Achieve amazing digital feats faster and at lower cost with Autodesk® Combustion® software. Whether your task is to produce professional video motion graphics, repurpose video content for the web or create effects for feature films or HDTV, Combustion software delivers the first-rate power you need at an incredibly affordable price.
Combustion 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.
Key features and capabilities include:
- New—The Colour Warper™
Color correction tool made famous as part of the Autodesk® Flame® software system is now available in Autodesk® Combustion® 2008, along with improvements to Schematic and updated interoperability with Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® Illustrator® software programs. - Powerful creative tools
Combustion provides in-context access to motion graphics, industry-leading 3D compositing, color correction, image stabilisation, vector paint and roto, text effects, short-form editing, expressions, Flash® output and much more. - Artist-friendly interface
Combustion features Autodesk Media & 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 delivers unmatched integration with industry-standard 3D animation, imaging and illustration software, including Autodesk® 3ds Max® animation software, Autodesk® Cleaner® encoding software and Autodesk® Flint®, Autodesk® Inferno®, Autodesk® Fire®, Autodesk® Smoke® and Flame systems. - Diamond Keyer
Employ a new level of advanced keying technology with the second generation of sophisticated keying algorithms derived from the Flame system. - Timewarp
Quickly create slow-motion and speed-up effects with a fully key-frameable, time-remapping operator. - B-spline vector shapes and new point-grouping
Achieve faster, more efficient rotoscoping. Remove fine image detail for a smoothing effect that can simulate motion or a blurred speed look. - Custom capsules
Create and save encapsulated single or grouped operator nodes and build a library of effects to share and re-use. - Gbuffer builder
Build custom Rich Pixel Format (RPF) data structures from bitmap files for more extensive use of Combustion RPF nodes. - Merge operator
Quickly merge two layers of the same size using any Combustion transfer node. - Interface enhancements
Enjoy enhanced edit-operator, navigation, filtering, and compare-tool improvements, just to name a few. - File import/export options
Import images into color mixer, import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, import Windows Media® technologies and export OpenEXR-compatible output. - Paint
Paint tools, grids and rulers, B-spline in paint and customised brushes.