All language subtitles for 3. New Composition and Media Workflow Fusion Kolder Creative

So one very
important thing that we must understand

before diving deep
into the interface of fusion

is that
there are a couple of different ways

that we can actually bring our media
into fusion.

Each one of these methods

slightly changes the way that we interact
with our media once it's in fusion.

So it's really important to understand
each one of these

so that depending on your situation,
you will know what

method is the best for you
to take on your way into fusion.

In this video, I'll be demonstrating

each one of these methods
and the pros and cons of each.

This is something
that was really frustrating to me

at first when learning fusion
because no one was really talking about

these differences
in terms of how you can start in fusion.

So I'm stoked I'm able
to present this information to you guys

and that you don't

have to go through those same struggles
that I did when I was first starting off.

So with that being said,
let's jump right into this lesson

so we can see I have the same timeline
open that we were working on before

in the edited videos,

but at the end I've added a few clips here
for today's demonstration purposes.

Now, if I have a clip selected
and I want to open it up in fusion,

I can just make sure that my head is over
top of that clip and I can open it up

in Fusion.

Now, in here we can see that

that clip shows up in our preview window
right here in the right.

We can also see that
this little play head in this timeline

here is on the exact same frame
that it was in the edit tab as well.

If we go back to the edit tab,
we can see that we are on this frame here.

And if we go and see fusion,
we are on that exact same frame.

Now, at this stage,
don't worry about any of this at all.

I know
this interface can look intimidating,

especially this area down here.

This is where we work with nodes.

But don't worry about this at all.

We're going to be diving deep
into each one of these sections

and how they work throughout this fusion
course.

For now, I just want to show you guys
the differences in how we interact

with our media when bringing it
into fusion in these different methods.

So that's the first method
We can see that.

We have opened up this clip

from the edit tab into Fusion here.

So I just want to show
you guys a little something

if I make any changes to our node
tree down here.

So if I add something like a blur to this
and I go back into the edit tab,

we can now see that
my clip has these three stars over here

and that represents that there
has been work done on this clip infusion.

So if we're ever working in the edit tab
and we see these three stars here,

it means

that the clip has been opened up in Fusion
and some work has been done to it.

Now, you may be asking yourself, okay,

what happens if you have several clips
stacked on top of each other

and your head is over
a bunch of clips like this?

Now, if we open up fusion,
what's going to happen?

Is it going to bring in all of these clips

or is it only going to bring the top clip?

Well, let's
open it up and let's see in here.

We can see that we've actually
only brought in that one clip.

Fusion will bring in the clip that is on
top of all the other clips here.

And naturally, as you scrub through

with your play head, it's
going to select the clip that's on top.

So it's going to import the clip
that is on top of all the other clips.

And if we are working here in Fusion,
we can see what clip it is

that we are working on by enabling this
clip button right here, clips.

If we press this, we can see all of the
clips in our timeline down here,

and this will give us an exact visual
of what clip it is that we are working on.

Now, most of the time I leave
this turned off,

but if you want to have a better visual
representation of what clips

you are working with,
you can turn this on and down here

you'll be able to see
pretty much your entire timeline.

You can scroll through here.

So let's go back into our edit tab
and focus back on this individual

clip over here.

So if I select this
and I go back into Fusion,

let's take a look at it
in our keyframes window.

Now I'm going to be diving

into the keyframes window
a lot more in the next interface video,

as well as every single other aspect
of the interface in fusion.

But for now, I just want to show you guys

how we interact with these clips
when we are importing them into fusion.

So if you don't see this keyframes
window down here,

you can enable it
by pressing keyframes up here and in here

we are able to view
the entire duration of the entire clip.

Now, this isn't just the in and out point.

If I scrub through here with this play,
how we can see that

we are seeing the entirety of the clip
that was in our edit tab.

This isn't just the in and out point.

The in and out
point is actually represented by these two

yellow lines
right here in our timeline right here.

So the area between these two yellow lines
is actually

the duration
of what we have here in the edit tab.

But we can see that in the keyframes
window,

we are able to view pretty much the entire
original clip in here.

And really only the section that we want
in this situation is from here to here.

So it's a very small range
within this entire keyframes window.

Now this keyframes window
is pretty much like our timeline.

It's our visual representation of where
our media sits in relation to each other

and not just the media, but also the key
frames for each individual nodes,

which we're going to be diving into
so much more later on.

But this is one of the things

that was confusing to me
at first about working in a node space.

