Silhouette v4 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 keying, Power Matte, 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.
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
Support for open or closed shapes
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 and Power Matte modules are capable of extracting almost any object in an image quickly and simply even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. They are easy to use, yet provide the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots.
Import Commotion, Elastic Reality and Shake 4.x SSF shapes
Export Apple® Shake 4.x SSF, Autodesk® gMask, Elastic Reality, Eyeon Fusion®
and The Foundry´s Nuke® shapes
Mask interchange with After Effects® using the Silhouette Shape Import/Export Plug-in
Export After Effects, Autodesk/Discreet, Nuke and Shake 4.x trackers
Import After Effects Corner-Pin, Nuke and Shake 4.x trackers
Macintosh®, Windows®, Linux®
Silhouette 4.5 System Requirements
Because of the variety of different computer components available, we recommend that you download, install and evaluate Silhouette on the machine that you would like to run it on prior to purchasing.
Macintosh
64 bit Intel processor only
Mac OSX 10.5 and above
2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher (1280-by-1024 resolution recommended)
Three-button mouse or Wacom tablet
Windows
Dual Core Intel or AMD processor
Windows 7 64 bit, Windows Vista 64 bit
2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher (1280-by-1024 resolution
recommended)
Three-button mouse or Wacom tablet
Linux
Dual Core Intel or AMD processor
Tested on 32 and 64 bit Ubuntu 6.06 or better
2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher (1280-by-1024 resolution
recommended)
Three-button mouse or Wacom tablet
Plug-ins
Adobe After Effects CS3 and above
Supported Graphics Cards
Required
NVIDIA Quadro
NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series or better
ATI Radeon 9000 series or better
OpenGL2.0 capable graphics card
512mb of graphics memory for film resolution
Notice
We do not support the use of our software in host applications running under Apple's Rosetta emulation mode.
Import Commotion, Elastic Reality and Shake 4.x SSF shapes