Combustion 4

Re: Just about at the crossroads... by Alex Udell on Sep 24, 2009 at 10:53:14 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi All, Can I run combustion 4 Windows under Parallels on a Mac? Alex 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 Creating a Script for Handheld feel? by matthew chapman on Sep 8, 2009 at 4:13:50 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hello- How would i go about creating a script for a hand held camera shake on Combustion 4? has anyone already made one? is there a good place for sharing scripts and capsules? thanks matt Re: Is combustion right for me? by Alan Okey on Aug 26, 2009 at 9:27:05 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum [Eric Craft] "Be sure to place some blame on Apple then, too. I am running Combustion 4 on Vista x64 without any problems. You can't place all the blame on the software developers when the OS developers are dropping the ball. " How can I blame App Re: Is combustion right for me? by Eric Craft on Aug 26, 2009 at 7:49:47 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum [Alan Okey] "The Mac version of C* 2008 is frozen in time, because it is only supported on OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or below. Tiger has been obsolete for nearly two years. Be sure to place some blame on Apple then, too. I am running Combustion 4 on Vis weird menu display: Combustion 4 by John Lewis on Aug 12, 2009 at 6:43:29 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hello Having a strange problem when trying to retrieve a request code. I open Combustion (version 4.0.4.5024, running on an Intel Mac, OS 10.5.7) in order to access the Activate button via: Help/About/Product Information. The problem is: I need a job as video editor by nirmal kumar on Jul 16, 2009 at 6:52:41 pm in the JOBS Wanted Forum CURRICULUM VITAE NIRMAL KUMAR H.N.-746, Street No- 2,Nain Market Jawahar Colony, N.I.T. Faridabad Mobile : 9268770515 Haryana – 121001 E-mail : nirmal.mcs@gmail.com OBJECTIVE :- To work in professiona Upgrading Combustion on a newer Intel Mac by frank Raposo on Jun 24, 2009 at 8:26:48 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I have Combustion 4 installed on a PPC Mac and want to upgrade to Combustion 2008 on a newer Intel Mac. Do I have to re-install C4 in the newer Mac to then upgrade? And will my C4 install on a newer Intel Mac? Just don't want to buy the upgrade and Re: Autodesk's plans for Combustion by Alan Okey on May 6, 2009 at 7:46:39 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Allow me to translate: "We consider that the Combustion is one of the secrets most kept of the industry." (We're relieved that Combustion has a small enough user base that we still have a chance to kill it without inciting mass rioting.) "It Combustion tracker not working (could .dpx be the cause) by richard hirst on Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04:38 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Came across a pretty bad problem today. Sat down at a studio I have never been to and tried to track a gmask and the tracker did not work. It would set a key frame on the first frame and then do nothing. The files were 2k .dpx. We loaded in a .ti Combustion (OsX) crashes loading footage by Alexandre Cruz on Mar 13, 2009 at 9:26:11 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hello brothers and sisters in arms, I'm getting a very annoying error in Combustion: if I try to load a workspace created in another machine (with other file path for the footage I used) the application doesn't give me the chance to replace the foot Missing tools in Paint toolbar... please help! by Maxwell Federman on Mar 1, 2009 at 10:38:47 pm in the Autodesk Smoke Forum Hello. I was hoping to do the following tutorial for combustion: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/roderick_lee/tv_internet_trans.php The problem is, at the point when I am to make the arrow the filled polygon tool is not there in the toolbar Trapcode 3D Stroke in Combustion 4 and 2008. by Egon Speneder on Feb 19, 2009 at 5:06:09 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum "The plug-in does not use regular masks like it does in AE, instead the 3D Stroke plugin enables a Tool that you can use to paint the shape. It is found in the Toolbar when the 3D Stroke Plug-in is active. It looks like the 'Polygon/Bezier Mask' tool vista by phil harbath on Feb 16, 2009 at 10:27:10 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum We are using vista with combustion 4 here and I have notice it completely screws up the "thumbnail viewer", in that, when we try to import footage (after already doing), it does not remember the last location, it start back on the local computer ever Mixed transfer layers while preserving alpha by Steve Green on Feb 11, 2009 at 8:15:43 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi, I was trying to do something I thought would be simple lately, namely adding a bit of bloom to a layer, by blurring the highlights and adding to the existing layer. The problem came when the layer had alpha, and clipped the bloom to the alpha r Re: Having troubles importing PNG Files into Combustion 4 by Jeff Brown on Dec 10, 2008 at 1:21:51 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Is your footage "source" setting defaulting to color+alpha? I seem to recall that might happen with PNGs. If so, "color only" should fix it. I've had success using PNG sequences since version 3. -jeff Having troubles importing PNG Files into Combustion 4 by Ivan Guerrero on Dec 9, 2008 at 7:05:57 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi: I'm having troubles when I tried to import PNG sequences, appears a black sequence, when I go to the folder, the frames looks fine, I'm working with the material downloaded from focalpress.com, the downloads for the book Combustion 4 News: Ingenuity Engine Taps Krakatoa for Zabeel Investments Commercial by Cow News Droid on Dec 3, 2008 at 3:41:13 pm in the News & Press Releases Forum Directed by Graeme