The first 15 hours of training you will learn how to work efficiently within Combustion's streamline interface and take full advantage of Combustion's unified paint, animating, and compositing abilities. Every feature is covered in great detail including compositing, painting, animating, lights, cameras, color correction, rotoscoping, keying, tracking, stabilizing, text tools, particles, and much more. Hands-on lessons and tutorials are organized starting with simple concepts and end at the advanced user level.
[Author: Kenneth LaRue - Discreet Training Specialist]

The last 5 hours of training will cover in detail all the newest features of version 3 including the Edit Operator, Split and Slip Layers, Expressions, RE:Flex Plugin, and much more. We will walk you through all the new features and then put the tools to work using advanced projects including the use of the Paint Module, using Expressions and then looking at how to approach a project with Combustion.
[Author: Ben Munkres - Discreet Training Specialist]

After this training, you will be diving into more complex projects with a deeper understanding of the tools in Combustion 3 and a more indepth knowledge of how to put all of Combustion to work for you now.

DVD 1 - 2:04
Introduction / Preferences - 00:00
Interface / Workspace - 25:08

DVD 2 - 2:03
Timeline / Keyframing - 00:00
Footage Control Panel - 1:03:38
Parenting / Hinging
Surface Controls -1:21:30
Lights - 1:43:03
Null Object - 1:52:45
Transfer Modes - 1:56:49

DVD 3 - 1:59
Alpha Mattes / Luma Mattes
Nesting - 00:00
Commit to Disk - 47:24
Paint Tools / Basic Part 1
Drawing Tools - 1:01:59

DVD 4 - 1:35
Paint Tools / Basic Part 2
Selection Tools - 00:00
Miscellaneous Tools - 20:19
Masking Tools - 26:15
Importing Illustrator Files - 51:22
Importing Photoshop Files - 57:25
Paint Tools / Advanced
Gradients - 1:03:35
Reveal Tool/Clone Tool - 1:12:39

DVD 5 - 1:52
Text Tool - 00:00
Particles - 55:43

DVD 6 - 2:02
Operators Part 1 - 00:00
Blur / Sharpen
Speed Channel / Motion Blur
Channel
Distort
Noise
Selection
Transitions
Video Safe Colors
De-interlace / Interlace
Tracker - 1:08:44
Stabilize / Tracker
Tracking a Feature
4-Point Tracking
Tracking a Mask

DVD 7 - 1:43
Schematic View - 00:00
Color Correction - 48:06

DVD 8 - 1:44
Keying - 00:00
Film Tools
Bit-depth Converter - 49:16
Look Up Tables - 1:02:18
3.2 Pull down - 1:28:36
Grain Management - 1:31:42

DVD-9
Expressions
The Edit Operator
Split and Slip Layers
Flash Animation
Timeline Markers
Custom Brushes
Saving Presets
Re:Flex
---Morph
---Warp
Advanced Project 1 TAV
---Review
---Text elements

DVD-10
Advanced Project 1 TAV (Continued)
---Logo
---Element Motion
Advanced Project 2 IMPROV Theatre
---Masks Import and Comp setup
---Particles
---IMPROV
---Theatre
---Ribbon

DVD-11
Advanced Project 3 Skleen
---Footage Import
---Rotoscoping
---Sun
---Rays
---Logo
---Tagline
Channel Operators
Advanced Project 4 Turbo Torque
---Footage Import with Particle
---Turbo animate
---Split layer and Expressions
---Torque
---Flash fade
---Tagline

TESTIMONIALS:

"The combustion DVD set from Technical Animations is an invaluable audio visual training resource for production professionals and media arts educators. It provides a solid foundation for understanding and working with combustion's user interface, in depth tool sets and unified production environment."

Howard Gutstadt
discreet
combustion Project Manager

"Technical Animations lays out their video in a logical sequence, making it easy to follow them and learn as you go. Everything is explained clearly, and you learn features that you will actually use in your projects. I highly recommend them."

Michele Bousquet
Certified Discreet Trainer