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Silhouette Paint Flows For Post-Production And Visual FX

Silhouette FX has recently released Silhouette Paint, an add-on to its acclaimed Silhouette Roto application. Designed to handle the demands of television and motion picture visual effects, Silhouette Paint is available as a plug-in or stand-alone product.

Silhouette Paint is tightly integrated with Silhouette Roto`s shape features such as motion tracking, variable edge softness and realistic motion blur. Brushes can be automatically applied to shape layers which are themselves automatically match moved. Blemishes, for example, can be automatically erased over time with minimal set-up by attaching the blemish brush to a rotoshape tracking the blemish itself.

Using powerful multi-layered match moving capabilities, Silhouette Paint can non-destructively apply color, tint, erase, blemish, mosaic, and grain brushes to 8-bit, 16-bit, and floating point clips. Silhouette Paint`s clone brush features are especially powerful. To more exactly match a foreground element, paint sources can be transformed on-the-fly by rotation, corner pinning, and scaling in addition to being offset in time or XY space. Four independent clone sources are maintained simultaneously for added flexibility.