Hey Everyone,

I managed to get hold of the official English recording of the Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X presentation that was shown at InterBEE 2009 in Japan.

There has been lots of speculation behind this product and lots of third party videos have been shown on other sites including FXguide and personal video uploads to YouTube. 

The videos in this blog are the official Autodesk Story behind this upcoming product and are definitely an interesting watch!

PLEASE NOTE: The original video was recorded at 30 frames per second and I have slowed it down to 15 frames per second for the website.  Secondly, the compression on some of the images is from the flash file.  I can personally vouch for the clarity and performance of the original presentation which is too massive to post for a stream or download.

Due to the length of the presentation, I have split it into 4 sections included in this blog....

Please enjoy and feedback/comments are very welcome!

PART 1

Part 1 introduces Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X.  This part explains Smoke for Mac within your creative cut workflow, how the tools within Smoke allow you to deliver within deadline and the reality of post production.  This video also includes a beta tester testimony as well as a product demonstration examining the editorial tools and paint tools within Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X.

This video is best watched at FULLSCREEN using the 1:1 setting

Technology Preview of  Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X

PART 2

Part 2 continues the product demonstration with the colour corrector, colour warper, wipes and garbage masking used for look creations which can be versioned within the timeline.  This is followed by a further demonstration of the powerful keying tools within Smoke for green and blue screen keying.

This video is best watched at FULLSCREEN using the 1:1 setting

Technology Preview of Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X
 

PART 3

Part 3 continues with the product demonstration with special effects and layer compositing within the 3D Action compositor.  Topics covered are 3D compositing with lighting, rotoscoping and multi-point tracking.

This video is best watched at FULLSCREEN using the 1:1 setting

Technology Preview of Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X
 

PART 4

Part 4 discusses how Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X can be integrated into your existing workflow.  This includes a testimony from a Final Cut Pro consultant discussing the design of Smoke within multiple Mac based workflows.  Topics include working with Smoke and Final Cut Pro on the same workstation and the support for multiple file-based formats.  Another product demonstration illustrates the native file format support in Smoke.  The first example  includes conforming a FCP timeline using the same ProRes media as used by Final Cut Pro.  The second example shows how Smoke handles RED media and how a XML timeline from Final Cut Pro can be used to conform the transcoded R3D media in Smoke.  This is followed by the summary of points in an end slide.

This video is best watched at FULLSCREEN using the 1:1 setting

Technology Preview of Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X

Thanks very much for watching and comments/feedback are most definitely welcome!!!

I'll be seeing you guys soon again!!!

Signing off!