eyeon Announces Fusion® 5.2

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Toronto, Canada – July 24, 2007 – eyeon Software Inc. announces a new release to their compositing application, Fusion®. Support for OFX was announced at NAB in April and, now with Fusion 5.2’s plug-in capabilities that support the native Fusion API, the After Effects API and the OFX API, Fusion hosts the broadest selection of third party plug-in functionality.

The release of Fusion 5.2 includes over one hundred updates and modifications, such as interface performance improvements in various areas that make the artist’s workflow more efficient. A new Vector Motion Blur tool calculates motion blur from vector data through motion stored in the image’s vector/velocity channels. This will save on the rendering time to calculate motion blur. 3D scene importing allows artists to import more 3D data and animation in FBX, 3DS, OBJ and COLLADA DAE formats. 3D LUTs are now supported in real time, accelerated via GPUs.

Features in the Fusion 5.2 upgrade include but are not limited to:
• OFX plug-in support
• 3D LUTs, fully GPU accelerated with plug-in file formats - support for 3D LUTs in both the FileLUT tool and as a view LUT
• Expanded metadata handling for DPX, Cineon and OpenEXR formats
• Fusion’s scriptable plug-ins allow for the design and running of image processing tools created in the Fusion Lua scripting engine
• Python scripting has been added to control Fusion from web hosts and interfaces to Python-based film pipeline management systems
• Tracker’s new infinite sub pixel precision method is faster and more accurate over changing footage
• A new Vector Motion Blur tool
• Plus additional new tools, and hundreds of UI enhancements and workflow improvements

“Adding features like 3D LUTs, OFX support and vector blur tools are naturally a part of any new release. With 5.2, I think artists will be just as impressed with how much more responsive we have made Fusion. The creative process should always be confident, and our intuitive interface goes a long way to ensuring that this is the case.”
Isaac Guenard, Product Manager for eyeon Software