FTE is Free Thinking Environment, an edition of TouchDesigner available at no charge (free) for personal and non-commercial use.
FTE is free for non-commercial use ONLY. The critereon is that you are not receiving money or compensation for your work with FTE.
FTE is resolution-limited to 1280x1280.
FTE will not include a small subset of Pro OPs (such as the Clip Blender CHOP, a motion blender)
FTE does not include any support but you can use the Forum for advice and techniques.
2D/3D Compositing
* realtime GPU-based compositing with TOPs - replaces CPU-based compositing - GPU 10x faster
* GLSL pixel/vertex shaders - new materials and shaders system (MATs) integrated with TOPs (bump, multi-layer, displacement, reflections, etc)
* TOP compositing system multi-purpose - build control panels, composite output movies, prepare textures
* Floating Point pixel formats (16fpp and 32fpp)
* truly mixed 2D and 3D - apply 2D FX to a 3D render and composite with other 2D and 3D layers
* streaming and compositing high definition multi-layer movies from disk in realtime
* smooth video input from multiple cameras - USB and FireWire cameras, webcams, TV tuner cards, etc
* machine-to-machine movie streams - from one TouchDesigner process to another TouchDesigner process on another computer at realtime speeds in high resolution using gigabit Ethernet(1000T)
* over 70 image operators - TrueType fonts, render movies to QuickTime / tif / jpg, multi-frame image blending, color correction, feedback, blurs, full RGBA
* all renders and composites off-screen at any resolution and multiple realtime 3D renders in one session
Explanation of how to use instant mapping features in Ableton Live with unsupported MIDI controllers:
Includes:
- Setting up scripts and files for unsupported MIDI controllers
"Here's how to set up a simple OSC to MIDI translator on Microsoft Windows (and Mac) so that Konkreet Performer can control, for example, Ableton Live."