RE:Vision Effects releases a major update to Twixtor, their popular retiming solution. Twixtor 4.5 is now available for After Effects plugin-compatible applications: After Effects, Final Cut Pro, combustion and Premiere Pro.

Twixtor 4.5 raises the bar in motion estimation.

Nick Brooks, Academy Award and Emmy Award winner for visual effects says, “Twixtor 4.5 represents a new touchstone in retiming. The difference in accuracy means that retiming artifacts are either drastically reduced or disappear on the hardest to retime footage. ”

Twixtor 4.5 introduces a complete rewrite of its tracking. Twixtor is much more accurate, tracks objects farther, and exhibits fewer artifacts when there are objects crossing in the scene. This means less tearing and stretching of objects as they cross or go out of the frame. Twixtor now includes a smart blending option for pans and zooms to prevent inappropriate streaking or weird artifacts at frame borders. Twixtor also adds an option to automatically enhance dark imagery or imagery with poorly defined edges. With the new features, many pieces of footage that were previously difficult to track become well behaved .

For a comparison of the previous versions of Twixtor and Twixtor 4.5, see our comparison page: http://www.revisionfx.com/auxdocs/TwxDemos/TWXnuevo.htm.

Pricing and upgrade info:

* After Effects-compatible Plugin, Regular version $329.99. Render-only: $65.99.
* After Effects-compatible Plugin, Pro version $595.00. Render-only: $119.00.
* Upgrades from verison 4 to version 4.5 are free. Upgrade pricing for pre-4.0 users can be found on the RE:Vision Effects website.

Volume pricing available. Contact sales@revisionfx.com.

Twixtor Pro 3.0 continues to be supported for Discreet Systems (Sparks), eyeon’s Digital Fusion, Apple?s Shake and Avid systems. Demo versions, sample footage and tutorials are available on the RE:Vision Effects website.

Twixtor is a trademarks of RE:Vision Effects, Inc. All other references to trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.