Beggining with combustion and postproduction

[Mendi]

Hi there. I come from the world of the internet, 3d, design, and illustration and I want to heap towards video postproduction.
I think the next internet realease will be a full video interactive experience and I want to be prepared for that. Postproduction will also become a more important part in the creation of 3d movies for me, not just editing.

I wanted some info to begin with combustion v2, begginer tuts, video tuts if possible, what machine I should have, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[Agon]

Hello Mendi!

I want to congratulate for the good choice -> combustion. As a Combustion user, I can suggest you as follows:

First: Use the integrated tutorials from discreet. There is a tutorial book also as PDF file on the CD. You can download from Discreet web site also other combustion tutorials for free. If you want to invest a little bit more, than you can buy DVD video tutorials for combustion. They are long 14 hours and very good.

Second (hardware): Combustions needs a very good graphic card and a lot of RAM. If you dont wont to invest a lot, I can suggest you to start with athlon XP 2000 or better, 768 MB RAM, and GeForce 3 or higher graphic card with at least 64 MB. ATI Radeon 9700 is my favorite for the beginners.
If you want to invest for a better mashine than i can suggest you dual XEON 2.4 or higher with 2 GB Ram (dual Athlon MP is also very good) a good Hardware RAID (SCSI or IDE) with the striped option and a Wildcat 3 or 4 graphic Card.

I hope this could help

[Hugh]

If you go and sign up at 3DBuzz.com (http://www.3dbuzz.com), there is the first issue of the Combustion VTM (Video Training Manual) which you can either get sent to you (free) or download off the site.[/url]

[Mendi]

Uauh! This forum really works!

Thanks to both. I'll start with the inside tuts and then search for advanced tips, tricks and methods in places like these :)

The machine configuration is'nt far from what I expected it should be. I was thinking on a P4 2800, 1gig DDR RAM, ATI Radeon 9700, HDD 120 gb SCSI. I've also realized that having two monitors is such a pratical thing in postproduction, as it also is in 3d.

Just one more thing, do you know if there is the possibility of net-rendering?
Just to take profit of two machines working altogether.

Thank you very much again.

[GrantKay]

Hi,

Combustion comes with free network rendering. For windows machines, there is backburner which is intelligent network rendering management.

For Mac systems there is the watch folder system....

Both flavours of the network rendering come with your combustion license and you can put it on as many machines as you want...

Regards
Grant

Discreet UK