About Blackmagic Fusion Studio 21.0

Welcome to Blackmagic Fusion Studio 21.0.3!

This installer will add Fusion Studio software to your system as well as additional utilities for setting up hardware control panels. It also installs Blackmagic RAW Player and Blackmagic Proxy Generator into the applications folder.

Installing Fusion Studio Software on MacOS

Double-click the Fusion Studio Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove Fusion Studio from your system, double-click the Uninstall Resolve icon.

Installing Fusion Studio Software on Windows

Double-click the Fusion Studio Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove Fusion Studio from your system, go to the Programs and Features control panel, select Fusion Studio, click on Uninstall and follow the onscreen prompts.

Installing Fusion Studio Software on Linux

Double-click the Fusion Studio installer and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove Fusion Studio from your system, select the uninstall option after running the installer.

What's new in Fusion Studio 21.0.3

The following features have been added or updated.

• Addressed issue with locating OpenFX plugins on Windows ARM.
• Addressed issue toggling hide sliders for color controls in Edit Controls.
• Addressed issue with Krokodove Match Color controls.
• Addressed issue with GPU support in OpenFX plugins.
• Addressed issue with detecting pulldown in Loader.
• Addressed issue with processing very large images on M5 GPUs.
• Addressed issue with rounding in Krokodove tools.
• Addressed issue with loading assets from some drfx files.
• Addressed issue with timestamps in macro drfx files.
• Addressed issue with some node operations in dual screen layouts.
• Addressed issue with lighting of CPU-rendered 3D particles.
• Addressed issue with drawing loaded tool groups at changed scales.
• Addressed issue with showing viewer overlays for macros.
• Addressed issue with range control undo and step size.
• Addressed issue with sText and Solid blending mode.
• Addressed viewer overlay flicker when editing downstream tools.
• Updated Fusion 21 reference manual.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for improved performance.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for improved performance.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

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.

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Updated July 22, 2026.