Forum: Autodesk Combustion

Hello I was wondering how could I integrate boujou and combustion. I tracked a shot in boujou and then imported it to combustion but i dont know how to make it work. I just one text to follow the camera movements. I parented the layer with the text to the layer that contains all the null...

Okay. I'm an FCP editor that wants to start compositing. I am starting Maya classes which I'll attend for the next year. I heard that Autodesk bought out Maya. Is this true? If so learning Combustion and Maya as a beginner might be beneficial long term. Ultimatley I want to use Maya and...

Hi guys, Ive lost a post, Someone wrote a script to get 3dmax camera data into Combustion but i cant find the link to it. Any ideas who wrote it or where the link is? greatly appreciated. Jason

I have a brand new Mac G5 running Combustion 4, and have had spotty issues loading illustrator files. Some are easily recognizable, while others give me an error message: "The file is not recognized by the illustrator converter. Conversion aborted." I'm completely frustrated and baffled as to why...

Hi, i had a 3 months project at school and i added 9 waterfalls in the background with a mask over them. the mask and eveything works fine , i used a tracker to animate them. Now the problem is really wierd... when i render the waterfalls disappear , reappear.... it does it when i press play...so i...

my C4 crashes when i use a capsule in it..when i try to save the file..it gives a huge error and crashes..any suggestions? ciao..

Hi all, Does anyone know if its possible to use the C4 tracker on the Re:Flex spline points? I would like to map footate onto a loose piece of paper which is waving about slightly. Currently I am doing a four-corner pin tracking, and doing the edges of the paper adjustments with the Re:Flex...

hI, How do I find ini please? >> No, how do I find it ( search ) , not path Windows installed on wrong drive. everything else fine, but cant find this file or path anywhere. thanks

Does Combustion have built in limits? Its seems like I CANT render over 2000 pixels, I seems to cache alright, but the renders are corrupt. Help anyone? Any other compositor recommended instead? thanks

how do i go about doing this effect in combustion? or using a external plugin the video effect thats in hte preview window http://www.advanceflash.com/#sec=1&cat=0&pag=2&id=348&siz=1&sizn=1

Hi Everyone, I'm off to NAB and I look forward to seeing and meeting as many Combustion users that can make it also. I’ll be demoing Toxik but always open to discuss Combustion questions. So please stop by the Autodesk Booth if you are going and say hi. During NAB I'm offering a special NAB...

Is anyone finding c4.04 to be buggy woth OSX? ie: window bgd color changing on mouse clicks, when using a tablet/pen allsorts of different things happening, windows in 2 view mode changing priority on their own? These are just a few. Normal behavior? thanks cr

4.0.3 update http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=7092015&linkID=5573645

Hi Guys... How do I avoid getting Ramps while doing some Color Correction or Gamma/ Gain in C4...? Actually I have a few sequences of footages of the City...where in I have to Color Correct them & comp clouds & make it look like a rainy day...! The city is shot in normal daylight which I...

I'm new to Combustion... In fact, I was just going through the Getting Started with Combustion 4 Tutorial. All was going great until I went to render the project at the very end... Every thing seems to work...except...The particles are not rendering... It's like they are invisible...

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let everyone know I just uploaded 6 new free video tutorials and tips for Combustion 4 on my website. The new videos cover how to render 3 sections of one very wide composite, how to use the new timeline filtering, how to delete the host.ini file on Windows and Mac,...

I cant get the text alpha channel to work in combustion 4. I recently uninstalled/reinstalled C4 without the 4.0.2 upgrade and everything worked fine until I reinstalled the upgrade. Any suggestions to what is going on?

Hi Guys, My partners have just gone with G5's using Final Cut Pro HD, I am considering buying Combustion to use in conjuction, can you tell me if I need to go Mac for this to work or can I stay PC without any compatibility issues, I also use Photoshop CS2 and Abobe Premiere Pro on PC, is...

I have a clip where i would like to give the impression the roof is cracking i guess, and dust from the plaster is falling into and out of the frame pretty quickly. how would you guys tackle this? would you film somthing like plaster or maybe cat littre on a green screen and just place it over?...

Hi! :wave: I'm having problems trying to create light reflection over a footage that i have of the ocean... here's a shot of my background: here's a pathetic attempt to create a light reflection:

hi all I m worrking on a short movie shooted in DVCAM. It will be transfered on 35 mm. I have to integrate cgi from maya and erase some wires. Do I have to take care about something special like grain for this kind of conversion? thx tonio

Hi, Thanks for ur help in my last doubt.. The tutorials given are all like concepts wise ,i want to know the basics of compositing,impoting footages etc . Plz help me with ur ideas..