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Track of dark images with mattes. This is especially useful for CG, masked and/or keyed material. (Not available for Smoke, Flame)Track Point Guidance – Up to 12 user-defined points can be specified to help guide Twixtor’s motion estimation. By using the tracking points you can explicitly tell Twixtor where a pixel moves from one frame to the next in order to guide Twixtor’s calculation of motion vectors. (Not available for Catalyst Edit, Hitfilm, Movie Studio, Natron, Nucoda, Vegas ProSpline Guidance – When Twixtor exhibits tracking problems, you can guide Twixtor by simply creating and animating shapes to show Twixtor where objects are actually moving. Interactive feature registration is directed by using the host program’s splines. (Not available with Catalyst Edit, Hitfilm, Movie Studio, Natron, Nucoda, Vegas Pro, FCPX, Nuke, Premiere Pro, Scratch)Motion Vector Import – Give Twixtor motion vectors generated elsewhere (like from a 3D system) to time remap footage, including adding motion-interpolated fields to otherwise progressive material. (Not available with Catalyst Edit, Hitfilm, Movie Studio, Natron, Nucoda, Vegas Pro, FCPX)Motion Vectors Export – Ability to output the motion vectors that Twixtor generates internally. This powerful feature comes with visual debugging modes to more intuitively assess and tune the quality of the motion estimation. The motion vectors can then be used elsewhere in the pipeline. (Not available with Catalyst Edit, Hitfilm, Movie Studio, Natron, Nucoda, Vegas Pro, FCPX)Effections BundlesRE:Vision Effections Regular vs. PlusPlug-inEffections RegularEffections PlusDE:Flicker DEFlicker is your solution for problematic high frame rate and timelapse footage!DE:NOISE Reduces noise using novel feature-sensitive spatial filtering along with time-based optical flow methods!EFieldsKit FieldsKit provides smarter deinterlacing and better workflow options for interlaced footage.ReelSmart Motion Blur Applies natural-looking motion blur by automatically tracking every pixel. Regular ProRE:Flex RE:Flex creates visually stunning morphs and warps with an easy-to-use interfacenot includedRE:Grade Augment your color correction arsenal. Restore otherwise unusable footage.not includedRE:Lensnot includedRE:Match Automatic color and texture matching that addresses problems of multicam and stereo shoots. Regular ProRE:Map RE:Map provides professional quality mapping and distortion tools.not includedREZup Enhance the quality (“IQ”) of your content, increase the resolution of your video without loss of detail or introducing artifacts.SmoothKit The ultimate blurring filter set that combines user directed controls and feature sensitive methods.not includedTwixtor Intelligently slow down or speed up your image sequences with visually stunning results. Regular ProVideo Gogh Video Gogh turns your pictures and videos into painted works of art!not includedHave more questions?Contact us and ask.

To limit climate change, countries and companies are increasingly committing to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Achieving this goal could boost demand for new alternatives to existing ones, for instance, lithium-ion batteries, on a large scale.Sodium-ion batteries could be a great alternative to lithium, but nobody has managed to build a commercially viable NA-ion battery so far. Now, a California company Natron has partnered with Clarios International to manufacture the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion batteries.Natron Energy’s sodium-ion battery products are based on a unique Prussian blue electrode chemistry for a wide variety of industrial power applications ranging from critical backup power systems to EV fast charging and behind-the-meter applications. Natron claims that its design offers a strong volumetric power density somewhere between that of lead-acid and lithium-ion, with super-fast charging enabling 0-99% charges in as little as eight minutes and a significantly longer cycle life of over 50,000 cycles – between five and 25 times greater than lithium-ion competitors. Also, they’re claimed to be extremely thermally stable, making them safe to transport, deploy and dispose of without risk of fire.The Clarios Meadowbrook facility will become the world’s largest sodium-ion battery plant when mass production begins in 2023. Currently, these facilities are for lithium-ion batteries, and it says its sodium-ion batteries can be manufactured using the same tools and equipment. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E agency through the SCALEUP program, Natron will install new cell assembly equipment in the Clarios Meadowbrook plant to enable mass production of sodium-ion cells for its customers in the industrial power market.The company’s mission is to transform industrial and grid energy storage markets by providing customers with lower cost, longer-lasting, more efficient, safer batteries.It is not the first time that this alternative has been used. Last year, the Chinese company CATL launched a sodium-ion battery for the electric vehicle market, with a specific energy of 160 Wh/kg, more than half of the density offered by current lithium batteries.

