Compositing Unreal Engine Renders in Fusion - Beginner Compositing Tutorial
In this long-format tutorial, I will be going over the basics of compositing Unreal Engine 5 renders using Davinci Resolve (Fusion). After going through some UE5 render settings, we will be exporting a virtual camera from Unreal Engine straight into Fusion so that it will aid us in the compositing workflow. We will be working in the ACES color space, but you can definitely follow along if you're using sRGB.
Where to download an ACES config file:
https://github.com/colour-science/Ope...
UE5 Movie Render Queue console variables:
r.AmbientOcclusion.Denoiser.TemporalAccumulation 0.0
r.GlobalIllumination.Denoiser.TemporalAccumulation 0.0
r.Reflections.Denoiser.TemporalAccumulation 0.0
r.Shadow.Denoiser.TemporalAccumulation 0.0
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling 0.0
r.HairStrands.Voxelization.Virtual.VoxelWorldSize 0.05
r.HairStrands.Voxelization.Raymarching.SteppingScale 1.0
r.HairStrands.Voxelization.Virtual.VoxelPageCountPerDim 18.0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality 10.0
Smoke overlay used in this tutorial:
https://pixabay.com/videos/smoke-smok...
Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:34 What is compositing?
2:17 Unreal Engine initial setup
3:28 Setting up ACES in UE5
4:58 Movie Render Queue Settings
7:14 Setting up placeholder objects
8:14 Bake camera animation
8:41 Export camera to Blender
9:37 Import camera to Blender and make adjustments
13:35 Fusion Initial Settings
15:50 Add ACES 3D render to Fusion
17:08 Import UE camera to Fusion
19:45 Fix alignment issue from the UE camera
21:33 Add text to buildings
23:19 Fix 3D object flickering in Fusion
25:29 Add multiple opacity controls for 3D objects
26:45 Add a video into the 3D scene
29:03 Make sRGB footage not affected by ACES transform
32:37 Add "Media Out" Node
33:06 Outro
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