Smoke vs Avid DS Nitris

[patdawg]

Hey all,

just to add a few things to consider when thinking about Avid|DS:

You forgot to mention that if you have ANY kind of complex composite containers, and/or trees you will wait for-FRIGGIN-ever for your timelines to load. I'm doing about half my work on a DS now(a very new V7.6 one)...unhappily, and it takes anywhere from 20-seconds to ten minutes to load a sequence. It also plays horribly with Avid Unity. If you restart a DS that is connected to a Unity with very much media on it you'll wait a good half-hour for it to re-index the media...EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is the slowest damned machine I've ever worked on. Slower than the Media Composer I used to edit on.

[imported_mseymour7]

I,ve strated working on an AVID DS NITRIS ones month ago. I´m insteresting in knowing what can i do in composition with this machine. Is it similar as Shake, After Effects, Combustion, flame...
T.U

www.jesusalonso.tk

Yes you can composite on DS - easily. It handles p/shop files imported much better than most other boxes.
DS is not 'main stream' AVID - it is from the Softimage side rather than the film composer side of AVID. As such it has some issues with integrating with things like UNITY but it is a good box. One drawback is that less plugins are available for it than some other boxes.
Now the list you offered to compare DS to is an interesting one.
Shake / Toxik /AE / combustion etc have no i/o, no machine control - no edls no editing they are effects only tools (combustion has some editing)... DS clearly has a lot of editing tools

Flame - again this is an effects box,.. and a flint would be a sensible comparison to a DS - but as this discussion has stated - Smoke is the most direct comparison.

DS is a good box, but it is not a specialist compositing box. It has no real 3D compositing environment (projectors, shadows etc) but it does have strong editing tools.

[joni]

we have all three machines...

nitris on hp v7
quad fcp v5
linux smoke v7

fcp for compositing... i dont think so - excellent cutter
nitris for compositing.. maybe - has great features like the nodes for more complex operations.

seriously this something you should think about:
IF NITRIS - FCP - SMOKE were all same priced - and you had the ability to master one instantaneously - WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE.

haha :lol: 8O :x :wink:

my dream machine would be SMOKE with BATCH! or flame witha timeline outside batch.
but since i cant have that ill settle for smoke/flame
SMOKE maybe in the same league as fcp or nitris, quantel(huh) or piranha for that matter but it sure has pole position.

hey im biased... seriously
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[patdawg]

we have all three machines...

nitris on hp v7
quad fcp v5
linux smoke v7

Ya, we have all three, as well as flame, and I'd pretty much agree with everything you said.