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Eyeon Software showed two new products at NAB: Vision and Rotation. While the company touts Vision as a flexible postproduction system for the broacast industry, Rotation is intended to supplement the in-house Fusion compositing tool for keying, rotoscoping and retouching. Both products are versions of Fusion reduced in functionality and price.
Compared with Fusion, Vision lacks the third dimension in compositing and 32-bit float colors. It works with a node-based workflow and, with support for SH/HD, PAL/NTSC and fields/frames, sees itself as an add-on to common NLEs.
Vision combines far-reaching motion graphics functions with a scripting engine for automating repetitive workflows. Scripting can be used to develop templates with Vision that later present the user with a form in which only certain parameters can be changed. The rest of the scene is blocked, and the sequence is rendered immediately after the parameters are entered. This process is important in television, for example, when similar graphics are to be generated again and again and only a few parameters need to be exchanged. A particle system is also on board; various APIs for plug-ins are intended to open Vision to hundreds of additional functions from third-party providers. Vision is available now for 1,495 US dollars.
Rotation contains all those features from Fusion that have to do with keying, masking and painting. According to Eyeon’s concept, it fits into existing workflows with full versions of Fusion through an integrated scripting and bin system and is intended not least as a low-cost solution for use in department-oriented collaboration in larger companies. Rotation is also node-based, has an HDR engine and supports the EXR, Cineon and DPX formats. The price is to be 695 US dollars.
For the Fusion compositing software, Eyeon is showing the latest update 5.2, which will also support Primatte version 4 as soon as it comes to market. Fusion 5.2 also has an OpenFX interface, so that 3rd-party plug-ins such as Tinder and Furnace can be used with Fusion. The new update is available now and free for existing customers.
Further links:
- Vision: Further inf
Rotation: Further inf
