Re: The master keyer

It's a bit deceptive... Combustion uses the old, old, old, flame keyer. It is a pretty good linear color keyer, but nowhere as good as Ultimatte of Primatte. On my old flint I would always use a Primatte spark for keying. Flame added the 3D keyer back in '98, and then followed that up with the modular keyer. Then they added the Master Keyer in the most recent version. I highly doubt that any of these new keyers will trickle down to Combustion in the near future. Discreet's advanced systems make them a LOT more money than Combustion, and they don't want to piss off these users.

They also say that Combustion uses the same color corrector as in flame, however Combustion does not have the Color Warper, which is the super-powerful primary/secondary CC in flame.

Not knocking Combustion here, just trying to point out the facts. C3 seems like a great tool... I was blown away by the speed of the tracker on the g5... seemed like flame speeds. And the tracker is indeed the same as in flame, however, post tracking control in flame is superior. Maybe expressions in C3 could help solve this, as I have found expressions can in After Effects.

Speaking of which, I will be doing a one hour theatre demo at the Adobe booth during NAB on Monday and Tuesday, 12pm to 1pm. I'll be showing some advanced tracking techniques for keyframing offset values of tracked data with expressions, as well as showing some tricks for tracking masks in AE. And some recent work... I showed some of tis at the BAMG meeting at MacWorld, and everyone was really psyched on these tricks. Stop on by...

-Matt