Learning Silhouette
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to use Boris FX Silhouette for motion graphics and visual effects. Explore its core tools, functions, and workflows for masking, rotoscoping, motion tracking, paint fixing, and more.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Boris FX Silhouette
- Overview of Silhouette
- How to use the exercise files
- Reloading missing footage
- The Silhouette interface
- Setting up a project
- Working with nodes
- Working with objects, layers, and mattes
- Optimizing, playing back, and rendering
- Masking
- Additional masking techniques
- Rotoscoping
- Isolating a foreground with shapes
- Keying a green screen with zMatte
- Adjusting alpha mattes and spill suppressing
- Using secondary mattes
- Point tracking
- Applying tracking data
- Connecting Composite nodes
- Tracking masks
- Planar tracking
- Introduction to the Paint node
- Additional paint techniques
- Animating properties and transforms
- Overview of image warping tools
- Time warping
- Color matching
- Adding film, video, and stylistic effects
- Next steps
Taught by
Lee Lanier
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