The definitive creative solution for the demanding effects artist

The definitive creative solution for desktop paint, color correction, compositing, and visual effects. Autodesk® Combustion® software is the all-in-one professional compositing application designed to enable the full creative potential of digital video artists. With its easy-to-use interface, nondestructive workflow, and extensive toolset, Combustion delivers incredible power at an economical price and instantly augments the creative potential of any serious desktop video artist.

Key Combustion Features

• Single integrated application for vector paint, motion graphics design, animation, and compositing
• Full 3D compositing environment
• Advanced visual effects tools—keying, color correction, tracking, grain management, and masking tools inherited from the Flame visual effects system
• Edit Operator—break free from your NLE and assemble clips complete with transitions right in Combustion
• Rich set of effects tools, including a fully integrated, interactive particle system, warping and morphing, and 3D Post filters
• Comprehensive paint and rotoscoping tools, including fully customizable brushes
• Comprehensive animation tools, animation curve editor, keyframing, and expressions
• Intuitive schematic view to simplify visualization and organization of complex effects
• OpenGL® application programming interface acceleration, multiprocessor support, and extensive caching for improved system performance
• Multiple simultaneous viewports with real-time RAM looped playback
• Resolution-independence with 8-, 10-, 12-, 16-, and 32-bit (float) per component image processing

Colour Warper (NEW)

• Performs primary and selective color correction allowing for precise fine-tuning with multiple levels of adjustment in a single pass
• Interactive adjustment of gamma, gain, offset, hue, saturation, and contrast; apply animatable settings to all channels or independently to R, G, and B
• Intuitive hue shift and tint color wheel for fast, accurate color balancing; visual color sampling palette for precise color matching
• Interactive Histogram and Curves editing modes for subtle, precision tweaking of color components
• Independent controls for color correcting shadow, midtone, and highlight regions—features user-definable luminance ranges
• “Match” feature for fast scene-to-scene color correction
• “Selective” feature for sampling up to three different color regions for isolated correction
• User interface features a high-quality RGB vector scope, and a 3D histogram for precise color monitoring