SOFTIMAGE|EDDIE Overview

"For Peter Jackson's The Frighteners, Weta had to composite over 500 complex effects in record time. Softimage Eddie was the only software open, flexible and powerful enough to meet the challenge"
Weta, Ltd., New Zealand

Integrated Compositing, Editing and Visual Effects

A single system in which you can composite, color correct, paint, morph, add titles, create effects and animate virtually any parameter in a spot. Softimage Eddie lets you follow a creative impulse under artistically hostile circumstances - you can pre-build or reuse libraries of hierarchies that link tool upon tool, effect upon effect, and quickly apply them at any time to achieve complex effects within rapid production schedules. And you have the time and the tools to experiment - you can quickly disconnect an operation, insert another, change a parameter at any level and any point in the process, then see the impact of your decision immediately, zoom in, pan, redo, or move anything basically anywhere.

Fine-Tune, Retouch, Tweak and Stay on Schedule

In this completely resolution-independent environment, you can fine-tune your sequences, create traveling mattes, define in and out points, stabilize camera shots, set motion tracking, and use highly customizable paint effects to draw or retouch - all with tools that are easy to get to and easy to apply. You can bring in Softimage|3D scenes, view them in wire-frame, shaded or textured mode, and modify their textures and timing in Softimage Eddie, so you can quickly integrate sophisticated effects or scenes into your productions and still have the option to incorporate last-minute changes and touch-ups. And you'll find that integrating and synchronizing elements comes easily with the editing timeline found in virtually all Softimage Eddie tools. Use it in the Softimage Eddie compose tool and then do sound synching in your flipbooks. And when you're ready to render, Softimage Eddie gives you the choice of interactive rendering for immediate feedback on your work or batch rendering and an incredibly fast distributed rendering engine to speed up final output.

Team Effort That Pays Off

Add to this workflow tools that smooth completion of individual projects and make integrating work into a collaboration easy and you've got a package that's incredibly flexible to use, and good with a crowd. You've got Softimage Eddie, the easy way to improve your image(s).

New in 3.5

Render 3D
Load and edit Softimage 3D scenes during composing.

Impressionist
Create infinite variations with a fully integrated collection of brush filter effects.

Sound Synching
Sound synch directly in flipbooks.

Enhanced Compose Tool
Add additional targets and use as extra compositing layers.

Enhanced Paint Tool
Add optional targets for use as paint and matte sources.

Credits
"Up...Down...Up"
Digital Animation & Compositing, Little Fluffy Clouds, Cel Animation, Wild Brain

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