From Derivative wiki

Contents 1 TouchDesigner Pro-Only Features 2 Features 2.1 2D/3D Compositing 2.2 Workflow and Productivity 2.3 Networking and Inputs/Outputs 2.4 Interface and UI 2.5 CHOPs and Animation 2.6 SOPs and Geometry

TouchDesigner Pro-Only Features

• Full-resolution rendering and compositing - TouchDesigner FTE is limited to 1280x1280. TouchDesigner FTE Commercial has unlimited resolution.
• Support from derivative staff - No support provided with TouchDesigner FTE. Pro support includes up to three days in a one-year support period.
• Early Access to new builds of TouchDesigner.
• TouchDesigner Pro-only Operators -
  • for blending motion channels: Clip Blender CHOP, Clip CHOP, Clip DAT
  • for passing images between Touch processes: Shared Mem In TOP, Shared Mem Out TOP. (The existing Touch Out TOP and Touch In TOP pass images between Touch processes via TCP/IP.) (also available in FTE Commercial)
  • for passing transforms between Touch processes: Xform In COMP, Xform Out COMP component types
• Privacy Option - The Privacy option keeps your networks inaccessible when you create a .toe project file and pass it to someone else. When you start a .toe in Perform Mode with any Derivative product, pressing Esc normally opens up the TouchDesigner networks for that application. But if the .toe was save in Pro with Privacy on, the networks are not visible or editable by anyone. The Privacy option is available in Pro only.

See also: TouchDesigner FTE

Features

2D/3D Compositing

• realtime GPU-based compositing with TOPs - replaces CPU-based compositing – GPU 10x faster

• GLSL pixel/vertex shaders - new materials and shaders system (MATs) integrated with TOPs (bump, multi-layer, displacement, reflections, etc)

• TOP compositing system multi-purpose - build control panels, composite output movies, prepare textures

• Floating Point pixel formats (16fpp and 32fpp)

• truly mixed 2D and 3D - apply 2D FX to a 3D render and composite with other 2D and 3D layers

• streaming and compositing high definition multi-layer movies from disk in realtime

• smooth video input from multiple cameras – USB and FireWire cameras, webcams, TV tuner cards, etc

• machine-to-machine movie streams - from one TouchDesigner process to another TouchDesigner process on another computer at realtime speeds in high resolution using gigabit Ethernet(1000T)

• over 70 image operators - TrueType fonts, render movies to QuickTime / tif / jpg, multi-frame image blending, color correction, feedback, blurs, full RGBA

• all renders and composites off-screen at any resolution and multiple realtime 3D renders in one session

Workflow and Productivity

• mixed nodes - any OP type can be in a network with any other OP type - mix CHOPs with TOPs and SOPs - tighter “in-the-zone” workflow

• Components hold a network of OPs, so you can encapsulate objects, scenes, effects, presets.

• Components allow any combination of TOPs, CHOPs, SOPs, objects, materials as inputs and outputs

• palettes of components, control panels can be added to any component

• easy to share, easy to experiment - save out a Component to a .tox file for easy sharing with other users/projects

• DATs – Data Operators can be used to hold any text data – raw ascii, scripts, etc or table data such as spreadsheets, csv files, etc.

• performance analysis tools - give highly tuned realtime performance (moviedump, Info CHOP, Perform CHOP, and detailed Performance Monitor)

Networking and Inputs/Outputs

• OSC in/out (TouchDesigner-to-Audio apps), Touch In/Out (for TouchDesigner-to-TouchDesigner), Pipe In/Out (TouchDesigner-to-Custom applications)

• Video streaming over FireWire and Ethernet – re-route video in/out of TouchDesigner over gigabit and FireWire networks – can grab multiple video inputs from networked computers running TouchMixer017 or TouchDesigner0xx

• Full MIDI support

• Improved Live Video In – support for multiple cameras – FireWire DV cams and USB cameras and webcams

Interface and UI

• powerful viewers on all node types - visualize your data going through TouchDesigner better

• network nodes can be sized – customize node size to view any type/size of data

• interactive viewers for each node - edit your data inside a network viewer

• edit multiple OP’s parameters - affect many operators simultaneously

• control panels - buttons can be programmable, rollover movies, flexible panel layouts

• 3D gadgets and interface elements – use movies and motion graphics for UI gadgets

CHOPs and Animation

• streams let you customize input and output devices for your computer - midi, audio, cameras, etc

• channel operators (CHOPs) can handle thousands of channels at a time

• timeslicing technology keep data and video smooth even when the system is heavily taxed or intermittently loaded.

SOPs and Geometry

• 3D - polys, meshes, NURBS, beziers, (anti-aliasing soon)

• Geometry model imports from FBX

• Geometry deformation - using Vertex shaders in MAT operators (on the GPU)