[shannones riders]

My answer is in the Tiles thread 🙂

[shannones riders]

I see. That’s easy: do the tracking in Action, copy the x and y position channels and paste them to the spark’s xy position channel. You can manipulate these channels later via Curve Functions Toolbox, no expression needed.

[shannones riders]

I still don’t really understand what’s in your head.:)
But you have a bunch of tool to change your animation channels.
They’re in a box called Curve Functions Box in the manual and it is set to “Reverse” by default. You can find it on the right side of the animation channels.

[shannones riders]

This one is not infinite in mathematical mean, but works:

Add a dummy layer and add the layer you want to repeat to this layer as a texture. Set the texture parameters to “repeat” and scale down the axis above the texture.

I always rasterize vectorized images in PS first, create an alpha and save as 32 bit tga. Maybe the others can give you a better workflow.

Gmaks can be created in some roto softwares, like Silhouette from sfx or some tool from imagineer.

Hope this helps.

[shannones riders]

Unfortunately not and not you are the first one who misses this feature.

You can’t link spark’s track to an other track in Action node for example. But you can copy it and most of the time it helps.:)

pH.

[shannones riders]

Hi,

There is no way to link sparks, they simply don’t appear in the batch channel editor. You can only copy the channels or simply duplicate the node when you’ve finished with the settings.

pH.

[shannones riders]

@rego 25880 wrote:

2. the flint lacks the 3D camera tracking feature.
3. The flint lacks the Moduler Keyer.

OK, let’s consider the price difference between Flint and Flame. I don’t know the exact numbers, but it’s significant.

I would rather buy a Syntheyes for 400 USD, some Spark package. We do commercials here and we can live without the Modular Keyer. OK, I have to admit that last time I wanted to extrude a Geom from Gmask, but this feature is only avaliable in Flame… 🙂

If you compare the hardwares, they are the same, so the speed is the same. Now why would you buy Flame for commercials?

Only if your clients insist to work with Flame Artist…

Two years ago I asked the same question from an Autodesk Authorised trainer: what’s the difference between Flint and Smoke?

He answered me that Smoke is a very good workhorse if you have a small facility and want to solve wide range of problems. It’s like a Swiss Army knife. That’s why he always advised to start-up companies to buy Smoke. But hey, you have several machines…

Since then Flint inherited much better editing capabilities from Smoke. What’s more you know Flint much better, I wouldn’t hesitate…

pH.

ps: when we bought our Flints (3 years ago) they were cheaper with Smoke installed on the same machine than standalone, but we never touched Smoke 🙂

[shannones riders]

have you already seen this?

http://www.fxguide.com/modules.php?name=fxtips&rop=showcontent&id=343

[shannones riders]

hi avilia,

have a look on these:

http://cinespace.rsrhq.com/docs/ColourManagement.pdf

http://www.fxguide.com/modules.php?name=fxtips&rop=showcontent&id=250

and i definitely recommend ron brinkman’s book as well.

pH

PS: don’t be confused, video with (logarithmic) gamma counts linear

[shannones riders]

thanks, more or less i have the same plan…

after 8 months how do you feel, how’s your progress, could you live on comping in nuke?

[shannones riders]

how did you learn it? i mean did you enroll few courses on fxphd? where did you find most of the info? could you give me a small list of your sources please?

i have just started nuke and hope it would help…

[shannones riders]

hey rohit are you tampering with nuke as well? i tought that you work on flame…:)

anyway last time when i compared ibk with master keyer i was really stunned…

[shannones riders]

pgill gave you a great answer!

I think it’s possible to work really fast when you’re organised and you have a good overview on the workflow. The ‘brute force’ way of working won’t work on Flame either, you still have to think.

On Flame the trial and error phase of the work can be pretty short, because you see the results immediately.

OK, processing spark took 2 minutes. But what if you need 10 elements for a shot made by sparks? You process them separetely and you’ve them on the desktop within an hour. Same in Batch, you can cache the nodes you don’t want to change any more.

If you want to read more on this, read Stu’s opinion:

http://prolost.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-should-adobe-do-with-premiere-pro.html

I don’t completely agree with him, but it’s an interesting comparision and might enlight the differences better.

pH

[shannones riders]

Actually I really don’t understand why isn’t hardware upgrade included in subscription fee. The post houses could plan their expenses much easier and we wouldn’t blame Autodesk for the slow hardwares…

[shannones riders]

Autodesk sells systems, this means that you can’t buy Flame SW & HW separately.

Forget the PC hacks, they won’t work…

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