Intro to Combustion’s UI and workflow 2:30
The first 2 ½ hours is focused on the User Interface and the workflow in Combustion 4. Combustion's workflow is very different than other compositing, effect program and understanding this is critical in taking full advantage of Combustion’s toolset. Everything from the preferences, importing footage, opening footage, viewports, transport controls and much more is explained. You’ll also be introduced to operators and animation controls.

Project 1: Zoo Opening 1:30
Here we start to build our first project which is a motion graphic piece using video clips, still images and graphics. There are many tools and options covered in this first tutorial. We’ll cover in detail the footage controls, the set matte operator and the stencil layer option. You’ll also be introduced to expressions, working in 3D, layer shape control, proxy’s, nesting, commit to disc plus much, much more.

Timeline 1:30
Here we take an in-depth look at the timeline and all it offers you. What is the difference from Graph Mode and Overview Mode? Also covered in detail during this 1 ½ hours is the animation channels, interpolation, extrapolation, creating keyframes, altering keyframes, scaling keyframes, coping keyframes, channel filtering, the speed channel and duration bars. Then we use the timeline to fine tune the keyframes in our motion graphic project “Zoo Opening”.

Filter Effect Operators 0:45
In this section we look at the filter effects starting with the blur operators. The new Constant Time Gaussian Blur is explained as well as the other blur operators including the Motion Blur operator. The Distort operators, the Noise operators, the Stylize operators and the Transition operators are all covered.

Schematic View 1:00
If you are not using the schematic view in Combustion chances are you are not using Combustion efficiently. The schematic view is a node base data flow of your composites and workspaces from footage to render. Here you will learn how to control the data and optimize your workspaces to cache and render faster. All options in the schematic view are covered and discussed. You also use the schematic view to finish off the Zoo Opening project by importing a workspace and connect it to our original composite.

Rendering 0:25
Now that we have finished this great motion graphic piece we need to render it. So it’s time to look at the render queue in Combustion 4. You’ll learn about the all output settings and how output multiple renders to multiple formats from the same composite. Also setting up preset render settings and output nodes in the Schematic View are explained in detail.