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Re:Vision Effects SmoothKit
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The Stats
- Developer: Re:Vision Effects
- Version 2.0
- Platform: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility
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Description
SmoothKit provides the ultimate filter set to smooth your imagery by combining user-directed controls and feature-sensitive methods.
SmoothKit is a set of filters that complements and extends the features of basic blurs and sharpens provided by host applications. Each plugin in SmoothKit is carefully crafted with fine control to provide the ultimate in filtering. SmoothKit's emphasis is precise control of the filtering process with no compromise on image quality.
SmoothKit allows you to blur without blurring over edges, sharpen with much less ringing, intelligently reduce small image defects, reduce jaggies, blur with per-pixel direction control, and z-blur using greyscale depth images. Many plugins have per-pixel controls, allowing you to vary the amount of blur or the direction of the blur, and many other controls, at each pixel.
As an example, with SmoothKit you can smooth out the skin in someone's face but not eliminate the details of the hair that hangs in front of the face. In addition to "effects", the SmoothKit toolset can be used to reduce image defects in a much more intelligent manner.
Features
- Ability to selectively filter the luminance, or the chrominance, or each of the RGB channels independently.
- Soften areas while preserving sharp edges.
- Sharpen plugin with a "multi-res" mode that significantly reduces usual sharpening ringing artifacts.
- Optional grayscale images may be used to scale filters on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
- Includes a jaggie-reducing filter, to help eliminate staircasing.
- Median filter option (in the Diffusion plugin) that produces much less blocky results than regular median filters.
- Intelligently reduces block artifacts (for example, DV or MPEG compressed footage).
- Ability to soften areas without blurring edges.
- Directional filtering with per-pixel direction and strength controls.
- Ability to use splines to control the direction of the blur at each pixel (After Effects and combustion only).
- Multi-frame (temporal) filtering with several processing modes.
- Z-blur that uses depth maps for blurring control. Ability to change where the focal point should be.
- 8 and 16 bits per channel processing (only 8 bits per channel supported within Final Cut Pro). Floating point image support in After Effects 7.0 or later.
- Optimization to take advantage of After Effects's region-of-interest and other smart rectangle processing.
- Better multiprocessing support.
Examples
Starry Eyed Surprise - featuring Shifty
Creating an energy wave: SmoothKit Directional Blur was used to create a base pass, then line animation was added on top, followed by another pass with SmoothKit.
Gaussian Blur
By supplying a grayscale picture, we can scale the filter size of a Gaussian blur per pixel. Note that our Gaussian blur does not blur black in along the edges of the image.
Gaussian Blur II
By using the "maximum deviation" control of SmoothKit's Gaussian filter, which limits pixel variation upon application of the blur, we are able to retain fine hair detail while at the same time smoothing out blemishes in skin.
Sharpen
A typical sharpen on the left will amplify small artifacts such as those produced by video compression or noise in the original footage. SmoothKit Sharpen's Multi-Res mode provides you with the ability to reduce these artifacts (of course standard sharpening is still an option). This example compares standard sharpening and SmoothKit's Multi-Res sharpening, both set to 400% sharpening.
Median
SmoothKit Diffuse, in median mode, produces images where the median filter does not cross edges. In this example we compare SmoothKit Diffuse in median mode to a standard median filter with a radius of 7 pixels. Note how details are preserved in the SmoothKit version.
Z (depth) Blur
With SmoothKit Z Blur you can blur using a provided Z (depth) buffer
Z (depth) Blur II - Rack Focus
An example of rack focus using SmoothKit Z Blur. This movie shows that the focal distance can be dynamically changed.
Reduce Jagged Edges
SmoothKit's Staircase Suppress is used here to reduce jaggies in a badly sampled graphic.
Directional Filter Effect I
SmoothKit's Directional filter is used to create a swirly effect.
Directional Filter Effect II
By using the image itself to control the direction of the blur at each pixel, SmoothKit's Directional filter creates an interesting look.
Temporal Filter Effect
SmoothKit's Temporal filter is used in conjunction with our ReelSmart Motion Blur filter in order to create a time-smearing effect.
Diffusion Filter Effect
SmoothKit's Diffusion filter is used to help transform live-action into a stylized cartoon look
Live action to CG
Transformation of a live-action person into a CG-like character. First an application of SmoothKit is used on an actor's face to smooth it out without blurring over important edges, then our Shade/Shape product is used to relight the live-action.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.2.8 and up
- Windows 2000 or XP and up
Host Compatibility
- Adobe After Effects 5.0 and up on Windows; 7.0.1 and up on Mac OS X, including native Intel Mac support for AE CS3 and up.
- Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and up
- Apple Final Cut Pro 5.1 and up
- Autodesk Combustion 3.0.4 on Windows, 4.0.5 and up on Mac OS X
- eyeon Digital Fusion 4.0.4e and up, Fusion 5.0 and up, with the After Effects plugin adapter
- Boris Red 4.2 and up
- Quantel generationQ
