RE:Vision Effects announces major upgrades of their Avid compatible versions of Twixtor, their popular retiming solution and ReelSmart Motion Blur, which adds and removes motion blur based on per-pixel calculated motion.

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 method 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.

ReelSmart Motion Blur 3 adds the new tracking found in Twixtor 4.5.

Furthermore both plugins now support the Mac versions of Xpress Pro 4.8 and Adrenaline 1.8.

Pricing and upgrade info:

* Twixtor AVX 1.5 plugin priced at $329.99.
* ReelSmart Motion Blur AVX 1.5 plugin priced at $134.95.
* Upgrades from previous versions are free.

Compatibility: AVX 1.5 support required. Applications include:

* Windows: Symphony 2.0 and later, Media Composer 9.0 and later, XPress 3.0 and later, XPress DV 1.5 and later and Media Composer Adrenaline.
* Macintosh OS X: Media Composer 12.0 and later, Symphony 5.0 and later, Xpress Pro 4.0 and later and Xpress DV 4.0 and Media Composer Adrenaline.

Volume pricing available. Contact sales@revisionfx.com.

Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur continue to be supported for Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk combustion, Adobe Premiere Pro, Discreet Systems (Sparks), eyeon’s Digital Fusion and Apple?s Shake. ReelSmart Motion Blur is also supported for Softimage|XSI. Demo versions, sample footage and tutorials are available on the RE:Vision Effects website.

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