Combustion 2008 - colour warper

Hi all,

When the Combustion 2008 upgrade was released,
I bought it immediately,
Being so happy that this program was continuing,
And the fact that the upgrade was just the Colour Warper, Vectorscope and some UI touches, didn't bother me
(my admiration for discreet or AME color tools and approach was such, that I didn't look at it as a small upgrade but a great one)

I soon found out that the colour warper crushes in 32 bit float, and I posted about it in the back than autodesk discussion group.

I didn't find out about the 10, 12, 16 bit Colour Warper save problem until yesterday, when I started needing it in production.

To be practical,

When you save and reload (or export the node itself and import) a Combustion workspace using the Colour Warper on a higher than 8 bit color footage,
It's gamma/luma setup gets corrupted.
It's a set of numbers in the file that apparently don't get written correctly for higher than 8 bit color.
if you reset the gamma section of the tool, in the master and in the selective, it will fix it, providing that you didn't use the tool to gamma correct...

I don’t care whether AME decides to continue the product or not,
I am free to decide whether to continue purchasing AME or not.

But the fact that they don't bother to fix the product I already bought is disturbing.

When I purchased the 2008 upgrade,
All I purchased was the Colour Warper.

I feel that with the 2008 Upgrade I bought a defective product.
And I can’t take this lightly.

If there is a fix or a patch that I missed,
Or if there was a clear statement that the Combustion 2008 Colour Warper operates in 8 bit color only,

I'd love to know about it and take everything I said back.
I would feel better thinking that it’s me to blame for not doing the research.

Sincerely,


Oded Erell