Silhouette 5 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 2014. All Rights Reserved June 23, 2014 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.......................................................................... 11 Roto.............................................................................................. 12 Tracker ......................................................................................... 14 Paint ............................................................................................. 16 Warps and Morphs ....................................................................... 17 Keying and Matting....................................................................... 18 S3D .............................................................................................. 19 Effects .......................................................................................... 20 Architecture .................................................................................. 21 Compatibility................................................................................. 21 Installation and Licensing............................................................... 22 Windows / Macintosh ................................................................... 22 Linux............................................................................................. 23 Activation...................................................................................... 25 Deactivation.................................................................................. 25 License Transfer........................................................................... 26 Floating License Installation ......................................................... 27 Tutorials............................................................................................ 29 Starting Silhouette........................................................................ 29 Creating a Project......................................................................... 30 Importing and Replacing Media.................................................... 32 Creating Sessions ........................................................................ 35 Video Fields and 3:2 Pulldown ..................................................... 40 Using the Node List ...................................................................... 43 Shifting a Source Node in Time.................................................... 45 • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • Table of Contents• 5 • • • Viewer .......................................................................................... 46 Optimizing Playback..................................................................... 50 Crop.............................................................................................. 52 Roto.............................................................................................. 53 Motion Blur ................................................................................... 83 Renaming Objects........................................................................ 84 Adding Notes................................................................................ 85 Timebar Keyframes ...................................................................... 86 Using the Timeline........................................................................ 87 Tracker ......................................................................................... 88 S3D .............................................................................................. 114 Warping ........................................................................................ 137 Morphing ...................................................................................... 142 Folding.......................................................................................... 148 Paint ............................................................................................. 152 Effects .......................................................................................... 177 Keyer ............................................................................................ 179 Power Matte ................................................................................. 182 Working with Stereo Images ........................................................ 200 Using Multiple Object Lists ........................................................... 218 Composite .................................................................................... 220 Rendering..................................................................................... 221 Command-Line............................................................................. 225 Keyboard Customization .............................................................. 227 User Interface................................................................................... 228 Concepts ...................................................................................... 229 Windows and Adjustments ........................................................... 230 Pull-Down Menus ......................................................................... 234 Projects ........................................................................................ 240 Sessions....................................................................................... 249 Toolbar ......................................................................................... 255 • • • Silhouette User Guide• • • • • Table of Contents• 6 • • • Viewer .......................................................................................... 256 Timebar / VTR Controls................................................................ 273 Node List ...................................................................................... 280 Parameters................................................................................... 282 Object List .................................................................................... 284 Timeline........................................................................................ 291 Console ........................................................................................ 295 Script Editor.................................................................................. 296 Crop Node......................................................................................... 297 Crop Node Parameters ................................................................ 297 Crop Node Notes.......................................................................... 298 Roto Node......................................................................................... 300 Roto Toolbar................................................................................. 300 Stereo Shape Creation................................................................. 300 Bézier (Shift-B) ............................................................................. 302 B-Spline (B) .................................................................................. 307 X-Spline (S) .................................................................................. 309 Square (Shift-S)............................................................................ 311 Circle (Shift-C).............................................................................. 312 Shape and Layer Parameters ...................................................... 313 Transform ..................................................................................... 320 Reshape (R) ................................................................................. 328 Nudging ........................................................................................ 334 IK-Inverse Kinematics (Y)............................................................. 335 Feather (Shift-F) ........................................................................... 339 MultiFrame (M) ............................................................................. 340 Shape Import and Export ............................................................