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silhouette fx worth it?
I’m getting tired of constantly exporting media out to Shake/AE/Combustion to do simple dirt cleanups or rotomattes…. looking at siholette FX paint/roto plugins to speed up little things like that. I’m using the demos a little, but would appreciate any real-world production experience with them. Alternately, any other plugins out there?
thanks!
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6 Replies
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Frankly I don’t see how it can’t be worth it. It is dirt-cheap– if you’re doing any amount of roto work you need Silhouette. Alternatives? Not really, Silhouette is today’s best solution for roto work.
— Wes Plate
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a little more agressive answer than I expected, but thanks.
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Sorry, I guess I had an opinion and it sounded like you were soliciting them.
— Wes Plate
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Wes,
FWIW I think you hit the nail on the head, no apologies needed,
Peter
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Silhouette roto is definately worth it. Huge time saver.
Have a wonderful day.
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This might sound like an ad but along with user’s comments here are some facts for you:
Silhouette is the only dedicated rotoscoping solution shipping today. It has been shipping for a year now, and has already replaced Commotion, Elastic Reality, gFX, and other solutions in major post production facilities. For example, Weta Digital dumped gFX mid-production and did most of the roto work in King Kong with a beta of Silhouette. Want to see them using it? https://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/PPD-16WeeksToGo_qt6_high.mov
Silhouette has excellent interchange with other applications. Bring in your splines from Commotion, Elastic Reality, and even After Effects (from within the plugin) and export them to Combustion, Shake, Flame, and even back into After Effects if you want.
Silhouette is actively being developed. Expect 2.2 soon with support for float within AE (the standalone already has it), hardware-accelerated difference alignment in the paint engine, and numerous other improvements.
Not only that – Wes is right – it’s dirt cheap.
But you don’t have to take anyone’s word for it. There is a demo available and you can play around with it to decide for yourself.
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