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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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