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8. VFX Pipeline Composition: Using the Flow Node Editor

Wallace Jackson

(1)Lompoc, California, USA

Now that we have gotten an overview of Fusion, it is time to get into the nuts and bolts of what makes it one of the leading VFX tools available today. We’ll be looking at the user interface for the Fusion flow node editor during this chapter, as that is the core way that VFX processing pipelines are built in Fusion.

We will look at how to add tools to the flow node editor and how to connect them to each other to achieve VFX objectives such as color correction. We’ll look at the different flow node utilities, such as cut, copy, paste, rename, alignment, grouping, and ...

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