The Focal easy guide to Discreet Combustion 4 for new users and professionals
Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Combustion. Get a jump-start learning the major features or the software without bogging you down with u...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Focal
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Focal easy guide series
Focal easy guide series. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627861706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Focal Easy Guide to Discreet Combustion 4; Copyright Page; Contents; About this Book; Platforms; About the Footage; About the Author; A Few Thanks . . .; 1. Preferences, UI, and Key Terms; And So It Begins . . .; Quick Visit to the Preferences; Major Project Components; Main Interface Explained Graphically; Data Entry Conventions; 2. Workflow Basics, Footage, and Viewports; RAM Cache and Caching; The Cache Meter; Display Quality and Caching; File Menu Options; The Thumbnail Browser; Working with Footage; Footage Controls (Source and Output Settings); Working with Proxies
- Missing FootageThe Workspace Panel; Working with Viewports; View Modes; 3. Paint and Text Operators; Paint Preferences; Applying a Paint Operator; Non-destructive Paint; The Paint Operator Toolbar; Paint Object Pivot Points; Control Points; Two Types of Groups within Paint; Bezier and B-Splines Tools; Categories of the Paint Controls; Vector Paint, Raster Output; Working with Adobe Illustrator Files; Text and Character Generation; 4. Compositing in 2D and 3D; 2D Composites; Manipulating Layers; Transformations; Transfer Modes; Layer View; Effect Operators; 3D Compositing
- Additional Notes about 3D Composites. . . and Finally, Nested Composites; 5. The Schematic View (Go with the Flow); Accessing the Schematic View; Applying Operators; Notes on Nodes; Further Points on Schematic View; Schematic Hotkeys; Duplicating (aka Creating Instances); Capsules; Schematic Preferences; 6. Selections and Masks; Shared Terminology; Selections; Selection Operators; Mask Operators and Alpha Channels; Stencil Layer; Preserve Alpha; Preferences; 7. Working with Color; Color Spaces; Color Channels and Bit Depth; Color Correction; The Discreet CC; Color Matching
- The Store and Compare Features8. Keying; Keyer Types in combustion; More than Just Making the Blue or Green Vanish . . .; Two Keying Operators; Additional Keying Operators; One Keying Workflow; Additional Tips for Chroma Keying; Additional Resources for Chroma Keying; 9. The Tracker; The Enigma Unveiled; Two Questions to Consider; Applications for the Tracker; Let's Make Tracks, Already!; Trackers; Picking an Element to Track; The Tracker Interface in Depth; Image Stabilizing; Closing Tips; 10. Animation and the Timeline; When and How Much?; Methods of Animating in combustion
- Creating Simple Keyframe AnimationsThe Timeline; Animation Channels and Filtering; Object-Specific Channel Filters; Creating Custom Channel Filter Presets; Ease Curves; Extrapolation; Math Operations; Markers; 11. A/V Editing; Audio; The Filmstrip; The Edit Operator; Trimming Heads, Middles, and Tails; Simple Editing; Duplicating Segments; Transitions; One- and Two-point Editing; Edit Markers; Split Layer; Additional Notes on Editing within combustion; 12. Expressions; 'Quick Pick' Link Options; Editing an Expression; Expression Browser; Converting Expressions to Keyframes
- Ideas for Further Exploration
