Autodesk Smoke

Autodesk® Smoke® software is a comprehensive solution for online editing and creative finishing. Smoke provides real-time, mixed-resolution interactivity for many types of editorial finishing work and client-supervised sessions. Smoke is now available as a software-only application for Apple® Mac OS® X operating system.

Easily handle a variety of projects―film, commercials, long-form episodics, bumpers, and promos―on a single system. In an era of project-based billing and increasingly complex client demands, your editing and finishing system software needs to do more―more efficiently.

Core features of Autodesk Smoke include:
- A powerful 64-bit architecture
- Superior tools for conforming, editing, audio, paint, character generation, graphic design, and visual effects creation
- Autodesk Modular Keyer, Master Keyer, and Colour Warper™ technologies
- Batch procedural compositing environment enabling logical, more efficient workflows (available in Autodesk® Smoke® Advanced software)
- Support for streaming media formats: Panasonic® P2 MXF files, Avid DNxHD® codecs, Apple® QuickTime® media (ProRes on the Mac® operating system), and RED file formats

Product Version: 2010

New in this Version:

New Creative Tools
- The Modular Keyer, a comprehensive Autodesk keying tool, has now been incorporated into Smoke to provide an extensive and flexible toolset for solving keying problems. All keyer algorithms are available in the Modular Keyer. This tool also features keyer presets allowing artists to work more quickly in challenging keying situations.
- Displacement Mapping is now available as an independent object to enhance workflow and extend the range of control when you use displacement maps in the Action 3D compositing environment.

Expanded Format Support
- Autodesk® WiretapCentral™ software provides parameters to optimize import properties and color management settings, enabling easy and efficient importing of RED ONE R3D™ format files directly into storage.
- Import RED files as isolated files or in a batch using an EDL file or an Apple® Final Cut Pro® XML file to enhance efficiency.
- Automatically import multichannel OpenEXR® image files using WiretapCentral.
- Import and export of Avid DNxHD codec in an Apple® QuickTime® application program wrapper to extend the range of collaboration with offline editing applications, such as Avid Media Composer.

Workflow and Productivity Enhancements
- Extended support for floating-point processing enables finishing workflows that use 16-bit file format, including OpenEXR image files. Now you can take advantage of these high bit-depth files in the Action 3D compositing environment.
- 16-bit floating-point processing is supported in Batch FX*, enabling you to access this enhanced visual effects workflow from the Smoke multilayer timeline.
- Faster file-based conform workflow—the redesign of the Recapture module provides more effective recursive searches of directories, the list of recaptured media, and found media.

*Available in Smoke Advanced.