RFX

Smoke user profiles
The flexible user set-up in Smoke allows you to create customized hotkeys and users.
Work with hotkeys you already you know as you create, edit and manage users with specific preferences and shortcuts.

Project set-up
Manage and efficiently organize individual media, timelines, and project set-ups.
Customize projects with unique configuration templates based on resolution and bit-depth.

Intuitive user interface (UI)
Get started quickly with the familiar and intuitive editorial timeline.
With familiar Mac-based conventions, the UI allows you to center your creative work around an easy-to-use, track-based, non-linear editor (NLE) workflow and puts powerful effects tools at your fingertips.

Customizable user interface (UI)
A flexible UI is optimized for fast navigation in media, editing, and import workflows.
Use Smoke as your creative home base to do editing, conform, and finishing with Autodesk’s high-end effects toolset.

Online help and resources
Get started fast and access online help and documentation directly in the software.

Importing media
Import native media files and organize project media using the MediaHub browser.
The powerful media management tools in Smoke allow you to quickly access, search, and organize your media.

Native file-specific formats
Start working with native media right away without conversion.
Import file formats including Panasonic® P2 HD MXF files, Sony XDCAM® format, Avid DNxHD® media, Apple® ProRes format, RED CODE® RAW and ARRIRAW files; SD and HD SDI video; and 4:4:4 RGB image sequences. Get access to file metadata and save settings for future file imports.

Conform workflow
Edit your project in Smoke or conform from an NLE.
Import multi-layer timeline sequences from your favorite NLE like Apple® Final Cut Pro or AVID® Media Composer® video editing software. This familiar track-based workflow allows editors to quickly feel at home and access the powerful effects tools of Smoke.

Standard editorial workflow
Smoke is designed for video editors who use traditional NLE software and need to go beyond track-based workflows and layer-based effects.
Edit from scratch with trimming, transitions, and navigation tools that work the way you expect them to.

Customizable editing hotkeys
Customize your hotkeys in Smoke or use the industry-standard hotkey layout based on Final Cut Pro for a flexible workflow

Add powerful video or audio SoftFX directly from the timeline as you edit.

Applying advanced effects is logical and intuitive—simply click on a segment or layer to add visual effects, color correction, or tools for 3D motion graphics. In Smoke you have access to video editing and powerful effects in a single software without round-tripping between multiple creative applications.

Change the way you approach effects when editing with a powerful node-based compositing environment accessible directly from the timeline.

ConnectFX streamlines effects when editing by eliminating the need for using multiple creative applications. In ConnectFX, editors have a full palette of effects tools ranging from simple transformations to advanced compositing and plug-in type effects. Move quickly from the timeline to ConnectFX using any segment, adjustment layer, or group of segments, and Smoke will build a node graph representing effects that have already been started in the timeline.

Smoke offers a proven set of visual effects tools based on Autodesk 3D and effects technology.

Customize your ConnectFX workflow to break tasks into individual nodes to build exactly the effect you need to tell your story.

Bring your effects to life in Action, an intuitive 3D workspace, to create stunning visual effects.

In Action, editors can combine multi-resolution video layers, each with its own keying, tracking, and image tools. Move through complex composites quickly with an intuitive node-based navigation. Access color correction, lighting, and advanced compositing options for each layer inside a single, highly interactive creative environment.