Smoke 2010 For Mac OS X - Broadcast Workflow
Don’t Just Edit. Finish.

Broadcasters face unique creative challenges from delivering promos and graphics to creating episodic show content. Regardless of task, your goal is the same: create standout content that captures your viewers’ attention and keeps them watching.

Autodesk® Smoke® software for the Mac OS® X platform combines proven technical and design tools in a comfortable non-linear editorial workflow. Editors, designers, and producers can work in an integrated creative environment that lets them take an entire creative concept from design to air and still beat
their deadline. With tools spanning editorial, audio, color correction, design and a true 3D compositing environment, Smoke helps broadcasters deliver great looking content faster. As software on the Mac platform, Smoke can integrate into your workflow without the need to retool your facility.

1. With any creative concept, you’ve got to start somewhere. Smoke lets
you access data throughout your facility. Start with HD-SDI video or
access file-based media ranging from MXF-based acquisition formats to
intermediate formats like Apple® ProRes and Avid DNxHD®. If you’re
working with a design department, Smoke lets you quickly incorporate
files from Adobe® Photoshop® software and common 3D applications,
for example Autodesk® Maya® software.

2. Once you have your source media, Smoke lets you create in a familiar
timeline environment where you can quickly explore concepts. Smoke
mixes traditional editing tools with advanced technical tools like tracking,
keying, titling and color correction to help you realize your vision faster
and make even poor quality source material look great.

3. When it’s time to design, you don’t need to jump between multiple
creative applications. Smoke integrates design tools, ranging from paint
and cleanup to 3D text design, into a single application. Smoke is the only
non-linear editor that features Autodesk’s Action – a true 3D compositing
and design environment.

4. Once you have created your initial concept, Smoke makes versioning
easier. You can quickly copy setups and composites to help create
multiple versions of a single design. Smoke features integrated tools for
quickly generating multi-resolution masters – whether you’re delivering
video, file-based media or content for the web.

If you’re looking for a flexible and integrated creative toolset that can help
meet the demands of your unique broadcast workflow, consider Smoke 2010
for the Mac OS X platform. Smoke lets you concentrate on the creative by
providing an interactive and highly artistic editorial finishing workflow on a
familiar platform.