Fire, Lustre, Smoke, etc: a lot of overlap?

#1

I understand the difference between Combustion, Flint, Flame and Inferno. I note on the Discreet site there is also Fire, Lustre and Smoke and when you look at the spec they all mention things such as colour correction, tracking and other video post-production. Doesn’t Combustion, Flint, Flame and Inferno do all these things (albeit with different amounts of power)? So, what is the point of all these other products?

Thanks, I’m new to this industry and am just keen to know the difference. :slight_smile:

#2

The difference between the Smoke and the Fire is basically the hardware (resolution, interactivity). Smoke/Fire also is use for finishing, therefore the necessity of determined effects ( 3D compositing, keyers and others tools)
The Lustre is used for grade and color correction (scan>>Lustre) and create specific 'looks" for film. The Lustre has tools of color correction doesn´t have for example effects(blurs,glow, keyers) and other “easinesses” found in the FFI.

#3

Smoke is a dedicated editor competing with Avid’s high end editing systems. While it is an editor, it still offers alot of the functionality of the Flame/Flint/Inferno Systems. But it lacks alot of the roto/paint tools that the compositing systems offer.

You wouldn’t really want to say, edit a tv series on a FFI machine. It’s really all about providing tools for different people, while there is alot of overlap, you put your editor on a smoke machine, your roto and compositing guy on a FFI machine. If you’re working on a feature film you’ll have someone on a lustre system grading all of the finished/rendered shots.

And then of course if you just need large volumes of tedius work, without really any need for real time client input. You dispatch individual shots to Combustion/Shake.

Lustre is like Vympel said, dedicated to color correction, mostly 2k and 4k stuff. It does actually offer blurs and some other effects. But it’s not designed around that kind of work, it mostly just takes finished composites and ensures they match the shots that didn’t go through a compositing suite.

#4

Thanks! So are Fire, Lustre and Smoke all software and hardware solutions like the FFI systems or are some of them desktop software solutions?

Thanks.

#5

Hardware solutions (SGI, Stone), but the Smoke have a Linux versions (SD, HD, 2K) using PC or SGI (Irix),

#6

…just wanted to add that Lustre is running on XP (but you do need dedicated hardware).

-k

#7

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