Discreet Combustion 4

Borrowing technology from the high end

By Studio Daily / Mar 1, 2005

The major new revision of Discreet’s Combustion is replete with UI tweaks that make the program easier to use, but what’s really impressive is the technology it lets users harness from high-end Discreet products. Color Warper has begun to trickle down from Flame and Inferno in the form of the new Diamond Keyer, which allows users to make more precise, graphical adjustments to chroma keys, and the high-end Timewarp tool makes an appearance here as an almost alarmingly powerful time-remapper. All this means added levels of compatibility for users looking to hand off files to Flame artists after laying much of the groundwork – garbage masks, rotoscoping and color-correction – at Combustion stations.