The friction stir processing method was engaged on fusion welded AA5083-F/ER5356 and AA5083-F/ER5356+Sc joints to explore the impact of the process parameters on the mechanical and metallurgical characteristics of the processed weldments. The FSP approach was applied to the TIG-welded joints with pin-less FSP tool. Optical and SEM evaluation was conducted to examine the microstructure of the welds and mechanical analysis such as impact toughness, tensile, microhardness and fractography was performed to evaluate the strength of the weld. The microstructural study of the FSP joints revealed an average grain size of 4 µm for TIG welds and an average of 2 µm for the Sc added TIG weld, when compared to TIG-welded joints, which had an average grain size range of 12 µm and 8 µm for Sc added. All FSPed joints revealed a significant increase in grain refinement. There was a slight improvement in the impact resistance in FSPed samples than TIG welded samples. The FSPed joints' ultimate tensile strength (UTS), which is higher than the tensile strength of the base metal, was 288 MPa for the FSPed joints and 331 MPa with Sc added. The FSP joint's elongation range was decreased to 7.1% but improved for Sc added FSP joints up to 20.5%. The maximum hardness of FSPed TIG-welded joints was 90 HV1, while the maximum hardness of Sc added FSP joints was 95 HV1, which is significantly higher than the maximum hardness of TIG weldments. According to the fractography results, the majority of failure modes are ductile. Therefore, adopting FSP over TIG welding had enhanced the properties of the weld both mechanically and metallurgically.