I was asking myself, where are

where are things like keyframes
and the timing of my clips?

How can those be represented
in a node base layout?

But the reality is
that we do have a timeline here

where we can move clips around in space,
move the timing of each clip

and each node really in relation
to each other in this keyframe space.

But as we can see,
because we chose to use this method

of importing our clip
from the edit tab into fusion,

when we are working in the keyframes
window here,

we are going to have to work
with all the extra media

from this clip,
the full length of the clip,

and in some situations
that might not be advantageous to us

because there's just going to be
a lot more unnecessary free footage

that we don't need to be using here
in the keyframes window.

In a lot of situations,

you're really only going to want to work
with this in and out point here

and you're not going to need any media
pass those in and out points.

So I'm just going to delete this blur node
over here

and I want to show you guys
what the solution to this problem is.

So if you go back to the edit tab

and we navigate back to our clip
that we had open here,

what we can do is right click on this clip
and select new fusion clip.

So in short, a fusion
clip is very similar to a compound clip

where it basically packages whatever
you've selected into a compounded clip.

But in this case,
it's called a fusion clip

because we have the intention of working
with whatever we've put into that fusion

clip.

In Fusion with this new fusion
clip selected in the editable.

Let's go back into Fusion and let's take
a look at our keyframes window over here.

Let's scrub through
and we can see that now nothing

extends past the in and out point,
so we don't have anything else here.

We're really only just working
with the clip,

the in and out points
that we made within the edit tab.

So this is something to keep in mind
because in a lot of situations

you're not going to want the full length
of the original clip.

You just want that in and out point
and in those situations.

This is the method
that you're going to want to go.

Now, let's say you did wants to now
change the in and out point

or you just wanted to move
to a different part of the clip.

Well,
we can actually go back into the edit tab.

And what we can do is right click on this
fusion clip and click open in timeline.

This is basically very similar
to going into a compounded clip.

And inside of this fusion clip,
we are able to make adjustments

to the clip.

So let's say we wanted to slip it
to go to a different time.

We can slip it in here
and let's go back into the main edit.

Select our fusion clip.
We can go into fusion.

And in here we have
that new range that we had just selected.

Update infusion here.

Now in the keyframes window, we're
also able to do things like trim our clips

and move them around,
but we wouldn't be able to slip the clip

like we were able to in the edit tab
and use a different part

of the original clip
inside this duration here.

So that's something to keep in mind.

What we would have to do is, you know, do
what we just did, go back into the fusion

clip, slip it in here,
make our changes inside of this.

You know, if we wanted to use
a completely different part of the clip

and then we can go back into the main
timeline, go back into here.

And now we're working with that different
range of the same clip.

Now, I'm just going to go

back in here, command Z, what I just did,

because I don't want to be working
with that part of the clip,

but that's something to keep in mind.

Now, obviously,

we don't want to be going back and forth
between the edit tab and fusion tab

just so that we can make that slip change,
just so that we can change

what part of the clip we want to use here
that takes a lot of work.

So if you are going to go the route
of creating a new fusion clip,

make sure that your timing
and everything is exactly how you want it

and then you can go that route.

Because if you're trying to do things like
slip your clips back and forth in here

to use different parts of the same clip,
this is going to be a more tedious route.

This is the route you'd go
if you are basically

like locked in confident
with the in and out points

of the clips that you are
putting into your fusion clip.

And for me, there are a lot of situations

where I work in fusion
with really only one clip.

So this is a great method
when you are working with just one clip.

But when you start working

with multiple pieces of media, you're
going to want to be able to read time

and have more read time
flexibility in that keyframes window.

So this will not be the best method
for that.

I will be showing you guys
the best method for that in a second.

But for now, let's do the same thing
that we just did with this single clip,

but with multiple clips.

So with a bunch of clips selected,

let's right
click on them and select new fusion clip.

Now we can see that

it's created a new fusion
clip here, similar to a compound clip.

It's basically grouped all of those clips
together and told DaVinci, Hey,

we are now going to be opening up
all of these clips in Fusion.

So with this fusion clip selected, let's
open up Fusion and see what it gives us.

Now, if we take a look at our nodes
area here, we can see that

it's done some things here
which might look confusing to you.

Don't worry about this at all.

Basically what it's done here is
it's told The Vinci.

I want to stack all of these different
pieces of media on top of each other,

because that's how they were over here
before we made this fusion clip.

And of course, if we right click on this

click open in timeline, we can see that
they are stacked on top of each other.

