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doodlyD
10-21-2002, 08:05 PM
Tell me please which the best compositing & visual effects program with allneed support of Maya!??

everybody talks that Shake is only good for compositing and not so for visual effects Combastion2 not support maya formats i donn't know about DF4
DesignDawg
10-21-2002, 08:29 PM
Actually, Combustion 2 DOES fully support Maya formats. It even supports Z-Depth in Maya IFFs. It didn't BEFORE the service pack, but then again, it didn't RUN for more than a second or two before that service pack.

Ricky
doodlyD
10-21-2002, 09:32 PM
camera export ?
Ckerr812
10-22-2002, 05:23 PM
Shake is the best, Shake is just good for compositing? ..Umm..whoever told you that probably downloaded there version of Shake ;)

It dosen't ship with all the cool little specail effects plug- ins like the others do, but it is much more versatile with scripting and with the sapphire plug-ins the special effects it can achieve is the best in the biz..ATM.

Also it supports maya iff files and Z depth with no prob, and all the other wiz bang things to composite great stuff.
doodlyD
10-23-2002, 02:17 PM
what about DigitalFusion(3.1 and 4)?
ilasolomon
10-23-2002, 02:39 PM
seems Shake will not be supported on PC anymore
there was a DigitalFusion version named MayaFusion but seems it will not be upated anymore too!

my suggestions (ordered):
1. combustion 2
2. after fx 5.5 pro bundle
3. digital fusion
Ckerr812
10-23-2002, 06:23 PM
Shake will still be supported for people that upgrade to 2.5, from a 2.46 version I think for at least another year.

Also, don't forget about Digital Domains new Compositor that is coming out, I have never used it personally, but it looks very promising, considering they use Maya (as well as others) I would imagine that it will support maya files and such. Here is the link:

http://www.d2software.com/
graphiouz
10-23-2002, 07:17 PM
Dfusion 4 looks to be a kicker! i like Dfusion3 for maya very much..

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DesignDawg
10-23-2002, 07:23 PM
Yes, camera export in Combustion 2 also. There is a plugin for Maya on Highend3D that does this. It works great.

Ricky
gmask
10-24-2002, 05:10 AM
After Effects supports Zdepth, Maya iff and camera import.
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