The definitive creative solution for graphics, compositing and

® Discreet combustion 3 offers the creative Other Key Features tools, speed and interactivity that professionals • Full 3D compositing environment in a single, unified need and artists crave. Paint, animation, editing application for vector paint, design, and 3D compositing are combined in an integrated animation and compositing environment based on Discreet’s legendary user •Superior performance with optimized rendering, interface. Designed to satisfy the world’s most OpenGL acceleration, multi-processor support, extensive caching, and multiple viewports – all with demanding effects artists and priced to fit within real-time looped playback any budget, combustion 3 is the best solution for • Fully integrated, fully interactive particle system creating effects and motion graphics for video, with real-time preview and OpenGL acceleration film, DVD, and the web. • Advanced keying, color correction, tracking, grain Key Version 3 Features management, and masking tools inherited from Discreet’s Academy Award®-winning flame® visual •Use the Edit Operator to break free from your NLE effects system1 by assembling clips complete with transitions right in combustion • Powerful character generator for animated text, including non-destructive character-level animation • Design JavaScript-based Expressions to craft complex and text effects animations without having to keyframe each parameter and preview each animation in the unique • Advanced, interactive rotoscoping for merging live Expressions Browser action with animated effects •Make dazzling Macromedia® Flash® animations using • Fully editable and automated schematic view the full power of the combustion vector paint and representing the entire workspace animation tools • Resolution-independent with 8-, 10-, 12-, 16- and •Capture and output DV through OHCI Firewire® 32-bit (float) per component image processing • Save effect operator presets to create a library •Integration with industry-standard creative tools like and share effects Flash, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, 3ds max®, Maya® • Create customized brushes so you always have the and more right tool for any job • Free backburner™ network rendering and central job • Use layers as if they were stained glass to create management across multiple systems beautiful colored light effects • RE:Vision Effects™ RE:Flex™ plug-in fully integrated for superior warping and morphing capabilities Composite • Animate text along a path, with full on-screen editing • New – Split clip on the timeline allows of path control points more advanced layering control • Edit and animate vector outlines of text characters • New – Use layers as if they were stained • Support for Adobe PostScript® and TrueType® glass to create colored light effects fonts; international right-left, vertical text entry; •True 3D perspective positioning and animation Double-byte (Asian, Arabic fonts) •True 3D animatable camera with real-world attributes • Generators for creating frame counters, timecode burn-in, sequential and random numbers •Unlimited color light sources, with attributes like “spot”,“point” and “distant light” • Realistic ray-traced shadows and reflections Particle system • Multiple object parenting, hinging and path alignment for • Realtime 2D particle system for creating smoke, advanced motion path hierarchies fire, explosions, water and other effects •High quality Motion Blur • Includes a library of hundreds of preset effects, each one fully customizable •Multiple transfer modes, including add, subtract, screen, difference, negative and shade • Create your own particle effects using sprites created from custom bitmaps, or use any element in the combustion • Unlimited layers per composite; nest multiple layers inside workspace as a particle, such as text or paint objects a composite for greater efficiency • Use deflectors for particles to bounce off during animations •Motion track emitters to lock particle effects to moving Paint objects in an image sequence • New – Utilize the power of vector paint and animation •Control the color, emission and behavior properties of the tools to create Flash .swf outputs particles including direction, life, number, spin, bounce, • New – Custom brushes enable you to create unique velocity, randomness and other parameters advanced effects and textures • Complete object-oriented paint and animation environment NEW – Expressions •Vector-based paint: all paint strokes and objects are • Use JavaScripts to create complex animations without resolution-independent and fully editable having to key frame each position • Real-Time Roto™: paint in one viewport while watching the • Expression Browser makes it easy to explore and modify result loop-playback in another the more than 30 preset expression classes • Pressure-sensitive painting and drawing tools • QuickPick option lets you easily link behavior of different • 30+ real-time draw modes, including: smooth, brightness, parameters together blur, emboss and more • Render to key frames for fine tuning of your expressions •Cloning and reveal controls for interactive painting between video clips and frames Selections and Masks •Store paint tools and options as snapshots for switching between brushes, settings and more • Animatable magic wand selections: keyframe and even track the magic wand point • Keyer-based selections for advanced color-based extraction NEW – Edit Operator and rotoscoping • Assemble clips, output them or use them as layers in • Boolean operations for masks and selections, including a composite add, subtract, intersect and replace •Integrate live editing between the edit operator and • Create animatable, spline-based masks and selections using your composites standard shapes or by drawing freehand • Use multiple edit operators to easily create complex effects • Create multiple and articulated shapes in a single pass •Trim, slip, slide and ripple clips with transitions for faster rotoscoping •Full support for multiple resolutions – mix and match • Uses Discreet’s powerful three-spline rotoscoping technology clips as needed for variable-edge softness on masks and selections • Provides control of inner and outer mask or selection Character generation and text effects softness for motion blur compensation •Fast, interactive text editor for resolution-independent, non-destructive text animation Keys •Direct WYSIWYG manipulation of text within the context • High-quality, professional blue/green screen keying with of the overall composite advanced matte control tools • Font attributes (face, outline, shadow) have individual color, • Intuitive Discreet Keyer (RGB, YUV, HLS, Channel, gradient and texture controls Luminance, RGB-CMYL and custom) • Individual control of phrases, words and characters for • Shadow, reflection and transparent object keying capabilities precise editing and animation • Matte edge and softness controls, including levels, shrink •Automatic