I don’t know if I’m allowed to give an exact date but it’s very soon. Within the next couple of weeks if all goes well.
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Sweet!
I also think that the Paint in Silhouette is great, I used it several times as OFX.
The new Grain function can really be offered as a separate singular OFX and it would sell amazing in the Flame community.
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Just wait for the OFX AI Blockchain VR NFT plugin its going to be banger, might just be a picture of a cat though one can never tell
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serious question though why have two products silhoutte and mocha why not just make an one amazing tool seems like they compete with one another?
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Combustion and Toxik called,
Now you’re just going to make @Skulleyb cry! 
Different history. SilhouetteFx was a tool Boris bought some four years ago. It existed for many years before that. Separate code bases aren’t easy to merge.
And they have different user bases, with some overlap.
Silhouette earned several Oscars for engineering achievement before Boris took it on. Goes back to 2004 or so. And the main developers are on this thread, they can give a better description.
thank for that , I kind of knew the history but I was putting it more towards a company perspective , maybe @andymilkis can ask them, it seems to me they kind of canabalize each other , like why would I want to buy two roto tools?
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the '90s called they also want its flannels back.
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They had a symbiotic relationship for a while as Silhouette shipped prior to acquisition with three trackers, two of which were Silhouette native (one point, one planar) and the third one was an embedded/licensed version of the Mocha tracker.
Mocha has one of the best planar trackers in the business, and some outstanding but under appreciated insert and remove tools, now a mesh warp and other features. Silhouette on the other hand is a more versatile roto tool with more diverse trackers and tools, IK, and more.
So there there are overlaps but also strong and unique features that warrant their future.
If you get overseas roto jobs, they often seems to be done in Silhouette, not Mocha or Nuke.
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yea it seems they should just roll mesh warp and planar into silhouette and it would stellar roto
Silhouette has both the Mocha tracker and full blown Mocha in it already.
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Using this right now! You can also access the mesh warper if you use Mocha as an ofx inside of silhouette (ofx or standalone).
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again why buy mocha for 1100 when for 1400 I can get both and a lot more ?
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Well, you can’t export tracking data in Silhouette (what I use Mocha the most for). Also, you can’t export Silhouette shapes as Gmask Tracer like you can with Mocha. They’re both handy tools. Just get Mocha Studio. You get both tools and Saphire OFX too. It’s a bargain for all the functionality you get.
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Mocha also has cool things like Megaplates, the remove tool, and a pretty nice lens distortion tool.
oh that’s a deal breaker I guess I will stick with mocha then
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I live in Vermont. The 90s will never end here.
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