| | | | News: 2006 Edition of SynthEyes Camera Tracker Debuts at Siggraph
by Cow News Droid on Jul 25, 2005 at 5:20:43 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
and compositing packages. CGI programs include 3ds max, Animation:Master, Blender, Cinema 4D, Electric Image, Houdini, Lightwave, Maya, Poser, Realsoft, trueSpace, and XSI. Compositing programs After Effects, Combustion, Digital Fusion, Flame, Inferno, Nuke, Shake, and Toxik are supported (some in beta). ... | | | | |
| | | | Can't convert Kona QT in Windows
by Chris Blair on May 9, 2008 at 2:20:06 am
in the AJA Kona Forum
to me that a free windows media player programmed by a Korean computer science student (KM Player) can decode and play hese files in real-time...but professional editing and compositing programs cannot. If we need any of the DVCPro50 QT files ... | | | | |
| | | | Best software for professional DVDs?
by eric pautsch on Mar 21, 2008 at 5:54:01 pm
in the DVD Authoring Forum
An authoring tool will not be the place to design menus. For that you'll need photoshop, illustrator and compositing programs like After Effects or Motion. Here's a good book to get you started: http://tinyurl.com/3yq3sz | | | | |
| | | | place after effects with vegas
by CSheep on Apr 2, 2007 at 4:49:16 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Do any of you know of any good compositing programs other then after effects that cost preferably under $500 US ? That have almost all the features that AE has I rarly (at the moment) work with alot of video ... | | | | |
| | | |
Business & Marketing
 |
Want to get paid? Make sure your client can see your work!
With a nearly infinite variety of possibilities to deliver your final project to your client, there are an almost infinite numger of ways to mess it up. Get it right, and the client is happy. Get it wrong, and nobody's happy: the job's not done, and you're not getting paid. No matter what kind of work you do, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz tells you everything you need to know about output and media formats before you get to work...and before you can get paid.
Feature, Business
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
| | | | |
| | | | my rant on "THE BLACK GLITCH"
by greg gilpatrick on Apr 21, 2006 at 2:00:23 am
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
the most stable program in existence. But anybody who's spent more than a day with one will tell you that is far from the truth. I'm not saying discreet makes bad programs. Compositing programs are extremely complicated creatures that probably ... | | | | |
| | | | MPEG 1 and Squeeze
by Craig Seeman on Aug 3, 2006 at 3:33:06 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
not sure how you're deinterlacing but there are many deinterlace algorithms. The stair stepping you're seeing can very be affected by how you deinterlace. While many NLE and Compositing programs can certainly come with or can be augmented by very ... | | | | |
| | | | How realtime is Flint/Flame
by Arturo Camacho on Sep 7, 2005 at 1:24:10 am
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
3d Particles, 3d geometry, Colour Warper, having Batch and 3d tracking are also good things, at the same time you'll be missing some things that are default in many other compositing programs such as radial blur (just an example), which ... | | | | |
| | | | Please help.How do i png sequence?
by Elvis Deane on Apr 21, 2007 at 9:16:08 pm
in the particle Illusion Forum
An image sequence is just a series of images, named sequentially, that contains all the frames of the video. They'd be named something like fridge_0001.png, fridge_0002.png, etc. Most editing and compositing programs have the option to save out a sequence ... | | | | |
| | | |
Sony Vegas
 |
Jim Harvey reviews Vegas 5 from Sony Pictures
Last year Jim Harvey considered himself fortunate to review Vegas 4, but when Sonic Foundry was acquired by Sony Pictures, everyone wondered what would happen to Vegas -- Jim included. Many doubted that Sony would continue developing Vegas but Vegas 5 has proven the nay-sayers wrong. Not only has Sony Pictures not abandoned Vegas, but they've given it a full numbered uprade. Read on to find out what Jim has to say about this new offering from Sony Pictures.
Review
Author: Jim Harvey |
| | | | |
| | | | Cutting out video?
by Alex Kuzelicki on Apr 5, 2006 at 10:00:44 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Hi, I'm pretty new to After Effects though I've used different compositing programs in the past. Prepare for some dumb questions ahead but, if I don't ask, I'll never know (without lots of sweat and tears... maybe even blood). I ... | | | | |
| | | | mindlessly obsessed with 16-bit
by Lars Bunch on Oct 22, 2006 at 4:26:58 pm
in the MAYA Forum
at the bottom of the frame and a lighter blue at the top, you might see bands forming between one value of blue and the next. Anyway, this is an issue that crops up more in compositing programs such as ... | | | | |
| | | | C4 for Mac
by greg gilpatrick on Jun 28, 2005 at 4:27:14 pm
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
I don't think threatening to switch to a PC is going to worry Discreet. If you really wanted to let them know how important a Mac version is, you could say you will switch to AE, Motion, Shake, or one ... | | | | |
| | | | No Country For Old Men - Walt and Everyone
by Russell Lasson on Mar 19, 2008 at 9:48:22 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
and other tools are. It doesn't have the huge expensive hardware infrastructure like network rendering and assistant stations. Nor can it import custom masks from other compositing programs. Talking business, I don't see any reason why companies like EFILM should ... | | | | |
| | | | gion of interest problem...
by Joel Blackwell on Feb 5, 2008 at 9:16:39 am
in the Boris FX Forum
Excellent, thanks... that worked a treat. I'm still getting used to how the filtering system works in Boris (it's quite different from the filter systems I've used in other non-compositing programs) but it's starting to click. Thanks again for the ... | | | | |
| | | | my brief review of the new CMI dvd; hmmmmm
by Saeed Faridzadeh on Jun 23, 2005 at 2:44:04 am
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
this from my point of view, and background. I've worked at studios where the animation package is Maya, and the passes are put together in either Shake or Nuke, node based compositing programs. I've tried to emulate the same results ... | | | | |
| | | | Basic Question
by Jeff Brown on Aug 11, 2005 at 7:21:48 pm
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
Some vague answers: "Is Combustion the equivalent of Adobe after effects ?" Roughly, yes. They are both compositing programs. (As are Shake & Digital Fusion, and a few others I can't think of at the moment). "Which is better ? ... | | | | |
| | | | graph editor confusion
by Lee Warner on Oct 19, 2007 at 1:18:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm not a newbie with compositing programs. I've used Combustion since before it was Combustion as well as Digital Fusion. I have been using AE for the last year. I am somewhat embarrassed to say that the AE graph editor ... | | | | |
|
|
