Lots
of Commotion, Part 2
Commotion 2.1 adds improved motion capture and support for more 3rd Party plugins, making it a joy for creating complex visual effects
Commotion 2.1 adds improved motion capture and support for more 3rd Party plugins, making it a joy for creating complex visual effects
Up in the
air - It's SuperClone!
Using Commotion's SuperClone info palette, you can set which frame will
be used as a paint brush to "paint through" to the foreground
layer. This would be a simple-enough operation, if you were only working
with still images. With Commotion you have the option of changing whatever
frame from which you wish to paint, as well as the brush size, the type
of brush and the opacity. You can even tell it how to interpret the
other layer (absolute value or relative to whichever clip you like).
All that's left to do it take your brush tool and 'paint' over the wires,
and BAM! They're gone!
 Nothing
like rotoscoping work, is there? It can produce some nice results,
but it's time-consuming and increasingly complex the further into
the shot you delve. This is where Commotion helps to "ease
the pain" by using its rotosplines feature. With
rotosplines you use a pen tool to create points and Bezier curves
around something specific that you are trying to pull out of (or
separate from) a scene to treat it differently. |
 You
can use many different functions with the rotosplines palette, such
as the ability to feather on the inside and the outside of a spline.
The ability to interpret the motion blur of a roto-spline based
on shutter angle and spline positions (or speed) from frame to frame
is also something that sets this software into a higher part of
the "way cool" list. |