http://forums.cgsociety.org CGTalk, the CGSociety's official forum for digital artists 120 en-us http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1105728 Posted By: redsector
Post Time: 05-05-2013 at 06:19 PM
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hello everyone,
I know everyone is sick of this question. yet, nobody could give me a proper answer.

I'm cinematographer and to enhance my digital skills I want to learn compositing. there is inferno, nuke and after effects. I know inferno isn't for home computers but still not a big deal for me, I can go to friends post production lab to learn it.

Question comes to professionals who already used all of them. What is the difference?
I've seen interface of all, AFX has uncomfortable look because of layer base. so what about nuke - inferno (or flame)

Inferno is so popular in Turkey and practically nobody uses nuke. But I've heard a lot good stuff about it online. Anyone can enlighten me?]]> Sun, 05 May 2013 13:19:31 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1094315 Posted By: rame
Post Time: 02-18-2013 at 06:02 AM
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Hello,

Can somebody help me in importing EXR files inside the Autodesk Combustion? I need to do paint work where my entire team is experienced in Combustion so I don't have an any other option.

Your help on this is very much appreciated.

Thanks

Ramesh Jayaraman]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:02:13 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1091045 Posted By: kweso
Post Time: 01-28-2013 at 11:02 PM
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hey there,
i do motiongraphics and of course use mostly after effects for it. but i am sick of the linear layerbased structure. so i want something nodebased. as far as i can see, there are two real alternatives (since i am on win): nuke and combustion. and since i am afraid, nuke could be a overkill for me, i wanted to look at combustion. but i cant find it on autodesk.com any more. was it bought by some other company? or was it just discontinued? if yes, is there an alternative?

the other question would be: are those compositing-solutions fit for animating, say like typography? or are they really just for compositing and sfx?

tyvm
kws]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:02:59 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1076001 Posted By: CerberusC
Post Time: 10-19-2012 at 12:23 PM
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Hi.

I have a normal pass and a diffuse pass, and i want to modify the lighting a bit with composite lights, can someone explain me how to do it?
I know i have to use "reaction" but i'm not sure how...

Cheers.]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:23:40 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1046998 Posted By: peto1978
Post Time: 04-19-2012 at 01:13 PM
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Hi.
I am Flame artist, with twelve years of experience in postproduction field.
And I’m interested to join new post. team. This can be, on freelance basis or in house work.
If you think, you need experienced Flame Op. / Vfx Sup., let me know.

Here's is my reel :
http://www.peternemec.com/
and CV:
http://www.peternemec.com/dokumenty/pnemec_cv_2012.pdf

Peter Nemec
Senior Flame Artist / Vfx sup.
peter@peternemec.com
www.peternemec.com]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:13:28 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1000434 Posted By: KiboOst
Post Time: 08-13-2011 at 01:00 PM
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Hi all,

If you use Toxik/Composite, I would be willing you to join aera toxik community. It is very active, with some high end user and some autodesk guys allways open to answer any question about the user of this software. The more people here, the better for every users :
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/auto...and-combustion/
We use Toxik 2012 (hotfix is here on maya and max support pages) for a year now and I didn't find active Toxik forums apart on aera. VFXtalk have no one at all, fxguide have a forum but not really active.
Also, a nice and active blog you have to know : EnigmaFX

Cheers,
Kib

PS : I'm not from and have nothing to do with Autodesk. I just think an active community about a software we use for production is allways a plus !]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:00:35 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=997239 Posted By: 3DRtist
Post Time: 07-28-2011 at 08:01 PM
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I did browse the different forum sections, but was looking for Adobe Premiere or a General Compositing section.

I have Batch Rendered in Maya targas, and imported them into Premiere. My problem is that when I render an AVI file, the Avi plays chopy, and takes about 2 seconds to play per frame.

Settings I choose:
New project menu: DV NTSC Standard 48.

Edit-Prefrences-general:
Prerool 2, Postroll 2
Video Transition Defualt Duration 30
Still Image Default Duration: 1
(Check) Play Work area after rendering previews
(Check) Default scale to frame size.

Export-Media-export settings:
Format: AVI
Preset: NTSC DV

I can get more info on the settings or get a screen shot of that's easier.
Thanks]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:01:31 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=976829 Posted By: TBone2008
Post Time: 05-03-2011 at 10:40 PM
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when I use the Pen tool, the "fill" "stroke" and "px" (on the same line) disapear (become greyish non selectable).

any idea how to restore this so I can give the mask a thickness ?]]> Tue, 03 May 2011 17:40:04 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=948329 Posted By: RickToxik
Post Time: 01-11-2011 at 04:03 PM
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Hello!

I have a question regarding the enigmatic Toxik/Maya Composite.

I'd like to know how to use the motion blur from the reaction tool (and maybe depth of field?). It would be a great help, and despite of reading everything I have found talking about the Reaction tool, I have absolutely no idea how it works and what it does. Any tutorial for the motion blur? The help files say I need to turn on the software renderer in order to make the motion blur work. Is it another way to say: render the sequence if you would like to see the effect of this tool?

I have been using the motio tool with the blur tool until now, and I am satisfied with the workflow and results, even if I find it (motio) very slow.

Aloha]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:03:49 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=926011 Posted By: harnelbe
Post Time: 10-11-2010 at 07:45 AM
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I'm working with combustion 2008
I'm replacing texture in a RPF images footage.
But the texture is changed only on the 25 first frames and not during all the animation, after i see only black.
Thanks in advance for advices.]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:45:11 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=908988 Posted By: Pasargad
Post Time: 08-09-2010 at 03:55 AM
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Hi,
I'm quit new in Flame, and when I want to import a psd file with alpha channel, the software cannot recognize it and imports it as file without any alpha, so I do appreciate it if you could tell me how I can have a file with Alpha Channel?
Cheers.]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:55:13 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=904906 Posted By: seedo
Post Time: 07-26-2010 at 08:40 AM
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hello guys:
from time to time i have a look here in the dark corner of CGTalk forum in the combustion subject and i wonder if there any news of combustion being developed the only thing about combustion is missing the particle 3D world, if this be available then combustion will be back in the game, i noticed also 3d party addons are dropping there support to develop their products for combustion and this is killing me.
so guys any news or suggestions or anything?]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:40:24 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=904145 Posted By: nanni700
Post Time: 07-23-2010 at 10:52 AM
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Hi all,

does anybody has the same behaviour: opening the filebrowser in combustion takes very long (from 30sec to 1 min)! I gues the PC is searching the network or something like that and stops after time out. I'am really bothered by that...

What can i do?

Thanks for help!
nanni]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:52:51 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=898286 Posted By: D4riel
Post Time: 07-02-2010 at 09:57 PM
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hey i cant find information about Rotomation, what is it??? ]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:57:26 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=896640 Posted By: Netweeny
Post Time: 06-29-2010 at 04:00 PM
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Hello. I'm new to Composite (coming over from After Effects) and I can't figure out how to use the coverage and velocity channels. I'd like to use the coverage channel to help out the z-depth pass and the velocity channel to get motion blur.

I've rendered out a .exr sequence and Composite can see these channels on import. But I can't figure out what nodes I need to use to properly use these. The help file seems nearly useless and there seems to be very little on the internet about it.

Does anyone have any experience with this?]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:16 +0000