What features does Flame on Mac have that Smoke on Mac doesn't have?

[Anonymous]

Could someone tell me some of the features Flame on Mac has that Smoke on Mac doesn't?

[yann.laforest]

Hi,

Generally speaking, Smoke is more an editorial-conform centric application while Flame is a complete editorial-confirm and creative compositing tool.

Smoke and Flame have essentially the same editorial-conform toolset.  However, Flame has several compositing tools that are not available in Smoke.

Please find below the list of features / options available in Flame and not in Smoke:

General options

- Desktop Reels

- Connected Conform Workflow

- Connected Colour Workflow

Batch and Batch FX Nodes

- 3D Blur

- Distort

- Exposure

- Gmask Tracer

- Keyer 3D

- Lens Distort

- Motion Convert

- Substance Noise

- Substance Splatter

Action Tabs

- Matchbox

- Lightbox

Action Nodes

- Matchbox and Lightbox

- 3D Shape

- Atomize

- Deform Mesh

- Emissive Map

- Fog / Depth of Field

- GMask

- GMask Ellipse

- GMask Plane

- GMask Rectangle

- IBL

- Import - GMask

- Import - SVG file

- Normal Map

- Parallax Map

- Particle Animator

- Particle Bouncer

- Particle Generator

- PBS Map

- Perspective Surface

- Planar Tracking

- Position Map

- Presets - Particles

- Projector

- Replica

- Shader

- Specular Map

- Substance Materialize

- Substance PBR

- Substance Texture

- UV Map

Action Outputs:

- 3D Motion

- Albedo

- Background

- Emissive

- GMask

- Lens Flare

- Motion Vectors

- Normals

- Occluder

- Position

- Reflection

- Roughness

- Specular

- UV

- Z-Depth HQ

Please let me know if it answers the question,

Regards,

Yann

[fred.warren]

Hello @Anonymous

Here's a quick rundown of some other feature you can add on top of Yann's list. Some items are links to the Flame Learning Channel

Environment

- The Tools tab offer more tools

- The Batch tab which is basically Connect FX, but as an environment instead of a Timeline FX

- A Desktop entry in the Media Panel

- Using Colour Management - Flame 2017x1

- Review & Approval Workflow with Flame 2018 and Shotgun

- Tangent Panel support

- Burn Rendering

- Fullscreen mode for some areas in the software (Timeline, Viewport)

- 32-bit Float Support - Flame 2018

- Reconnecting Media with Path Translation - Flame 2018

Player

- The RAM Player - Flame 2017x1

Tools

- Clip History

- Desktop Paint Updates - Flame 2018

- Batch Paint Updates - Flame 2018

- Using the Colour Sampler - Flame 2018

Timeline

- Alternative views to the Timeline view: Head / Tail, Storyboard, Frame, History

- Scene Detection - Flame 2018

Batch

- Batch Enhancements - Flame 2017x1

- Working with CGI Multi-Channel Media - 2017x1

- Batch - The Compass Node - Flame 2017x1

- Batch Cache

- Custom Batch Start Frame

- Matchbox tab

Action

- Action - Physical Based Rendering (PBR) - Flame 2017x1

- Action Enhancements - Flame 2017x1

- Action Updates & CameraFX - Flame 2017

- Camera FBX Export

- Complete Light menu

- Import / Export Lens Flare presets

- Enhanced Grouping in the Schematic

- Extended Bicubic tracking

Cheers,

fred