Hi new to Fusion 17 and I am getting the same issue as most people here with it getting stuck at step 7 of 8 Opening Reactor...

Running windows 10 x64 current build.

Hi Martin .

The good news is, No. You don’t need Resolve Studio to be able to enjoy Reactor usage. It is implemented as a set of Lua scripts which run fine in the free versions of BMD software.

You can set up Reactor with Resolve (Free) v15-17.x it’s also possible to use Fusion (Free) v9 which can still be downloaded from the BMD Support Center and used, as well one can use Reactor with Fusion Studio v9.0.2 - v17.x.

It’s more that the Apple App Store version of Resolve is kinda more fidgety...

For users that have issues getting Reactor working on macOS, it's not the typical UNIX style chmod / chown file permissions that are at issue. It's macOS's Gatekeeper security layer that is blocking the install of Reactor by making the Lua script files on disk inaccessible for read/write access inside of Resolve/Fusion. The following steps might help to solve the issues you are experiencing:

Step 1. Open the macOS System Preferences > Security & Privacy window.

Step 2. Switch to the...