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Furnace 4.2v2

This is a maintenance release of Furnace to fix a wire removal bug.

Release Date

13 October 2009

Requirements

  1. Nuke 5.1v6 or later. Tested on Nuke 5.2v1
  2. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux Centos 4.5, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There have been no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Bug 7858 - F_WireRemoval lost keyframes. This issue arose due to an enhancement in the OFX support for Nuke 5.2 and later. It is not present in Nuke 5.1 and earlier. If old F_WireRemoval scripts were loaded and the user changed anything relating to the shape or animation of the wire all keyframes would be erased. This issue has been resolved and F_WireRemoval now correctly restores all keyframes (For futher details, see the note in the F_WireRemoval chapter on Loading Saved Scripts).

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

  1. F_ColourMatte will produce incorrect results if the resolution of the input colour mattes differ from that of the output image. For example, using a low resolution matte and applying it to a 2k output image will not work as expected. To work around this problem, resize all colour matte inputs to be the same resolution as that of the output image.

Known Problems in Nuke

There are no known Nuke bugs that affect Furnace.

Furnace 4.2v1

This is a maintenance release of Furnace. This is a free upgrade for customers running Furnace 4.0 (or later) for Nuke.

Release Date

9 July 2009

Requirements

  1. Nuke 4.8v1 or later. Tested on Nuke 5.1v5
  2. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux Centos 4.5, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There have been no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Issues relating to colour space have been resolved in the following plug-ins: F_ChannelRepair, F_Contrast, F_DeBlur, F_DeFlicker1, F_DeGrain, F_DeNoise, F_Depth, F_MatchGrade, and F_ReGrain. Images can be tagged with a colour space. This tells the computer how to interpret the data in an image. If you ignore this, then you will see colour and brightness shifts in the picture. This is bad. Nuke (by default) converts images to linear when you load them in a Read node. This is effectively a 'neutral' colour space . This makes compositing multiple different sources much easier. Some of the Furnace plug-ins need the image data to be 'untouched' and still have its original colour space. Because Nuke will have changed this, it resulted in poor quality results from some of the plug-ins in the previous version of Furnace for Nuke. The new release allows you, where relevant, to tell the plug-in how the image was, before it was 'linearised', and consequently give the expected quality of results. For further information see the new chapter on Colour Space in this user guide.
  2. The "Input Type" parameter has been removed from _Contrast, the plug-in now assumes the input type to be linear in line with the colour space changes detailed in the chapter on Colour Space.
  3. F_DeGrain, F_DeNoise and F_ReGrain have new parameters to tell the plug-in the original colour space of the input image.
  4. When quickly zooming in or out with the Nuke viewer Furnace nodes could cause Nuke to crash. This has been fixed.
  5. F_DeGrain previously did not sample from the correct frame on first load. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

  1. F_ColourMatte will produce incorrect results if the resolution of the input colour mattes differ from that of the output image. For example, using a low resolution matte and applying it to a 2k output image will not work as expected. To work around this problem, resize all colour matte inputs to be the same resolution as that of the output image.

Known Problems in Nuke

There are no known Nuke bugs that affect Furnace.

Furnace 4.1v2

This is a maintenance release of Furnace to fix a bug.

Release Date

9 January 2009

Requirements

  1. Nuke 4.8v1 or later. Tested on Nuke 5.1v2
  2. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux Centos 4.5, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

OFX Plug-ins

Plug-ins written to the OFX specification are designed to work on any host system that supports OFX plug-ins. In practice, OFX implementation varies from host to host. So for example, you may have an OFX plug-in that works fine in one compositor but not in another. These Furnace for Nuke plug-ins have been written to the OFX 1.1 specification but have been tested only on Nuke 5.1v2. They may work on other OFX hosts and you're welcome to try, but they are not supported on them. We are working with all OFX hosts to extend our plug-in support to these systems.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Fixed instability in plug-ins caused by OS incompatibility with FLEXlm 10.8 licensing module. Upgraded FLEXlm to 10.8.6 for improved Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatibility, and to 10.8.7 for improved 64-bit Linux compatibility.

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

There are no known Furnace bugs in Nuke.

Known Problems in Nuke

There are no known Nuke bugs that affect Furnace.

Furnace 4.1v1

This is a new release of Furnace to support 64bit releases of Nuke.

Release Date

12 September 2008

Requirements

  1. Nuke 5.1v2 or later.
  2. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux Centos 4.5, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (4.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

OFX Plug-ins

Plug-ins written to the OFX specification are designed to work on any host system that supports OFX plug-ins. In practice, OFX implementation varies from host to host. So for example, you may have an OFX plug-in that works fine in one compositor but not in another. These Furnace for Nuke plug-ins have been written to the OFX 1.1 specification but have been tested only on Nuke 5.1v2. They may work on other OFX hosts and you're welcome to try, but they are not supported on them. We are working with all OFX hosts to extend our plug-in support to these systems.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

  1. F_Align now has "Current Frame" as an option under Analysis Range. This allows the user to fine tune any bad frames after analysing the entire clip.
  2. F_DirtRemoval has "From Source" as an option under PlateSize. This is now the default and tells F_DirtRemoval to assume the given image is uncropped and to take the scanned image size to be the same as the input clip.
  3. F_DeNoise now has an Auto-analysis feature which when used, automatically selects the optimal sample region from the given frame.