RE:Vision Effects Twixtor, ReelSmart Motion Blur, and RE:Match offer Regular and Pro versions of the software, so how do you know which version you need? There are two main areas: Host support and features. Let us break it down.More Host Support in RE:Vision Effects Pro VersionThe Pro Versions mainly add OFX support for products like Baselight, Silhouette, and Scratch, but one also adds Avid support, so make sure you understand the system requirements for each version.Regular VersionPro VersionReelSmart Motion BlurAdobe: After Effects, Premiere Pro Adobe: After Effects, Premiere ProApple: Final Cut Pro, MotionApple: Final Cut Pro, MotionAvid: Media ComposerOFX: Catalyst Edit, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, HitFilm, Movie Studio, Natron, and Vegas Pro.Supports all Regular version hosts plus the following: OFX: Baselight, Flame, Smoke, Fusion Studio, Nucoda, Nuke, Scratch, and SilhouetteRE:MatchAdobe: After Effects, Premiere Pro Adobe: After Effects, Premiere ProOFX: Catalyst Edit, DaVinci Resolve, HitFilm, and Vegas ProSupports all Regular version hosts plus the following: OFX: Baselight, Flame, Smoke, Fusion Studio, Nuke, Scratch, and SilhouetteTwixtorAdobe: After Effects, Premiere ProAdobe: After Effects, Premiere ProApple: Final Cut ProApple: Final Cut ProAvid: Media ComposerAvid: Media ComposerOFX: Catalyst Edit, DaVinci Resolve, HitFilm, Movie Studio, Natron, and Vegas ProSupports all Regular version hosts plus the following: OFX: Baselight, Flame, Smoke, Fusion Studio, Nucoda, Nuke, Scratch, and SilhouetteEffections BundlesAdobe: After Effects, Premiere Pro Adobe: After Effects, Premiere Pro Apple: Final Cut ProApple: Final Cut ProOFX: Catalyst Edit, DaVinci Resolve, HitFilm, and Vegas Pro.Supports all Regular version hosts plus the following: OFX: Baselight, Flame, Smoke, Fusion Studio, Nuke, Scratch, and SilhouetteMore Features in Pro VersionsWhile the regular version is robust and may work great for the majority of your projects, the Pro version does add a few features.ReelSmart Motion BlurThe Pro version also includes: RSMB Pro Vectors is a separate effect included with RSMB Pro. It gives users the ability to blur with motion vectors supplied by you… which, most likely, will come from your 3D animation system. This is an older video but it compares it a bit.ReelSmart Motion Blur Pro has all of the features of the ReelSmart Motion Blur Regular version but also includes these features:Object Separation – Support for foreground and background separation using a specified matte. ReelSmart Motion Blur then uses proprietary filling and tracking techniques when working on the background layer, even when it is obscured by the foreground! (Not available with Catalyst Edit, DaVinci Resolve, Flame, Smoke, Media Composer, Movie

Or the excellent collaboration tools that would make working with graphic designers and other team members a little smoother.Premiere Pro – ShotcutShotcut is a free, open-source video editing solution available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Developed by Meltytech in 2011, Shotcut has a long and ever-improving feature set that shares many of the same functions found in Adobe Premiere Pro.Shotcut is a good solution for those who want a simple video editor to add basic overlays, manage different clips, or do basic entry-level work.While the basic features of both applications work largely in the same way, users may find that the wider support from plugin creators and other professional organizations Premiere Pro benefits from would be ideal.Anyone serious about high-quality video production might want to consider one of the paid options, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, as other areas of video production are generally relatively expensive, and you will probably want to make the most out of that footage.XD Alternative – LunacyLunacy is a free and open-source vector-based UX/UI design application with a robust professional-level feature set that is mainly targeting web developers and graphic designers.Lunacy works offline, has cloud sharing, and has been translated into 16 languages. It includes many free assets such as icons and symbols and has full compatibility with .sketch files for even more community-driven functionality.If your team doesn’t require the collaboration benefits of working within the Adobe Creative Cloud, Lunacy is an excellent alternative that will be free forever.After Effects Alternative – NatronNatron is a free and open-source node-based video compositing software comparable to Adobe After Effects, which is similar but has some significant differences in that it is a layer-based software.The difference between the two types of software typically comes in the workflow. Layer-based compositions can get quite large but generally are easier to work with for shorter compositions, and thus they are usually used for TV and commercials.Node-based compositions have a smaller overall file size and are more suited to movies and film when working with longer compositions.It is, therefore, a great idea to start learning node-based compositing with Natron over Adobe After Effects if that is your end goal.Unfortunately, Natron does have many bugs and stability issues due to the complexity of the project and the general lack of funding.Audition Alternative – AudacityAudacity is a powerful, free, open-source multi-track audio editor available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and more, which has proved