Joyce, Frantic Films Software's High Volume Point-Based Renderer Creates Dreamy Sandscape (Winnipeg, Canada--December 3, 2008) Frantic Films Software, the R&D arm of award-winning visual effects studio Frantic Films VFX and a di Re: Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card for Apple? by Alan Okey on Dec 2, 2008 at 12:42:12 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Things You Should Know: Neither Combustion 4 nor Combustion 2008 are certified to run on Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard), which is the most current Mac OS. When running on Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard), both Combustion 4 and 2008 crash when exiting the applica Re: Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by george robbins on Nov 24, 2008 at 4:31:58 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I've been looking into getting Combustion for an upcoming project; have used After Effects for many years but specs of project means I need a larger work area then AE will provide. Mac based, have been having some problems with Combustion crashing w Re: Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by Sean Hunt on Nov 24, 2008 at 12:42:00 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Yep. I was using combustion on a pc for years, loved it. Got a new job where I had to use After effects on a mac, learned it, grew to like it, eventually got work to buy me a copy of combustion for my mac... three days later i sent it back and got a Re: Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by ayman abdel-basset on Nov 22, 2008 at 9:17:32 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi alan, App is great in its capabilities. But the problem is there is no fixing issue updates from its manufacturers since 2008 release. that mean they don't receive bug reports (i doubt) or they plan to kill the app! AYMAN ABDEL-BASSET cairo Re: Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by Alan Okey on Nov 17, 2008 at 10:27:58 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum When a Cow Forum Leader rants about problems with an app, I think it reflects pretty poorly on the app in question. As the old saying goes, "with friends like these..." etc. Re: Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by Christopher Wright on Nov 15, 2008 at 9:05:22 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum LOL, EOL!Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO Windows XP Adobe Studio CS3, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.2, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 6, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapp Combustion 4&2008 are Unstable on mac! by ayman abdel-basset on Nov 15, 2008 at 10:27:08 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi last night was the longest in my life with combustion on MAC! i was going to do online for video clip on combustion 2008 on mac machine! it was disaster! the software was crashing and relaunch! and i can't apply remove grain operator on any Quic Re: HD in Combustion causing the jitters by Nick Green on Nov 5, 2008 at 7:27:09 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Thanks Matt and Greg. I am not quite sure how to post a .mov. Can you help? Just to reiterate, all settings in Combustion are to spec. The size of the assets are 1500X 675 and so is the comp. I even opened a regular 1080/24p just to see if I would 3ds to combustion with field rendered RPFs by Oli da Costa on Nov 2, 2008 at 4:58:04 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I'm outputting a field-based RPF sequence from 3ds max 2008 for use in Combustion 4, but this seems to be impossible! The RPFs are rendering out in 16-bit with a bunch of extra channel info so that I can apply 3D post effects in C4, and as they rende Re: Frame buffer field reversal with AJA Kona LHe/Mac Pro by Alan Okey on Oct 30, 2008 at 3:13:45 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum The funny thing is, I used Combustion 4 with a Blackmagic Decklink SDI card a few years ago and it displayed 720x480 comps with the proper field order. The C* 2008 frame buffer list with the Kona card installed shows only two options for NTSC - 525i combustion DV PAL widescreen render setting by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon on Oct 13, 2008 at 6:43:32 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I have some footages taken with Sony Z1 (HD 50i). I captured it with Adobe Premiere Pro CS 3, with HD resolution. but I have several problems when doing color correction with Combustion 4. The 1440x1080 resolution is to big, so my PC won't work faste Re: Combustion 4 Upgrade on Mac with intel chips by Aaron Strike on Sep 24, 2008 at 11:53:57 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum no worries i figured it out anyway Re: Combustion 4 Upgrade on Mac with intel chips by Alan Okey on Sep 24, 2008 at 11:16:41 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Do you seriously expect any help from anyone here with that kind of language and such a misplaced sense of entitlement? Combustion 4 Upgrade on Mac with intel chips by Aaron Strike on Sep 20, 2008 at 12:53:13 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hello, I currently started playin around with combustion on my computer. I had bought the Maya 8.5 Unlimited student set, and it came with combustion and cleaner. I am trying to use the particles in combustion to create a cool intro for a website. Ho Re: Is combustion 2008 Worth it? by Scott Osborn on Aug 29, 2008 at 8:05:17 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Eric, > That was the intial release price and it has changed... > current MSRP for the Combustion 4 to 2008 upgrade is $350. Huh. First time I've heard of software increasing in price over time.... Thanks man. Scott Re: Is combustion 2008 Worth it? by Eric Craft on Aug 29, 2008 at 7:20:31 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum That was the intial release price and it has changed a few times since then. The current