Now as a freelancer again, I sometimes test my scripts on my old Mac and plugging the dongle in is super quick. Having to transfer the C4D, Redshift and Houdini licenses was always kinda annoying while I could easily 'transfer' my Fusion License by plugging the dongle in another computer. When I was working at a company I switched computers quite frequently or upgrades to the machine were recognized as new computers on other software. The comfort of digital licenses is only really given when the process of transferring them is simple. I understand that digital licenses are wanted and I'm not opposing that but I would hate to see dongles go completely. I still use and cherish my Fusion Dongle and would be sad to see it vanish. Like the CIA, BMD do not comment on future plans That decision would make more sense if it's planned for Fusion Studio to always be available to every Resolve Studio user, and for that to be clearly communicated in marketing and documentation.Īs always we will just have to wait and see. But I've always thought it was a little odd that the Resolve manual has whole chapters describing Fusion Studio features that are not and will never be part of Resolve. That could be wishful thinking on my part. But I wonder if it might also be an indication that in future, buying Resolve Studio will always provide Fusion Studio. Presumably this was primarily done for simplicity and to reduce the time and cost of updating the manual.

I'm wondering if there's already been a sign that this might happen: the fact that when the Fusion sections of the Resolve manual were recently updated they combined the documentation for both Resolve's Fusion page and Fusion Studio into a single document. It's very generous to provide both products for the same price, but the way things are currently handled means people who didn't learn about that option prior to purchase may well end up feeling like they were penalised for buying the most popular package. I've seen a number of people say how they feel like they missed out because they bought the Resolve Studio code before they realised they could have had Fusion Studio as well if they'd bought a dongle, and now have to pay double what other users paid.

Being able to have both Resolve Studio and Fusion Studio for the same $300 / £250 is an incredible deal, but right now it feels like that's hidden. I really hope they do make it possible to use Fusion Studio with Resolve activation keys.

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