Autodesk Combustion® 4 62204-091152-9000 User Manual
Product codes
62204-091152-9000
Selections and Masks
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B-spline shapes for smoother control of edges when creating masks.
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Create animatable, trackable shapes using Bézier, B-Spline, Freehand,
Rectangle, and Ellipse tools.
Rectangle, and Ellipse tools.
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Animatable magic wand—keyframe or track the magic wand selection point.
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Keyer-based selection for advanced color-based extraction and rotoscoping.
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Edge gradient—a powerful three-spline rotoscoping technology for
variable-edge softness. Inner and outer mask or selection softness for
motion blur compensation.
motion blur compensation.
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Boolean operations for combining masks and selections, including add,
subtract, intersect, and replace.
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Create multiple and articulated shapes in a single pass for faster rotoscoping.
Keying
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Diamond Keyer—an advanced proprietary keying algorithm for pulling
precise keys fast.
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High-quality, professional bluescreen/greenscreen keying with advanced
matte control tools.
matte control tools.
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Intuitive Keyer—RGB, YUV, HLS, Channel, Luminance, RGB-CMYL,
and custom.
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Matte edge and softness controls, including levels, shrink and erode, and
Gaussian blur.
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Advanced spill and color-suppression controls.
Color Correction
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Comprehensive color correction tools, including Color Balance, Brightness/
Contrast, Levels, Gamma, Equalize, Tint, Curves, Shadow/Midtone/Highlight
adjustment, and more.
Contrast, Levels, Gamma, Equalize, Tint, Curves, Shadow/Midtone/Highlight
adjustment, and more.
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NTSC and PAL color limiting and RGB and HSV color space models.
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Precise and automatic color matching of footage from different sources.
Motion Tracking
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High-performance, high-precision tracking technology.
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Four-corner pinning and image stabilization to remove unwanted camera
roll, shake, and jitter.
roll, shake, and jitter.
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Unlimited number of track points for complex changes in position, scale,
and rotation.
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Animate any keyframeable parameter using the tracker in context.
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Export tracking data to other compositing systems as ASCII data.
Advanced Film Tools
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Export OpenEXR file sequences for easy integration into film pipelines.
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Look-up Tables (LUTs) enable artists to accurately display digital film scans
on computer monitors.
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Add Grain and Remove Grain filters include automatic grain matching with
presets for popular film stocks.
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Native 10-bit Cineon
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support—paint or rotoscope directly in 10-bit log
without conversion.
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Supports 32-bit (float) per component for full floating-point accuracy.
Audio
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Supports Apple
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QuickTime
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, AVI, WAV, and AIFF files.
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Synchronize audio to any operator in the process tree, or use as a global
reference track.
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Display the audio waveform over the timeline for accurate synchronization.
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Simultaneously play audio in real time with cached animation.
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Volume controls and VU/Peak meters.
Filters and Plug-Ins
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Fast GBlur, an optimized, high-quality blur filter with constant-speed
rendering independent of blur radius.
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GBuffer Builder can custom-combine your image bitmaps into RPF
files for use with Combustion software’s 3D Post operators.
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RE:Vision Effects’ RE:Flex plug-in fully integrated for superior warping and
morphing capabilities.
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3D Post effects for RPF/RLA images, including 3D depth of field, 3D fog, 3D
glow, 3D lens flare, and 3D motion blur.
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De- and re-interlace, 3:2 pull-down removal/addition, reverse dominance,
and broadcast-safe.
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Save effect operator presets to create a library and share effects.
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Compatible with most Adobe
®
Photoshop
®
and Adobe After Effects
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plug-ins.
Keyframe and Timeline Controls
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Customizable channel filtering in the timeline.
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Layer-based timeline and animation curve editor.
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Markers provide ability to add notes and visual cues to your timeline.
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Clip trimming, advanced keyframe, and object control.
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Perform copy/paste and math operations on channels or groups of keyframes.
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Automatic ease in/out control over single or multiple keyframes.
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Define curve interpolation per keyframe, and define extrapolation per
channel.
Schematic View
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Interactive representation of the entire process/workflow used to create a
composite.
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Work simultaneously within the schematic, timeline, or workspace view.
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Flowchart is automatically constructed as you build a composition.
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Add, delete, move, cut/copy/paste, or add operators.
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Fast navigation with pan, zoom, and center functions.
Image courtesy of Martin Square Productions.