MSRP for the Combustion 4 to 2008 upgrade is $350. -Eric Re: Tracking Forward by Naythan Gaduan on Aug 23, 2008 at 5:49:09 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Where do I find the host.ini file? I'm using Combustion 4.Thank you Naythan Combustion 2008 schematic branch Selection by Lane Jolly on Jul 21, 2008 at 11:46:58 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum So in Combustion 4, while in schematic view, you could shift+click a node of any kind and it'd automatically select the upward branch for useability and organizational purposes mostly... This feature has either been deleted or the shortcut has change rpf sequence with 3D post operator drops frames by Rene van Gageldonk on Jul 17, 2008 at 3:18:29 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum When I ad a 3D post operator (texture map) to my rpf sequence and render it I usually get dropped frames...about 20 of the 300 frames. When I delete the operator I don't get the dropped frames. First I tried to render to AVI, but that doesn't work wi Animation Curves by jan tea on Jul 16, 2008 at 12:02:03 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Combustion 4 (winXP) - Animation Curves - No Problem . Combustion 2008 (winXP) - Animation Curves - Big Problem . Why? Re: rendering/preview by adam keen on Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26:51 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I cant seem to get it to work, Am getting an error that I never noticed before it says "the maximum size for the footage is 1024, this means it will be transparent" if this is true then I could render the particles out seperate but when I do they see Re: Why don't the latest and earlier version of Combustion(2008) support 64-Bit vista? by Eric Craft on Jul 8, 2008 at 2:37:54 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I just installed Combustion 4.0 and updated to 4.0.5. I didn't modify any of the compatibility Run As modes, or anything else. 1) Make sure you allow access through UAC, if enabled. 2) Make sure you have disabled any virus/spyware detection tools, th Re: Can old combustion particles work in version 3 by Steve Rhoden on Jun 27, 2008 at 6:29:33 pm in the particle Illusion Forum Thanks Alan for your prompt response....dont know also if the new combustion made any changes there, because i will be staying with combustion 4. Steve Rhoden TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS. Can old combustion particles work in version 3 by Steve Rhoden on Jun 27, 2008 at 5:50:10 pm in the particle Illusion Forum Hi there Alan, Can the particles that came in combustion 4 be placed or copied into version 3 and work. Re: Ultimate football highlights by Joseph W. Bourke on Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46:15 pm in the Motion Graphics Forum I'm sure AE is up to the challenge; its' masking has improved over the last few revs, but I would jump to Combustion in a second when presented with this type of project. Maybe you can get them to shell out for a seat of Combustion 4. While it's diff Audio not imported with video footage by Gustavo Goretkin on Jun 17, 2008 at 9:13:56 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I have recently begun playing with Combustion 4 coming from some basic AE experience. I am having difficulty importing footage because when I import video, no audio is imported. If I try to manually import the audio from the video file and play back Re: What Combustion can do that After Can't by Rafael Amador on Jun 4, 2008 at 12:49:23 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi, I think Combustion is great, but have a big problem. This is simply that Autodesk do not cares about Combustion as Adobe cares about AE. At least used to be like that, and at least for the Mac users. I bought Combustion 3 few years ago and I've g Re: creating expressions by garvey harris on May 30, 2008 at 7:25:25 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Warren thank you for getting back to me and taking time out of what limited time you must have available to yourself. I did double click and it made no difference. I am actually following the tutorial from the autodesk combustion 4 fundamentals cours creating expressions by garvey harris on May 28, 2008 at 5:03:33 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I'm working through the official combustion 4 fundamentals courseware book. I've got to lesson 19 - creating expressions, and I'm falling at the first hurdle where I have to add an expression to the shift operators Y channel to animate it. The instr Source for academic sales of Combustion 2008 by Alan Okey on Apr 28, 2008 at 7:28:44 pm in the Autodesk Combustion Forum I work for a university in upstate NY. I previously purchased the academic version of Combustion from JourneyEd.com, but they are not carrying Combustion 2008. The educational resellers listed for my area on Autodesk's website also do not carry Com Re: Stroke depth? by Lee Warner on Apr 28, 2008 at 3:11:36 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Trapcode 3D Stroke if you want to spend some money.Lee CTV Calgary VelocityHD NLE After Effects CS3 w/ Trapcode and Invigorator Combustion 4.0 Digital Fustion 5.0 Photoshop CS3 Extended Combustion crashes while loading by Ben Firmston on Apr 6, 2008 at 1:52:02 am in the Autodesk Combustion Forum Hi, I haven't used combustion 4.05 for a few months - today when I boot it up, it freezes during loading while "Paint: Initializing". I haven't done a thing with the file structure, so I am thinking it must be some sort of software conflict. I am ru 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 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 Autodesk Combustion Using the Diamond Keyer of Combustion 4 to change a selected color In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to use the new Diamond Keyer of Autodesk Combustion 4 along with the Color Correction operator to change the selected color of the footage. 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