And this node tree right here.

And if we go back to the main
edit tab, select this clip.

We can see that
that is represented by this node tree.

It doesn't matter if you understand
what's going on here.

I promise
you I'm going to explain this in depth.

This is actually fairly simple
to understand here.

We are going to be talking about that
a lot later on.

But if we take a look at our keyframes
window over here, we can see that we have

clips stacked on top of each other.

Now, we're pretty zoomed out here

and a shortcut that we're going to using a
ton is this little button over here

zoomed to fit it kind of just like
scales, everything in to fit the frame

size of the keyframes window
so we can see that we have this same

layout that we had before in our edit tab
over here in the actual fusion clip,

we have this of these
three clips stacked on top of each other.

We can see that in in the keyframes
window here in Fusion as well.

Now, really important thing to understand
is that in the keyframes window,

the way that the clips are layered on top
of each other, it doesn't matter at all.

This is just a reference as to where each
clip sits in relation to the other clips.

In terms of its timing on the timeline.

But the way that the clips are stacked
inside the keyframes window here,

it literally doesn't matter.

What does matter is the way that our nodes
are connected here.

In our nodes window.

Like I said before,
do not worry about this.

We're going to be diving deep into the
logistics of how all this works later on.

But for now, what we want to pay
attention to is just how we are able

to view all of our media
inside the key frames window.

Now we are able to move our media around
in the key frames window as well.

We can select one of our clips,
move it around,

and we can see that
it's starting to tweak out a little bit.

What we can do over here
to the left is just collapse

each one of these so that we're not seeing
the audio information for each clip.

We don't need to see that.

But what we can notice
is when we start to move our clips around

in time, in our key frames window,
they're jumping around.

Things are not acting like
you would think that they should act.

And this is like
a bit of a glitch in fusion.

I'm not sure if they're going
to be changing this

or updating this in the future.

But all we need to understand is that
this is how the clips are going to behave

if we are going to bring them into fusion
in this way.

You know, if we're bringing
multiple pieces of media in as a fusion

clip, bringing it into fusion
and then wanting to change the timing

of these clips in relation to each other
here in the keyframes window,

we're going to be experiencing issues like
this where things kind of jump around.

So this is not the best
method of importing

multiple pieces of media
from the edit tab into fusion.

If you do plan on changing the timing
of where each clip sits

in the keyframes window,
now we can trim clips too,

but we can see that things aren't behaving
the way that we want them to.

So I'm going to command
Z, undo all of that.

And what I can do is actually go
up to Fusion here and I can select

reset composition and it will reset things
back to the start.

Now, in our keyframes window,
we can also see this red bar here.

And basically all this red bar is
is just a representation

of the in and out
point of our entire fusion composition.

So if I disconnect this line here
from the media out,

we're able to see this full red bar
and this is basically

the span of the entire fusion composition.

So this red bar
is there to basically let us know

the range of our composition
and where we should be working within.

This is something we'll be diving
way deeper into this later on.

But just know that this red bar
is just a visual representation

of the length
or duration of our fusion composition.

Okay, So let's say that

I wanted
to bring all of this media into fusion,

but I didn't want to be limited
by this glitch over here where I can't re

time each piece of media how I want it to,
and it's going to kind of tweak out.

So let's go back in to the edit tab and
let's try this from a different approach.

So I'm going to reset this.

So if I right click and click reset fusion
composition, it'll reset it,

but it's not going to bring my clips back
into the timeline here.

So if I want to bring my original clips
back in here, what I can do is right

click open in timeline.

I can select all of these commands C
or I can even do command X close

that fusion can't go back here
and just command V, paste

those clips back into my main timeline
and delete that

little section of fusion comp
that was left.

So I'm back where I started.

I have my three clips here
and now what is going to be

the best way for me
to bring these three clips into Fusion?

Well,
the first thing that I would want to do

is actually just create a new fusion
composition that is the length of this

area here, because in this case, I'm going
to want to create a fusion composition.

That's the length of all of these clips.

So what I could do is go to my media pool,

and in here what I'm going to do is create
a new folder called Fusion.

So new been called this fusion,

and let's open this up

and I'm going to make a new folder in here
or a new bin.

I mean, I call it test.

You can call this whatever you want,
but basically on an extensive project

for any effects that I want to do
in fusion, I would create a new folder

for each individual
one inside of this fusion folder,

and then import the clips in here
to just kind of keep things organized.

So in this case, we have tests.

