Description
Summary
This Course is for everyone who wants to dive deep into the art & craft of compositing with Fusion.
Intermediate to advanced level intensive online course with 30h of video instructions.
Compositing is about extracting and combining images from different sources into a new coherent photo-realistic result. At the heart of it is Rotoscoping, Keying, Tracking, Integration and more. This course builds strong foundations and takes each of those topics to a level that few other courses reach.
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This Course Offers
- 30h of Video lessons.
- Accurate English Subtitles
- Support from Instructor and Community
- Exercise packages with practice footage and solutions for DaVinci Resolve and Fusion Studio.
- Realistic footage that you may use online and in your demo reel.
- 30-day money back guarantee - no questions asked!
- 3 Real World Case Studies
- Quiz for each chapter
- Lifetime access
More than Tools!
- It’s not about loading and saving – Set up a linear workflow, understand domain of definition, color bit depth, gamma, gamut and more.
- It’s not about using the Polygon mask – Extract an actor by covering the human anatomy with multiple roto-shapes and animate them for consistent edge detail.
- It’s not about the Delta Keyer – Build andvanced keying workflows with multiple preprocessing techniques, screen correction, adaptive despill, custom luma keyers and more.
- It’s not just about tools – learn compositing in depth!
Choose your preferred software – this course is designed for both:
DaVinci Resolve
All demos are shown in Resolve and Resolve Project files are included for all exercises.
Fusion Studio
Fusion *.comp files are included for all exercises. Differences between Fusion Studio and Resolve are demonstrated where they apply.
Who Should Take this Course?
This course is ideal if you…
- ...have taken another VFXStudy course for Fusion before. OR
- ...have worked through multiple tutorials or your own projects and feel comfortable with the software in general.
You should…
- ...be familiar with node-based compositing
- ...understand the Fusion viewers and general interface
- ...be able to load/save, import/export, and render
- ...feel comfortable with masks and keyframe animations
- ...know the most important tools. For example, you know most tools you see in the Fusion onscreen toolbar.
Expert knowledge is not required. Perhaps you have not used the Delta Keyer or the 3D tracker before. That’s ok. All exercises are built step by step. However, if you are just starting with Fusion, this course may be overwhelming, and you may want to check out the Free Beginner Course – Fusion in DaVinci Resolve first.
Description Per Chapter
Understand high level hardware considerations for Fusion as well as general settings and concepts that are used throughout this course.
Back to the Basics! Learn about the anatomy of an image and everything about how Fusion handles the frame size, domain of definition, color depth, color space, alpha pre and post multiplication, as well as recommended image file formats for compositing.
Sometimes it cannot be avoided. If you have to rotoscope an actor, here is how you can do it. Learn how to break down the human anatomy into simple shapes and track the movement with consistent edges. Use temporary shapes, add motion blur, or combine roto with keying and paint techniques when needed.
Learn about the variety of different keying issues, set up a linear workflow, and get started with building your own tools with custom curves, color space transformations and more. Here you also review Fusion’s keying tools and see what functionality they have in common and learn to create advanced workflows to combine multiple keying and despill operations.
Here comes the nitty-gritty detail. Learn about the impact of chroma subsampling as well as noise and grain. Use advanced techniques to create a clean plate and performa a screen correction for an uneven greenscreen before the keying process. Learn different despill techniques including an adaptive despill for better edges. Finally, you see advanced ways to handle edges and to add blonde hair detail with a custom luma keyer. A deep dive into the advanced settings of the delta keyer concludes the chapter.
No matter if your footage is coming from Roto, Keying or 3D. You need to match color, create convincing shadows, deal with edge effects, interactive lighting, depth of field, lens distortion and more.
Learn advanced tracking workflows with point tracker, planar tracker and the 3D camera tracker. Understand the underlying principles of 3D tracking and scene creation and learn to fix camera tracks that failed.
