Autodesk on Monday indicated it ’s shipping new version of its compositing and media mastering software applications programme for Mac OS X , Combustion 4andCleaner 6.5 .
Autodesk ’s long - wait ascent to its Combustion visual effects and compositing software program is ultimately shipping for the Macintosh , as well . The software was first announced in February , and was ab initio expected for Mac release in May .
Combustion combines vector paint , corpuscle , effect , invigoration and 3D compositing , animation and 3D compositing . It ’s popular with digital artist work in motion picture , television and commercial body of work .
New features in Combustion 4 include Diamond Keyer , a 2nd - generation keying technology derived from Autodesk ’s Discreet Flame technology . Also fresh is Time Warp — fully keyframeable , time - remapping operations for create slow apparent motion and amphetamine - up effect . B - slat transmitter contour and new point - group have been added for well rotoscoping . New optimized “ Fast Gaussian Blur ” has been added , new operators fuse two layers of the same size , and raw paint pecker have been total .
Autodesk Combustion 4 costs $ 995 ; upgrades from Combustion 3 be $ 249 .
Cleaner 6.5
Cleaner 6.5 , first announce in November , sum up encoding financial support for QuickTime 7 , the latest major release of Apple ’s multimedia system software program which was secrete originally this twelvemonth . Cleaner 6 is used for mastering and encoding digital video for everything from the Web to DVD and handheld peregrine devices .
Also new to this loss is the DivX Pro 6.0 encoder — the new reading of DivX just released independently earlier this month and update documentation for Kinoma Producer 3 an covering that enable users to export MPEG-4 video optimized for playback on Palm handhelds and Sony ’s PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) equipment .
Cleaner 6.5 also adds the Flix exporter , which allows users to issue video in .FLV and .SWF format . With QuickTime 7 support , encoding using H.265 ( Advanced Video Codec , or AVC ) is now supported . Autodesk has also add reinforcement for substantial 10 .
Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 price $ 599 ; rising slope from version 6 cost $ 125 , and versions prior to that can be upgraded for $ 179 .
