Autodesk® Combustion® 4 represents the next major step forward for Autodesk Media and Entertainment’s legendary creative tools and desktop integration, providing artists with a unique competitive edge - unparalleled creativity at an affordable price.Powerful Creative Tools: Experience in-context access to motion graphics, industry-leading 3D compositing, vector paint, roto, color correction, and much more. - Artist-friendly interface: The easy-to-use UI includes multiple-screen, in-context design work; easy navigation; and a schematic node-based view.
- Broad Interoperability: Combustion 4 software delivers unmatched integration with Autodesk® 3ds Max® animation software and Discreet® Flint®, Discreet® Flame®, Discreet® Inferno®, Discreet® Fire®, and Discreet® Smoke® systems.
Desktop compositing software as versatile as you are talented. Achieve amazing digital feats faster and at lower cost with Autodesk® Combustion® 4 software. Whether your task is to produce professional video motion graphics, repurpose video content for the web, or create effects for feature films or HDTV, Combustion 4 software delivers the first-rate power you need at an incredibly affordable price. Combustion 4 offers an easy-to-use interface, non-destructive workflow, and extensive toolset designed to help you bring your imagination to life while getting your work done faster. Key features and capabilities include:
- New Features: Timewarp, Diamond Keyer for precision keying, Capsules for creating grouped operator pipelines, and B-splines in Paint.
- Powerful creative tools: Combustion 4 provides in-context access to motion graphics, industry-leading 3D compositing, color correction, image stabilization, vector paint and roto, text effects, short-form editing, expressions, Flash® output, and much more.
- Artist-friendly interface: Combustion 4 features Autodesk Media and Entertainment’s unified and easy-to-use interface, including multiple-screen, in-context design work; easy navigation; and a schematic node-based view: all designed to get you to your destination quicker and easier.
- Broad interoperability: Combustion 4 delivers unmatched integration with industry-standard 3D animation, imaging, and illustration software, including Autodesk’s leading 3ds Max® animation software, Autodesk® Cleaner® encoding software, and Discreet® Flint®, Discreet® Flame®, Discreet® Inferno®, Discreet® Fire®, and Discreet® Smoke® systems products.
Feature Highlights
- Diamond Keyer: the second generation of sophisticated keying algorithms derived from the Discreet® Flame® system.
- Timewarp: a fully key-frameable, time-remapping operator for quickly creating slow-motion and speed-up effects.
- B-spline vector shapes and new point-grouping: faster, more efficient rotoscoping
- New optimized ‘Fast Gaussian Blur’.
- Custom capsules: create and save encapsulated single or grouped operator nodes and build a library of effects to share and re-use.
- Gbuffer builder: enables custom building of the Rich Pixel Format (RPF) data structures from bitmap files for more extensive use of Combustion RPF nodes.
- Merge operator: new optimized operator to quickly merge two layers of the same size using any Combustion transfer node.
- Interface enhancements: edit-operator, navigation, filtering, and compare-tool improvements, just to name a few.
- New file import/export options: import of images into color mixer, import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, import Windows Media®, OpenEXR-compatible output.
- Enhanced paint: new paint tools, grids and rulers, B-spline in paint, and new customized brushes.
System Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows®
- Intel® Pentium® III, Pentium 4, or AMD® AthlonTM XP CPU (850 MHz or higher)
- Microsoft Windows XP (Professional or Home Edition) or Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher)
- 20 GB main hard drive with at least 142 MB free space (100 MB for the software, 42 MB for help)
- 512 MB RAM
- Video display card with 32 MB VRAM (1024x768 display with 24-bit color minimum required)
- Microsoft Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime support
- Macromedia® Flash® Player
- Microsoft DirectX®
- Apple® Macintosh®
- Power Mac® G4, 800 MHz or higher
- Mac OS® X 10.3 or 10.4
- 20 GB main hard drive with at least 120 MB free space (70 MB for the software, 45 MB for help)
- 512 MB RAM( Note: Since the system also uses RAM for caching, we suggest greater than 512 MB of RAM.)
- Video display card with 4 MB
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