After Effects Plugins?

#1

Is it true that Combustion can use After Effects plugins?

#2

yes , just put them in your plugins folder

#3

AE plugins also work in the Final Cut Pro plugins folder (most of em, anyway.)

#4

Does Combustion offer film stock effects filter ala Avid DS.

#5

I’ve not used an Avid system, but Combustion does have a wide range of film grain tools…you can select which film stock’s grain charactoristics to emulate and has grain sampling tools to match grain between 2 composited elements. I think discreet has finally posted some demoware for you to check it out.

#6

On the Avid DS system you can select various film stocks from Kodak, Agfa and Fuji. I’m curious if Combustion has something similar. I remember conducting a test on Discreet Smoke (beautiful system) and it had built-in film stocks.

#7

Yes - combustion now (as of version 2) has this. Features from the IFF systems have been trickling down into combustion. It rocks.

#8

Thanks for info Phatgroovn I’m planning to order a copy and a register a one day workshop with Discreet Training Center on Combustion. It’s about damn time a desktop comp package incorporated couple of IFF features. btw, how’s the learning curve on Combustion compared to After Effects.

#9

the learning curve is not bad at all. It comes with a pretty decent manual and a very sharp tutorial book. While the tutorials are a bit “cookbook-style” and don’t tell you why you are doing things, they let you know where the functionality is - making them ideal for an experienced compositor that just needs to know how to engage the features. The particle system smokes on a machine with a beefy workstation card - however on a consumer level video card they really dog stuff down.

The thing i dig about combustion over AE is how much faster your workflow can be. There are still a few things that AE does better, but for an all in one package that is powerful and fast…c2!

#10

What’s the specs on your machine? My current setup is a dual P3 866, 1298 MB. ram, Fire GL1 (32 MB.) graphics card. I’m assuming a 64 MB. card would ‘beef’ up the particle performance.

#11

I run it on a dual 533 mhz G4 Mac with a Geforce2MX 64mb - it runs great until using particles, during which its not speedy, but acceptable. I also run it on a pentium 4 1.3 ghz, with an Elsa Gloria III - which smokes with particles.

#12

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