Avid Symphony Nitris 1.5 User guide

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Advanced Effects Guide

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Contents

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 1 Effects Concepts and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Effects Settings Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Changing Timeline View Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Adjusting Trim Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting Effect Grid Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 2 Applying and Customizing Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Adding Fades or Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons . . . . . . 44

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to

Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Understanding the Graphical Display in

the Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Adjusting the Dissolve Effect by Dragging in

the Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition

Alignment Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using Big Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Understanding Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Working with the Effect Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Displaying Position Coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using Local Grid Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Obtaining Position Information in a Film Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Position Information for the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Position Information for the Blowup Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Stepping Through Field-Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Moving an Enlarged Image in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing a Parameter with a Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Replacing an Effect with the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Defining a Motion Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter 3 Working with Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Understanding Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Adding Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Deleting Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Keyframe Mode Menu Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Selecting and Deselecting Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Moving Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Aligning and Slipping Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Aligning Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Slipping Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Copying and Pasting Advanced Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Controlling Parameter Changes at Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Adjusting Parameter Values with the Bézier Interpolation Option . . . . . . . . . . 105

Reversing Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Controlling Advanced Keyframe Behavior with Trimmed Effects. . . . . . . . . . . 108

Controlling Parameter Changes Outside First and Last Keyframes. . . . . . . . . 109

Controls and Settings for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Shortcut Menus for Keyframe Tracks and the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . 114

Advanced Keyframe Settings and Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter 4 Rendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Creating and Using Render Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Partial Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

16-Bit Processing Support for Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Rendering HQ (Highest Quality) Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Rendering Effects for the Media Station XL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Modifying the Render to Media Station Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Canceling a Render to Media Station Command During Modification . . . . . . . 133

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Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Understanding Effect Media Files Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Revealing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Chapter 5 Working with AVX Plug-In Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Understanding AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Support for AVX 1.x and AVX 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

AVX 1.x Plug-ins and Memory Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing AVX Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Locating the AVX 1.x Plug-Ins Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Upgrading and Promoting AVX Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Using AVX 1.x Plug-In Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Using AVX 2.0 Plug-In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using the Client Monitor to Preview the Plug-In Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Chapter 6 Creating and Customizing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Understanding Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Creating Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Creating a Traditional Freeze Frame Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Creating a Traditional Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using the Fit to Fill Button to Create a Variable Speed Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Creating a Traditional Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Playing and Rendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Playback Capabilities for Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Understanding When to Render or Rerender Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Controlling Motion Effect Type When Rendering or

Rerendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Considerations for Motion Effects in Progressive Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

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Understanding the Timewarp Effect and FluidMotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Differences Between the Timewarp Effect and

Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Understanding Speed and Position Controls for the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . 166

Understanding Keyframe Interpolation Options for the Timewarp Effect . . . . . 167

Rendering Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Creating a Timewarp Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Promoting a Traditional Motion Effect to Timewarp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Working with the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Opening the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Understanding the Motion Effect Editor Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Setting Input Format and Output Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting a Rendering Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Displaying the Speed Graph and Position Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Changing a Graph Display with the Scale Sliders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Motion Effect Editor Fast Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Toolbar Buttons for the Active Control Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Using the Timewarp Speed Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Using the Source Anchor Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Timewarp Position Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Setting Up the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Timewarp Effect Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Speed Graph Example: Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Speed Graph Variations: Moving Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Strobe Motion Using the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Setting Effect Position with the Position Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Position Graph Example: Reverse Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Working with FluidMotion Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Opening FluidMotion Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Making Corrections with FluidMotion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Displaying Vectors in FluidMotion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Defining a Region Around an Artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Applying Corrections to a Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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FluidMotion Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

FluidMotion Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

FluidMotion Effect and the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Fixing Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Using Timewarp Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

FluidFilm Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Using the FluidFilm Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Default Values for the FluidFilm Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Setting Input and Output Options for Format Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Chapter 7 Creating Layered and Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Creating Key Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Understanding the SpectraMatte Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Understanding SpectraMatte Analysis Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

How the SpectraMatte Effect Calculates Key Color Values . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Creating a SpectraMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Understanding the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . 220

Creating a Chroma Key Effect or RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Using Post-Key Color Correction in the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Promoting a Chroma Key Effect to the SpectraMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Real-Time Moving Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Editing with Imported Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Changing the Order of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

