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Keyboard Shortcut to Drag a Frame Out of a Clip
Here’s one of those shortcuts you may have missed when it was added to the interface!
Simulate Z Motion
While tracking an object manually, use the axis’ vertical size to fit a particular feature of an object.
Day for Night
In general, night is all about brightness ratios, and having something of orange color to contrast to the blue fill of the night. (Actually, moonlight is pure daylight bouncing off of the moon, but we think of it as blue since most ambient light in the city is tungsten or sodium which has a markedly
Edge Flashing
When pulling a key….. In batch: take the bg image as foreground take the image to be keyed as bg and take the inverse of the matte as matte. apply somewhere between a 6 and a 20 point gaussian (for flame) or box (for flint) blur. take the output of this setup as front layer1
Tracking Two Moving Images
This tutorial explains how to track one moving clip to another moving clip using one point tracking.
March 2nd 2000
Combining Two Mattes via Source Nodes
Here is a sample setup to take two mattes and combine them using source nodes
Optical Mix
This technique will give a result closer to a true optical film mix than any other method available using Discreet tools alone.
Blood Stains
How to add blood stains to multiple “drive by victims” (producer wanted more blood)
Motion Blur on Still Objects
This technique will add motion blur to objects that have no axis movement (rendered 3D animation, cel animation, etc.)