Well NAB 2003 got off to a fast start with the first FXGuide Live event followed by the Discreet User Group Meeting. A big thank you to all who attended our inaugural event, as well as your support. We really enjoyed the opportunity to create a user session at NAB — the questions and interaction from the audience was great.
For our intital report on the gossip and news of the events .. click “read more…” at the bottom of this panel. A more detailed
In the Florentine Ballroom, right below the Discreet user group meeting, 150 senior Flame, Flint and Inferno artists gathered on Sunday afternoon to attend the first user run tips and techniques FXGuide Live event. What they got was a jam packed session of speakers and visuals covering the new version 5/8 Inferno and Flame software.
The event was a success — we were a bit nervous being first-timers. From user comments, popular highlights were the sections on feature film proxy workflow, the new batch and camera mapping using projectors. As every speaker had not only the output of Flame projected via an impressive HD Barco video projector but also a second high res video projector with animated screen closeups and detailed shots, the crowd was able to see both live explanations and have detailed tips simulateously.
Here is a sample of the comments submitted so far by fellow users who attended:
“I find fxguide just as important as some of the tools in our arsenal… just like sparks
“At last I get it. The MK or as we call it the ‘complikeyer’ was demystified”
“Simply the best, it’s wonderful that people of such calibre are able to share with us”
“I have been to a lot of seminars – this one was exceptionally well layed out and prepared”
“This event will last the whole year. The camera linked with projectors to make flat artwork come to life was incredible to see and its a trick I’ll be using on my clients on Tuesday!”
Following the event was the Discreet User Group Meeting.
Here is the news in point form – and we’ll expand with stories during the week – live from the show.
– The logos are back, modernised and funky – the fish is back !
– Lustre – the Colourfront product was demoed.. WOW insanely fast for 2K realtime colour correction
– Stones are going open filesystem and being cut in half price wise. Yes – we are heading toward an open third party disc strategy
– Inferno/Flame version 6/9 technology demo was previewed with
1. Clip history ( do anything you like on the desktop and then open all those steps as a batch tree at the touch of a button)
2. Preview of a new Super Keyer
3. Mental Ray rendering in Action
4. A shelf in batch allowing a group of batch nodes to be dropped and turned into your own user node for later use
5. A new spline warper/morpher
We’ll be interviewing Discreet directly over the next couple of days and we’ll bring you detailed results then.
Fire 6.0 was previewed showing:
1. Mixed resolution
2. Time smear view of timeline from Toxik
3. Colour Warper
4. Unlink/relink media (example shown was to go from 4:3 media to a 16:9 media) – automatically redoing all editing and effects
5. Extended bicubics
6. EDL improvements, including new to be captured or recaptured list
7. Loads of small workflow improvements.
More details later!