Shoutout to @Tobi Bambida for sparking this one. He posted a screenshot from Fusion and mentioned having trouble getting his circle pop animation to actually show up when connecting nodes to Merge and MediaOut. That is one of the most common Fusion roadblocks, and it almost always comes down to one tiny rule. In Fusion, every Merge has two sides. Yellow is your background, green is your foreground. If something disappears, clips behind something else, or refuses to show in MediaOut, it is usually plugged into the wrong side. A super quick checklist ✅ Background goes into the yellow input. ✅ The thing you want on top goes into the green input. ✅ Make sure the chain flows left to right into MediaOut. ✅ Preview the Merge node in the viewer, not just the individual nodes. This alone clears up a lot of those early Fusion headaches. If anyone else is running into weird Fusion behavior, toss a screenshot in the comments. Happy to help break it down.