Create 3D Projections, use multipass exr files, explore the most common render passes as well as the technical render passes available in Fusion. Understand workflows with third party integrations and understand the strengths and limitations of Fusion in the 3D pipeline.
Here, everything comes together in realistic case studies. In each example you will start from scratch and create a polished shot.
Interview: A mid-budget greenscreen scenario of an interview with a variety of keying and integration problems.
3D Set Extension: Example for a set extension with 2D and 3D techniques combined.
Blender Tears of Steel Scene: A high-end greenscreen shot with 3D camera movement that we combine with render passes from a virtual 3D environment.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have further questions. Looking forward to seeing you in the course!
JiPi (verified owner) –
Half of the course has been completed and I would like to give a short interim review.
I am very exited. The content is very well structured and well explained. Not only the pure application but also the “why”. There is no “idle” and so you need the stop / rewind / play process often, which is absolutely fine.
Admittedly, chapter three is dry and you have to struggle a bit, but it was still interesting and important.
I look forward to the remaining chapters.
Tarekabdelhafez (verified owner) –
After completing the this part, can give a very positive feedback about the course. It has many good points that classify it as a very good training such as structure, materials, pace, … etc. However, this course is distinguished in explaining the WHY and HOW for the big VFX puzzle. I enjoy very much the journey when someone till me WHY we are doing this and how it fits toward the target. Moreover, gives the HOW in a structured way. I can say this course takes me several steps ahead in learning VFX and post production in general.
Thank you very much and eager to see the next chapters as contents seem more exciting!
Jepton (verified owner) –
I have lost count of the number of courses and tutorials On Fusion which explain the simple, straightforward stuff in great detail. Then when it comes to the deeper, fundamental material, it’s glossed over, often limited to listing menu choices with no explanation of what they do and no attempt to delve into what’s ‘under the hood’.
This course and other courses by Bernd, are nothing like this. So far I have learned so much about Fusion with many of the subjects covered to me for the first time in an in-depth way. I am very much looking forward to to the rest of the course. Its sometimes hard work to take it all in and benefits from revisiting occasionally but overall an excellent purchase. Highly recommended.
Jordan Acomba (verified owner) –
Straightforward and easy to understand solutions to every problem I have encountered so far! I have all the tutorials and will continue as they are released. Highly recommended.
almath (verified owner) –
The first time I saw fusion I was immediately seduced by this nodal software. I went in search of tutorials and I only saw demonstrations of projects or vague explanations of how it works. Then I watched Bernd’s tutorials one after the other; which led me to opt for this course. I am not disappointed. The knowledge of the software is deep, the pedagogy is very good, Bernd explains why and how to do things and his mastery of Fusion impresses and builds confidence. I highly recommend this course.
Will Mendez (verified owner) –
I have been following Bernd’s YouTube Channel which lead me to this site. I am just getting into this course as well as the Fusion world and Bernd brings the best of both worlds with the Visual and Technical knowledge. His teaching style is on point and easy to follow, the knowledge I have gain already has been well worth the money spent. Looking forward to completing this course and starting to work on my own personal projects as well as freelance gigs.
Tatjana Schenk (verified owner) –
I highly recommend Bernd’s course when you want to learn Fusion. He’s a great teacher that finds the balance between making- and explaining. There is always the chance to reach out to him when you’re unsure of something and also the community will help out if they can. It’s a lovely environment to learn- well structured, packed with Knowledge and I personally like the Quizzes he included after some Chapter’s. Go for it! 🙂
Dag (verified owner) –
Hi, thanks Bernd!
This tutorial is very recommended for everyone who want to learn in depth compositing in Fusion.
It is not one of this tutorials as “klick here and then do this” it is aiming more for the understanding what you do and why. Further there isn’t just one way solution. You get more solutions about one problem depending on the situation. Off course there are not a solutions for all problems but you get a solid foundation for developing your own solutions.
olodum111 (verified owner) –
Ihave done several other Fusion tutorials. You walk thru the “use this to do this” process, but you don’t know hat the nodes are or what the total features are. Also, the composites work but you don’t really know why.
