RE:Fill

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Overview
RE:Fill mends holes in images by intelligently filling user-specified regions.

RE:Fill can replace missing pixels in numerous ways: for example, selecting the nearest "good" pixel, mirroring pixels about a hole's edge, or cloning from another "good" region... and the good region can even come from another point in time or from another sequence altogether.

This plugin set addresses many different production problems:

  • Fill in holes created when keying or rotoing out noisy blobs, scratches or other unwanted small objects.
  • Fill in small image regions along an image boundary that can become "invalid" after distorting or warping an image.
  • Fill in an area between two objects being lined up that don't exactly fit together.
  • Fill in areas that have unwanted blown out areas, or other unwanted specks due to bad camera or lighting setup, or due to some unfortunate color correction that has been applied.
  • Fill in areas left behind after the removal of small tracking markers, crosses or orange balls.
  • Create nice color gradients and washes by filling in large holes.
  • Create interesting kaleidoscopic effects using a mirror fill on large holes.

RE:Fill works in both 8 and 16 bits per channel.
Compatibility

RE:Fill, After Effects compatible plug-in set.

  • RE:Fill works in both 8 and 16 bits per channel.
Operating System Requirements
  • Mac OS
    Hardware: A G3 or G4 machine is required and Mac OS 9.1 or later (including OS X).
  • Windows
    Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/ME/2000/XP or later needed.
For use in:
  • Adobe's After Effects 5.0 and later
  • Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0 or later. Read about limitations.
  • Apple's Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 or later. Read about limitations.
  • Pinnacle Systems' Commotion 4.1 or later.
  • Discreet's combustion 2.1 or later
  • and other programs that offer After Effects plugin compatibility
Gallery
 

Fill in scratches or areas remaining after wire removal with neighboring pixels. (press on the image to play the movie)

Source Material, (c) Artbeats

Sky Replacement

Here is a common practical example, where clouds are first eliminated before the addtion of CG or stock footage clouds. (Click on the image to play the movie)

Source Material, (c) Artbeats
Creation of a character-less background plate.

In order to generate effects you might want to copy surrounding good regions to replace a foreground character to get a "close enough" result (in the image on the right,the foreground character has been removed and replaced with white pixels). For example RE:Fill can make copies of the green plant in order to replace the foreground character... creating a background plate that is suitable for effects generation (click on the image to see the movie with the reconstructed region).
Create Smooth Gradients.

The areas inbetween the dots are filled to create interesting washes and gradients that can be easily controlled and animated!.

Although RE:Fill is intended for seamless pixel repair, you can use it for interesting and overt effects

In this case, REFill creates a kaleidoscope-like effect using the source picture below and a simple animation of white circles that represent areas to be filled. In this case the circles are filled using a "mirror" process that reflects pixels about an edge.
Here, by using a mirror fill about an element, RE:Fill creates another interesting effect.

 
What's New

Current version: 1.2.1
If you purchased a version earlier than the latest version, updating to the latest version is free. Simply download the installer (click on the "Download Software" link above) and download the appropriate installer. Use the registration key that you received when you purchased an earlier version when running the latest installer.

What's new in 1.2.1? Posted August 18, 2004.

  • Fixed a problem with crashing and hanging on multiprocessor Windows machines when deleting a plugin from a project or quitting a host application.

What's new in 1.2? (Posted June 11, 2004)

  • Added multiprocessor support.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause RE:Fill to crash in some situations.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some RE:Fill settings from showing up properly in combustion.

What's new in 1.0.1? (Posted May 7, 2003)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented RE:Fill from running inside some Mac OS 9.x applications

What's new in 1.0? (Posted May 2, 2003)

  • Initial product release.
Cross-Product FAQs

Known limitations of our plugins with Premiere Pro 1. 5.

Please note that our plugins that deal with interlaced material (Twixtor and FieldsKit, in particular) need to be dealt with specially within Premiere Pro 1.5.

With the release of Twixtor 4.5 and FieldsKit 1.5, there are no more limitations with working on interlaced material within Premiere Pro 1.5.

Known limitations of our plugins with Premiere 6.0, 6.5 and Premiere Pro 1.0.

Please note that our plugins that deal with interlaced material (Twixtor and FieldsKit, in particular) need to be dealt with specially within Premiere and Premiere Pro. Twixtor and FieldsKit can read and output interlaced material from within Premiere, but need to manage the interlacing themselves. Because of this, these plugins need to be applied to material from within progressive Premiere projects.

So the workflow is this:

  • Apply Twixtor or FieldsKit from within a progressive project. You can then write out the processed footage and read it back into a project with fields.
  • Set up the Twixtor or FieldsKit "Fields" settings appropriately and Twixtor will take care of handling fields. You can then write out the processed footage and read it back into a Premiere project that is fields-based.
  • We realize this workflow is non-optimal but is necessary due to a bug within Premiere.

Known limitations of our plugins with FCP version 3.x.

Please note that our plugins that take clips as input settings (Twixtor, FieldsKit, ReelSmart Motion Blur, SmoothKit, RE:Fill and Shade/Shape) work properly in all versions of FCP.

However, in FCP 3.x, two After Effects plugins cannot be applied together. For example, it is often the case you want to apply FieldsKit to deinterlace, followed by ReelSmart Motion Blur to add motion blur.

FCP 3.x will crash if you do this. FCP 3.x will also crash if you try to apply one of these plugins in one sequence and then put that into another sequence and apply another plugin (that is, you cannot avoid the problem by trying to "break up" the two plugins with an intermediate sequence.

Because of this you need to apply one plugin, write out the footage, read it back in an apply the next plugin. An ugly workaround.

Please note this problem does not exist in FCP 1.2.x, 2.x or 4.x.
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