Re: The SuperApp? A current Smoke user's take...

Given that, has the price of Flame fallen as well? Is it still strictly turn-key? Is there interchange between Smoke and Flame, if they are to be complimentary and Smoke it to be the "little brother"?


I don't believe the price of Flame has changed. Flame is still a turnkey system that runs on Linux. There is a software-only version of Flame called Flare that is available only to owners of Flame. It's most often used as a prep station so that post houses can keep their Flames online doing high-rate billable work while other artists can do more mundane prepping tasks without tying up an expensive Flame suite.

Flame and Smoke do have a certain amount of interchange, (as does Lustre), but you'd need to ask someone in the Smoke forum for specifics.

Give the path that Apple has chosen to take with its hardware, I think it's safe to say that Flame will never be ported to OS X. It's possible that Flare might be ported to OS X, but we'll have to wait and see.