Hush v3.7.0 — the handoff: clean matte to alpha
The handoff release. Hush can now hand its clean-confidence matte down the node chain — which makes the "clean early, reconstruct late" pairing with Speak (released today, early beta) a working chain instead of a diagram.
New
- Export Clean Matte to Alpha (Output group, default off). In the Result view, writes
clamp((effN − 1) / 6, 0, 1)— the exact calibration of the Matte: Clean Confidence view — into the output alpha, leaving RGB untouched. Downstream, Speak's grain keys on it: full grain where the temporal stage averaged deep (texture was flattened), less where the gate protected motion (real noise survives). Replaces the incoming alpha while on — the hint says so. Off by default, so every existing project renders bit-identically. - The inspection views keep the true alpha; only the Result view exports.
Meet Speak
Speak v0.2.0 — film tone scale, subtractive color, split toning, halation and grain, built from original color science with every curve on screen — is now its own plugin: amateurmenace/Speak. Set Hush's Export Clean Matte to Alpha on and Speak's Use Incoming Matte on, and grain lands exactly where Hush cleaned.
Shared downloads hub: control-z (hush-v3.7.0).
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