And now what I'm going to do
is I'm going to select

all three of these clips,
drag them into here.

And now I have all three of those
right there.

Now what I want to do
is create a new fusion composition.

So I want to make sure that it's
the length of these three clips.

So how can I figure out
what the duration of this is?

Well, I can just use a marker to do that
so I can go to the beginning of this

little sequence of clips, make sure I'm
make sure I have no clips selected.

So I just select in the timeline here
and I can hit them

and I'm going to hit option
and drag that marker out to the duration

of all of these clips I'm going to F
so it snaps so we can see that

the duration of this marker
over here is 3 seconds and 3 milliseconds.

So I go back into my test
folder over here,

right click and we are going to select
new fusion composition

and now I'm going to put the duration
that I want here.

So 3 seconds

and 3 milliseconds.

So that exact same time over here

I'm going to click Create
and now we have a new fusion composition.

So I'm just going to select this
and rename it as well.

We'll call it test.

So it's the same name as the folder
just to stay organized.

And now what we can do is take this fusion
composition,

drag it over top of our footage over here.

We can see it's the same length now.

And now with that clip selected
with this fusion composition

selected, let's go into fusion over here.

And there we go.

We have and we've opened up that fusion
composition that we've made.

Now, if we go back into our media
pool over here

and we access that same test
folder that we were in before,

we can see that we have all three
pieces of media over here.

Now, what we could do is select all three
pieces of media, drag them in here,

and they're going to all show up
as their own separate media in nodes.

And now don't worry
about these merge nodes here.

We're going to be learning
all about those.

Merge nodes
are probably the most commonly used nodes.

Infusion four. Now let's just delete them.

We don't need to worry about them,

but we can see that we have all three
of our pieces of media in here.

Now, what's really awesome
about opening up our media

into fusion in this way by just importing
it directly from the media pool

instead of bringing it in from the edit
tab is when we select

any one of these pieces of media
and we go into our inspector over here,

we can see
that we have a bunch of different options.

So we're able to change the in and out
point of our selected clip.

We're also able to trim the clip
and we're also going to be able

to move our clips around in the keyframes
window much easier.

So now you might be wondering
how can you tell

which piece of media is
which piece of media?

All they say is media
in one media and two in media and three.

Well, we're going to

wants to preview each one of these
in the preview windows here.

And the way that we can preview our media
is by selecting any one of these nodes.

And we can either press

one or two to load them up
into one of these preview windows.

So with this first node selected,
we can hit one and we can see that

it shows up inside of our left
preview window here.

If we go to our second one
and we press two,

we can load up that node
into our second preview window here.

So we have both of these different nodes
side by side.

Most of the time when I'm working
with more than one piece of content

with Infusion, I'm always going to rename
each one of those nodes

because otherwise you're not going to know
which node is

what and you're going to get lost
really quick.

So over here we can see that
this first one is loaded up into preview

one and we can see that it's me
walking outside.

So infusion, the way that we rename nodes
is to select them and press F to.

If you are on a laptop, you are going
to have to right click and select rename

or you can customize the keyboard
shortcut, but I would definitely recommend

that you get a keyboard with the custom
function buttons at the top

because you can also program them
to do special things.

For example, I personally created a macro
for the F3 button

on this Logitech
keyboard in logic options.

It's a program that comes
with this keyboard to basically execute

a series of commands
when I press F three and basically

it's a really quick way
to create a new transform node.

Now that's just a bunch of nerdy talk, but
if you're going to be diving into fusion

as deep as I am, you're definitely going
to want to be able to create shortcuts

like this around the the features
that you're going to be using the most.

But for now, it's not important.

I don't want to overwhelm
you guys with information,

so I'm going to delete that
transform node.

But for now we know that F two
is the button that we press

to rename our nodes.

So with the first node selected, I'm
just going to rename it

and call it Sam Walking.

Second
one underwater shot F two underwater.

And this one over here,
let's load it up into our first window.

We can see it's the jump shot.

So f two energy bit so Landrover

cool.

So this way we are able to visually see
each one of our pieces of media

and now that we've named them,
we're able to easily

tell what layer is
what here in the keyframes window.

So with Sam walking selected,

we can move it around

in time.

And the reason

we're not getting any visual update to
this is because the Sam walking node

is not being played or previewed
in any of the preview windows.

So let's select it. Let's hit one.

And now we can see that we are able
to freely move

the timing of this media easily

simply by just clicking on the clip here
and moving it around.

We're also able to trim the in and out
points of our clips in here as well.

