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2009 ext1 has some cool features..hopefully fewer bugs as well 🙂 the HDR viewer sounds interesting
Do you mean SP1, or is this a new vsn.
Paul
didn’t you have to sign the NDA? 🙂
new extension version …its on the discreet website guys 🙂
Highlights of Extension 1 for Inferno 2009, Flame 2009 and Flint 2009
New Creative Tools
* Animated GMask 3D Extrude*: This new tool extends 3D compositing with the ability to import free-form GMask geometries into Action and extrude them to create textured 3D objects. GMask geometries can be animated to more easily design graphic looks.
* Better Auto-stabilization*: The precision of the new Auto-stabilization tool has been extended to automatically track an object based on the region of interest.
* Object Tracking with the 3D Tracker*: Advances the fast, accurate 3D tracker in Flame by giving artists the ability to isolate moving objects in a complex scene. Along with camera tracking, object tracking offers tools that help integrate new elements with complex moving scenes.
* Motif tool*: A fast, symmetrical pattern (kaleidoscope) generation tool that can be used to make textures with ease.
* Exposure Node: With support for 16-bit floating-point processing, the Exposure node allows artists to design both realistic and creative effects by adjusting the exposure and the contrast of their images.
* Particle Presets: More than 80 new particle presets provide artists with a fast and easy way to harness the Inferno, Flame, and Flint systems’ powerful 3D particle effects.*Not available in Flint.
Workflow Improvements and Expanded Format Support
* Real-Time Deliverables: When multiple resolutions from a high-quality master need to be output, this new mastering-to-VTR tool boosts efficiency by providing real-time up and down conversions without having to render. Outputs source files of up to 2K 12-bit images to most video formats.
* Support for Additional Compressed Media Formats: Supports QuickTime animation with alpha and QuickTime motion-JPEG, XDCAM, XDCAM HD codecs, and Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra media at 50 and 100 modes.
* Greater Support of QuickTime Metadata: To increase interoperability with Final Cut Pro, Smoke now uses time-code and reel-name information contained in Apple QuickTime files when importing or soft-importing QuickTime metadata.
* Advanced Import Image Browser: Artists can work more efficiently with industry-standard digital acquisition formats. It is faster and easier to browse and recursively scan clips in P2 and XDCAM directory structures.
* Support for External Proxies: When working with high-resolution images such as film scans, existing proxies can be imported rather than re-generated.
* Full-image Resolution Output to the Broadcast Monitor: Ability to send a selected clip to the SDI output of the NVIDIA graphics card, to offer clients a full-screen view on the broadcast monitor.OpenEXR Workflow Enhancements
* Floating-Point Processing in the Colour Corrector and Colour Warper: Support for 16-bit floating-point processing has been extended to the Colour Warper and Colour Corrector, providing greater control over the entire original colour range of 16-bit file formats.
* Remote Rendering of 16-bit Floating-Point Action Setups: With the addition of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700, artists can use the latest GPU-accelerated version of Autodesk Burn software to remote render Action setups based on 16-bit OpenEXR files.
* New HDR Viewer: Provides a more accurate and flexible view of logarithmic, linear and video images in modules supporting multiple viewers, and the Player exposes even more image detail.If you cannot join us in Amsterdam to see the extension demos we will be doing live streaming from the Autodesk booth every day. The streaming is from 10:00am to 6:00pm every day local time (GMT +1). However a little later we will also post the videos once edited.
See our virtual IBC site on the AREA
maurice
LOVe the particle presets…finally! 🙂
The first fxguidetv from Amsterdam is all about the release….coming out in the next day.
I went up to Montreal last week to speak with Philippe about the new features….
andd…???? is there HDR support ?
@johnmont 26405 wrote:
I went up to Montreal last week to speak with Philippe about the new features….
My favorite new thing ext1 is *BEEEEEEEEEEEEP*, and I also love the *BEEEEEEEEEP*, but probably not as much as I love the *BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!*
object tracking! half float cc/cw! wow
well done you guys at autodesk, the releases seem to be moving in the right directions and developing more rapidly.
p
Check out the new fxguidetv — all about the new releases. I’m quite impressed with the number of new things in the release, only 6 months after the initial release of 2009.
I’m a new flame/smoke owner and when you pay the subscription you take a bit of a leap of faith, so I’m happy with what’s there. I’d like to see a bit more creative tools, but I understand the idea of getting some longstanding issues/shortcomings corrected and then moving forward.
WOW, looks good, when is this available to download?
Picking up on something that Phillipe said regarding modules that have not been touched for a long time, I would love to see some work done on the warper, in particular I would like to see it introduced as a surface option in Action.Paul
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