| | | | Re: Aliasing on hard edge masks by Kenneth La Rue on Sep 23, 2009 at 5:48:38 pm in the Autodesk Toxik Forum Chris,
I’m not sure which anti-aliasing settings you are referring to in Smoke so if you can elaborate that might help. But you might try adding a edge tool after the mask and turn on shrink. This will obviously shrink the mask a little but it als | | | | |
| | | | Re: Keeping Combustion running on a Mac by Dean DeCarlo on Sep 23, 2009 at 5:31:52 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Seriously doubt they will be doing Combustion users any favors in terms of Flare. It would be nice if Flare was affordable and sold as a regular product. Autodesk might just take over the desktop high end compositing market with it but as usual their | | | | |
| | | | Re: Producer/Editor needed -- FULL TIME by David Cohen on Sep 22, 2009 at 9:58:55 pm in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum Hi,
My name is Dave Cohen and I am very interested in your post for a full time producer/editor/gfx artist.
I am a motion graphics designer, editor and AD with 6 years of experience in commercial, interactive, advertising, and corporate and bro | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is it even possible to Rotoscope this scene by David Roth Weiss on Sep 22, 2009 at 4:56:59 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi Neil,
Wow, you make that sound so easy...
I'd never think about doing it with the 8-point garbage matte, but I guess I'm just spoiled, cuz I use Combustion for these things.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productio | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is there a paint tool is Motion. by Alan Okey on Sep 21, 2009 at 10:49:48 pm in the Apple Motion Forum Combustion's roto and paint tools put anything in AE to shame. Unfortunately, the Mac version is only certified to run properly on Tiger, and it will most likely never be updated to run properly on Leopard or Snow Leopard. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Part 3 of Tutorial final posted! by Kenneth La Rue on Sep 18, 2009 at 1:03:51 pm in the Autodesk Toxik Forum Eric,
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm glad to see my work is being posted everywhere.
Ken LaRue
Autodesk Application Engineer
Maya Composite / Toxik / Flame / Combustion
Training DVDs: http://www.thestreetproductions.com | | | | |
| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Alan Okey on Sep 17, 2009 at 7:47:37 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum [Mark Suszko] "I am seriously considering throwing in the towel on Combustion because I lack faith in it being supported much longer, as well as fears that it will be crippled or buggy when we go to Snow Leopard OS. "
C* is already crippled/busted | | | | |
| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Aaron Neitz on Sep 17, 2009 at 6:46:18 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Based on this comment, I'd go pretty much AE the whole way. For stuff like that it blows Combustion out of the water for speed: Adobe has really great caching. It's also super stable and can render with all your cores.
AE makes a poor composit | | | | |
| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Dean DeCarlo on Sep 17, 2009 at 2:54:03 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Sounds like Nuke, Fusion etc. might not be a perfect fit for you. Pretty much anyone doing your type of work is gonna be on AE. However, if the tools for Roto, Keying etc. are better in Combustion (and I think they are) then keep using them. That's w | | | | |
| | | | Part 3 of Tutorial final posted! by Kenneth La Rue on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:55:51 pm in the Autodesk Toxik Forum If you visit "The Area" http://area.autodesk.com/ you can now go through the entire Maya Composite 101 tutorial I wrote. Part three is now posted and you have access to parts 1 and 2. As Phil Hoppes had posted some people have had issues with the zip | | | | |
| | | | Re: Motu with Edius?? by Alan Lacey on Sep 17, 2009 at 8:38:12 am in the MOTU V4HD - NEW ! Forum Thanks Dave,
Yes I guessed it didn't support it currently but I really think it would be popular if it did.
