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Mocha Pro and Silhouette Upgrades: 2020.5 Version Releases

Updated tools provide enhanced planar tracking, rotoscoping, and paint workflows for mid-year releases, resulting in superior performance.

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Latest Updates for Mocha Pro and Silhouette in 2020.5 Version
Latest Updates for Mocha Pro and Silhouette in 2020.5 Version

Mocha Pro and Silhouette Upgrades: 2020.5 Version Releases

Boris FX has unveiled the 2020.5 versions of Mocha Pro and Silhouette, bringing a host of new features and improvements to the table. These updates are focused on enhancing tracking, compositing, and overall workflow efficiency.

Mocha Pro 2020.5 Highlights

Mocha Pro 2020.5 offers a range of exciting updates, including:

  • Continuum 2020.5 Support: Integration with the latest Continuum plugin version for enhanced visual effects workflows.
  • Enhanced Object Removal: Improved algorithms for removing unwanted elements in footage with better edge handling and cleanup.
  • Lens Module Improvements: Expanded lens distortion tools, offering more accurate camera lens calibration and correction capabilities.
  • Spline Editing Enhancements: Spline tools for masking received usability boosts, including easier control point manipulation and refinement.
  • Export Options: More flexible export formats and presets to streamline handoff with compositing applications.
  • GPU Acceleration Improvements: Better utilization of GPU resources for faster tracking and rendering performance.

A quick tour of new features in Mocha Pro 2020.5 is available featuring product manager Martin Brennand.

Silhouette 2020.5 Highlights

Silhouette 2020.5 also packs a punch with its updates, such as:

  • Refined Rotoscoping Tools: Improved spline editing allows for more precise shape manipulation and feather controls.
  • New Paint Features: Extended paint tools including enhanced cloning and healing brush efficiency.
  • Better UI Performance: Interface updates to improve responsiveness when working on complex composites.
  • Tracker Updates: Enhanced planar and point tracking accuracy to support challenging shots.
  • Keying Improvements: Improved blue/green screen keying with new matte cleanup and edge refinement tools.
  • Workflow & Export: Expanded export options to better integrate with post-production pipelines and collaboration.

Additional Features

  • Silhouette 2020.5 includes VFX Reference Platform 2020 and Python 3 support, a new Onion Skin viewer controls, and a new multi-host Silhouette Paint plugin.
  • Mocha Pro 2020.5 offers improved Media support with Gstreamer and R3D update, improved OpenColorIO color management, improved Area Brush, and a new Autodesk Flame Gmask Tracer export format.
  • The new Silhouette Paint plug-in is free for Silhouette 2020 owners with active upgrade and support contracts. The Silhouette Paint plug-in host support for Vegas Pro is included in Silhouette 2020.5. The Silhouette Paint plug-in is available for Adobe and OFX hosts.

A video tutorial on the power of Silhouette's paint tools is available. A quick tour of new features in Mocha Pro 2020.5 is available featuring product manager Martin Brennand.

For more specifics on any particular tool or feature, please let me know! The 2020.5 updates are free for Mocha Pro or Silhouette owners with valid upgrade and support contracts and active subscriptions.

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