ONYX builds ONYX Ai Matte as a GPU-accelerated matte extraction tool for segmentation, tracking, and mask refinement inside OFX-compatible hosts. It targets hair and fur edge work and shots with more than one subject, and it frames the speed and quality claims as marketing claims. Under the hood, it uses Meta SAM3 and VitMatte models, packaged via ONNX in FP16 and accelerated with NVIDIA CUDA 12.6 and TensorRT 10.x.

Prompts, trimaps, and tracking

The UI exposes five pipeline modes: box or point prompts with auto track, box or point prompts with manual track, text prompts with auto track, mask prompts with auto track, and a trimap workflow using VitMatte with manual track. Point and box workflows let you set foreground and background points and a bounding box. The interface supports up to 32 points.

Text prompt mode detects objects that match your text. If it finds multiple matches, one foreground point picks the instance. Mask prompt mode takes a rough input mask and uses it as the prompt for a refined segmentation. The trimap path expects white foreground, black background, and a grey uncertainty band for edge refinement. Tracking integrates directly into the prompt workflows. In Nuke, the box center can be driven by expressions so a tracker can push it through the shot while size stays consistent. You still need to test any new tool before it goes into production, especially when the alhpa becomes the single point of failure.

Hosts and compatibility

The published host list includes DaVinci Resolve 18 and later, Fusion Studio 18 and later, and Nuke 13 and later. It also positions the plug-in as working in any OFX compatible app, like Autodesk Flame specifically.

System requirements and what is not supported

Minimum requirements list Windows 10 64 bit, an NVIDIA RTX GPU, 6GB of VRAM, 16GB of RAM, and 8GB free space. Windows 11 64 bit is also supported. Text prompts require 8GB of VRAM or more. The baseline GPU callout is an NVIDIA RTX 2060 or better with SM 7.0 or higher. Not supported: GTX 1000 series, AMD Radeon, and Intel Arc.

Trial, licensing, and pricing

A full featured 7-day trial is offered with no credit card required. Licenses are sold as lifetime, one time payments with no subscription, plus free minor updates. Pricing is published in euros as lifetime tiers on the official pricing page. Indie costs €80 for one machine node locked. Studio 3 costs €180 for three machines node locked. Studio 10 costs €450 for ten machines node locked. Studio 10 also includes priority support.

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In nuce: Software developer Magix has released the latest version of its editing software Vegas Pro; Vegas Pro 20 is said to include improvements in terms of artificial intelligence, colour grading and performance. Jose Antunes from provideocoalition.com wrote about this in a report from 23 January this year. According to the same report, Vegas Pro 20 is available immediately; the upgrade is free for customers of version 20 of the editing software as well as subscribers to the Vegas 365 programme. Vegas 365 is a subscription model for the editing software.

In toto: Below are some of the most exciting new features that come with the release of Vegas Pro 20.

• Powerful AI engine: Designed to better access graphics processors and a wider range of graphics cards. This results from the integration of the ONNX Runtime AI engine, an open source project that aims to make machine learning faster – across frameworks, operating systems and hardware. More information on ONNX Runtime can be found at onnxruntime.ai. The integration should result in AI-supported functions being processed significantly faster.
• Better colour grading (colour correction): Thanks to three new colour curves, creative professionals should be able to work even more precisely. The first colour curve is called Hue vs. Luminance, which allows users to define either the hue or the average value of a series of hues – then adjust the luminance according to the colour. Saturation vs. Luminance is the second colour curve, which allows users to define the range of saturation levels and then adjust the luminance level of the same range. Thirdly and finally, the Luminance vs Saturation colour curve allows you to define a range of luminance values in the video and then adjust the saturation level of the same area.
• Workflow improvements: Aimed primarily at the areas of efficiency and team-work. For example, the new welcome screen supports the user in that important default settings are already made when the software is started up – even before the actual creative work with the timeline begins. The Smart Mask plug-in is no less useful; powered by artificial intelligence, it analyses the video image and identifies image areas for which a mask can be created. The Smart Mask plug-in is currently in the beta phase. On the other hand, the Hover Scrub Bypass function is intended to ensure a smoother workflow; this function allows the standard hover scrub behaviour in the project media window to be bypassed.

Click further: All further information on Vegas Pro 20 at vegascreativesoftware.com. Digital Production reported on the release of the previous version Vegas Pro 19 on 21.09.2021. The lead image from this report comes from a promotional video, which can be seen on the Vegas Pro 20 website linked above.

Source: provideocoalition.com ( message from Jose Antunes)

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