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Submaster Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Chapter 8 Working with Camera Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Using the Reformat Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Working with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Understanding the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Outputting the Media with the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Positioning the Pan and Scan Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Applying the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Selecting the Source and Target Aspect Ratios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Setting Up Your Monitors for the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Viewing Pan and Scan Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Using the Effect Grid with the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Setting an Origin in the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Subdividing the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Using the Wire Frame in the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Scaling the Pan and Scan Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Positioning the Pan and Scan Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Adjusting the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Combining the Pan and Scan Effect with Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Placing Pan and Scan Effects on the Video Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Using Avid Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Working with Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Applying the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Adjusting Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Viewing the Image While You Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Adjusting the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using Velocity In and Velocity Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Creating a Simple Ease In and Ease Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Creating a Path with Constant Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

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Setting the Path Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Options for Rendering the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Selecting the Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Adjusting for Source Image Pixel Shape and Color Levels . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Memory Management with the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Chapter 9 Motion Tracking and Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Understanding Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Understanding the Tracking Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Uses of Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Motion Tracking and Footage Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Workflow for Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Effects and Effect Parameters That Use Tracking Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Understanding the Tracking Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Tracking Controls in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Tracking Controls in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

The Tracking Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Setting Up an Effect for Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Understanding Video Layers and Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Applying an Effect for Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Making Non-Tracking Parameter Adjustments to an Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Preparing to Generate Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Enabling Tracking in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Creating and Mapping Trackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Understanding Tracker Selectors and Tracker Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating and Mapping Trackers Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Enabling, Disabling, and Deleting Trackers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Setting Up Tracking in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Displaying Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Adjusting Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Guidelines for Positioning Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Guidelines for Resizing Tracking Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

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Setting Up Tracking in the Tracking Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Choosing a Tracking Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Choosing Background or Foreground Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Generating Tracking Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Offset Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Understanding Offset Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Adding and Deleting Tracker Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Moving to a Tracking Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Performing Offset Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Understanding Generated Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Tracking Data in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Tracking Data in the Tracker Timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Customizing Tracking Data Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Setting the Reference Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using SteadyGlide or Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Modifying Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Finding a Specific Tracker Data Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Selecting Tracker Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Deleting Tracking Data From Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Moving Tracker Data Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Moving Tracker Data Points Outside the Frame Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Stretching a Range of Tracker Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Limiting the Effect of Position Tracking Data to a Single Axis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Playback of Effects Using Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Stabilizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Guidelines for Using Multiple Trackers When Stabilizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Using the Region Stabilize Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Stabilizing an Image with the Region Stabilize Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Making Adjustments to the Region Stabilize Region of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Editing Segments That Use Tracking Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Segment Mode Editing with Segments That Use Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Trimming Segments That Use Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Adding Transition Effects to Tracked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

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Reusing Existing Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

When to Reuse Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Copying and Pasting Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Conforming Symphony Meridien Sequences with Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Examples of Effects Using Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Example 1: Replacing the License Plate on a Moving Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Example 2: Special Effects Using Targets for Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Chapter 10 Working with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Understanding 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Accessing 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Applying the 3D Warp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Using Xpress 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Using Matte Keys with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Real-Time Playback of 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Understanding 3D Geometry and Degrees of Rotation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Accessing 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Resetting Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Using Effect Templates with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Manipulating 3D Effects Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Manipulating 3D Effect Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using the Motion Path Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Creating Custom 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Tips for Creating 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Creating a Page Fold Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using the Spline Parameters with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

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Corner Pinning an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Basic Procedure for Corner Pinning an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the Corner Pin Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the Quick Pin Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Using the Corner Pin Parameter Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Returning a Corner to the Default Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Creating a Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Using Axis for a Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Applying a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Chapter 11 Creating and Editing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Understanding the Title Tool Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Advanced Title Tool Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Installing Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using Safe Colors with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Displaying and Snapping to a Grid in the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Using the 16:9 Display Format for Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Creating Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Page Count Limits for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Using Auto Size Mode for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Typing the Text in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Resizing the Width of a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Scrolling Through a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Going to a Page in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Adding Pages to a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Copying or Moving Objects to Pages in a Rolling Title or

a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Inserting Blank Pages in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Deleting Pages in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Formatting Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

