Is/will be Flame and/or Smoke fro Windows available for free download dor students ?

[Anonymous]

Is/will be Flame and/or Smoke fro Windows available for free download dor students ?

[jaseo]

hi there,

there are no Windows versions of flame or smoke available, free or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Flame is for Linux then? ther is no software comparable to flame/smoke for windows too?

[Anonymous]

There's Sony's HitFilm. I've never used it but it seems to have a pretty similar feature set. And if you just need to comp then there's Nuke. But unfortunately neither of them are free.

[Anonymous]

There are really two parts to your question; First, is Flame/Smoke available for windows and second is there a free license for students.

Answer to part 1 is no. Answer to part 2 is Autodesk offers a free 3 year Smoke for Mac license to qualified students. Also anyone can try out smoke for mac for 30 days free.

No student licenses for Flame.

[Anonymous]

what is the most similar software available for windows then ?

[Anonymous]

Check out Nuke by the Foundry.

[Anonymous]

I want 

Autodesk Flame 2014 for windows

[ManChicken]

It doesn't exist.

[lustrecolorist]

If you'd like to get into nodal compositing on Windows ...for free... then your best options are probably:

Natron (http://natron.inria.fr/)

Blender (http://www.blender.org/features/)

Blackmagic Fusion (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion)  

There is also Autodesk Composite, but I believe it's no longer developed.

Composite (https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/)

If you're willing to pay $999 for Fusion Studio, that'll give you the Fusion compositing app itself, along with their Avid Connect plugin which allows you dynamically link to Fusion from Media Composer ($49/mo, http://www.avid.com/) so you can see your shots in context.  Blender also has a simple timeline, but it's not built for editing or conform.

Fusion isn't "realtime" the way Flame is, but with some tweaking it can be very interactive.  I posted some settings online that worked well for me:

http://www.jasonmyres.com/2014/11/fusion-7-performance-tuning/

Blender actually leans more toward animation and modeling, but does have nice nodal compositing features.  Natron, is the newest of them all, and is essentially a Nuke clone (almost to a fault), so if you see yourself as a pipeline compositor, it might be an option. However, The Foundry now offers a "non-commercial" version of Nuke for free if you just want to practice and are ok with being limited to an HD project size.

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/non-commercial/