Combustion or Nuke

[Tagger]

what's your budget ? :) if it's purely merging renderpasses and tweaking it doesnt realy mather

[Mazer]

Can't you just use houdini's compositor ?

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=970&Itemid=266

[Rod Seffen]

If you're as clueless about compositing as you sound, it won't matter if you use nuke, combustion, or just some crayons and sticky tape.
The subtle differences between apps only apply to advanced users, for basic users they're all the same.

[tahar]

Combustion wonderful, But I advise you to use The Foundry Nuke 5.0v1, If you want to obtain excellent work ( And very well done ) :)

[scrimski]

But I advise you to use The Foundry Nuke 5.0v1, If you want to obtain excellent work
Yeah right, because unlike combustion Nuke comes with a 'Make Excellent' button.

Read here
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=4982656&postcount=6

[bunker]

thanks ...

Tagger : no budget limit as long as I can get the job done pretty quickly. I'd like an app that's quick to learn too if possible

Mazer : I would love to use Houdini, but I don't have any experience of the compositor ... I will have a look anyway ...

oDDity : probably true, but I need at least depth of field filter in post prod and proper colour adjustment - can't do that with the crayons really :) If they are pretty similar, then which one is easier to learn ?

tahar : I'll see if I can get a demo of Nuke ... I tried Combustion quickly and I like it so far...

[tahar]

thanks ...
tahar : I'll see if I can get a demo of Nuke ... I tried Combustion quickly and I like it so far...

Visit this Link:

http://www.vfxtalk.com/tutorialfiles...ompositing.mov (http://www.vfxtalk.com/tutorialfiles/cmivfx/nuke_3dcompositing.mov)

[tahar]

Yeah right, because unlike combustion Nuke comes with a 'Make Excellent' button.

Read here
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=4982656&postcount=6

Thanks for the link brother :)

[Hugh]

Yeah right, because unlike combustion Nuke comes with a 'Make Excellent' button.

You think you're joking, don't you?

Nuke 4.7 certainly had a hidden node called something like "DoComposite" which could be found by going through the Others -> All Plugins menu. I'm not sure if it's still there in 5 - I don't have Nuke at home, so I'd have to check tomorrow at work...

[Hugh]

I've just checked - the node is called MindRead, and yes, it is still there in Nuke 5.

[visualboo]

Hugh, will that same button also bring me an ice cold beer? ;)

[Almir]

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=4982656&postcount=6
I laughed my ass off, Apple should recruit this guy.
~sion

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