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| Commotion 4 | |
| The Complete Effects Solution for Moving Images |
 Commotion combines the power of the paintbrush with intuitive compositing and effects tools to deliver breakthrough performance and control on the desktop. Commotion is just what you need for all of your motion graphics, video effects, digital cinema, and web streaming media projects.
By Artists for Artists
Commotion is designed by award-winning special effects artists and leading film makers. We provide you with smart tools that are easy-to-use and deliver the ultimate experience and control. Real-time brushes, interactive Rub-Text, instant feedback, and advanced integration provide you with the control you need.
Standout Performance
Commotion stands alone in combining leading paint and effects technology with full- featured advanced compositing tools, and is the only desktop application to offer instant playback of moving video, DTV, HDTV, and film images directly from RAM or disk, using the exclusive SuperCache technology. Commotion speeds up your workflow and delivers a superior environment for creative work.
 A Complete Package
Commotion delivers more: the most powerful rotoscoping tools, the fastest image tracking system for fixing shaky shots or handling match moves, a 3rd generation paint system written from the ground up to ensure quality retouching, and a host of easy-to-use filters for superior keying, cleaning up composites, and adding text and other effects.
Features:
 Integrated Compositing
- Work with an unlimited number of resolution-independent layers.
- Combine images with a wide variety of Photoshop®-style transfer modes.
- Create sophisticated motion graphics with keyframable effects and image transformations.
- Apply pixel-accurate FlowBlur, camera-real motion blur for the most realistic composites.
- Gain the flexibility of multiple, full-motion alpha channels by using an unlimited number of travelling mattes.
 Interactive Controls
- Edit animation keyframes on Commotion's sophisticated timeline to control the settings for any layer or effect.
- Use the advanced Curve Editor to refine the motion of layers or individual effect settings.
- Drag the mouse over Commotion's Rub-Text controls to quickly change any effect setting without having to leave the timeline.
- Change brush settings in real-time directly over your images.
- Switch between field and frame based operations at the click of a button without the need for time consuming rendering.
 Creative Paint
- Two-Way paint system allows you to see your results instantly. Paint directly on a clip or in the composite window without compromising your workflow.
- Paint directly on your composite to touch up alpha channels in context and see the results immediately.
- AutoPaint brush strokes over frames to animate, cycle, or wiggle your strokes.
- Create an unlimited variety of natural media and texture brushes such as charcoal, crayon, and neon with the FX Brush.
- Interactively composite or clean-up footage by cloning with the SuperClone brush.
- Remove wires, boom mics, video drop outs, and scratches with the Wire Removal tool.
Flexible Media Management
- Manage your project in one file that stores all of your media, file types, proxies, clip settings, motion trackers, and rotospline information.
- Use proxy settings to set alternate resolutions, cropped regions, or files and speed up your workflow.
- Use any size file from standard DV material to massive 30000 x 30000 pixel images.
- Import and export files using QuickTime's native file support or Adobe® import/export plug-ins, including TIFF, TARGA, PICT, SGI, AVI, OMF (import only), and many other image sequences.
Text Tools
- Support for TrueTypeTM and PostscriptTM fonts.
- Animate text on a bezier path and control kerning, leading, size, spacing, and a host of other settings.
- Produce scrolling text with full control over margins, size, font, scroll rate, fading, and shadows.
- Create type-on text effects to mimic a typewriter or CRT display.
- Add raster lines, grunge and distortion to text edges, or explode the type with dot scatter.
Versatile Foundation
- Preview your images uncompressed or as compressed video for the Web, HDTV, DTV, and DV. Use your DV camera and FireWireTM or comparable video hardware, or choose from a variety of video capture cards.
- Playback any clip in real-time with exclusive SuperCache disk playback even if it exceeds your RAM limit (requires applicable hardware).
- Combine with leading non-linear editing software such as Adobe® Premiere®, Apple® Final Cut ProTM, and in-sync® Speed Razor®.
- Integrates perfectly with other compositing and effects applications, such as Adobe After Effects®.
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