Autodesk Flame - Batch

• Advanced flowchart representation of the compositing workflow and clip history to display operations performed on a clip, allowing for easy editing of complex visual effects.
• Monitor downstream results with in-context viewers. Show the result at selected nodes while modifying others.
• Batch nodes support 16-bit floating point processing.
• Custom node bins save effects that you create so you can reapply them.
• Node grouping with user-definable group display settings. Cleanly organizes the schematic display while permitting rapid switching between node menus.
• RGB Blur to create Box, Gaussian, Radial, and Directional blurs.
• 3D Blur tool creates optical blurs using vector passes and z-depth maps.
• Glow node used for creating stylized animations, lighting simulations and glows.
• Use Motif tool, a symmetrical pattern (Kaleidoscope) generation tool, to make textures with ease.
• Integrated editing timeline with multiple video and audio tracks offers in-context editing, time warping, and synchronized audio. Vertical timeline editing with nested containers and multiple layers for complex visual effects.
• Render soft effects in a clip from Autodesk Smoke. Create new Timewarp, Resize, Blend, and audio soft effects in the Batch timeline.
• Improved source and record timeline editing workflow.
• Segment FX permits uncommitted visual effects to be dropped into any edited timeline segment.
• Proxy processing allows for fast interaction even when working at the highest resolutions.
• Intelligent caching and bypassing functions allow automatic or user-defined pre-rendering of parts of the composite, increasing interactivity.
• Scripting with the power of UNIX® operating system. Scripts can be used to automate tasks ranging from email notification of render completion to generating Apple® QuickTime® application program previews.
• Batch Log and Queue Management handle workflow by setting up and prioritizing multiple-render jobs at once and monitoring progress on a web browser.
• Unified channel editor allows animation curves for different effects to be displayed and modified simultaneously in Batch.
• Digital notepads can be used to annotate nodes and provide reminders and instructions for further work.
• Enter Batch to apply effects to a single timeline segment before SoftFX® filters are applied (pre-segment), or to the result of a vertical compositing/soft effects (post-segment).
• Batch navigation view mode provides a visual representation of the entire Batch effects tree, resulting in a given Batch effects segment.
• Batch paint is designed for a procedural compositing environment and has settings to define how paint strokes are applied to the image sequence, the ability to slip the reveal frame offset, as well as the ability to adjust the scale of paint strokes.

Infrastructure

• Autodesk® Stone® Direct storage solution-high-speed fiber channel storage solutions for real-time access to high-resolution media.
• Autodesk® Stone® FS software-advanced file system promotes performance and reduces fragmentation risks.
• Autodesk® Wiretap^TM technology-API provides convenient access to Stone FS file system by certain third-party applications.
• RAID 5 protection from data loss of audio and video media, and non-obstructive background healing.
• Supports Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform software-an assistant utility for project and media management, I/O, conform, and editing.
• Autodesk® Wire® software networking for visual browsing and high-speed transfer of clips. Support for InfiniBand® networking protocol delivers faster-than-real-time transfer of clips up to 2K 10-bit resolution.
• Supports standard file systems. Multiple Autodesk systems can connect to and share the same storage, such as a SAN or NAS, resulting in significantly faster media access and reduced media duplication (Linux® operating system only).

Motion Estimation Timewarp

• High-quality timewarp for speeding up or slowing down frame rate of a clip.
• Minimizes the telltale ghosting, softening, and stepping artifacts typical of traditional frame-averaging timewarps.
• Powerful optical flow algorithms track changes in image pixels from frame to frame and interpolate movement for crisp, clean rendering of extreme slow motion.
• Enables interaction with onscreen motion vectors to improve accuracy. Speed curves facilitate setup and animation of speed changes.

Animation: Channel Editor

• Easily create and manipulate animations in the ubiquitous Channel Editor.
• 16x9 user interface is standardized across Autodesk editing/finishing and visual effects systems applications.
• Animation capabilities include auto-keyframing, motion paths, expressions, and editable spline curves with choice of interpolation and extrapolation modes.
• Convert expression and extrapolated curves into keyframed curves for additional manual control.
• Track Editor lets you view and slide individual keyframes on a track with multiple tracks or keyframes selected.
• Automatic and user-defined filters organize channel display for improved usability in large, complex setups.

Expressions

• Create accurate animations based on user-programmed parameters.
• Library of functions includes mathematical, logical operators, conditional operators, vectors, and constants.
• Parameters can be linked so that an object's rotation varies as a function of its distance from a light source-as you animate the object's position, its rotation is calculated automatically.

Desktop Editing

• Gestural, picture-based editing interface for easy viewing and intuitive clip manipulation. Cut, splice, trim, and play clips with fast, simple strokes.
• Prepare, preview, and compare clips in any resolution and format.
• Transition effects and timewarp tools with animatable speed curves, as well as adjustable interframe mixing and trailing.