Alan
FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
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| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Mark Suszko on Sep 16, 2009 at 9:55:42 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum We're not doing feature films, we do TV public service spots, so my main needs would be applying various fx plug-ins for looks, some motion-tracking/stabilizing (maybe once a year), very occasional roto-paint, and keying, as well as straight-up compo | | | | |
| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Eric Craft on Sep 16, 2009 at 9:11:48 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum At this time the future of Combustion is unknown, so I wouldn't make plans on having any new versions until they make an official announcement. Adobe has added a lot of 3rd party tools that may address your needs in the past few years. With CS4 they | | | | |
| | | | Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Dean DeCarlo on Sep 16, 2009 at 3:56:19 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I'm spending time getting skills in AE but keep going back to Combustion for comfort and capabilities. Combustion still serves most of my needs just fine so I'm not going to bail it any time soon. I was planning on spending time getting acquainted wi | | | | |
| | | | Just about at the crossroads... by Mark Suszko on Sep 16, 2009 at 2:15:38 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I am all for being an iconoclast, but I see a crossroads coming up as we start planning our upgrade of mac hardware and OS and FCP software to the latest versions. I am hard-put to justify to my bosses continuing with Combustion in the face of all th | | | | |
| | | | Motu with Edius?? by Alan Lacey on Sep 16, 2009 at 1:01:01 pm in the MOTU V4HD - NEW ! Forum Currently there is no hardware solution for Edius on the laptop.
Dave is there the possiblty that the V4HD will ever work with it? I'd love to replace my FCP/IoHD combo with my Edius laptop with decent hardware IO.
Alan in PAL land
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| | | | Re: Mocha for AE versus Motor by Ross Shain on Sep 16, 2009 at 1:50:35 am in the Imagineer Systems Forum motor is limited to just roto (no tracking exports) but works with more applications than After Effects. If you need to deliver roto work to other systems beyond AE, motor is the more robust sfw. Otherwise, you will be running all roto work through A | | | | |
| | | | Re: Combustion RAM and importing from NLE by mack mcdermott on Sep 15, 2009 at 9:48:00 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Thanks to Mr Craft and Mr Okey two more BA info gurus!
Quick responses and timely information backed up and reiterated what Mr LaRue offered.
I imagined a response at the Forum would have taken longer, therefore I sought another yet associated so | | | | |
| | | | Re: Combustion RAM and importing from NLE by mack mcdermott on Sep 15, 2009 at 8:43:30 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Ken La Rue one BA info guru!
Frustrated with my questions, I went to TSP website http://www.thestreetproductions.com got the number did an ancient yet tried and true technique and made a phone call. I got the man, and he answered my questions, direc | | | | |
| | | | Re: Combustion RAM and importing from NLE by Eric Craft on Sep 15, 2009 at 8:31:50 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Check the preferences and adjust the cache settings. However, combustion can only access up to 2gb on a 32bit system, and around 3.7gb using the /3gb switch or on a 64bit system. The only way I know to import the edits is to purchase the Automatic Du | | | | |
| | | | Combustion RAM and importing from NLE by mack mcdermott on Sep 15, 2009 at 7:37:21 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum A few questions regarding Combustion 4
C4 only sees half of my RAM. Can I resolve this and how?
When I import an off-line or rough cut from my NLE programs, I would like C4 to see the edits. Is this possible and where in the book describes the proc | | | | |
| | | | Re: toggle alpha hotkey? by Jimmy Brunger on Sep 14, 2009 at 3:55:54 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Great stuff. So simple....I feel ashamed Dave.
Production Premium CS4 - Mocha v1.5 - FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30" ACD / Decklink SP / SONY PVM-20M4E/ Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe / United Digital RAID
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| | | | Re: Feathering a garbage matte by Eric Jurgenson on Sep 14, 2009 at 12:44:23 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum If you were familiar with After Effects, you would probably know about the softness parameter on the masks. If you aren't familiar with After Effects, it would be too complicated for me to to explain the whole process. Thus the brief answer. Unfortun | | | | |
| | | | toggle alpha hotkey? by Jimmy Brunger on Sep 14, 2009 at 12:07:05 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Does anyone know if there is a hotkey to view your alpha quickly in a comp, rather than going to alpha in the preview window drop down?
