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You can render Flipbook previews into a viewer. These Flipbook previews exist entirely within RAM. They are created by right-clicking over a node in the Node Editor and choosing Create > Play/Preview on > Left viewer/Right viewer from the drop-down menu. The Render Settings dialog appears where you can configure the preview and initiate the rendering. You can also Option-drag a node directly from the Node Editor into a viewer. The Render Settings dialog will be displayed, and the preview will appear on the viewer you target.
TIP: Option-Shift-dragging a node into a viewer will skip the Render dialog and previously used settings.
TIP: Option-Shift-dragging a node into a viewer will skip the Render dialog and previously used settings.
TIP: Option-Shift-dragging a node into a viewer will skip the Render dialog and previously used settings.
For more information on rendering RAM previews, see Chapter 69, “Using Viewers.” in the DaVinci Resolve Reference Manual or Chapter 7 in the Fusion Reference Manual.
Setting Up Network Rendering in Fusion Studio
Fusion Studio is capable of distributing a variety of rendering tasks to an unlimited number of computers on a network, allowing multiple computers to assist with creating network-rendered previews, disk caches, and final renders.
Using the Render Settings dialog or the built-in Render Manager, you can submit compositions to be rendered by other copies of Fusion Studio, as well as to one or more Fusion Render nodes. Rendering can also be controlled through the command line for integration with third-party render managers like Deadline, Rush, and Smedge.
Render nodes are computers that do not have the full Fusion application installed but do have Fusion Render node software installed. The Render node software is not installed by default when you install Fusion Studio, but it can be installed at any time using the Fusion Render node Installer. The installer is located in the Blackmagic Fusion Studio installer.dmg on macOS and the Blackmagic Fusion Studio.zip on Linux and Windows. Fusion Studio is licensed for an unlimited number of Render nodes, so you can install the Render node software on as many macOS, Windows, and Linux computers that you want involved in network rendering.
1 Download and unzip the Blackmagic Fusion Studio archive. Then locate the Render Node Installer.
2 Copy the Install Fusion Render Node [version] to each computer on the network that you want to perform rendering operations.
3 Install the Render node.
By default, the Render node application will be added to the Start Menu on Windows under Blackmagic Design. On macOS, it is added to the menu bar, and on Linux it appears in the app launcher. Each time you log in to the computer, the Render node application will run automatically.