Smoke Learning Channel

In this video, we cover the one-way workflow of creating a Smoke archive and restoring it in smoke 2017. This workflow enables to you to promote any Smoke projects to the Flame 2017 products for further finishing capability. Please note this is not a bi-directional workflow. You can only open Smoke archives in Flame and not Flame Archives in Smoke.

This video covers the redesigned proxy workflow in Smoke 2017. This new proxy workflow is clip-based and allows you to boost interactivity and performances when you need it. Learn about the proxy quality to view everything scaled to a proxy in real-time without generating media. Great for for ConnectFX setups where processing is intense and the media is not an issue. You also go through the process of localised Proxy Generation at the clip, ConnectFX setup and Sequence level. This is great for any situation where the media is bottlenecking your system and you need a performance boost. Work fast and interactively with Proxy Quality and Proxy Media On-Demand!

In this video, we cover the redesigned Output menu in Action which now supports Render Layers and Render Passes. Similar to other Autodesk 3D Applications, you now define a Render Layer and assign multiple render passes to the Render Layer. Managing Render Passes is much more efficient compared to previous versions of Smoke.

This video will cover a major new improvement to Action known as the Live Preview Viewer. This is a pixel-based “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” viewer and will give you accurate representations with all Action processing effects including lighting, anti-aliasing and motion blur. So even when working in Action, everything you see is actually the final render. This has major implications for all aspects of Action. This also allows for icons in the context view and timeline views. Please note that the old 3D view no longer shows any shader or processing effects, you need to be looking through the Live Preview in Smoke 2017.

This video goes through the new source timeline workflow that allows you to make editorial and VFX decisions at the source clip level within ConnectFX. You can adjust an edit for timings, add transitions between segments or TimelineFX for image manipulation directly with the source clip. You can do all of this while monitoring the context of your VFX composite. So many useful applications in production!