About Blackmagic Fusion Studio 18.5

What's new in Blackmagic Fusion Studio 18.5

• Support for importing Universal Scene Descriptor (USD) files
• Introduction of the USD toolset for managing USD assets.
• Support for USD Hydra based renderers including Storm.
• New multi-merge tool for compositing multiple layers.
• Support for a native AI-based depth map tool.
• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.3.
• GPU accelerated Clean Plate.
• GPU accelerated Anaglyph.
• Up to 3x faster renders when using splitter tool.
• Support for OpenEXR DWA compression level in saver nodes.
• Support for BMD Film Gen 5 in CineonLog tool.
• Support for previewing individual shape tools.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum system requirements

• macOS 12 Monterey
• Windows 10
• Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3

• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB+ for improved performance.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.

Installing Blackmagic Fusion Software

Double-click the Fusion Installer icon, follow the onscreen instructions and then restart the computer after installation.

Additional Information

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support.

Some applications may use third party code under license. For details please refer to the included "Third Party Licenses.rtf" document.

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Updated July 19, 2023.