Now available for both Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® Macintosh® platforms.

Achieve amazing digital feats faster and at lower cost with Autodesk® Combustion® 4 software. Whether your task is to produce professional video motion graphics, repurpose video content for the web, or create effects for feature films or HDTV, Combustion 4 software delivers the first-rate power you need at an incredibly affordable price.

Combustion 4 offers an easy-to-use interface, non-destructive workflow, and extensive toolset designed to help you bring your imagination to life while getting your work done faster.

New Features—Timewarp, Diamond Keyer for precision keying, Capsules for creating grouped operator pipelines, and B-splines in Paint.

Powerful creative tools—Combustion 4 provides in-context access to motion graphics, industry-leading 3D compositing, color correction, image stabilization, vector paint and roto, text effects, short-form editing, expressions, Flash® output, and much more.

Artist-friendly interface—Combustion 4 features Autodesk Media and Entertainment’s unified and easy-to-use interface, including multiple-screen, in-context design work; easy navigation; and a schematic node-based view—all designed to get you to your destination quicker and easier.

Broad interoperability—Combustion 4 delivers unmatched integration with industry-standard 3D animation, imaging, and illustration software, including Autodesk’s leading 3ds Max® animation software, Autodesk® Cleaner® encoding software, and Discreet® Flint®, Discreet® Flame®, Discreet® Inferno®, Discreet® Fire®, and Discreet® Smoke® systems products.

Diamond Keyer—the second generation of sophisticated keying algorithms derived from the Discreet® Flame® system.

Timewarp—a fully key-frameable, time-remapping operator for quickly creating slow-motion and speed-up effects.

B-spline vector shapes and new point-grouping—faster, more efficient rotoscoping
New optimized ‘Fast Gaussian Blur’.

Custom capsules—create and save encapsulated single or grouped operator nodes and build a library of effects to share and re-use.

Gbuffer builder—enables custom building of the Rich Pixel Format (RPF) data structures from bitmap files for more extensive use of Combustion RPF nodes.

Merge operator—new optimized operator to quickly merge two layers of the same size using any Combustion transfer node.

Interface enhancements—edit-operator, navigation, filtering, and compare-tool improvements, just to name a few.

New file import/export options—import of images into color mixer, import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from Autodesk® 3ds Max® software, import Windows Media®, OpenEXR-compatible output.

Enhanced paint—new paint tools, grids and rulers, B-spline in paint, and new customized brushes.