Since each of these effects utilize Mocha's tracking, you can utilize them not just for static shots but for shots with motion as well. Follow along as we draw paint strokes on the screen and track them to a moving character, blur the face of an actress throughout a shot, and clone out the top half of a light-pole on a city street.Īfter playing around with PaintX for just a few minutes, I was already able to execute such tasks as painting out unwanted electrical wires in an establishing shot, blurring out faces and logos in a shot (documentaries), adding pop to an actor's eyes, creating hand-drawn strokes onto my live action shot, and adding additional dirt and bruises to make-up done on set.

In the below tutorial, I show off some of PaintX's abilities. Erase: erases previous brush-strokes returns the image to its original state.Heal: essentially clones 'inwards' from the immediately surrounding area.Clone: clones a designated portion of video over where you 'paint'.Warp: stretches or 'skews' the pixels in a given area.Sharpen: sharpens the pixels in a given area.Smear: smears the pixels in a given area.hue curve capability changes one color to another. Paint Color: paints a basic color on the image with a customizable brush-stroke.In total, there are 10 main tools in PaintX, which CoreMelt is billing as 'tracked paint tools' for FCP X: They work just as effectively on video as they do on digital photos. In fact, many of the tools, from the Brush to the Eraser to the Clone Tool, are seemingly straight out of many photo editing apps. It could essentially be described as Photoshop for video. No Film School was able to get a hold of an early copy, and let's just say it's certainly on the edge of being a gamechanger in terms of affordable, DIY visual effects natively inside Final Cut Pro.Īs you open up the PaintX Editor in FCP X and begin playing around with it, you quickly start to realize that PaintX is an appropriate name. You don't need After Effects for the simple stuff anymore.Īnyone familiar with CoreMelt's body of work-from Chromatic (color grading) to SliceX (Masks) and TrackX (all of which utilize Academy Award-winning Mocha Tracking from Boris FX)-is going to be quite happy when they take a look at CoreMelt's latest plugin for FCP X: PaintX.

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