Commotion (Hand Painting?)

[Gavin Toomey]

Commotion (mac-based) is a fast tool for rotospline mattes but how well
does
it compare against Matador (SGI-based) for quick hand-painted work at
film res? Anyone who has painted with Commotion at high res
please mail me!

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Gavin Toomey
Computer Film Company, London.
ga...@cfc.co.uk
http://www.cfc.co.uk/gavin
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[Colin Epstein]

Gavin Toomey wrote:
>
> Commotion (mac-based) is a fast tool for rotospline mattes but how well
> does
> it compare against Matador (SGI-based) for quick hand-painted work at
> film res? Anyone who has painted with Commotion at high res
> please mail me!
>

While I haven't used Matador, I have used Commotion to paintfix film-res
shots by hand. Frankly, it works great. It's mighty similar to
Photoshop as far as it's layout and tools go. The player function is
fantastic.

A huge timesaver is being able to load in only the specific area of the
images you need to paint, instead of the entire frame area. This lets
you load in a much larger range of frames, paint on them, play them back
in realtime to check your work, then save them out. When you save your
work, the fixed section you loaded is dropped precisely into place in
the full-image frame range.

The cloning tool is fantastic as well, letting you clone from several
seperate sources, and switch between those sources on the fly. You can
also specify things like how many frames ahead or behind your current
frame to pull from a given source. It's pretty powerful.

I hope this made sense. Some of this stuff can be difficult to describe.
Suffice to say, I recommend Commotion for precisely the work you
described.

--
Colin Epstein (who doesn't work for the Commotion folks, just likes the
program)

"You comp anything with more than two layers, you get me?!"
"WE GET YOU, SIR!!"