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Description
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.
What's new in Silhouette FX 4.2
Stereo Viewer
Added a Stereo Viewer (3D icon) to the Stereoscopic Viewer controls. The
default keyboard shortcut is Shift-6. When activated, a stereo Viewer window opens for displaying the stereoscopic image in either Anaglyph or Interlaced modes on a 3D monitor. The default mode is defined in the Viewer > Stereo
View Mode preference. Interlaced mode requires a 3D monitor that uses interlacing like the Zalman passive display. When in Interlace mode, the Stereo First Field viewer preference controls which eye comes first--Left or Right. This
needs to match up with how the monitor does the 3D effect.
Paint
Align > Black
A new Paint > Clone > Alignment Type preference has been added so that when the clone source and destination are perfectly aligned, you can choose whether the Viewer will appear either gray or black.
Color Picking
You can now right-click to pick a color from a single pixel. In addition, you can right-click-drag to pick the average color from a region of the image.
Setting the Clone Offset on the Same Image
You can now press and hold down the Shift key and click-click to set the Clone source and Clone destination.
Setting the Clone Offset on Different Images
Oftentimes, you need to align the same feature in two different images of a sequence when painting with the Clone brush. There is now a simple, straight forward way to do this in Silhouette. Press the ‘ key (located to the left of 1 key) and the Clone source appears. You may need to increase the Onion-Skin mix to 100. Click on the feature that you want to match and then the Clone destination appears. Click on the feature that you want to paint on and the Clone offset is automatically set.
View > Paint
In Paint, View > Paint shows what would be exported when rendering paint
only.
Scripting Improvements
- Added the ability to register actions as importers/exporters.
- Added the ability to create layers and shapes from a script, so it is possible to
write custom shape importers/exporters now with Python, or make actions that
can manipulate and generate new shapes.
- Added limited undo capability for scripts.
- Added the ability to call exporter modules from Python.
- [ key bound to Select All action in keybinds.py. This shows how to call an action
from a keybind.
- Added the fx.activeLayer attribute to allow setting/getting the active layer via
scripting.
- Scripts can now display info/warning/error/question dialogs.
- Added support for StreamRef properties so you can query stream (left/right eye)
properties directly.
- Action sub-menu items can now be sorted in the order that they were created in.
- You can now access the custom render range in RenderInfo object. The RenderInfo.range attribute contains the contiguous frame range as a tuple of (start, end) to render based on the current Output Range. It can also be None if a custom, non-contiguous frame set is currently defined. The RenderInfo.frameSet attribute returns a list of frames. If you set it, it accepts a list of individual frame numbers or also tuples of (start, duration, step). So, you can do this: options.frameSet = [ 10, 20, (30, 50, 2) ] which will render frame 10, 20, and frames
30-50 by 2.
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
- 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.
Keying Features
- Interactive image matting tool
- DV/HD deartifacting
- Multiple matte creation
- Color suppression
- Sophisticated matte manipulation
Architecture
- Node based workflow
- Stereoscopic viewing and editing
- Command-Line Rendering
- Scripting and Actions
- OpenGL® accelerated animation engine
- Multi-processor support
- Proxy management for large image sizes
New in Version v4.0.5: New Nuke 6.2 Exporter- A new Nuke 6.2 exporter is available with lots of new features. Shape keyframes are no longer baked. Both Bezier and B-Splines are directly exported, while X-Splines are converted to Bezier’s during the export process. In addition, many other shape and layer attributes are exported.
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
- 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 XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 / 32 or 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
- GeForce 8000 series or better
- ATI Radeon x1900 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.
Host Compatibility
Compatibility
- File Formats: Cineon, DPX, IFF, JPEG, OpenEXR, PNG, SGI/RGB, QuickTime, TIFF and TARGA
- Export Autodesk®/Discreet® gMask, Elastic Reality®, Eyeon Fusion®, Nuke® and Shake® 4.x SSF shapes
Import Commotion, Elastic Reality, Nuke 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®
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