Re: Discreet Effect Option 3

Thanks Dean for your advice.

Im afraid ive already purchased it but it has yet to arrive, I got it very cheap, I used to use one many years ago, and I know what your saying, but I miss the 3d capabilities and the extended bicubics, the desktop editing that i wish i had with combustion, also its still call Flint when even though it was named effect, and Flint is a bigger brand name than Combustion. At first it was just to keep my hand in the flame scene, but now ,..well until i do some tests i may try and use it as earner, this one has 400mhz cpu, and there are still alot of flames out there that use dual 400 cpu's but only use one, and they charge $1000/hour for it. of course probably half the speed still, but i'vr actually seen flints on indigo sgi in flame suites as assist machines still in use. The average Flame probably renders slower in some cases than the latest G5 Combustion, but still it has a brand name and overal its faster becouse of it intuative interactive GUI, ie its so easy to cut out aframe and stick elsewhere in a sequence in seconds that would take mabe 5-10 mins on a combustion and it would be hell to do on a shake, unless you have FCP, which means going in and out of apps, this is one of the reasons FLame is still loved, and you can do the same in Flint/Effect, ...just my thoughts. BTW what CPU's did u ahve in your o2's.?

Oh yes Flame now has burn which is bg rendering , but still i know of a lot of high end post houses that stil dont use it.

just my thoughts