This tutorial is very unique in that Bernd starts out really basic, but with technical, underlying, and gotchas of each node. The keying section is the most thorough walk-thru of the actual and technical process to pull agreen screen. Will definitrly go thru that section 2 or 3 times to nail the 4 to 5 different ways to key and things to consider. I am finally into the Basic Compositing section (Section 7) and all the pieces start to come together. But there are still 4 more sections to go and with Bernd’s teaching technigue, can’t wait to get into the “meat” of the course.
Get this course!! It will open up Fusion for you. There are nodes, on screen tools, and processes inside of Fusion that you would never find on your own.
Martin Klöckner (verified owner) –
This is made with love and passion. The best course to learn davinci in a efficient way on your Personal Maschine.
Kilpis (verified owner) –
This course is my resource. I have not completed it but I can always open it here and dig information of it when I need it. Bernd is a first class teacher too. So it is easy to recommend this course. I only wish my computer was as stable as Bernd’s. It seems rock solid.
FxMonkey (verified owner) –
What a great value for this small amount of money!!
You can really see the dedication spent in making this class….
and what can I say… it’s packed with a load of practicle information, covering everything I wanted to know and could integrate
into my projects right away!!! If you want to get a solid understanding about Fusion….. buy this course
Keep the good teaching comin’ it’s been a pleasure to watch… and to support you with the purchase of this class
frank Bauwens (verified owner) –
Hi, I’m a little less than half way trough. Not everything is easy to follow but overall I learned a lot.
I wish some of the tutorials were shorter and more to the point. The length of some of them makes you (at least me) loose focus.
Nevertheless, it is a great course so far.
jinn ali (verified owner) –
I bought this package and followed the Free beginner course before starting this course.
Very well explained for the beginner with very little knowledge of the software.
I really loved how Mr. Klimm took the time in explaining everything in detail.
I highly recommend this course for the beginner with very basic knowledge of the software!
Nick Waanders (verified owner) –
Although I’ve been using Resolve for about 3 years now, I have been putting off working with Fusion because I couldn’t find a good course to help me, and a lot of the online video clips don’t work and offer no help. This course is not aimed at raw beginners, but the concepts are well explained and the examples are worked through in detail. Bernd is very good at responding to questions in case you need help and there are links to good external resources. I’m following the lessons in order to get an understanding of the compositing processes, and will go back and work through the examples later. I’m also looking forward to seeing what’s in the case studies at the end — the great strength of this course is its practical focus. The material is professionally organised and the course is excellent value for money.
Billy Payn (verified owner) –
I came from After Effects, and found Fusion confusing to start with, I watched Bernd’s videos on utube and like the style and the content so chose this course. There is so much information in this course that I have now gone back again to do the excercises one by one or I would not remember enough of it. The information is excellent and very well presented, and I now feel that I am actually learning to understand Fusion in a rounded way, and will hopefully be able to make use of it’s awesome power.
Larry (verified owner) –
I got to know Bernd through his tutorials on his Youtube channel.
This allowed me to understand that he had a very good level of mastery of the software.
So when I followed the link to his training platform,
I chose to buy this training, I learn slowly and I use the subtitles because English is not my natural language.
The tutorials are well explained, we progress and we discover a lot of new things.
I am at 13% of the training and I like the way of teaching and the content.
To all beginners or intermediates who really want to improve, I recommend this training!
anthony Epp (verified owner) –
Really wonderful course. This has become my #1 resource for compositing ever since I transitioned to fusion from after effects.
Olivier Pascaud (verified owner) –
Excellent tutorials with very clear explanations and all the files you need to follow along. Bernd is an excellent trainer who invested a lot of his time into learning Fusion in depth. Very few people know the software like he does. Excellent resource to get started with Fusion. Highly recommended.
