Autodesk Combustion

Combustion 4 offers an easy-to-use interface, non-destructive workflow, and extensive toolset designed to help you bring your imagination to life while getting your work done faster.

Capabilities include:

New Features—Timewarp, Diamond Keyer for precision keying, Capsules for creating grouped operator pipelines, and B-splines in Paint.

Powerful creative tools—Combustion 4 provides in-context access to motion graphics, industry-leading 3D compositing, color correction, image stabilization, vector paint and roto, text effects, short-form editing, expressions, Flash® output, and much more.

Artist-friendly interface—Combustion 4 features Autodesk Media and Entertainment’s unified and easy-to-use interface, including multiple-screen, in-context design work; easy navigation; and a schematic node-based view—all designed to get you to your destination quicker and easier.

Broad interoperability—Combustion 4 delivers unmatched integration with industry-standard 3D animation, imaging, and illustration software, including Autodesk’s leading 3ds Max® animation software, Autodesk® Cleaner® encoding software, and Discreet® Flint®, Discreet® Flame®, Discreet® Inferno®, Discreet® Fire®, and Discreet® Smoke® systems products.

New Feature include:

Diamond Keyer—the second generation of sophisticated keying algorithms derived from the Discreet® Flame® system.

Timewarp—a fully key-frameable, time-remapping operator for quickly creating slow-motion and speed-up effects.

B-spline vector shapes and new point-grouping—faster, more efficient rotoscoping
New optimized ‘Fast Gaussian Blur’.

Custom capsules—create and save encapsulated single or grouped operator nodes and build a library of effects to share and re-use.

Gbuffer builder—enables custom building of the Rich Pixel Format (RPF) data structures from bitmap files for more extensive use of Combustion RPF nodes.

Merge operator—new optimized operator to quickly merge two layers of the same size using any Combustion transfer node.

Interface enhancements—edit-operator, navigation, filtering, and compare-tool improvements, just to name a few.

New file import/export options—import of images into color mixer, import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, import Windows Media®, OpenEXR-compatible output.

Enhanced paint—new paint tools, grids and rulers, B-spline in paint, and new customized brushes.

System Requirements

Minimum Working System Required for Autodesk® Combustion® 4 software for Microsoft® Windows® system

• Intel® Pentium® III, Pentium 4 or AMD®  Athlon®

• XP CPU (850Mhz or higher)

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (recommended), Windows XP Home Edition SP2, or Windows 2000 SP4

• 20 GB main hard drive with ~ 142 MB free space (100 MB for the software, 42 MB for help)

• 512 MB of RAM
  
  Note: Since the system also uses RAM for caching, we suggest greater than 512 MB of RAM.