A press release from Autodesk announces some features we can see in the new Smoke 2010, Flint 2010, and Luster2009.

They’ve added several new features, see the full list after the break.

In Smoke & Flint:

  • New 3D creative tools: 3D displacement, UV Mapping and enhanced 3D Text
  • Modular Keyer with easier-to-use presets
  • Extended support for professional digital-media formats: REDCODE RAW, multichannel OpenEXR and Avid DNxHD with Apple QuickTime for expanded media conform capabilities
  • Faster and more flexible file-based conform capabilities with a powerful new search engine with definable search criteria; configurable import settings to control metadata mapping; and relink rules to more easily match media to the original source
  • Support for Advanced Pulldown removal from clips with Advanced, Standard and PAL Pulldown with automatic pulldown detection
  • Extended floating point processing support in Batch

And in Lustre2009:

  • New color isolation capabilities based on the Autodesk Diamond Keyer, featuring pre-filtering options, enhanced post-Key filters, quick color presets and control panel implementation
  • 3D lookup table (LUT) support on input and color matte view to make it easier to perform complex color transformations
  • Expanded format support for REDCODE RAW and Avid DNxHD with Apple QuickTime
  • 16 audio tracks I/O via embedded SDI signal as well as project-based audio file format setting for capture
  • Improved interoperability between Lustre and Flame, Inferno and Smoke

Flame, Flare, Flint, Inferno and Smoke 2010 will be available later this month.

Lustre 2009 should be available to Autodesk Subscription customers on April 22nd.

NAB 2009: Autodesk Introduces Smoke 2010, Flint 2010 and Lustre 2009 Extension.