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Fusion’s Place in the DaVinci Resolve Image-Processing Pipeline
When working in a single unified environment like DaVinci Resolve, it is important to understand the order of operations among the pages. DaVinci Resolve exposes some of this via the order of the page buttons at the bottom of the screen, with the Media, Cut, and Edit page at the beginning of the chain and the Color, Fairlight, and Deliver page at the end. However, this isn’t the whole story, especially when it comes to the Fusion page. The following sections describe where the Fusion page fits in the image-processing chain of DaVinci Resolve.
Source Media into the Fusion Page
TIP: The decoding or debayering of RAW files occurs prior to all other operations, and as such, any RAW adjustments will be displayed correctly in the Fusion page.
TIP: The decoding or debayering of RAW files occurs prior to all other operations, and as such, any RAW adjustments will be displayed correctly in the Fusion page.
TIP: The decoding or debayering of RAW files occurs prior to all other operations, and as such, any RAW adjustments will be displayed correctly in the Fusion page.
For ordinary, single clips coming in from the Edit or Cut page, the MediaIn node in the Fusion page represents the source media, as modified by the Clip Attributes window. Although you select the clip from the Edit or Cut page Timeline, in the Fusion page, the clip is accessed from the Media Pool.
This means you have access to the entire source clip in the Fusion page, but the render range is set to match the duration of the clip in the Timeline. You also use the full resolution of the source clip, even if the Timeline is set to a lower resolution. However, none of the Edit or Cut page Inspector adjustments carry over into the Fusion page, with the exception of the Lens Correction adjustment.
When you make Zoom, Position, Crop, or Stabilization changes in the Edit or Cut page, they are not visible in the Fusion page. The same applies to any Resolve FX or OpenFX third-party plugins. If you add these items to a clip in the Edit or Cut page, and then you open the Fusion page, you won’t
see them taking effect. All Edit and Cut page timeline effects and Inspector adjustments, with the exception of the Lens Correction adjustment, are computed after the Fusion page but before the Color page. If you open the Color page, you’ll see the Edit and Cut page transforms and plugins applied to that clip, effectively as an operation before the grading adjustments and effects you apply in the Color page Node Editor.
TIP: Retiming applied to the clip in the Edit page Timeline is also not carried over into the Fusion page.
TIP: Retiming applied to the clip in the Edit page Timeline is also not carried over into the Fusion page.
TIP: Retiming applied to the clip in the Edit page Timeline is also not carried over into the Fusion page.
Resolve FX
Resolve FX
Resolve FX
With this in mind, the order of effects processing in the different pages of DaVinci Resolve can be described as follows: