SAN FRANCISCO, CA
— Digital Anarchy (
www.digitalanarchy.com
) has announced the release of Beauty Box Video 4.0 for Avid and OpenFX. This upgrade adds near real-time rendering to the plug-in for removing blemishes and wrinkles from film, 4K, and HD.
Beauty Box Video 4.0 adds in support for Nvidia’s CUDA, providing a big boost in rendering speeds on those GPUs. It also further refines OpenCL support and increases rendering speed on AMD GPUs. This results in near real-time rendering when using newer GPUs, like the Nvidia GTX 980.
Beauty Box Video 4.0 gives subjects a makeover in post production, using face detection, masking, and smoothing algorithms that preserve important details and the natural skin texture. All this combines to create realistic digital makeup. The retouching is subtle and the resulting video looks natural creating a look that is indistinguishable from real makeup. HD and 4K show so much detail that it’s beneficial for video editors to have tools that reduce the skin and makeup detail when necessary.
"The only complaint we’ve had with Beauty Box has been the speed,” says Jim Tierney, chief executive anarchist of Digital Anarchy. "By using Nvidia’s CUDA and OpenCL we’re excited to announce that users will be able to achieve real time rendering. Making Beauty Box not only the best digital makeup plugin, but the fastest.”
Beauty Box Video 4.0 currently works in Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Apple’s Final Cut Pro X, Avid, Davinci Resolve, Assimilate Scratch, and other host applications that use the OpenFX API.
Beauty Box Video 4.0 is regularly priced at $199 USD. Users can upgrade for $69. Beauty Box Video 4.0 runs in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro 7 & X, Avid Media Composer (and other Avid apps), Davinci Resolve, Assimilate Scratch, Sony Vegas, and other OpenFX host apps.