[velislav]

@Dr_P 29494 wrote:

I think that “Confidential .. for internal use only” is probably there for a reason.

Thats true … “Confidential .. for internal use only” means “Please spread it on youtube/vimeo to get our viral marketing up and running” ;o)

[velislav]

“Error
Your request has produced an error. Please try again or come back later.”

:o(

[velislav]

@rohit 29419 wrote:

why not research the forums first ? i think this question has been asked several times over the years.

… and what was the conclusion?

[velislav]

@huumingh 29408 wrote:

Just a stupid question to ask, I’m thinking about buy Flame, but my friend said ‘why not buy Nuke…, it’s cheaper and there’s nothing Flame can do that Nuke can’t. So, really I just wanna set this straight…, what are obvious pros and cons between the two? Which of the two works on 32 bits float better?

thanks very much
PC

Perhaps you can give a small idea of what you wanna do with the Flame/Nuke.
Second question …are you sure that you wanna buy a Flame? I mean normally people know very well of what it is capable of before they spend some 150K on a VFX-System.

[velislav]

Motion blur kills the best chroma screens. Using higher speeds on the cam often does a pretty good job…. but wants a “little” more light.

[velislav]

@Kenneth 24246 wrote:

Its on the combustion site: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10244049

Thanks guys!

“The Page You Were Looking for Was Not Found” …. is that a good sign?

[velislav]

@Kenneth 24240 wrote:

Hello folks!

Just wondering if its possible to do a “cross upgrade” from *c3 Windows to *c 2008 Mac when it arrives?

It worked here as a crossgrade form C3 (MAC) to C4 (PC) … so….why not ?

@Kenneth 24240 wrote:

According to Autodesk Combustion 2008 should be out “now”, well late this year anyways.

What? Where? Who …. I mean … where did you get that from???

[velislav]

loops wrote:

Actually I’ve also heard that Windows XP SP2 has a bug which limits disk throughput really severely – are you running SP2? Autodesk recommend SP1 for use with Toxik because of this, I don’t know if it affects Combustion…

Having just switched to a 1TB S-ATA Raid, I just did some tests on loading image-sequences and clips in C* and in Fusion …. same material … same Raid … Fusion, in some cases, is nearly as twice as fast loading that stuff into memory. So I guess its not the WinXP problem that keeps C* from loading faster 🙁

[velislav]

Hi,
I have no idea if there is a compositing software that support Itanium, but afaik MentalRay also runs on Itaniums… so perhaps your machine can be a pretty nice renderclient 😉

[velislav]

Rajo wrote:

Hi, I have created some info overlays for a travel video. They slide from the bottom of the screen, with motion blur on. The thing is, how do I export these overlays with transparency so there aren’t any nasty black outlines on edges of the blurred image? I work with C4 and Premiere Pro 2. Thanks a bunch!

I hope I understood everything right, but turning off “premultiply color” in ther rendering should do the job.

[velislav]

malu05 wrote:

But why does this occour?
Is it combustion, the windows video format or? since the tiff/png is 8bit too

Afaik you can use tiff/png without compression. Windows Media Video must at least do something to get the files as small as they get 😉
You can try a Quicktime (Animation) codec, and I bet, you won t get that effect.

[velislav]

luxeomni wrote:

so how can i manage to plug my still 2000$ costing graphic AGP 8x card on a PCI E only board 🙂

http://www.dremel.com/ … you never said, it should work … only fit 😆

[velislav]

T-ghost wrote:

8)
don’t expect them to be thankful afterwards.
Those bastards think they’re the masters of the universe.
Clients enslave artists, that’s they’re job. 😈

But how boring would life be without those types of clients? Normally I can t stop smilling at dialogs like .. “I need this for print too” ..”OK, what resolution?” ..” 300 dpi”..”OK, what size?” .. “300dpi” … “I mean, how big should it get?” … “300 dpi” .. “OK, forget it”.

But the most funniest thing I ve ever heard was a guy on the XSI-mailing list who was told to make a “turning cube out of mirrors” … should be no problem, BUT the client thought this was a funny idea, as every one who watches this cube on TV will see itself in the cube… as it should be built of mirrors. Its hard not laugh at customers like that 😆

[velislav]

Although it may sound stupid, but did you try blurring youre material to a degree that your tracker/marker/corner/whatever is still trackable?
I had the experience that sometimes the tracker sits smoother on a spot, if you “clean” the marker/corner/etc from “too exact” information.
The FLAME/Combustion tracker is pretty powerfull and stable .. even on blurred material. If this works, you can just delete the blur afterwards.

Marc

[velislav]

iqbal wrote:

sorry buddy i never face these problem in my last five years but you should mentionthat what software you are using plz mention that may be i will help you

Uh.. as this was posted to the COMBUSTION-Forum I ll give you a little hint what its not:
I m not using Fusion 😆

Actually I haven t had this problem in the last 10 years (Flame-years included) but, now I had a setup where it was a problem.
Anyway, job is done … thanx to all the helping ideas !!!!

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