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March 09, 2004 After writing my look at discreet’s combustion 3 from the Adobe After Effects user perspective I had a great number of e-mail from people (probably AE users) who were interested in finding out more about combustion 3. I even received several messages asking for tutorials. You asked for it, you got it. In this, the first part of a new on going series, we’ll exam the differences in the combustion 3 workflow, and what you need to know if you are migrating from After Effects, or simply adding combustion to your application expertise. |
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APRIL 01, 2004 Everyone wants it faster; the producer needs to deliver the product to the distributor, the director needs the product from the editor, the editor needs the motion graphics from you. You need to render faster with discreet’s combustion 3. Have you considered network rendering? |
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May 31, 2004 Got a shaky shot that is driving you (and your producer) nuts? Wish the videographer would have heeded your advice and used a tripod? Don’t throw the shot out, stabilize it. In our latest installment of Combustion Eye for the AE Guy, we explore Motion Stabilization. |
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August 05, 2004 Made most famous in the film Saving Private Ryan, the bleach bypass method of treating film gives a very unique look to a project. Since most videographers don’t have the luxury of spending money on film to achieve this look, they usually turn to mimicking the look in post. In this exercise, I’ll show how to do the effect in Adobe After Effects, Avid Xpress DV, discreet’s Combustion, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4. |
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February 3, 2005 The AE user should already know a fair amount about keying in After Effects. As you make the migration to discreet’s combustion, you will find several new ways of pulling a key from a blue or green screen shot. In this installment we’ll examine how keying in combustion works, and how to use combustion’s Discreet Keyer for your next project. |
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February 8, 2005 Today, Discreet announced the forthcoming release of combustion 4, an upgrade to its desktop compositing & paint application. Digital Media Net’s Stephen Schleicher caught up with combustion Discreet Training Specialist Ken La Rue to talk about some of the new features and improvements including the new Discreet Keyer, Capsules, B-Splines, and the time remapping Operator Time – Warp. |
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April 12 2005 If you haven’t checked out the specs for the latest version of combustion from Autodesk, you are missing out on a brand new keyer. The Diamond Keyer has been inherited from Autodesks’s award winning flame visual effects system. The new algorithms interpret the footage so well, and yields more satisfying results that you’ll thinking keying in combustion 4 is a breeze. |
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April 27, 2005 In our first installment covering the features of combustion 4, you learned to pull a key with the Diamond keyer. Instead of having to repeat the lengthy procedure for each shot, wouldn’t it be great if you could save all of these operators as a single preset? With combustion 4’s new capsules, you can bundle operators together to create your own custom effects. |
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May 06, 2005 RPF and RLA data rocks. It allows you to manipulate a 3D image in a post application to create motion blur, Depth of Field, fog and much more. But what happens if you forget to render your 3D files with RPF data included? Before you had to go back and re-render. With Autodesk’s combustion 4, you can paint the data in. |
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May 30, 2005 Combustion 4 now includes Timewarp, a fully functionally time-remapping operator that has the ability to keyframe time changes. With Timewarp you can speed up, slow down, freeze, or even play footage backwards cleanly and easily. If you are familiar with time remapping in other applications, then this feature should be easily recognizable. If you are not familiar with this concept, follow along to see how it works. |