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OT: New version of Smoke – Smoke 2016 Mac
Smoke on Mac subscribers (incl. me) received a mail about Smoke 2016 being available for download. Logged in to my account and it is there. Downloading.
However, there are no more details, on Autodesk’s web site or in the forum.
Questions like what are system and MacOSX specs, is it OK to install Smoke 2016 on top of Smoke 2015 or does one deactivate and uninstall first.
Will Smoke 2015 projects work in Smoke 2016. And does the storage have to be reconfigured or is it compatible?Does anyone have info? What’s it look and work like?
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Neil Sadwelkar
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The official announcement will come soon, but in the meantime, here’s the manual:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/SMOKE/2016/ENU/Including What’s New:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/SMOKE/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-35C77E30-46D0-43CC-AF82-43622D115412And the release notes:
https://docs.autodesk.com/smoke/smoke2016-release-notes.pdfWalter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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It will be interesting to see how Resolve 12 and Smoke stack up against each other in the future as film/video finishing tools. Especially once Fusion hits its stride – even as a standalone, but companion application. Certainly free is a compelling driver.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Also, Grant Kay has posted his new videos on Smoke 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJMSXsdbrZ7ZtjqHgiVViRzZQ2CAc37f5
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Oliver Peters] “It will be interesting to see how Resolve 12 and Smoke stack up against each other in the future as film/video finishing tools. Especially once Fusion hits its stride – even as a standalone, but companion application. Certainly free is a compelling driver.”
Indeed. Adding to the mix, I think the Adobe suite punches above their weight and deserves to be part of that conversation.
The next year or two should be interesting for Smoke. It’s now fully decoupled from Flame development (which has itself been going all out the last couple years), so I’m curious to see what the new vision for Smoke really is.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “I think the Adobe suite punches above their weight and deserves to be part of that conversation.”
It’s my finishing solution of choice. There’s a fairly large chunk of the post community that use AE as their primary finishing application.
[Walter Soyka] “The next year or two should be interesting for Smoke.”
I’m not very optimistic. The subscription is too pricey. I don’t see them picking up enough new users.
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “I’m not very optimistic. The subscription is too pricey. I don’t see them picking up enough new users.”
Oh, I agree. And in breaking compatibility with Flame, Autodesk has alienated a lot of their existing Smoke artists. I am curious to see if they’ve got a big idea coming for editorial that justifies the decision to separate Smoke from Flame.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “I am curious to see if they’ve got a big idea coming for editorial that justifies the decision to separate Smoke from Flame.”
The problem I see is that for someone to make the most out of Smoke, you really have to go very deep and that’s a pretty steep learning curve. Plus the architecture is not very logical compared to other apps. AD has done a lot in the most recent versions to let editors do more in just the timeline effects. But if that’s all you’re going to use, then there are easier, cheaper NLE that will give you results that are just as good.
Top-end systems haven’t had a good track-record of going down market. Quantel had Qedit a few years ago as the first product in line with eQ/iQ/Pablo. I don’t think they sold a lot of those either.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “The problem I see is that for someone to make the most out of Smoke, you really have to go very deep and that’s a pretty steep learning curve. Plus the architecture is not very logical compared to other apps. AD has done a lot in the most recent versions to let editors do more in just the timeline effects. But if that’s all you’re going to use, then there are easier, cheaper NLE that will give you results that are just as good.”
Well said. I will wear my “Smoke is changing everything” t-shirt from NAB 2012 ironically tomorrow in honor of this post.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “I will wear my “Smoke is changing everything” t-shirt from NAB 2012 ironically tomorrow in honor of this post.”
And I’ll wear my Macromedia Final Cut t-shirt. We’ll be twins! LOL
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Brilliant post!
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