Silhouette 6 User Guide • • About This Guide• 2 • • • ABOUT THIS GUIDE

Silhouette 6 User Guide • • About this Guide• 2 • • • ABOUT THIS GUIDE This User Guide is a reference for Silhouette and is available as an Acrobat PDF file. You can read from start to finish or jump around as you please. Copyright No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the express written consent of SilhouetteFX, LLC. Copyright © SilhouetteFX, LLC 2018. All Rights Reserved June 18, 2018 About Us SilhouetteFX brings together the unbeatable combination of superior software designers and visual effects veterans. Add an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, 3 Emmy Awards and experience in creating visual effects for hundreds of feature films, commercials and television shows and you have a recipe for success. • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • About this Guide• 3 • • • • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • Table of Contents• 4 • • • TABLE OF CONTENTS About this Guide.............................................................................. 2 Copyright ...................................................................................... 2 About Us....................................................................................... 2 Table of Contents............................................................................. 4 Silhouette Features.......................................................................... 13 Trees and Nodes.......................................................................... 14 Roto.............................................................................................. 17 Tracker ......................................................................................... 19 Paint ............................................................................................. 21 Warps and Morphs ....................................................................... 22 Keying and Matting....................................................................... 23 Depth............................................................................................ 24 Architecture .................................................................................. 25 Compatibility................................................................................. 25 Installation and Licensing............................................................... 26 Windows / Macintosh ................................................................... 26 Linux............................................................................................. 27 Activation...................................................................................... 29 Deactivation.................................................................................. 29 License Transfer........................................................................... 30 Floating License Installation ......................................................... 31 Tutorials............................................................................................ 33 Silhouette v6 What’s New ............................................................ 33 Starting Silhouette........................................................................ 37 Creating a Project......................................................................... 37 Importing and Replacing Media.................................................... 38 Creating Sessions, Compositing and Multiple Nodes .................. 42 Shifting a Source Node in Time.................................................... 51 Viewer .......................................................................................... 52 Optimizing Playback..................................................................... 56 • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • Table of Contents• 5 • • • Roto.............................................................................................. 58 Motion Blur ................................................................................... 89 Renaming Objects........................................................................ 90 Adding Notes................................................................................ 91 Timebar Keyframes ...................................................................... 92 Using the Timeline........................................................................ 93 Roto Blend.................................................................................... 97 Tracker ......................................................................................... 98 Paint ............................................................................................. 126 Power Matte ................................................................................. 152 Warping ........................................................................................ 169 Morphing ...................................................................................... 175 Folding.......................................................................................... 181 zMatte........................................................................................... 185 Depth............................................................................................ 191 Working with Stereo Images ........................................................ 207 Using Multiple Object Lists ........................................................... 224 Video Fields and 3:2 Pulldown ..................................................... 226 ROI (Region of Interest) ............................................................... 229 Rendering..................................................................................... 231 Command-Line............................................................................. 235 Keyboard Customization .............................................................. 237 User Interface................................................................................... 240 Concepts ...................................................................................... 241 Projects ........................................................................................ 244 Sessions....................................................................................... 252 Trees ............................................................................................ 256 Toolbar, Node and Object Parameters, Presets .......................... 266 Object List .................................................................................... 273 Timeline........................................................................................ 280 Viewer .......................................................................................... 287 • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • Table of Contents• 6 • • • Timebar / Player Controls............................................................. 308 Console ........................................................................................ 314 Script Editor.................................................................................. 315 Windows and Adjustments ........................................................... 316 Pull-Down Menus ......................................................................... 322 Nodes................................................................................................ 329 Node Groups ................................................................................ 329 Common Node Controls............................................................... 331 Alpha to Color............................................................................... 337 Black and White ........................................................................... 338 Bleach Bypass.............................................................................. 339 Blur............................................................................................... 340 Bump Distort................................................................................. 341 Bump Shade................................................................................. 342 Camera Shake ............................................................................. 343 Cartoon......................................................................................... 345 Center Spot .................................................................................. 346 Checkerboard............................................................................... 347 Chromatic Aberration ................................................................... 348 Color............................................................................................. 350 Color Bars .................................................................................... 351 Color Correctors ........................................................................... 352 Color Gradient .............................................................................. 357 Color Infrared ............................................................................... 358 Color Paste................................................................................... 359 Color Shadow............................................................................... 360 Color Spot ...................................................................................

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