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Modifying Box Corners, Lines, and Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Selecting a Line or Border Width. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Adjusting the Color of a Title or Graphic Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Blending Two Colors in an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Adjusting the Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Blending Transparency of Fills and Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Adjusting Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Viewing Shadow Softness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Manipulating Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Basic Object Manipulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Locking and Unlocking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Aligning Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Distributing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Saving and Recalling Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Saving a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Title Style Sheet Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Recalling a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Managing Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Creating and Using Title Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Working with Multiple Title Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating Multiple Format Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Saving Multiple Format Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

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Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Revising a Title in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Working with Existing Multiple Format Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Replacing Fill Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Playback Restrictions for Rolling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Re-creating Title Media from the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Creating Media for Unrendered Titles in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Re-creating Title Media With Multiple Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Troubleshooting Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Title Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Wrong Title Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Chapter 12 Intraframe Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Understanding the Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Rendering Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Getting Started with the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Applying the Paint or AniMatte Effect to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Using the Effect Editor with the Paint Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Using the Effect Editor with the AniMatte Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Intraframe Editing with Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Using Effect Templates with the Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Using the Intraframe Drawing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Understanding Intraframe Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Using an Optional Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Using the Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Selecting a Color for the Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Painting with the Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Creating a Custom Brush Head from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Saving and Applying Brush Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Using Path to Create a Signature Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

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Creating Rectangular Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Creating Oval Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Drawing Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Creating Polygons with Straight-Line Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Creating Polygons with Curved Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Creating a Straight Line Following a Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Creating Curved Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Changing the Parameters of a Painted Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Working with Vector-Based Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

The Elements of Vector-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Getting Started with Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Reshaping an Object with Straight Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Transforming a Rectangle into a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Experimenting with Direction Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Creating a Corner Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Modifying Lines and Curves Summarized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Bézier Curves and New Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Adding a Control Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Removing a Control Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Moving to Adjacent Control Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Moving Control Points Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Moving Control Points and Objects in Small Increments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Previsualization Marker Tool for Film Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Applying a Previsualization Marker Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Creating a Cut List with Previsualization Marker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Manipulating Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Moving Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Reshaping Intraframe Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Reshaping Objects Created with the Curve Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Rotating Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Scaling Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Changing Intraframe Object Parameters over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

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Layering, Grouping, and Locking Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Layering with the Paint Effect and AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Locating Layered Objects with the Outline/Path Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Changing the Layer Order of Objects and Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Grouping and Ungrouping Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Locking and Unlocking Intraframe Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Exporting a Matte PICT File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Scratch Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Understanding Scratch Removal Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Processing by Frame or Field When Using Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Understanding Frame Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Understanding Field Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Removing a Flaw Within a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Removing a Flaw by Using Nearby Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Selecting Material to Use When Correcting Flaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Isolating a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Isolating a Flaw by Using the Scratch Removal Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Isolating a Flaw by Using Add Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Detecting Video Dropout in 24p or 25p Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Using Intraframe Tools to Remove a Flaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Drawing a Shape over a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Dragging Replacement Material over a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Using IN and OUT Points with Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Using the Scratch Removal Positioning Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Examples of Scratch Removal Parameter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Example 1: Replacement Material in the Same Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Example 2: Replacement Material from a Two-Frame

Relative Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Example 3: Replacement Material from a Single Clean Frame. . . . . . . . . 455

Common Intraframe Editing Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Colorizing with Magic Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Applying the Paint Effect to Regions of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

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Creating Animated Matte Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Applying the Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Animating the AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Creating a Single-Layer Organic Matte Wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Working with the Blur Effect and Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Using the Effect Editor with the Blur Effect and Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Creating Blur and Mosaic Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Modifying Blur and Mosaic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Chapter 13 Working with PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Understanding PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

PlasmaWipe Folder Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Using PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Creating PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Creating PAL and NTSC Versions of the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Creating a PlasmaWipe from a Custom Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Creating a Wipe Using the Photoshop Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Creating a PlasmaWipe Effect from an Existing Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Tips for Working with Gradient Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Testing the Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Saving the Image for PAL and NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Storing Images in the PlasmaWipes Folder Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Tips for Adjusting an Existing PlasmaWipe Effect While

the Application is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Using PlasmaWipe Frame and Border Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Applying and Adjusting Frame and Border Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Default Values for PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Creating Custom Border and Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Using PlasmaWipes with HD Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Chapter 14 2D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Blend: Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Blend: Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Blend: Fade from Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

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