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The Render Start and Render End time fields
Audio Monitoring
TIP: If the Mute button is enabled on any Timeline tracks, audio from those tracks will not be heard in Fusion.
TIP: If the Mute button is enabled on any Timeline tracks, audio from those tracks will not be heard in Fusion.
TIP: If the Mute button is enabled on any Timeline tracks, audio from those tracks will not be heard in Fusion.
Playing a composition in DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion page will play the audio from the Edit or Cut page Timeline. You can choose to hear the audio or mute it using the Audio toolbar button to the left of the transport controls. The audio waveforms are displayed in the Keyframes Editor to assist in the timing of your animations.
For Fusion Studio, audio can be loaded using the Loader node’s Audio tab. The audio functionality is included in Fusion Studio for scratch track (aligning effects to audio and clip timing) purposes. Final renders should almost always be performed without audio. Audio can be heard if it is brought in through a Loader node.
— Right-click over the Speaker icon and choose the file name that contains the audio you want to hear.
Audio Toolbar Button
The Audio button in the toolbar is a toggle that can be used to enable or mute audio playback associated with the clip. Additionally, right-clicking this button displays a contextual menu that can be used to select a MediaIn node in the Fusion page or an external WAV file in Fusion Studio.
The Current Time Field
The Current Time field at the right of the transport controls displays the frame number for the playhead position, which corresponds to the frame seen in the viewer. Clicking and dragging in this field scrubs the playhead position back and forth. However, you can also enter time values into this field to move the playhead by specific amounts.
When setting ranges and entering frame numbers to move to a specific frame, numbers can be entered in sub-frame increments. You can set a range to be –145.6 to 451.75 or set the playhead to
115.22. This can be very helpful when animating parameters because you can set keyframes where they actually need to occur, rather than on a frame boundary, so you get more natural animation. Having sub-frame time lets you use time remapping nodes or just scale keyframes in the Spline view and maintain precision.
The Fusion Page Viewer Quality and Proxy Options
Right-clicking anywhere in the transport control area other than over the Play Forward/Play Reverse buttons lets you turn on and off Fusion quality controls. You can either enable high-quality playback at the expense of more significant processing times or enter various proxy modes that temporarily lower the display quality of your composition to speed processing as you work.
Rendering for final output is always done at the highest quality, regardless of these settings.
As you build a composition, often the quality of the displayed image is less important than the speed at which you can work. The High Quality setting gives you the option to either display images with faster interactivity or at final render quality. When you turn off High Quality, complex and time-consuming operations such as area sampling, anti-aliasing, and interpolation are skipped to render the image to the viewer more quickly. Enabling High Quality forces a full-quality render to the viewer that’s identical to what is output during final delivery.
The Motion Blur button is a global setting. Turning off Motion Blur temporarily disables motion blur throughout the composition, regardless of any individual nodes for which it’s enabled. This can significantly speed up renders to the viewer. Individual nodes must first have motion blur enabled before this button has any effect.
The Proxy setting is a draft mode used to speed processing while you’re building your composite. Turning on Proxy reduces the resolution of the images that are rendered to the viewer, speeding render times by causing only one out of every x pixels to be processed, rather than processing every pixel. The value of x is decided by adjusting a slider in the Proxy section in the Fusion > Fusion Settings > General panel.
The Auto Proxy setting is a draft mode used to speed processing while you’re building your composite. Turning on Auto Proxy reduces the resolution of the image while you click and drag to adjust a parameter. Once you release that control, the image snaps back to its original resolution. This lets you adjust processor-intensive operations more smoothly, without the wait for every frame to render at full quality causing jerkiness. You can set the auto proxy ratio by adjusting a slider in the Proxy section of the Fusion > Fusion Settings > General panel.
When working in Fusion, only the tools needed to display the images in the viewer are updated. The Selective Update options select the mode used during previews and final renders.
The options are available in the Proxy section of the Fusion > Fusion Settings > General panel. The three options are:
— Update All (All): Forces all the nodes in the current node tree to render. This is primarily used when you want to update all the thumbnails displayed in the Node Editor.
— Selective (Some): Causes only nodes that directly contribute to the current image to be rendered. So named because only selective nodes are rendered. This is the default setting.
— No Update (None): Prevents rendering altogether, which can be handy for making many changes to a slow-to-render composition.