Now, because I have this marker up
here, it's kind of limiting my mouse.

So I'm going to delete the marker
we don't need anymore.

So I'm just gonna go back into the edit
tab here,

select the marker, delete it,
go back into fusion.

Now, in our keyframes window, I'm able
to trim the ends of the clips as well,

just like that.

And I can also just freely move
the clips around here with no problem.

So this is awesome.

And we're also able to make these types
of modifications in the inspector

window as well.

So with the same walking nodes
selected with that media

selected,
I can also make changes to the trim.

Now with the trim,
if I move both of these points

left and right,
I'm basically slipping the clips.

So we're just changing

what part of the clip that we are using
within this duration here.

Now up here
we have this global in and out slider here

which allows us to change the in and out
points just like we're able to down here.

But by moving the whole thing up here,
we're basically changing

where this clip is positioned
in time on our timeline here so we can see

that we're moving the whole thing
left and right just by doing that.

So these are great tools to have
when it comes

to timing your media infusion.

And we can see just how much better
it is to bring media in from our media

pool versus
creating a new fusion clip in the edit tab

and then opening it up in fusion
in that way.

So I want to show you guys one more time
if we open up the previous clip over here

in Fusion.

So we right click new fusion
clip and we open it up here.

We can see that in our inspector
when we have our media in selected.

This is the original media
that we're bringing into fusion.

So if we press one,
we can load it up here,

We can see in the inspector
we don't have those same controls.

We don't have the option to slip our clip
to use a different part of it.

We can't change the in and out
points here.

And of course, things are going to tweak,

tweak out a little bit here, especially
when we're working with multiple clips.

With one clip, things can work fine,

but if you're going to want to make
those changes like slipping the clip,

you are going to want to import the media
from the media pool versus

going the new fusion
clip route from the edit tab into fusion.

So another really important thing
that I want to make note of,

this is something that's really important
for you guys to understand,

is any modifications that we make to the
clips in our timeline here in the edit tab

will not be translated to Fusion

unless we turn this into a new fusion
clip first.

So for example, let's change

the speed of this clip by pressing R
and changing it to 300%.

Let's preview this clip over here
and we can see it's sped up.

But with the clip

selected, let's open it up in Fusion
and let's take a look at

what the clip looks like in
here. So if you press play,

clearly that is not as

sped up as it was in the edit tab.

So because we've made
that speed change in here,

what we're going to want to do is right
click on the clip, select new fusion clip.

So we're
turning that into a new fusion clip.

So now what it's done is it's
taken that clip with the speed change,

put it into a new fusion clip.

And this fusion clip
is kind of like the package.

So what we've done to the clip
within the package stays in there.

So if we open this up in Fusion now
and we press play on our clip,

we can see that
we have that same speed change applied.

So this goes for,

you know, any other kind of modifications
that you make to your clips.

If you're adding effects
and things like that,

you're going to want to add those things
to the clip first, then right click,

create a new fusion clip,
and then open it up in fusion

for those same changes
to be applied in fusion.

So there you go.

These are the different ways that we can
jump from the edit tab into fusion.

We've talked about the advantages
and disadvantages of each

and as you start to personally use fusion
more, you'll get a better idea

as to what methods make the most sense
based on this situation.

So in a lot of situations
when you're just working with one clip,

it can be totally fine
to just open up fusion.

You won't even have to make it a fusion
clip.

You can just open it up in fusion
and just start messing around with it.

That's the easiest route to go, especially
if you're just working with one clip.

And like I said before,
if you don't want to be playing around

with the full duration of the clip,
then just make it a new fusion clip.

First in the edit tab
and then open it up in fusion.

But, you know, if you do want to work
with several different pieces of media

and you want to play with the re
timing in fusion,

it's important that you go the other route
of making a new fusion come first

in the media pool, opening that up
in the edit tab and then going that route.

So like I said before,
it totally depends on the situation.

And I just want to reiterate to you guys,
if this lesson was a little bit

complicated or confusing,
you don't understand what's going on.

That is totally fine.

All you need to know
is that you can open up your clips

from the edit tab infusion
a couple of different ways.

The simplest way

is to simply just open up fusion
and you'll see your clip in there.

So don't stress it's all good.

My recommendation to you is to continue
to take notes on all of this

and in no time
you have a really solid foundation

on how fusion works
and you'll be able to go in there

and move around
confidently and create with ease.

So that's it for this lesson
I hope you guys enjoyed.

I hope you learn something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.