Hasta La Motion!

I have a dual monitor set up and I would like to be able to pull bits of the GUI over to the other screen to give myself more room to work with. I understand that some of the tools can be opened in a window by their little ‘click-box.’

But… is there a way to move or create ‘shelves’ onto the second monitor?

Thanks!!
–Jud

So basically what I found in the Fusion forum was a link to a video tutorial of how to use Boujou tracks in Fusion, but this was in Fusion 5 I believe. I use Fusion 6, and the method shown in the video does not work for me, here is a quote from the original thread:

I am hoping someone here can be knowledgeable regarding this topic. Thank you in advance.

Legend 3D is the creator of a patented 2D to 3D conversion technology that seamlessly enhances filmmakers’ storytelling through pixel perfect™ 3D. Merging his expertise in graphic arts and neuroscience, Legend 3D’s founder, Dr. Barry Sandrew, developed the process that integrates sophisticated technology with skilled artistry, offering filmmakers incredible flexibility and customizable conversion of film, television, advertising, online and mobile content from 2D to 3D. The company is now deploying TACTIC across its San Diego studio to manage all of the digital assets in its conversion projects.

Designed by veterans of film, visual effects and video game productions, TACTIC gives studios an open, flexible solution that speeds the creation of digital assets across highly complex digital productions. Combining asset management, workflow management, project management and communication tools with a dynamic Web-based interface, cross-platform support and robust API, Southpaw enables vast teams of artists and animators to work with terabytes of digital assets the way they want to, rather than forcing them into a specific workflow. This significantly
speeds and secures the creation process, while minimizing the costs of training large teams on completely new and closed systems.

“We were originally using an inflexible system that was forcing us to work within the confines of its complicated interface and toolset,” said Barry Sandrew, founder, president and COO of Legend 3D. “We understood pretty quickly that our team was accustomed to working a specific way, and what we really needed was a smarter, more flexible solution to keep our assets secure and our teams productive. TACTIC gave us an easy-to-install, easy-to-use system that we could quickly customize to our specific workflow.”

“Having worked with some of the largest studios around, we’ve learned that no two productions are alike,” said Gary Mundell, CEO of Southpaw Technology. “We designed TACTIC from the ground up to speed the production process by adapting to any workflow. We look forward to working closely with our integrator IMT and the talented team at Legend 3D to further refine our solution to their individual needs.”

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Some teaser videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX0pEZwhEEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hxm30mF50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhAidXLTrs

Some highlights:

Relighting

In 6.1 the 3D system has been greatly refined with full importing of scenes with matched animation curves, stereo cameras, lighting and multi level materials from all the major 3D applications. The GPU render outputs multiple layer types for later processing at extraordinary speed. The ability to directly have scenes in the compositing artist hands opens up creative possibilities and relieves the dependence on other departments. Now with Renderman renderer support via eyeon’s open source SDK this further demonstrates how productive, flexible and extensive the problem solving capabilities of Fusion have become.

RenderMan® Support

Fusion 6.1 now supports the Renderman renderer directly. This demonstrates the open plugin flexibility of the 3D rendering system. Making the production pipeline integration between rendering and compositing better by supporting this industry standard. This is released as open source in the 3D SDK for studios to modify and integrate.

Python Scripting

The MOST requested feature this year! Fusion 6.1 now supports Python 3.1 right within the interface, giving your scripting gurus the choice of using the built in eyeonscript or Python languages when creating Utility, Tool and Comp scripts. Both eyeonscript and Python will work together so existing scripts will continue to work, making the change over painless and allowing better integration for pipelines that prefer a single language.

RED Camera Mysterium X™ Support

With the continued popularity of the RED camera platform, it’s no mystery why the R3D™ file format in Fusion 6.1 now includes support for the new Mysterium X sensor and color science.

Particles & Geometry

Fusion’s ground-breaking particle system now allows the artist to use geometry as particle regions. Emit particles from the surface or interior of an imported FBX mesh, make a primitive 3D shape which acts as an attractor, or bounce particles from any geometry, dramatically improving the particle interaction with 3D scenes.

Particle Caching

Now Fusion 6.1 particle solutions can be cached to disk! No more waiting for particles to recalculate once the particle system has been solved.

OpenCL GPU Supercomputing

Fusion 6.1 now supports the OpenCL language, which allows tools to take advantage of the GPU in modern NVidia and ATI graphics cards to achieve blazing speed increases. How fast? We are seeing improvements as much as 1000% on some of the most processor intensive tools in Fusion (e.g. Defocus, Noise generators). Insert OpenCL code directly into Fuse tools to create your own GPU-accelerated tools. OpenCL’s open computing language is a framework that utilizes the massively parallel operations of GPU’s for general computing. Instead of just doing 3D OpenGL rendering on graphics cards, more general processing can be achieved at orders of magnitude faster than possible with just CPU’s.