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Adding Fusion Composition Generators
The Generator category of the Edit page Effects Library has a Fusion Composition generator. It’s useful for creating an empty placeholder in the Timeline that you later want to work on in the Fusion page to create a more fully-featured Fusion composition.
1 Open the Effects Library, and select the Effects category.
2 Edit a Fusion Composition clip into the Timeline in whichever way is most convenient.
a) You can drag a Fusion Composition clip into the Timeline, which will result in a clip that’s the length of the “Standard generator duration” preference, which is 5 seconds by default.
b) You can set In and Out points in the Timeline, and drag the Fusion Composition clip onto any of the editing overlays of the Timeline viewer to perform that sort of edit to insert, overwrite, “place on top,” or ripple overwrite it into a specific place in the Timeline, for a specific duration.
3 A new clip named “Fusion Composition” appears in the Timeline. It initially displays only black in the Timeline viewer, since it’s a blank composition with no contents.
4 With the playhead parked over that clip, open the Fusion page. Since this composition is blank, there’s only a single MediaOut node in the Node Editor. At this point, you can add whatever media, generators, and other effects you require.
Creating a Fusion Composition Clip in a Bin
You can create an empty Fusion Composition clip in any bin in the Media Pool without creating a Timeline. This method can be useful for creating motion graphics or titles when there is no Timeline or when you plan on using the clip in multiple Timelines.
To create a blank Fusion Composition clip in a bin:
1 Select the bin in the Media Pool where you want to save the Fusion Composition.
2 Right click in an empty area of the bin and choose New Fusion Composition.
3 In the New Fusion Composition clip dialog, enter a Name for the clip, a duration, and a frame rate, and then click Create.
4 The clip will appear in the bin. To open it in Fusion, do one of the following:
— Double-click the Fusion Composition
— Right-click over the Fusion Composition clip and choose Open in Fusion Page