Autodesk Flare - Batch

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.
• Motif tool, a symmetrical pattern (Kaleidoscope) generation tool, can be used to make textures with ease.
• Render soft effects in a clip from Autodesk Smoke. Create 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 edited timeline segments.
• Proxy processing allows for fast interaction even when working at high 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®. Scripts can be used to automate tasks ranging from email notification of render completion to generating Apple® QuickTime® previews.
• Batch Log and Queue Management handle workflow by setting up and prioritizing multiple-render jobs 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.
  Batch navigation view mode provides a visual representation of the Batch effects tree, resulting in a given Batch effects segment.
• Batch paint is designed for a procedural compositing environment and includes 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

• 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® only).
• Autodesk® Wire® 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.
• Autodesk® Wiretap^TM technology-API provides convenient access to the managed file system by third-party applications.

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.
• 16 x 9 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, including 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.

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 viewing of intended result.
• Playback of 8- and 10-bit 4:4:4 PAL, NTSC, HDTV, and 2K (2,048 x 1,556) resolutions at standard frame rates.
• HDR viewer provides a more accurate and flexible view of logarithmic, linear, and video images in modules supporting multiple viewers.

 

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