Re: Smoke for Mac licensing issues

Not a lot of traffic through this forum. Looks like I am finishing 'up' with Smoke rather than finishing 'with' Smoke. I have tried for around 8 hours to solve my issues and followed similar problems on the Autodesk board. When I could get the software working, I loved it but all the pavlovian conditioning of having the software tell me time and time again that I need another licence has just made me reach the end of my tether. There is also not a large community (I know that's part of it) to help out with such issues. I have tried 'localhost' everywhere and nothing gives me any respite.

I moved from the companies of Sony/Fast/Pinnacle/Avid from the software of ES3/Chrome/Liquid until that software reached the end of its life. I thought it was unfair as it was great software (that I actually used to beta test for). I then moved to Final Cut Pro on the Mac and lots of satellite software but was enticed by the idea of doing lots and lots under one roof and to a high degree of pipeline complexity. Not a jack-of-all-trades but a near-master-of-all-trades-connected-into-one. It also had the beauty of looking a little like the Liquid interface but with true nodal 3d space. That was something I was forever banging on about on the Liquid beta board. It was making progress nicely (integration of commotion filters, steinberg filters, complex keyframing, secondary colour corrections as standard) and then they shut it down. I saw Smoke and I thought wow! It also came at a time when it looked like Final Cut Pro was becoming iMoviePro. I didn't want to be patronised by my software. I loved the look of Smoke and what it could do to get me 'stoned' on its possibilities.

Now it looks like I am going to be giving up smoking before I've hardly even started. Such is the bio-diary of a near Smoke adopter!

Cheers and bye
Tony