Combustion and film work

[themediapuppet]

Is anyone using combustion for doing 2k work? We are currently thinking of using combustion in supprt of our Flame/Inferno setups, for doing some of the less demanding work for 2k compositing. But were wondering about the quality of the 8bit renders as opposed to the quality of 10,12, and 16 bit renders. Does anyone out there have some ideas or suggestions on this, or should we forget 2k work on combustion all together?

Any comments welcome!
thanks
tony v.

[el-john]

I've heard of people using Cineon files with After Effects (which is also 8-bit per channel) for film work. Based on their experiences it seems like a pain. I would think you would be better off with Digital Fusion or Shake which have deeper color support.

[themediapuppet]

I was thinking about shake as well, but was looking for a more cost effective support tool for our inferno suite, but we're comming to that conclusion as well that combustion is not quite there yet for our film projects.

thanks for the input!
tony