J Bills
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Cheers, Matt! Thanks for all the great tips and advice. You’ve been a huge resource for anyone who’s stumbled onto this forum over the years. Best of luck to ya in the future if it’s a while before I type at ya again. You’re the guru!
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speaking of Avid – the XSI team is thinking of adding a considerable amt of commotion code to fxtree for their next release. might be something to keep an eye on, because fxtree has a killer set of tools otherwise, basically old avid illusion. I have always loved it’s paint tool, both raster and vector surrounded by a great compositor? this might be big… but then again, there’s a lot of “might be bigs” going around these days.
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have you tried silhouette? worth a demo.
it plugs right into FCP. can’t get much better than that!
they also have a paint tool in beta at the moment – it’s very nice. Should be releasing a user downloadable demo within the next couple weeks I would think. it also works right in FCP and AE. It’s very similar to what commotion would be like had development continued.
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Hi Ron –
sorry if you felt any ‘tude. Yes, I did receive the 2nd email that you posted, after my first post in this thread but before my second. apologies for the lack of ackngmt. the cow rocks and I hope you didn’t misinterpret my short posts as negative. Just slightly busy at the mo-
please keep the commotion board alive.
thanks – later days, brothers! keep up the good work, rock on and all that.
-J
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Try running windows update and making sure to update your .net runtime – might do the trick.
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nope – axed. too bad!
oh well – wasn’t necessary. subsequent to the CC forum, silhouette started their own, which are great!
https://forums.silhouettefx.com/
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Yeah, you would think if they were going to take it down, they would at least tell the moderator…
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Depends on what you would like to do.
Roto can be defined as just cutting mattes with shapes to define an alpha channel, or it could also mean frame by frame painting. Silhouette has better masking tools, and directly exports to all of the compositors. gFx does raster paint as well, and still has better than avg mask tools.
but there are others, like After Effects and Combustion, that do both and much more.
what method were you most interested in? and what are you hoping to do eventually, once you have roto under control?
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ha!
you might also try adding a keyframed directional blur on the matte render, that is only present on frame one and then keyframed to “off” on frame 2. That might be a good cheat.