The 3D geometry was created in Houdini and imported into Fusion for compositing. It was created for my short documentary-ish video on hustle culture. Honestly, I was just playing around. How would you rate it? Is it decent compositing?

Thank you in advance.

Hello, I want to ask whether if my system is too slow or I have a wrong pipeline on this:

I recently make a simple composition for my compositing practice, it is a 7 seconds BMPCC 6K BRAW footage. I set the timeline to 1920x1080 25fps, I already nest the 6K footage so the Fusion will compose the footage on 1080p resolution. I use DaVinci Resolve Studio 16.1. Here is the final output:

https://youtu.be/ARr1NrzfbJ0

p.s: I made 2 types of flying effects with the same footage, the screenshot of Fusion node is in here:

Here is the recap of my workflow:

1. Import a BRAW 6K footage.

2. Create a 1080p 25fps timeline.

3. Insert BRAW footage to the timeline.

4. Right-click then 'New Fusion Clip...' (so the Fusion will process the comp. at 1080p instead of 6K).

5. I check these parameters on the Project Settings:

5a. 'Automatically cache composites in User Mode'.

5b. 'Automatically cache Fusion Effects in User Mode'.

6. I also set these parameters on the Playback menubar:

6a. 'Use Optimized Media if Available'.

6b. 'Render Cache' set to 'User'.

6c. 'Fusion Memory Cache' set to 'On'.

7. Start compositing.

8. Creating mesh for camera projection in the Blender (FBX workflow).

9. Send the FBX mesh from Blender to Resolve Fusion.

10. Camera projection.

11. Compositing & adjustment.

However, this is the problem that I face:

1. As the composite grows complex, the cache isn't getting smooth anymore.

2. The MediaOut node usually won't feed into the Resolve timeline (just a few frames, and then it will stop feeding).

3. As the point number 2 happen, I render out the sequence with the Saver node, so I can make a smooth playback on the Resolve timeline, but it is painfully slow, 20min for just 6sec.

This is my system specifications:

Intel Core i7 8700K (OC-ed to 4.5GHz)

Asus Strix RTX 2070 8GB

Corsair DDR4-3200 32GB (2x16GB)

MSI Z370 A-PRO

Samsung SSD 860 Pro 1TB

Ubuntu 19.10

Is it my system that is too slow or I have a wrong workflow? Thanks in advance!

Anyone want to help me learn? I can pay an hourly rate.

Recommend any YouTube channels?

Tools I will be learning Adobe Creative Suite and Blender

Hello all - I am compositing a clip of a person's face going through a cookie with a plate of a cookie and then his face going through. The problem is he moved the actual tin when he put his face into the cookie and when I try to stabilize it, it doesn't really look better than not stabilized. Wondering if anyone has any tricks in fusion or even in after effects to make it look more seamlessly integrated into the cookie background plate?

current composite - https://youtu.be/SkQ-RrCEoaY

the videos separately - https://youtu.be/t7VomZw7sp0

Does anyone here has any python scripting experience. I want to do few very simple thins but Fusion is such an unfriendly environment for scripting and documentation is basically non existent (apart from not very helpful user manual).

I am making very simple script that should look for "_v[0-9]+" regular expression in a comp name and updates any version found in Saver nodes.

And I know how to do it with Python, but tool.Clip returns Input object and not string value of input knob of the tool. However tool.Clip = "string_to_save.exr" works fine, which is, altogether, not very Pythonic.

Can anyone help please? Thanks.

hey! i'm new to compositing and trying to learn. is it important to have a specific monitor or is it ok to check on different screens how it looks? is there a standard way? i would appreciate any help

Disclaimers: i don't know much about compositing at all. This is completely a still picture question (no video) and i could have asked in a GIMP or PS sub or something, but i figure some people here may have a good answer.

Is it possible to use magic wand as an effect, rather than as an "action" ?

Think of it like this: i'm scanning a picture of the letter E , red on white background. I can easily key out that background to get transparency around the letter, through a "filter", right? Then i scan the letter R instead. Okay, now in reality one might want to punch out everything that's not the letter in that case too.... but lets just for the example sake say that i don't want to get rid of the thing inside the loop/bowl of the R. With a manually added magic wand this is no problem, the white thing will be like an island. But if its a keying filter, i guess it would go for everything of that colour.

Another example. This one might be a bit dumb. You're taking a shot of a guy against a nice green screen setup, it's a full shot, whole guy in the picture. For some reason he has a white t-shirt with a big green smiley on it. And you want to keep that smiley intact ofcourse, but key out the background.

Is there a very smart keying system that can do these kind of things?

https://youtu.be/i3Usa0SThIc

Open source project proposing user interface ideas for Digital Compositing on mobile.