ease in/out control over single or multiple and erode and Gaussian blur keyframes • Advanced spill and color suppression controls • Define curve interpolation, per keyframe and define extrapolation per channel Color correction • Comprehensive Discreet color correction tools, including Schematic view Color Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Gamma, Equalize, • Represents the entire process/workflow used to create Tint, Curves, Shadows/Midtones/Highlights adjustment and more workspaces • NTSC and PAL color limiting and RGB and HSV color •Work simultaneously within the schematic, timeline or space models workspace view • Precise and automatic color matching of footage from • Flowchart is automatically constructed as you build a different sources composition • Add, delete, move, cut/copy/paste or add operators Motion tracking •Fast navigation with pan, zoom and center functionsl • Discreet’s high-precision, context-sensitive, embedded tracking technology Architecture • Fast tracking of an unlimited number of points for changes •Resolution-independent: work in any format including in position, scale and rotation video, HDTV and feature film • Four-corner pinning and image stabilization to remove • 8-, 10-, 12-, 16- and 32-bit (float) per component image unwanted camera roll, and jitter processing and file I/O • Any keyframeable parameter, point, mask or effect can be • Convert or mix and match different image resolutions animated using the tracker right in context and color bit-depths at any time • Export tracking data to any other compositing system that • State-of-the-art RAM caching and real-time RAM playback imports ASCII tracking data for increased interactivity • Multi-threaded UI allows you to continue working while Advanced visualization and film tools effects render in the background • New – Supports OpenEXR input for high dynamic-range • OpenGL acceleration for real-time interactive 3D display imagery, improved color resolution, lossless data compression and accelerated 2D particles and more • Look-up Tables (LUTs) allow artists to accurately manipulate Discreet advanced systems and 3ds max integration and display digital film scans on computer monitors • Share garbage mask, keyer, color corrector and tracker data • Add Grain and Remove Grain filters include automatic and setups as well as film tools (grain and color LUTs) with grain matching and presets for popular film stocks inferno®, flame, flint®, fire® and smoke® • Native 10-bit Cineon support – paint or rotoscope directly •Import rendered 3ds max RPF/RLA files with extended in 10-bit without conversion channel information for post-processing • Supports 8-, 10-, 12-, 16- and 32-bit (float) per component • Create selections based on objects and materials IDs in for full floating-point accuracy the RPF file •Use camera information from the 3ds max rendered Audio RLA/RFP sequences to control the combustion camera • Supports QuickTime®, AVI, WAV, and AIFF files position and orientation • Synchronize audio to any operator in the process tree, or • Relight rendered RPF/RLA images using 3D shading use as a global reference track • Use native combustion workspace files directly in 3ds max •Display the audio waveform over the timeline for accurate as resolution-independent, scalable texture maps synchronization • Paint directly in the 3ds max viewport with any combustion •Simultaneously play audio in real-time with cached animation paint tool •Volume controls and VU/Peak meters Photoshop and Illustrator import ® Keyframe and timeline controls •Import multi-layered Photoshop PSD files as individual layers for compositing and animation • New – Markers provide ability to add notes and visual cues ® to your timeline • Import and edit Illustrator files, including gradients, layers, sequences, as resolution-independent vector-based graphics • Layer-based timeline and animation curve editor • Clip trimming, advanced keyframe and object control Filters and plug-ins • Perform copy/paste and math operations on channels or groups of keyframes • New – Save effect operator presets to create a library and share effects • New – RE:Vision Effects’ RE:Flex plug-in fully integrated System Requirements for superior warping and morphing capabilities • 3D effects for RPF/RLA images include 3D depth of field, Recommended Basic Configuration 3D fog, 3D glow, 3D lens flare, G-buffer and 3D motion blur The following list describes the minimum working system • De- and re-interlace, 3:2 pull-down removal/addition, required for combustion 3: reverse dominance and broadcast-safe ® ® ® • Compatible with most Adobe® Photoshop and Adobe • Intel Pentium III, Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon™ XP CPU, After Effects® plug-ins 850Mhz or higher • Windows XP or Windows 2000 Input/output • 2GB main hard drive with ~120MB free space (70MB for the software, 45MB for help) • New – DV capture and output through OHCI Firewire •Image-based file browser • 256MB of RAM • Optimized image-based file browser and multi-criteria •Video display card with 4MB of VRAM (1024x768 display searching helps manage large projects with 24-bit color minimum required) • Supports fields and 3:2 pull-down interpolation with automatic detection of phase Recommended High-End Configuration • NTSC and PAL broadcast monitor display is supported with The following configuration provides higher performance select video cards with combustion 3: • Capture frames or sequences directly with select QuickTime •Pentium 4 or AMD® Athlon™ XP dual processor CPU, compatible capture devices 1.7 GHz or higher • Supports industry-standard file formats: QuickTime, AVI, •Windows XP BMP, JPG, TGA, ElectricImage™, GIF, JPEG, Photoshop, • 8GB main hard drive with ~570MB free space (70MB for EPS, PICT, PNG, Quantel™, SGI, Targa, TIFF, Maya, inferno, flame, flint and 3ds max RLA and RPF (Rich Pixel Format) the software, 45MB for help, and 450MB for the tutorials) • Support for DPX and 10-bit Cineon file formats and • 2GB of RAM 10- to 8-/16-bit log-linear conversion •A dual monitor-capable video display card with a minimum of 32MB of VRAM or more, with OpenGL hardware Rendering acceleration • DirectShow or QuickTime-compatible video capture/ • Render Queue™ operates standalone or multi-systems for (background) network rendering playback card • Supports multiple outputs per render node – sends e-mail • Fast/Wide SCSI or Fiber channel card and RAID array notification upon render completion backburner network to accompany the video capture/playback card rendering •Wacom® Intuos®2 tablet • Includes backburner free of charge, Discreet’s unified • Three-button mouse with scroll wheel network rendering system • Control rendering from within combustion 3 or the Note: combustion 3 supports multiple CPUs and Hyper- standalone backburner monitor Threading, which means that the performance is further improved if your system has multiprocessor capabilities.

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