RE:Vision Effects releases Twixtor 8
Originally posted on 7 March 2024 for the initial beta, and updated for the final release.
RE:Vision Effects has released Twixtor 8, the latest version of its high-performance video retiming software for motion graphics and VFX work.
Twixtor 8 – released in beta in March 2024, and as a stable production build in December 2024 – adds a new AI-trained algorithm to the software, improving results on tricky shots.
A GPU-accelerated retiming tool integrated with key video editing and compositing apps
One of the original video retiming tools, Twixtor slows down, speeds up or changes the frame rate of video, creating slo-mo shots from standard footage by warping and interpolating frames.
The software is GPU-accelerated, hardware-agnostic, and integrates with a wide range of video editing, compositing, motion graphics and rotoscoping tools.
The regular edition includes the core retiming features; the Pro edition adds the option to guide the process with mattes, tracking points, splines or motion vectors.
Twixtor 8: new AI-trained algorithm reduces artifacts on problem shots
Twixtor 8 features a new machine-learning-trained algorithm to improve results on problem shots, like fast camera pans, and fast-moving objects with a lot of motion blur.
The change eliminates artifacts that RE:Vision Effects memorably describes as “wobbles, gloopiness or … ghosting”, even when retiming footage shot at standard frame rates.
You can see detailed comparisions in the company’s YouTube playlist, which compares the output of Twixtor 7 and 8 when retiming tricky shots between 3x and 8x.
Price, system requirements and release date
Twixtor 8 is available for host applications including After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Flame, Media Composer, Nuke and Silhouette, on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Regular licenses of Twixtor cost $329.95 and work with 11 host apps. Pro licenses support a full range of hosts, with node-locked licenses costing $595 and floating licenses costing $892.50.
Read more about Twixtor on the product website
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