In-depth Node Based Compositing Tutorial with Eyeon Fusion
Posted on: March 2, 2010
Posted in: Eyeon Fusion, Featured, Video Tutorials
In this 45 minute tutorial, we take a look at a final shot for the Open Cut 3.0 Challenge created with Fusion 5.3, and look at every tool involved in putting this shot together.
Compositing Love… | Every Single Node Explained | Details are the Key…

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March 17th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Hi, Your tutorial is incredibaly great. You are the real talented guy. Please give me your email id.
Thanks
Sarvesh
March 23rd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Many thanks for these tutorials. I hope to see another one teaching Fusion for After Effects artists soon!
March 24th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I’ve started working in fusion from After effects and I find it much easier to work with. This tutorial was extremely helpful. I wonder why there are only 2 comments.
in the tut you mentioned a project you worked on where you did around 24 hours of keying. Could you please upload more tutorials like the one above?
I really appreciate the way you explain the nodes one by one describing why you took them.
Have you done any 3d matte paintings in fusion?
Waiting for more of your fusion work breakdowns…
March 28th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Hi Mad,
I’m defiantely going to cover that keying shot that I talked about. I’ll likely make it a feature tutorial, since there’ll probably be at least 1-2 hours or material to cover in that shot. It’s a HUGE one
I’ve done some minor matte painting projections in fusion, but nothing that I can show on this site, unfortunately.
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!
TTYL!
April 1st, 2010 at 9:02 am
This is great stuff, thanks…
April 4th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Hi kert, thx for this tut.
Im totally new to video editing. (though i have some experience with node based rendering)
I wanna ask a 100% newbie question:
What’s your workflow? i mean, to firstly create special efx on clips then montage or reverse?
April 5th, 2010 at 6:02 am
Hi Kiko, I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but usually an editor will edit an entire sequence, then turn that over to VFX, so there’s not as much wasted effort on the VFX artist’s part.
April 6th, 2010 at 1:20 am
thx Kert, i see where it’s going.
I really enjoy your tuts.
best regards.
August 11th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Thanks for this. Excellent work!
October 19th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Thanks man YO!!!
December 1st, 2010 at 7:08 am
Haha, Kai’s power tools, I definitely rememebr those!
Originally I used them as a part of Painter on the Mac, they had a different name back then but I can’t seem to think of it.
Great breakdown!
February 24th, 2011 at 9:35 am
Hi! Probably this would be a stupid question, but how do you do those empty little connector-nodes, which in Nuke are done with the “.”?
February 24th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Hold down the ALT/Option key and click in in the middle of the line between the 2 nodes.
July 24th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
The links for Kert Gartner’s Open Cut 3 Submissions are broken. Do you know where they are?
July 26th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Shit, sorry about that. They’re all fixed up. Thanks for pointing that out.
December 28th, 2011 at 9:32 am
funny, in the beginning u say lovely greenscreen then you say later it sucks…
btw Kert did u got the keying tutorial u mentioned in this video …
December 28th, 2011 at 9:38 am
I specially want to see how u do spill suppression and the integrate it onto a separate BG matching it by color grading