Re: Eyeon Fusion by alex_tremblay on Aug 22, 2007 at 2:00:55 pm
IT's a good app, but since your like me, comming from shake, you will have deception related to usefull tools that aren't there :
corner pin painfull
no set DOD (OUCH!!!! )
no keymix ,
the merge tool is weird to deal with , compare to the over tool .. you have to be carefull with it
no concatenation for the CC
no smooth tracker
no average trackers
track is relative from 0 to 1 instead of amount of pixels, so can only be applied on same resolution footage because it is proportionnal to image size ( unless you merge your image with a good rez BG just before assigning the track )
problematic and buggy if you try to combine resolutions different than what's in the preference...
like all migration, it is not the best thing to criticize what you cannot do, but trying to see its good side
...so the rotoshape pain is over, you can move you shape keyframe on retime them, and feel free to click on undo several times
3D engine is lightyears beyond the multiplane capabilities
the CC tool is very complete and intuitive
a good grip warp (and fast processing )
time time stretcher node works well
and macro are usable even though you dont have them in your macro folder : fusion rebuilds the nodes under the hood
also the render manager is really usefull : a small render farm tha lets you combine the processing of other fusion machine on your network ( no render farm neded )
.... and many more that dosent comes to mind right now ( eighter on the good and bad side )
Re: Eyeon Fusion by juliettem on Sep 26, 2007 at 1:42:19 pm
I agree with all of alex's points. The fusion tracker is a big disapointment coming from shake : I have yet to find a way to split the x curve from the y curve, all I get is a "displacement" curve.
Shake still has that special little place in my heart, but I have been using fusion for a year now, getting along fine.
If you must switch...go NUKE by Butch Mopper on Dec 2, 2008 at 4:39:05 am
NUKE is a better alternative if you feel like you "have to" switch and it runs natively under OS X. The thing is that I don't really think there's enough change from version to version of any compositing software over the last few cycles to justify change unless you're going into specialized software, like mokey from Imagineer systems. Apple is still working on Shake, what exactly they're waiting for I'm not sure, if I was a betting man I'd bet that Shake 5 will hit not too long after "Snow Leopard." The best thing any software developer can do to a piece of complex software is make it run faster and making the OS and all homegrown software massively parallel should certainly open the throttle a bit.
