This combination of Silhouette from Boris FX provides filmmakers and postproduction artists with robust VFX tools for tracking, rotoscoping, and paint. This downloadable combination requires an annual subscription, which provides you with a year's worth of updates and support, can be used as standalone applications on Windows, macOS, or Linux platforms as well as plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and OFX hosts, including Foundry's Nuke, Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve and Fusion, Autodesk Flame, and VEGAS Pro.
Silhouette is an award winning software that has been used on some of Hollywood's biggest titles, providing non-destructive paint and rotoscoping tools for lens correction, improved shape editing, and keyframe tools, and a node based workflow.
New Features
- 4-Way Color Correction UI with master, shadows, midtones, and highlights wheels including 89 color grading presets from Academy Award nominated movies
- Improved Paint Performance: Color / Detail Clone Brush with faster interaction and perfectly smooth strokes
- Improved Paint Preset interface with interactive workflow
- Composite Modes: Math Composite now has 22 blend modes for advanced composite operations.
Compatibility
Standalone application and plug-in support for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, and OFX hosts including Foundry's Nuke, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve and Fusion, Autodesk Flame, and VEGAS Pro.
Designed for Roto Artists
Create sophisticated masks using B-Spline, Bézier, X-Spline, or Magnetic Freehand shapes. Intelligent design and easy-to-use tools such as variable per-point edge softening and new brush-based magnetic reshaping assist in creating articulate animations. Render mattes with realistic motion blur or export to industry-standard shape formats.
Advanced roto tools include:
- Highly optimized interface, layer controls, and toolset
- Magnetic spline and edge-snapping with new Brush Reshape for fast shape editing
- IK (Inverse Kinematics) to animate limbs and all manner of jointed creatures
- Integrated point tracking, planar tracking, and Mocha planar tracking
- Stereoscopic 3D workflow
- Move, scale, rotate, shear, and corner pin shapes and groups of shapes
- Point groups, weighted keyframes, brush-based reshape, split shapes, collapse, and distribute points
- Review/approval notes for collaboration
Fast & Non-Destructive Paint
Silhouette's Paint is a 32-bit float raster-based paint and tracking system with a high-performance, multi-layer, color managed workflow. Designed to handle the demands of film and 4K postproduction. Whether it's image restoration, dust busting, matte painting, beauty work, rig removal, or just plain paint, Silhouette's unique Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of raster paint with the repeatability of vector paint.
Paint Tools:
- Pressure sensitive customizable brushes. Includes Clone, Grain, Repair, Drag, and more. New in 2021: Improved Paint Preset workflow.
- Fast & Non-Destructive Paint: Highly efficient layer system for large-resolution film/video paint. Auto Paint recording system delivers the speed of a raster-based paint system with the flexibility of vector paint.
- Powerful Motion Tracking: Features multiple tracking options including integrated Mocha for rock-solid planar tracking.
- Channels & Detail Separation: Paint on individual RGBA channels or work on separated detail and color views for advanced control. Now with improved performance, 20201.5 release.
- Sophisticated Cloning: Advanced offset and warping, onion skin, and display views enable a streamlined workflow for aligning, patching, and removing unwanted pixels.
- Powerful Tracking Options: Native point, planar tracking, and integrated Mocha tracking.
Node-Based Compositing
Silhouette's core is a feature rich node-based effects tree that delivers film-grade results. View and edit any combination of nodes for complex compositing, matte manipulation, keying, color correction, grain management, look development, morphing, warping, and much more. Silhouette 2021 features 154 speciality nodes organized into Color, Composite, Diffusion, Filter, Film Lab, Image, Key, Light, Silhouette, Special Effects, Time, Tints, Transform, Warp, Sapphire, and OFX groups.
Features:
- Gestural node-based compositing
- OCIO color managed workflow
- Multiple roto and paint nodes
- Exacting color grading
- Proprietary matte generation
- Edge tools to color correct or blur the composite's edge
- Matte manipulation using shrink, grow, blur, and wrap functions
- Visual presets for most nodes
- The Silhouette standalone also supports OFX plugins including Mocha Pro, Sapphire, Neat Video, and RE:Vision Effects products.
- As a plug-in Silhouette provides the full feature set and is supported by After Effects, Premiere Pro and OFX Hosts, including NUKE, Resolve, Fusion, Flame, and other OFX Hosts
Warping & Morphing
Silhouette's fully featured shape based warp and morph tools provide the highest level of creative control and render quality for digital retouching, image deformations, and even talking animals. Create invisible touch-ups, subtle facial exaggerations, or dramatic transitions with either shape or pin options.
Keying & Matte Generation
- The powerful zMatte and Power Matte nodes use proprietary matte extraction techniques that handle the most difficult keying and matting challenges, including shots with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections.
- zMatte keying features multiple matte creation, light wrapping, edge correction, spill suppression, and matte manipulation.
- Power Matte's unique interactive workflow enhances the matte creation process on normally non-keyable shots with foreground and background shape selectors that generate incredibly realistic and accurate results on semi-transparent objects.
Integrated Tracking
The industry's most powerful tracking drives Silhouette's animation system and can be applied to speed up paint, roto, warp, and stabilization tasks. Choose from 1, 2, or 4 point tracking, native planar tracker, or award-winning Mocha tracking included as a standard feature in Silhouette