Creating a finish editorial TV Commercial using all of Smoke tools with SFX.

Hi All,

Great job on rolling out the tutorials. But, I would love to see a full fledge tutorial on editing a 30 sec TV commercial. Using all of Smoke tools together. Stepping out of one and when to use the other tools. Similar to work Ken did at NAB 2012. I would buy that tutorial or do they have plans for templates like After Effects and Motion created in Smoke?


It seems to me that is the way the industry is going. They even have Sony Vegas professional template created or offer by Digital Juice popping up.

Here is what I would like to see. Since local TV cable commercials, web commercials, webisode, reality shows and music videos will increase as they add more and more cable stations.

I would like Smoke to be able to handle that industry.

I have a feeling all of the major Tutorial Companies -- Lynda, Ripple, MacProVideo, Larry Jordan -- will be doing extensive tutorials on "how-to" for Smoke 2013 including commercial finishing. This will probably happen by the time the product is released.

However, I also think that Grant Kay and The AutoDesk boys will probably release a lot more extensive how-to videos to cover all the bells and whistles and how to use them for practical situations. If you look at the Smoke Learning Channel on YouTube, there is a bunch of good stuff there for the 2012 release.

I was at AutoDesk (Discreet) in Montreal 4 - 5 years ago finishing a project with some artists and I wanted to become a Smoke / Flame artist since I had to rely on others to do my finishing and seeing the power of these tools was a real eye-opener.

But even then, I made the argument to the development teem working on my project that it was only a matter of time before you could everything on an Mac via another application -- in this case Adobe -- in close to the time it would take on an AutoDesk product. I think a lot of people could see this distant future and it has almost arrived now.

So I'm glad that Autodesk wants to stay alive and well by offering something that makes sense to the market now: A true "all in one" tool for post.

These guys have the ability to really dominate a market top to bottom if they roll this out right and keep adding value to the package along the way.

I'm pretty sure that is the only way AutoDesk (the video production app side of things in Montreal) will survive in a time where I don't need a 10 - 100k box to bust "finishing" work out quickly.

Finally -- I'm just speculating here -- the tabs at the bottom of the interface could be expanded to add more modules for future releases. I mean, that's a lot of space used right now just to switch between the Media Hub and The Workspace. Why not add a full fledged Audio and Colour (Lustre) Tab?