Fixed Bugs

  1. BUG ID 4451 - in some circumstances F_BlockTexture would refuse to respond to the Cancel command when processing. This has been fixed.
  2. BUG ID 5098 - the vector inputs into F_Depth have no effect. This has been fixed.
  3. BUG ID 3717 - render only versions of Furnace on Windows would pop up a dialog asking for the server name. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

There are no known Furnace bugs in Nuke.

Known Problems in Nuke

There are no known Nuke bugs that affect Furnace.

Furnace 4.0v4

This is a maintenance release of Furnace to fix a couple of bugs and support new releases of for Nuke.

Requirements

  1. Nuke 4.8v1, Nuke 5.0v1 or later.
  2. Windows XP, Linux Centos 4.5, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (4.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

OFX Plug-ins

Plug-ins written to the OFX specification are designed to work on any host system that supports OFX plug-ins. In practice, OFX implementation varies from host to host. So for example, you may have an OFX plug-in that works fine in one compositor but not in another. These Furnace for Nuke plug-ins have been written to the OFX 1.1 specification but have been tested only on Nuke 4.8v1, Nuke 5.0v1 and Nuke 5.0v2. They may work on other OFX hosts and you're welcome to try, but they are not supported on them. We are working with all OFX hosts to extend our plug-in support to these systems.

Release Date

21 April 2008

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

  1. F_DirtRemoval - BUG ID 2274 - Dirtmask input was not working. This has been fixed.
  2. BUG ID 4032 - interrupts causing crash. This has been fixed.
  3. BUG ID 4204 - render only nodes prompted user for a license file if no valid license found. This has been fixed.
  4. Furnace 4.0v4 for Nuke is installed to the host-specific place (for example on Mac OS X) /Library/OFX/Nuke/ rather than the general /Library/OFX/plugins/ folder of previous releases. Although Furnace for Nuke are OFX plug-ins and should work in other hosts (like Fusion), this change ensures that this version, that has been tested for Nuke, is loaded before any others.

Other Changes

There is a new icon for Furnace.

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

Transformations cannot concatonate through multiple OFX nodes. For example, F_Align followed by a Nuke corner pin will not concatonate. As a workaround export the corner pin data from F_Align to the Nuke corner pin node.

Known Problems in Nuke

Furnace 4.0v4 running on Nuke 5.0v1 will take an interactive license (furnace_ofx_i) when rendering from the command line. In Nuke 5.0v2 this has been fixed so that a furnace_ofx_r license is taken.

Furnace 4.0v1

This is a major new release of Furnace for Nuke (OFX plug-ins).

Requirements

  1. Nuke 4.7
  2. Windows XP, Linux Fedora Core 4, Mac OS X
  3. Built for OFX 1.1
  4. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (4.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

OFX Plug-ins

Plug-ins written to the OFX specification are designed to work on any host system that supports OFX plug-ins. In practice, OFX implementation varies from host to host. So for example, you may have an OFX plug-in that works fine in one compositor but not in another. These Furnace for Nuke plug-ins have been written to the OFX 1.1 specification but have been tested only on Nuke 4.7. They may work on other OFX hosts and you're welcome to try, but they are not supported on them. We are working with all OFX hosts to extend our plug-in support to these systems.

Release Date

22 August 2007

New Features

  1. Align, BlockTexture, ChannelRepair, ColourAlign, ColourMatte, Contrast, Correlate, DeBlur, DeFlicker1, DeFlicker2, DeGrain, DeNoise, depth, DirtRemoval, FrameRepair, Kronos, MatcheGrade, MotionBlur, MotionMatch, MotionMatte, MotionSmooth, PixelTexture, ReGrain, RigRemoval, ScratchRepair, ShadowRemoval, SmartFill, SmartPlate, SmartZoom, Splicer, Steadiness, Tile, VectorGenerator, VectorWarper, WireRemoval.

Improvements

  1. Improved motion estimation technology.
  2. Improved workflow.
  3. Faster processing.
  4. Support for FLEXlm license encryption.

Bug Fixes in Furnace

This is the first release of Furnace for Nuke.

Known Bugs and Workarounds in Furnace

Transformations cannot concatonate through multiple OFX nodes. For example, F_Align followed by a Nuke corner pin will not concatonate. As a workaround export the corner pin data from F_Align to the Nuke corner pin node.

Known Problems in Nuke

There are a number of minor issues that affect the use of these plug-ins in Nuke 4.7v3 that are fixed in Nuke 4.7v4.
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