An Introduction to Autodesk Systems

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Seeing is believing
I never thought I'd be here
Is this really real
Or am I dreaming?
No way of knowing
   "Seeing is Believing," Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aspects of Love, 1989.

Kristen Pearce is Americas Field Marketing Manager for Systems. She works in our Media & Entertainment (M&E) Division. Systems software is an award winning suite of interoperable market leading creative tools designed for the creation of high value content. If you watch television and movies, you've seen the Systems products in action. Since many members of the Autodesk Labs team have been involved with AutoCAD, Inventor, or Revit, we asked Kristen to share some information about the products in the M&E division. Here is what she told us.

Purpose	Product	Capabilities	Used for	Used by
Visual Effects	Autodesk Inferno	3D compositing software, Superior visual effects for advanced graphics, High speed - allows for client interactivity	Television, commercial, and film projects	Inferno has a strong Japanese following. In the Americas, Inferno is used primarily in large VFX film pipelines (i.e., ILM).
	Autodesk Flame	3D compositing software, Superior visual effects for advanced graphics, High speed - allows for client interactivity	Television, commercial, and film projects	Commercial post houses (both large and boutique firms), Broadcast
	Autodesk Flint	Visual effects and motion graphics software based on Flame technology, Real time HDTV and SD video capabilities	Promotions and brand graphics, station ID packages, Commercials	Broadcasters, Post production facilities
	Autodesk Flare	Creative companion to Inferno and Flame, Scalable way to expand business offerings and develop in-house talent, Features Batch and Action 3D procedural compositing tools of Inferno and Flame - allows for clients to work concurrently on the same project	Television, commercial, and film projects	Commercial post houses (both large and boutique firms), Broadcast
Editing and Finishing	Autodesk Smoke	Creative editorial system, Features an integrated set of finishing tools: keying, color correction, tracking and stabilizing, Features many of the visual effects tools found in Flame	Television (broadcast design and long-form), commercial, and film projects	Commercial post houses (both large and boutique firms), Broadcast
Color Grading	Autodesk Lustre	Creative toolset allows colorists to create looks previously impossible to create in film/television, Stereoscopy tools to produce refined 3D color graded products, Multi-point tracking allows for fast and accurate animation of shapes and stabilization of images	Film, growing into television (primarily for long-form production)	Commercial post houses (primarily large firms), Colorists

Thanks to Kristen we all have a better understanding of what Autodesk software is used to make television and film ideas become reality.

Sharing some info about Autodesk products is alive in the lab.