Re: dvGarage Conduit by Mike Most on Dec 1, 2006 at 2:57:35 pm
There are a lot of really great things in there, but there are two vital elements of compositing that are conspicuously missing: garbage mattes (or any kind of roto capability), and motion tracking. Without these two things, the usefulness is rather limited. But there's a lot of compositing power in there, and as a keying tool it's darned good, provided you have either locked off shots, or motion control.
Re: dvGarage Conduit by Deyson on Dec 1, 2006 at 3:06:57 pm
And that price... Nice.. I like the fact that its intergrated as a Final Cut Project and Motion 2.
I am sure its not going to blow shake away.. we need to test in the high ranges.. Stability is a huge concern, don't like to crash or FREEZE,
I think I saw a Biziar tool, May be the roto tool you need.
I will test it with some HD material next week, and see how long I crash it. If I can..
When I was getting some training from AutoDesk on Max at Nickelodean Studios ( very nice setup there ) I asked which is the best animation tool, his response was. there is nothing wrong with using different tools to acheive a goal, so I take that advice to everything, the goal is the important part, (the quicker and more efficient route the more time we have to lay at the beach and chill with our family :)
Re: dvGarage Conduit by John Lafauce jr. on Dec 1, 2006 at 5:09:08 pm
Hi Deyson-
I don't think Conduit was designed to be a direct competitor with full featured node based apps like Shake. It is a nice software companion
for people more comfortable working in this type of workflow.
Re: dvGarage Conduit by deyson on Dec 3, 2006 at 1:16:28 pm
Would be nice to have one of those bad boys.
They are pricey too...
I want my studio at home...and don't want to spend a fortune :)
From what I remember the smoke was loud, and took major space.I Never got to use Flame and I worked for Discreet, trained on Edit and Combustion, till they cut Edit out production , but then we discovered Final Cut and Shake, Final Cut was still a toy and marketed for consumers but we saw the potential it had, good thing we stuck with it :)
Some Massive amounts of Ram a well configured system, and a good workflow, I can keep my speeds pretty high.
Plus in Ft. Lauderdale there is not as much demand in production so an investment in a system of that caliber might not be wise, Final Cut, AE, Shake, Cinema 4D have done a good job at keeping clients happy, but I have been seeing Ft. Lauderdale start getting some attention so who knows... :)
P.S. The Chris Landreth Presentation was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if anyone gets a chance to meet him or see one of his presentations I highly recomend it.
Re: dvGarage Conduit by Andrew Shanks on Dec 4, 2006 at 3:52:01 am
Hey John, ...give me nodes AND a decent timeline (hey, what can I say, I'm greedy ;-) ...I bounce between After Effects and Shake in equal amounts (from TV to feature film projects), ...I love nodes (and not needing the precomp), but I also love an elegant timeline (as opposed to Shakes nasty basic one) for syncing and easily tweaking hundreds of events :-)
In regards to Conduit, ...certainly an enticing glimpse as to what Phenomenon (Shake replacement) might be capable of in terms of realtime feedback (leaning on GPU). I guess time will tell about that.
