Topics: smoke/flame

Instead of re-digitizing your footage through an analog connection why not try this…

Animating layers to audio in Action.

A tutorial on setting up an enhanced batch status web page, as well as tips on how to remotely start batch renders. Stay at home, have a few cocktails, and get that high resolution render done without being chained to your inferno!

This is an easy way to blur 3D text without using expressions. It works because you never change the color of the 3D geometry and instead use a texture layer for the color. Normally, when you change the color of a geometry node under a matte source node, you lose the matte (it becomes transparent). This tip works around that bug. [note by John Montgomery]

A simple trick for whenever you can’t hold focus – such as photographing miniatures.

Here is a simple way to blur 3D text in action.

Before the color warper there were many tricks to do selective color correction, we have a tip on using the keyer curves as another tip here. The color warper, new to Inferno 4.0 / Flame 7.0 makes this so much easier and provides more flexibility

Using the new 4.6/7.6 selection order expression entry tool, as well as the new “LookAt” function.

Fxguide, Discreet and their distributor in Australia, Future Reality, recently held a training session with Martin Heile.
This tip covers a range of small and hopefully useful tips that came out of that session, which we have called Stupid FFI tricks.

For those without access to the Color Warper, here is a method to do selective color correction using the keyer.