Datasheet

Matte Choker
• Create a more natural edge between a person or object and the background image using the Matte Choker.
Difference Matte, Extract, and Linear Color Key
• Use Difference Matte, Extract, and the Linear Color Key to create clean, natural-looking composites by setting key
criteria and then generating a range of transparency values based on how closely each pixel matches the criteria.
Additional keying tools
• Perform other sophisticated keying tasks using the Simple Choker, Alpha Levels, and Inner/Outer Key.
Advanced visual effects
Comprehensive warping and distortion effects
• Apply advanced warping and distortion effects to stretch, shrink, skew, and twist any layer. Use Mesh Warp,
Reshape, Bézier Warp, Scatter, and Bulge to warp images.
Optics Compensation
• Easily rid footage of optical distortions from fish-eye lenses and other sources, or add such distortions
when desirable.
Advanced particle system
• Simulate explosions, flocks of birds, swarms of bees, and more using a powerful particle system. Add behaviors
such as repel and gravity to your animations. Any layer, even text, can be a particle.
Grain management
• Add grain to make video look more like film, or remove grain to give film the look of video, using the grain
management tools.
Advanced Lightning
• Simulate animated electrical discharges using the sophisticated controls available with Advanced Lightning.
Fractal Noise
• Create textures and organic elements. Fractal Noise is perfect for simulating caustics, clouds, lava, flowing water,
and gas.
Displacement Map
• Create a range of effects by displacing pixels on one layer to another using Displacement Map. For example, mirror
a pattern from one layer on another and make it move around.
Glow
• Create glows and halo effects around an object.
Color Stabilizer
• Remove flicker from footage with the Color Stabilizer.
Automated production
Enhanced scripting
• Use scripts to automate management of the Render Queue as well as production tasks including changes to text and
layers, creation of custom palettes, and more.
Render automation
• Work seamlessly with render management soware to move jobs through the production pipeline more easily.
Network rendering
• Install unlimited copies of the Render Engine. Use them to monitor a Watch Folder on a network in order to
automatically distribute rendering jobs to available computing resources.