Silhouette v3 breaks new ground and greatly raises the bar in the post-production tools industry. Leading a list of major improvements and innovations is an entirely stereoscopic workflow. All capabilities of Silhouette including its award winning roto and paint as well as its new keying, effects and compositing features are stereo enabled. EXR integrated stereo footage can be used as well as media in any of Silhouette´s newly expanded range of file formats. Clips can be previewed as anaglyphs, side-by-side or stacked.
Roto
Silhouette allows you to quickly create sophisticated animated mattes using BSpline,
Bézier or X-Spline shapes. Intelligent design and easy-to-use tools,
such as variable edge softness on a point by point basis and realistic motion
blur, assist you in creating complicated shape animations. Integrated motion
tracking makes the normally tedious task of rotoscoping a breeze.
Roto Features
Unlimited number of animated B-spline, X-Spline or Bézier shapes
Stereoscopic rotoscoping workflow and tools
Integrated Motion Tracker that can apply motion data to points or shapes
Planar tracker provides automatic, markerless motion analysis and tracking
Move, scale, rotate, shear, and corner pin shapes and groups of shapes
Point-by-Point variable edge softness
Realistic motion blur
Animation changes for one point or selected points across all keyframes
Independent shape viewing and hiding
User-definable names, colors, blurs and blend modes for each shape
Preview shape animation over image
Shape import and export
Composite preview and rendering
Support for video fields and 3:2 Pulldown
Paint
Paint is a high dynamic range 2D raster based paint system designed from the
ground up to handle the demands of feature film and television production.
Whether it´s image restoration, dustbusting, wire and rig removal or just plain
paint, Silhouette provides simple and sensible tools to get the job done.
Paint Features
Innovative non-destructive raster paint allows rotoscoping and keying
changes without having to re-paint
Paint on both stereo images simultaneously using an adjustable interocular offset
Black and White, Blemish, Blur, Clone, Color, Color Correct, Drag, Eraser, Grain,
Mosaic, Repair and Scatter brushes
Stereoscopic paint workflow and tools
Sophisticated cloning interface
Motion track, position, scale, rotate and corner pin Clone sources
Onion-Skin and Align tools to match up elements
High dynamic range painting in Float, 16 bit and 8 bit
Effects
The Effects node allows you to apply the brushes available in the Paint node
as filter effects to shapes or layers. Paint and shape features are tightly
integrated to form an extremely powerful shape based effects tool. Not only can
filters be animated, but they can be combined with animated shapes to take the
drudgery out of everyday jobs.
Effects Features
Black and White, Blemish, Blur, Color, Color Correct, Grain, Mosaic, Scatter and
Scratch filters
Assign filters to shapes and layers
Animateable filter parameters
Keying
Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, Silhouette´s Keyer quickly and
simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine
hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools
when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots.
