RE:Flex brings intuitive morphing and warping directly to eyeon Software's Fusion 5. Superior results are achieved using RE:Vision Effects' proprietary and sophisticated technology. RE:Flex is especially easy to learn because it uses the Fusion's own drawing and masking tools to direct the warping and morphing; as such, there is no need to learn a whole new user interface.
RE:Flex is the first morphing program that combines hand feature-matching with automatic image registration. After aligning the hand-matched shapes, RE:Flex 3 now uses the proprietary tracking found in Twixtor to automatically align the non-handmatched parts of the image so that often less handwork is required.
RE:Flex features include:* Warping is directed through the Fusion's roto tools (splines and polylines), not through a grid of mesh points!* Geometries need not be closed shapes* Smooth non-polygonal warping* Interactive warping: view the warp as you drag the control shapes* Option to match vertices of corresponding geometries for fine control* 8 and 16-bits-per-channel and floating point support.* Anti-aliasing subsampling* MipMap filtering
Warping features include:* Warping is directed using sets of "source" geometries and "destination" geometries at each frame.* The amount of warping can be specified and animated.* Variable amount of shape transition between "from" and "to" geometries can be specified per-shape.
Morphing features include:* Easy still-to-still morphing by creating a set of geometry on the "source" image, then moving the set to corresponding places on the "destination" image.* Automatic alignment feature that can be used alone or in conjunction with hand-specified correspondences. This feature can greatly improve morphs without having to specify all features by hand.* Morph from one moving sequence to another.* By default, the two images are linearly cross-dissolved. For finer control, the amount of cross-dissolve can be specified for each piece of matching geometries individually.* Variable amount of shape transition between "source" and "destination" geometries can be specified per-shape.
RE:Flex is available for eyeon Fusion and DFX+ 5.01 or later.* Full interactive license (which also serves as a render license) $695.* Render Nodes: $139.* Render nodes will render in demo mode (that is, with an "X") unless the rendered comp has been written on a machine that has a full interactive license. This means you must have at least one full license for render-only licenses to be useful.* Floating licenses are available for sites using the Fusions floating license mechanism from eyeon.* Volume discounts available.
San Francisco-based RE:Vision Effects (www.revisionfx.com) specializes in technologies involving animation, tracking motion, non-photorealistic rendering and image processing.
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