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The Stats
- Developer: Silhouette FX
- Version: 2.3
- Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows, Linux
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro
- 32-bit float point color space
- Compatibility with After Effects 7 and Mac Universal Binary and Compatibility with After Effects CS3
Purchase
- Silhouette Paint Standalone
- Silhouette Paint v2.2 - This is a free download for existing customers. See release notes
Download
Description
- Includes all Silhouette features
- Shape assisted painting
- Animatable paint brushes and effects
- Assign paint brushes to shapes and groups of shapes
- Sophisticated cloning interface
- Position, scale, rotate, and corner pin paint sources
- High dynamic range painting in Float, 16 bit and 8 bit
System Requirements
Macintosh
- Macintosh computer with 867MHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
- Mac OS X
- 512MB of RAM (1GB 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
- 550MHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor
- Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, Windows NT
- 512MB of RAM (1GB 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
Supported Graphics Cards
Recommended
- Nvidia FX 5000 series or better
- Nvidia 6 series
- ATI Radeon 9000 series or better
- ATI Radeon X800 series
- Graphic cards that support pixel shaders are preferred
- 256mb of graphics memory for film resolution
Architecture
- OpenGL accelerated animation engine
- Multi-processor support
- Proxy management for large image sizes
Interchange
- Import Elastic Reality Shapes
- Import Commotion Shapes
- Mask interchange with Adobe After Effects
- Apple Shake and Discreet GMask Export
Press Release
Silhouette Paint(TM) A Masterpiece For Film And TV Production Leveraging the success of Silhouette Roto(TM), Silhouette Paint is an innovative high dynamic range 2D paint system. Combining non-destructive motion stabilized paint with very powerful cloning capabilities makes image restoration, dust busting, wire and rig removal, and just plain paint more efficient that ever.
Los Angeles, CA (July 27th, 2005) - Silhouette FX, LLC is pleased to announce Silhouette Paint, an add-on to its acclaimed Silhouette Roto application. Designed from the ground up to handle the demands of motion picture and television visual effects, Silhouette Paint incorporates an innovative approach to high dynamic range 2D paint. 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 (clean plates, for example) can be transformed on-the-fly by rotation, scaling, and corner pinning in addition to being offset in time or XY space.
As an add-on to Silhouette Roto Version 2, Silhouette Paint is tightly integrated with 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.
Another example of particular interest to video visual effects artists, would be to track someone's head, put an oval rotoshape on the layer with the track, attach the mosaic brush to the layer and with only a few clicks the person's identity is obscured for the whole clip.
Marco Paolini, a partner in Silhouette FX, said "Silhouette Paint's tool set has been specifically chosen to tackle the jobs visual effects artists face every day. As we did with roto, Silhouette Paint is a no-nonsense solution to pervasive problems."
