SwitchLight by Beeble is a cutting-edge, AI-powered tool designed to revolutionize the process of image and video relighting, particularly catering to the needs of filmmakers, photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists.
What SwitchLight Does
SwitchLight utilizes advanced AI technology and physically-based rendering (PBR) to analyze and adjust the lighting in images and videos. This tool enables users to seamlessly relight their visuals by extracting and replicating the lighting conditions from various sources, such as portraits or panoramic images, and applying them to new environments.
Key Features and Functionality
AI-Powered Lighting Analysis and Relighting
SwitchLight employs machine learning algorithms to perform image-based lighting analysis, allowing it to automatically isolate actors or subjects from their original context and adjust their lighting to match new backgrounds. This process is entirely automated, eliminating the need for manual adjustments and additional lighting setups.
Advanced Actor Isolation
The software uses intelligent actor isolation techniques, leveraging AI to accurately separate the actors from the rest of the composition. This precision ensures that adjustments can be made exclusively to the actors without affecting the background, significantly streamlining the editing process.
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) Relighting
SwitchLight allows users to relight images using high dynamic range images (HDRIs), which capture the surrounding lighting environment. This feature enables the incorporation of diverse lighting environments from pre-existing panoramic images, resulting in realistic and highly dynamic visual outputs.
Physical-Based Rendering (PBR) Material Acquisition
The tool can extract essential textures such as normal, albedo, roughness, specular, and ambient occlusion maps. These maps are compatible with any 3D software that supports PBR workflows, making it highly beneficial for digital artists working with advanced rendering engines.
Individual PBR Passes
SwitchLight supports the export of individual PBR passes, extending its utility beyond relighting to include creating digital doubles, inputs for ControlNet, and more. This feature enhances creativity and flexibility in post-production workflows.
Video Support and Temporal Consistency
The software supports videos of all resolutions, including 4K and above, ensuring temporal consistency across all frames with advanced video models and AI deflicker technology.
Background Removal and PBR Material Extraction
SwitchLight can remove backgrounds from any footage without the need for a green screen, and it extracts temporally consistent PBR properties from image sequences and alpha mattes.
Integration and Compatibility
The tool offers plugins for integration with popular software like Blender, Unreal Engine, and Nuke, ensuring seamless workflow integration. It also supports multi-OS environments, including Windows and Linux, and operates offline, making it suitable for fully air-gapped studios.
Enterprise Features
SwitchLight includes a Nuke plugin, command-line interface, and multi-OS support, which streamline post-production workflows and automate tasks efficiently. The system also supports 32-bit EXR input and output, ensuring zero loss during editing processes.
In summary, SwitchLight by Beeble is a powerful AI-driven solution that revolutionizes image and video relighting by offering automated, precise, and efficient tools for filmmakers, photographers, and digital artists, enhancing their creative output and delivering exceptional results.
