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Edit Layer Event 345
Filter Plug-In group
Label—Lets you edit the event name.
Filter List—Lists the filter plug-ins (page 3–1089)
you have installed.
See the separate help topics for a description of the
filters that come with 3ds Max.
About—Provides version/source information
specific to the plug-in.
Setup—Displays a setup dialog specific to the
plug-in. Some plug-ins may not use this button.
Mask group
Channels—If you are using a bitmap as the mask
file, you can use the Alpha channel, the Red,
Green, or Blue channel, Luminance, Z-Buffer,
Material Effects ID, or Object ID.
Files—Select a file to use as a mask. The name of
the selected file appears above the Files button.
Opti ons —Displays a Image In put Options dialog
(page 3–342)
in which you can set align ment and
size, relative to the frames of video output. For
animat ed images, you can also synchronize the
mask with the frame sequence of video output.
ThisisthesamedialogusedforImageInputEvent
options.
Enabled—Enablesthemask. Ifthisboxisclear,
Video Post ignores any other mask settings.
Inver ted—When selected, the mask is inverted.
Video Post Parameters gro up
V P Star t Time/End T ime—Sets the starting and
ending frames for the selected event w ithin the
overall Video Post queue. Video Post renders the
event over the number of frames specified here.
Enabled—Enables or disables the event. When
this box is clear, the event is disabled and Video
Post ignores it when rendering the queue. Each
eventmustbedisabledindividually.Forexample,
disabling a composite layer event does not disable
the composited image events. The range bars of
disabled events are unavailable in the event track
area.
Edit Layer Ev ent
Rendering menu > V ideo Post > V ideo Post window >
Select a Layer Event. > Video Post toolbar > Edit Current
Event
Image L ayer events comp osite other images and
scenes. Several kinds of layer events are provided,
see list below.
An Image Layer event is always a parent event with
two children, which can themselves be parents
with children. The children for an Image L ayer
event can be Scene events, Image Input events,
LayereventsthatcontainSceneorImageInput
events,orFiltereventsthatcontainSceneorImage
events.
Ava il a bl e Lay er Filt er s
Edit Alpha Compositor (page 3–355)
Edit Cross Fade Compositor (page 3–355)
Edit Pseudo Alpha Compositor (page 3–356)
Edit Simple Additive Compositor (p age 3–356)
Edit Simple Wipe Compositor (page 3–357)
Procedures
To choose the ma sk file:
1.
Click Files.
2. Usethefiledialogtochoosethemaskfile,and
then click OK.
3. Choo se the channel to use from the drop-down
list of channels.
To pos it i on or r es i ze t he m a sk:
•ClickOptions.