Thomas Meffert (verified owner) –
As a documentary filmmaker I will not dive that deep in Fusion to become an expert, although the course can help you to become one. Actually I want to get an overview, how to handle Fusion at the moment I need it. I tried before with the manual from BMD and managed … let’s say: reasonable. Now with this course I can really understand what’s going on and can get a real clean result – perfect!
Manuel López (verified owner) –
The course is excellent. I haven’t finished it yet, but what I’ve seen so far confirms it. Everything is well structured and explained. Also, I like the use of Resolve’s Fusion tab more than Fusion Standalone.
Finally, I would like to point out the English subtitles. For those like me who don’t speak English well, it’s fantastic. Thanks to the subtitles I have been able to follow the classes without losing the essence of what was explained.
El curso es excelente. Todavia no lo he terminado, pero lo que he visto hasta ahora me lo confirma. Todo bien estructurado y explicado. Además, me gusta que se use la pestaña Fusion de Resolve mas que Fusion Standalone.
Por último destacar los subtítulos en inglés. Para los que como yo no dominamos bien el inglés es fantástico. Gracias a los subtítulos he podido seguir las clases sin perder la esencia de lo explicado.
Tarekabdelhafez (verified owner) –
After completing the course, I can say it is the best Fusion course. The structure, materials, depth of information, … etc are perfect. The uniqueness of this course that it explains the WHY and HOW we are doing this. In addition, the teacher is highly knowledgeable about the subject and keen to give the information in-depth and in simple form as well.
Thanks a lot, Bernd, for the excellent course. Highly recommended!
Matthew Scott (verified owner) –
This course is a spectacular accomplishment, primarily because Bernd is such a fine teacher. I am fairly new to Fusion and completely a novice at compositing. I took the course to get a sense of how compositing is done, what goals are feasible, and to get a sense of what is straightforward to do and what is better done with some other tools (or not at all). I have now watched all 30 or so hours of tutorials, some of them several times. The course is beautifully organized. Bernd explains the goals of each part, why they matter, and then how to do a large number of critical steps. He comments on advantages and limitations of Fusion, and notes ways it could be improved. As I hoped, a lot of the material is valuable for learning Fusion per se, not only for compositing. A good example is Chapter 3, where how to handle and convert log and linear video (among many other things) is explained in detail. Chapters 1-6 are really about fundamentals of Fusion and processing of video. Starting in Ch 7 the material gets more advanced and more specific to compositing but Ch 8 on tracking, for example, provides a lot of information useful for Fusion projects other than compositing. I found Ch 9 the most difficult, as the concept of passes and how to use them were completely new to me. The case studies in Ch 10 are a great way to review a lot of the material from earlier chapters. What could be improved? Perhaps it is because I am so new to most of this, I would benefit from a table of all the nodes used in the tutorials and notes about how each ones is best applied. I would also benefit from some sort of index or topic search option, since I expect I’ll be going back to these tutorials again and again as I try to remember how to do procedures described in them. Things get a bit dense in Ch 7-9, as Bernd often goes into side topics and options before returning to the main thread, and I would have had an easier time keeping up if the main thread was followed first before all the possible “side trips”. However I understand the difficulty of doing this, since it also makes sense to cover alternatives at the time when the relevant part of the main thread is discussed. Overall I think he has done an extraordinary job in making difficult topics accessible, and in providing extremely thorough explanations of how to use Fusion effectively. Thank you Bernd!
beimiku (verified owner) –
I have tried so hard to find a decent Fusion course. Most only explain the mere basics, lack the “why” and aim for flashy effects without any practical value.
Not so this course. Bernd does a great job in explaining context, details and application. The course is intense as it should be, but at the same time clear and comprehensible.
This is clearly not made for beginners and more geared towards the professional crowd – which I love as Bernd does not waste time on things that are obvious to anyone who has so much as touched Fusion before.
Bend selects the topics very well, the course is perfectly structured and provides real-live value for my daily work in the post-pipeline.
Ah, and I do love the crowd. Good questions and discussions – and Bernd is always there to help.
Very highly recommended!