Advanced Media Player

• Player maximizes image display and minimizes interface clutter for ideal viewing conditions when playing clips.
• Provides letterbox masking and safe title overlays for precise viewing of intended result.
• Real-time playback of 8- and 10-bit 4:4:4 PAL, NTSC, HDTV, and 2K (2,048 x 1,556) resolutions at all standard frame rates.
• Simultaneous display of SD and HDTV video to a broadcast monitor (platform specific).
• Send a selected clip to the SDI output of the NVIDIA® graphics card to offer clients a full-image resolution output to the broadcast monitor.
• Real-time 3:2 insertion and removal, as well as the ability to mark in/out points and set cue marks for improved interactivity, faster editing, and A-frame timecode setting.
• HDR viewer provides a more accurate and flexible view of logarithmic, linear, and video images in modules supporting multiple viewers.

Monitor Calibration and Film Tools

• Autodesk® Lustre® color management technology includes library of display and conversion lookup tables (LUTs) and monitor calibration software.
• 3D color lookup tables work with your calibrated display to accurately display a clip as it will appear on its final medium. Maintains consistency and precision between different products including Autodesk Lustre color grading software.
• Choose to temporarily view a clip with a 3D LUT or apply the 3D LUT process, enabling real-time clip playback.
• Provides tools to match images displayed digitally on a computer monitor to the look of projected film.
• Supports X-Rite and Barco CaliTalk calibration devices for accurate color measurement.
• Import standard color LUTs or create your own with the help of the intuitive tools provided.
• Grain management tools accurately match the grain of different film stocks and enable homogenous grain across disparate elements used in the composite (CGI and scans from different film types, for example).

Audio Tools

• Unlimited audio tracks with 32 tracks of real-time playback.
• Audio Gain Rubberbanding allows the artist to quickly and easily set audio levels in the timeline.
• Support for AudioDesk® workstation software in player and Batch timeline, including audio tools for mixing and mastering audio.
• Import, record, and playback stereo audio.
• Full audio editing functions, including cut, slip, and timestretch with pitch correction control.
• Audio mixing capabilities with control of audio levels, pans, and EQ.
• Vari-speed audio scrubbing allows for precise work.
• Display audio waveform for syncing effects to sound.
• VST Audio plug-in support (reverb, modulation, dynamic compression, full parametric EQ).
• Dolby® E audio coding support.
• Soft effects can be applied to audio segments in the timeline.
• Import and export Broadcast Wave and MP3 files.

Input/Output (I/O)

• Import RED ONE R3D^TM format files directly into storage using high quality debayering settings as isolated files or as a group using an EDL or Apple® Final Cut Pro® application program XML files.
• Send encoding tasks directly to Autodesk® Cleaner® XL software for expanded Export Media format support.
• VTR control capabilities via RS-422 support for real-time frame-accurate control of video devices.
• New Real-Time Deliverables mastering-to-VTR tool dramatically enhances efficiency by providing real-time down conversions without having to render.
• Serial digital interface for both ITU-R 601 standard (PAL/NTSC) and SMPTE 292M high-definition video.
• Digital audio connections-1 ADAT input, 1 ADAT output.
• HSDL I/O via SMTPE-292 HD-SDI signal for rapid 14-19 fps transfer of progressive 2K files (platform specific).
• Analog and AES/EBU I/O audio connectivity for up to two tracks (converter included, if needed).
• Analog video requires a separate conversion device.
• Support for VariCam footage with automatic frame rate conversion.
• File-based I/O for most popular graphics formats, such as TIFF, PICT, TARGA®, JPEG, Cineon, DPX, SGI®, Autodesk® Softimage®, and Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk Maya software.
• Import Adobe Photoshop PSD files with options to maintain layer structure or flatten image.
• Import/export QuickTime files: QuickTime animation with alpha and QuickTime motion-JPEG. QuickTime metadata of the time code and reel name information is included when importing or soft-importing.
• Direct ingest of Panasonic® P2 MXF files.
• Support for AVC-Intra media at bit rates of 50 and 100 Mbps.
• Soft import workflow and background proxy generation of soft-imported streaming media files.
• When working with high-resolution images such as film scans, existing proxies can now be imported.
• Support for DV, DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD compressed codecs.
• Support for XDCAM and XDCAM HD codecs.
• Import/export Avid DNxHD codec in an Apple QuickTime wrapper.
• Quickly and easily browse and recursively scan clips in P2 and XDCAM media directories.
• Create, save, and load codec encoding profiles to quickly set up and launch encoding jobs.
• Import 16- and 32-bit floating-point OpenEXR image files. Framestore storage, export, and editing support for 16-bit floating-point clips.