Compositing Apps
Commercial Solutions
- Shake - http://www.apple.com/shake/
- Halo - the houdini compositor as a separate app http://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/halo/index.html
Open Source Solutions
Interesting Links
- http://jahshakafx.sourceforge.net/ - open source flame like compositing system. Still in early stages of development.
- http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/gimpeon.html from the web site:"a Gimp plugin designed for batch processing of images, or a tiny first step towards an open-source compositing system"
I'm currently doing a lot of rewriting on Gimpeon. - DavidHodson
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SOFTIMAGE|XSI FX TREE - Compositing and Hybrid Vector and Raster Paint In Essentials and Advance Packages of XSI
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/v4/features
Previously available only in SOFTIMAGE|XSI Advanced, resolution-independent, node-based compositing and paint for both Linux and Windows are now available in SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.4.2 Essentials. In addition to unique 2D/3D workflows and an integration with Render Passes in XSI, other key features include retiming with the Animation Mixer, 2 and 4-point 2D Tracking and Stabilization, read OpenEXR? and HDR formats, 60 Programmable Brushes, and vector-based shape types that include Bezier, B-Spline and Polyline. XSI v.4.2 also allows you to mix and match images in different size and bit depths and to use magic wand, rectangular and elliptical marquee, and lasso stencils. In XSI Essentials, you can mask, merge and clone across multiple image sources with relative frame offsets.