By arthur argote (Archiea) (68.164.57.155) on Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 10:34 pm:

Well, this is ALMOSt as if Nt had a deal with combustion! ;D. Seems like Discreeet is following in NT's promotional footsteps and offers Combustion 2.1 along with $400 worth of training DVD's for free. So for $995 you get Combustion 2.1 and 14 hours of training material. For those new to compositing, Combustion can seem a bit daunting, so a deal like this is particularly helpful...

http://i.nl02.net/netline000s/?_m=1n%2e000u%2e1%2eit06200011%2e2

By Larry Shultz "SplineGod" (Larrys) (209.179.226.92) on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:28 am:

I thought Combustion was very intuitive. Thats a great deal! Thanks Arthur!

By Miles (Maplw3d) (206.149.192.54) on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 03:09 am:

Nice offer, I've been on the fence about going with Combustion or AE Pro Bundle for a few months now. I had to put this kind of investment until budgeting issues were resolved. Now might be the time to do this. My question now is if you had both Macs and PCs to work with which platform version of Combustion would be best to buy?

I seem to recall others here had brought up some issues that the OSX version of Combustion had. Something like preview and/or memory problems. Is that still the case? Anything other Pros/Cons of either platform version that would make one a wiser buy than the other version?

Thanks for the insight...

Can't wait to start using it with LW renderings. ;)

By Beam Tracer (Beamtracer) (203.109.241.109) on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 03:01 pm:

It depends on what you want to do. If you're outputting to video, then the Mac is king. This is because there is a bigger range of professional video cards available for the Mac (ie AJA Kona, Digital Voodoo etc).