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Commotion vs. Commotion Pro
Comparison
Commotion
4.0 FREE Trial 
Commotion
combines the power of the paintbrush with intuitive compositing and
effects tools to deliver breakthrough performance and control on the
desktop. Commotion is just what you need for all of your motion
graphics, video effects, digital cinema, and web streaming media
projects.
By Artists for Artists
Commotion is designed by award-winning special effects artists and
leading film makers. We provide you with smart tools that are
easy-to-use and deliver the ultimate experience and control. Real-time
brushes, interactive Rub-Text, instant feedback, and advanced
integration provide you with the control you need.
Standout Performance
Commotion stands alone in combining leading paint and effects technology
with full- featured advanced compositing tools, and is the only desktop
application to offer instant playback of moving video, DTV, HDTV, and
film images directly from RAM or disk, using the exclusive SuperCache
technology. Commotion speeds up your workflow and delivers a superior
environment for creative work.
A Complete Package
Commotion delivers more: the most powerful rotoscoping tools, the
fastest image tracking system for fixing shaky shots or handling match
moves, a 3rd generation paint system written from the ground up to
ensure quality retouching, and a host of easy-to-use filters for
superior keying, cleaning up composites, and adding text and other
effects.
New Features in Version 4.0
Optimized Paint, Rotoscoping, and Compositing Speed
Commotion 4.0 has highly developed algorithms that increase the speed of
many operations over previous versions:
- compositing engine is up to 30% faster
- paint engine increased by 200%, and
- rotoscoping spline feathering is 3000% faster!
Nested Comps via Grouping Controls in the Timeline
Grouping provides a comprehensive solution for managing composites and
working with multiple layers at once. You can now add mattes, color
corrections, or other filters and motion controls to multiple layers at
once all within an easy-to-use folder interface. Groups can be viewed
solo in the timeline to more efficiently use screen real estate.
Real-Time Playback of Standard Definition Clips for
CinéWave and TARGA 3000
If you are a CinéWave and TARGA 3000 user, you can now view your media
in NTSC, PAL, or High Definition (CinéWave HD only). Commotion Video
Preview will simply mirror your clip to the display, allowing you to
easily and quickly judge the colors and animation timing of your media
on an external video monitor as you work.
 Adobe Photoshop Layer Import
Import Photoshop files into a composite while preserving the individual
layer information including transfer modes, transparencies, masks, and
names. This new feature further strengthens the integration and
complementary nature of Photoshop and Commotion, allowing you to start
with stills and further refine your work with animated paint strokes in
Commotion.
New Player Interface
Final Cut Pro users and other video editors will feel at home with the
new Player interface. The new Player controls appear at the bottom of
each clip and composite windows and include a new flexible Scrub
control, support for drop and non-drop time code, direct entry of time
code or frame numbers and interactive in/out controls.
New Timeline Browser Interface
The Browser gives you an overview of the composite stack showing
selection state, letting you easily change the current view to look at
the composite, groups, or individual layers. This speeds up the
animation and preview process immensely.
New Time Remapping Features
Time Remapping gives you the ability to time stretch a clip to provide
slow or fast motion output. In addition, each layer has a powerful
control that allows you full control over timing changes with the curve
editor. (Commotion Pro 4.0
only)
New Effects Palette Capabilities
The Effects Palette can now contain any individual parameter. This lets
you view custom effects controls, individual parameters from an effect,
or an individual transform parameter. This lets you focus on the
animation of just critical parameters without the clutter of a
complicated timeline.
New Layer Import and Export Commands
You can now selectively Import and Export Layers from a composite. This
gives you the ability to store templates of keyframes or common elements
or combine Layers or groups from several projects into one composite.
Filters
New Color Curve or arbitrary gamma correction for RGB images with a
custom curve editing and drawing interface.
- New improved Levels filter with individual histogram readouts for
RGB, Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channels and improved quality.
- New Motion Blur filter can create an arbitrary directional blur.
(Commotion Pro 4.0 only)
- New Zoom and Spin blur with quality controls for trading off
quality for image sharpness. (Commotion Pro 4.0 only)
- Altivec-optimized SuperBlur filter with independent horizontal and
vertical parameters.
Commotion and Commotion Pro System
Requirements
Macintosh
PowerPC-based Macintosh system
System 8.6 or higher
CD/DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
128MB of application RAM
Video card capable of displaying millions of colors
QuickTime 4.0 or later (included)
Windows
Pentium-based system running 333MHz or faster
Windows 98SE/NT/2000
CD/DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
128MB of application RAM
AGP-based graphics accelerator capable of displaying millions of colors
QuickTime 4.0 or later (included)
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