RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces the release of Twixtor® v7 and ReelSmart Motion Blur® with 360 support.

Twixtor intelligently slows down or speeds up your image sequences with visually stunning results. ReelSmart Motion Blur (RSMB) applies natural-looking motion blur by automatically tracking every pixel, and also blurs using motion vectors supplied by your 3D system.

The new versions now support 360 video (in equirectangular format). We introduce, for the first time, optical flow tracking on 360 footage taking into account the connectedness of the left and right sides of the 360 video, as well as the geometry of the top and bottom edge pixels. What this means is that when retiming or blurring 360 video, you won’t see artifacts along the edges of the video that you might see with previous versions of our products, and with other optical flow-based techniques.

Check out our Twixtor v7 demo and RSMB v6 demo working on 360 video.

What’s new?

• Both RSMB and Twixtor add true 360 tracking and take into account the connectedness at the edges of the 360 video representation.
• After Effects: added a feature that Twixtor will work at the composition frame rate unless otherwise specified.
• Premiere Pro: RSMB and Twixtor works in floating point color.
• An option is provided that uses the alpha channel to help tracking of dark images with mattes. This is especially useful for CG, masked and/or keyed material. This feature is available in the Pro versions of RSMB and Twixtor for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, as well as all other versions for other host programs supported.
• An option for linear footage that provides better tracking. This option was provided in some versions of Twixtor and RSMB, but is now available for all hosts.
• Known issue: There is ambiguity in how to represent motion vectors in 360, so RSMB Vectors does not currently support true 360 blurring.

Pricing and Availability:

Twixtor:

• Available for these host applications: After Effects and Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Flame and Smoke, Nuke, Fusion Studio, Scratch, Nucoda, Silhouette, Media Composer, Vegas Pro, Hitfilm, Catalyst Edit and Natron.
• See the RE:Vision Effects website for demo version, pricing and upgrade information.

ReelSmart Motion Blur:

• After Effects and Premiere Pro, FCP X, Motion, Natron, Hitfilm, Media Composer, Flame and Smoke, Nuke, Fusion Studio, Nucoda, Scratch, Silhouette, Resolve, Vegas Pro and Catalyst Edit.
• See the RE:Vision Effects website for demo version, pricing and upgrade information.

About RE:Vision Effects

RE:Vision Effects is a software development company focused on providing innovative software to create, modify, control, and enhance digital video imagery at the highest quality. Their products have a broad range of applications and are currently used in every phase of television, motion picture, internet and visual effects industries. The company supplies its cutting edge software through partnerships and direct sales for a large segment of customers ranging from at-home editors, wedding and other live event videographers, industrial video providers to those creating high-end effects for commercials, broadcast TV and big-budget films. The founders received a 2006 Academy Award for Technical Achievement for the design and development of this affordable, user-friendly RE:Vision family of software products.

Demo material, examples and software are available at http://www.revisionfx.com

Twixtor, DE:Noise, ReelSmart Motion Blur, RE:Map, RE:Match and RE:Flex are registered trademarks and Effections, FieldsKit, PV Feather, RE:Fill, RE:Lens, Shade/Shape, SmoothKit, and Video Gogh are trademarks of RE:Vision Effects, Inc. All other trademarks, company names and products are the property of their respective holders. Features, pricing and availability are subject to change without notice.

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