...Just been watching a tutorial where it looks like someone is doing that and would be a great timesaver when | | | | |
| | | | MXO2 - Premiere CS4 support on mac? by Jimmy Brunger on Sep 13, 2009 at 12:10:49 pm in the Matrox Video Systems Forum Good to see MX02 getting extra app support developed, but surely the next big integration is being able to use it with Premiere Pro CS4?
I did ask about this months ago but got no reply. Any News guys?
Production Premium CS4 - Mocha v1.5 - FCP 5. | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP 7 - Improved render management? by Alan Lacey on Sep 11, 2009 at 3:35:52 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum And my beloved and long extinct Fast601 not only behaved very intelligently with render files, it did it all in the backround while you were editing away!
Alan
FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
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| | | | Re: Keeping Combustion running on a Mac by Jeff Brown on Sep 10, 2009 at 2:35:15 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum [Keith Sonstegard] "older Mac that supports the Tiger OS and just trick it out and only run C* on it."
If you're going that route, consider an inexpensive Windows i7 machine with XP-Pro (32-bit), and a KVM. You could even toss the Combustion short | | | | |
| | | | Re: Looking for help or editor by David Roth Weiss on Sep 9, 2009 at 7:30:15 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I have some time on my hands Carlton and I use Combustion, which is a proper tool for this type of job. Click on my head above the forum and it will lead you to my website.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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| | | | Re: Keeping Combustion running on a Mac by Keith Sonstegard on Sep 9, 2009 at 5:53:00 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Thanks Aaron -
I'm running C* 2008 on 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Mac w/ 8 GB or ram. OS 10.5.7
C* will crash 9 out of 10 times when I go to footage controls and select or change the proper field order for a clip. I've kind-of found a workaround | | | | |
| | | | Re: offset animation data by Dave LaRonde on Sep 9, 2009 at 4:04:01 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum [Matthew Beall] "In combustion/toxic, if I turn off animate and moved it where I want it, all of the animation and keyframes offset to the new location. Possible?"
Sorry, no. AE isn't Combustion. Your Null Object technique would work, and so wou | | | | |
| | | | Re: offset animation data by Matthew Beall on Sep 9, 2009 at 3:58:37 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum I have animated a layer. However, I want to offset this whole animation by moving the layer left or right. I can easily do this by parenting it to a NULL and moving the null. In combustion/toxic, if I turn off animate and moved it where I want it, al | | | | |
| | | | Re: Toxik Lessons on Autodesk Area Website by Kenneth La Rue on Sep 9, 2009 at 1:49:18 pm in the Autodesk Toxik Forum Phil,
Thanks for the heads up on the files I will report this to the Area team. I did not split them up they did.
Ken LaRue
Autodesk Application Engineer
Maya Composite / Toxik / Flame / Combustion
Training DVDs : http://www.thestreetpr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Shake Discontinued? by Brad Buss on Sep 9, 2009 at 9:27:18 am in the UG: Arizona FCP Forum So how has your Toxik evaluation gone so far? Can anyone comment on the integration of Toxik with Maya 2009? Is it just a "send to Shake" type of integration, or is there further integration between the programs; like how Combustion reads the multi | | | | |
| | | | Keeping Combustion running on a Mac by Keith Sonstegard on Sep 8, 2009 at 8:58:16 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I use Combustion on every edit I work on. The crashes are killing me. I've looked/worked with AE and Motion and they just can't compare to C*. Nuke is good but doesn't have audio support. Is a dual-boot Mac with Tiger (for C*) and leopard (for Avi | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating a Script for Handheld feel? by Mark Suszko on Sep 8, 2009 at 8:33:56 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum In AE they wrould write an expression for this, with the wiggler, I think. For Combustion, I dunno. What some other guys did that I read about was to actually hand-shoot a black mark on a white wall from across the room with any old DV camera and the | | | | |
| | | | Should I upgrade by Alan Lacey on Sep 8, 2009 at 12:46:46 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I've not been a big user of AE over the years but since I've started editing with Edius I find myself using it again more and more.
