips button in the Effects Editor, Fusion Connect exports all the associated clips as image sequences, to provide access to them in Fusion. Any previously exported existing images are overwritten, ensuring that all media needed by Fusion is accessible. Performing an export is desired if you want to use Fusion on a different computer than the one with Media Composer installed.

When using Fusion on the same computer as Media Composer, there is no need to export the clips explicitly by checking the Export Clips checkbox. Without this option enabled, Fusion Connect saves the source frames each time images are displayed, scrubbed, or played back from the Timeline.

TIP: Set your Timeline Video Quality button to Full Quality (green) and 10-bit color bit depth. If the Timeline resolution is set to Draft Quality (green/yellow) or Best Performance (yellow), Fusion receives subsampled, lower-resolution images.

Depending on your Media Composer Timeline settings, these interactively exported images might be half-resolution based on Avid proxy settings. When scrubbing around the Timeline, only a few frames—namely, those that are fully displayed during scrubbing—might be written to disk.

Fusion Connect AVX plug-in controls in the Effects Editor

Edit Effect

After exporting the clips, the Edit Effect button performs three subsequent functions:

— Creates a Fusion composition, with Loaders, Savers, and Merges (for layers), or a Dissolve (for transitions). This function is only performed the first time a comp is created when the Fusion Connect AVX2 plug-in is applied.

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