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- [Ben] Welcome to a quick introduction
to Silhouette Paint, new film and video paint plugin
from Boris FX.
For more in-depth training, please be sure
to check out our free Getting Started series
and the Silhouette Paint user manual.
Silhouette Paint brings advanced industry-tested paint,
tracking, and cloning tools to new users,
as an optimized plugin for Adobe After Effects,
Premiere Pro, and of effects hosts
like Nuke, Resolve, Flame, and more.
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The Silhouette Paint plugin
is applied directly onto your footage,
just as you would do any other plugin or filter.
When you open the project the first time,
you'll be asked where you want
to save your Silhouette project.
Your Paint project and related Paint files,
are saved separately from your main host project file.
The Paint files will be used for playback,
so best save this to a fast drive.
You can work in eight-bit or 16- or 32-bit float.
Choose the color depth suitable
for your project and footage.
Silhouette Paint is broken into two main modules.
Paint will be using a combination
of Silhouette's 17 paint tools to do our main work,
whether this is for object removal, beauty work,
set extensions, or any number of other common paint tasks.
Here, you'll find the tools you need
for seamless and consistent results.
The other module is Roto.
The Roto module can be used to create shapes
to limit your paint strokes to specific areas,
but the main reason to be here
is to motion track our footage to help stabilize our viewer
or to Auto Paint multiple frames, but more on that later.
Let's start with Paint.
Choose the tool you want to work with
from the tools on the left hand side.
At the bottom of the screen,
you can change the tool's parameters
and adjust the brush profile,
including brush size and softness.
You can quickly change the brush size
by holding down Control or Command
and click dragging with your mouse or pen.
Change brush softness by click dragging
with Shift and Command or Control instead.
Silhouette Paint Clone tool has a few unique tricks
up its sleeve.
You can set up a simple clone offset
with Shift dragging in the viewer.
Use the different overlay modes
to help you find the perfect place to clone from,
and turn on interactive mode and use an onscreen widget
to move, scale, rotate, skew,
and distort the clone source into the correct position.
In Clone, you can also color correct your footage
prior to painting.
Auto Grade helps to match the source colors
to fit better into the destination area.
This makes cloning for skin blemishes a lot faster,
and cloning patterns such as clouds
or skylines easier and more seamless.
The Clone tool also has built-in pin warp functionality,
to do high-quality warps on your footage prior to cloning.
Silhouette Paint gives you complete control
about where you paint.
You can paint directly onto the RGB color channels,
or the alpha channel.
For example, to fit up troublesome
or persistent keying issues.
Alternatively, work with detail separation.
Silhouette separates out the image
into color and detail layers.
So you can paint out color issues
without affecting the underlying texture of the image.
Perfect for skin, or, as in this case,
removing the discoloration on the walls
without having to set up complicated clones,
or multiple layers, or nodes.
Silhouette Paint is a unique, non-destructive paint system,
which has the speed of raster paint
with the flexibility of vector paint.
So when painting, every stroke is recorded
into the paint history.
This has a number of uses.
It works as a permanent history.
At any point, even after leaving and returning to a project,
you can delete any unwanted strokes
and rebuild the affected frames to reflect those changes.
Most importantly, you can use the paint history
and Silhouette's Auto Paint feature to repeat those strokes
across multiple frames, with or without motion tracking.
This functionality is essential
for creating consistent, seamless results across the shot.
Motion tracking is done in the Roto module.
Choose between any of the three motion trackers available,
point trackers, Silhouette's planar tracker,
or the integrated Mocha planar tracker,
and whichever one you choose, you can then use that data
to help speed up your work.
Effortlessly stabilize your viewer,
then destabilize it again when the work is done,
with a single click.
No more precomps or fiddling around
with multiple stabilized, destabilized transform nodes
and viewers.
Simply choose an appropriate tracker to use and that's it.
You can also use this tracking data
to do match moving within the Clone tool,
either from the original footage
or from up to two external sources.
The biggest use for motion tracking data
is to drive the Auto Paint on moving shots.
Choose what tracker you want to use,
select the strokes or groups you want to repeat,
then let Auto Paint do all the hard work for you.
Auto Paint will repeat your strokes, moving them perfectly
with the tracking data.
Auto Paint doesn't just save you time,
it gives the consistency that's required for painting
across multiple frames, even with highly complex paint jobs.
You don't have to paint all your frames for certain jobs.
Painting up a single frame
and using traditional compositing techniques
will give you a faster result.
And for that reason, in the paint plugin parameters,
you can hold any paint frame with a single click.
Then mask or match move the result as appropriate.
Once you finish painting in the Silhouette plugins interface
and return to your host, the results are fast
since each stroke is rendered and saved as it's painted.
Because of Silhouette's hybrid system, even with hundreds
or thousands of individual paint strokes,
you won't get bogged down playing them back
in your host application as you would
with native vector paint systems.
Silhouette Paint is designed by visual effects artists
specifically for film and video post.
Silhouette has been used
on the world's most notable films and TV shows.
This plugin is optimized
to bring superior paint capabilities
to the industry's most popular editing
and effects host applications.
Dive deeper in the capabilities
of this powerful plugin effect.
Check out our other training resources,
including the full Getting Started video series,
and the Silhouette Paint user manual.
For full rundown on features, host compatibility,
and to download a free trial,
then head over to BorisFX.com.
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- [Instructor] Thanks for watching.
What sort of projects would you use Paint on?
Let us know in the comments.
More in-depth explanations and tutorials can always be found
in the Silhouette manual.
Download a free trial of Silhouette Paint now
from BorisFX.com.
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