I've currently got AE5.5BP and it's working a treat on the Vista64 Edius box.
The question is whether it's worth | | | | |
| | | | Re: ProRes 4444 alpha breaks w/ cc by Rafael Amador on Sep 6, 2009 at 3:18:15 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum In applications like AE, Shake and Combustion you need to "de-multiply" any Premultiplied Alpha before applying any Color Correction filter. If not the CC will affect the Alpha channel as well.
De-multiplying the CC will only affect to the YCbCr/RGB | | | | |
| | | | Windows Hardware & Software | HP Skyroom: Power & Simplicity for Remote Workgroup Tasks
In this article, Ron Lindeboom looks at the powerful HP Skyroom technology, which allows team members to interact in high definition video with one another, as they work on projects and approvals remotely. Highly powerful, yet priced within reach of many small to medium-sized companies -- nevertheless, the system is powerful enough for even major players like Dreamworks Animation, who used the system during the making of the blockbuster 'Monsters vs Aliens.' Powerful, elegant, simple to use. Review, Feature Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | Combustion 4 Training Course
Michael Hurwicz looks at Kenneth LaRue's combustion 4 training DVDs and concludes that this set is great for novices and intermediates alike, but if you're already an expert, you may only need the 'What's New in Combustion 4' set that's available. Review Author: Michael Hurwicz |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | Creating a Promo Transition with Combustion
As the lines between television and the internet continue to blur, it seems like every TV channel wants you to look at their website. Whether you're CNN or community television, you'll have to rise above the straight cut or dissolve to get the viewer's attention.In this tutorial, Lee 'Rod' Roderick will show you how to use Discreet combustion to create a promo transition that combines digital video and motion graphics. Once you set it up, you can substitute your own clips and text. Tutorial Author: Lee Roderick |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | Combustion 4, a first look by Ken LaRue
Creative Cow's Ken LaRue explores the just announced Discreet combustion 4. Packed with many new features that Ken enthusiastically describes as ''Hot!'' and which include quite a number that many users have had on their own personal wish lists, C4 is drawing a lot of attention and discussion here in the Creative Cow forums. In this article, Ken helps us explore many of the reasons why... Review Author: Ken LaRue |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | Combustion 3
Alan Edward Bell takes a thorough look at Discreet Combustion 3 and concludes with, "...Many feature film and television effects houses use Combustion on a daily basis for doing everything from matte generation, color correction to full blown compositing, I cannot recommend this software enough, and this review only scratches the surface of what is possible." Review Author: Alan Edward Bell |
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| | | | Autodesk Combustion | Creating the Old Movie look with Combustion
Contributing Editor, Bimo Adi Prakoso demonstrates some techniques for Creating the Old Movie Looks with Combustion in this tutorial. He adivises readers that, ''Many plugins for creating an old movie look are available at various costs, but the challenge is creating one without any plugin at all. Actually, it's a simple, straight forward process''. Tutorial Author: Bimo Adi Prakoso |
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| | | | Imagineer Systems | Mocha for After Effects v2
In this article, CreativeCOW leader Brendan Coots takes a look at Mocha for AE v2 and concludes that overall, Mocha for After Effects v2 is fast, friendly and cost effective, making it an excellent choice for freelancers and major studios alike. Review Author: Brendan Coots |
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| | | | creative cow podcast Episode #014 - December 22, 2005 Episode 014 - Digital Image Fest with Rick Dolishny from Toronto Cananda, Producing a Video Podcast, Combustion 4 for Mac, ReplayTV goes software-based, Podcast Comment Line and more creative tech news, interviews and reports - www.creativecow.net | | | | |
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