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Backburner Command Line Control...................... 212
18 Effects and Environments .......................213
Effects and Environments ....................................... 213
Environment and Effects Dialog..... ........................ 213
Rendering Effects ................................................. 214
Introduction to Rendering Effects ............ .............. 214
Rendering Effects Command........................ .......... 214
Effects Panel and Rollout......................................... 215
Merging Effects ............... .............................. .......... 216
Hair a nd Fur Render Effect ..................................... 216
Lens Effects Render ing Effects ............................ 219
Lens Effects Rendering Effects ................................ 219
Glow Lens Effect...................................................... 222
Ring Lens Effect....................................................... 226
Ray Lens Effect ........................................................ 230
Auto Secondary Lens Effect .................................... 234
Manual Secondary Lens Effect................................ 238
Star Lens Effect ........................................................ 242
Streak Lens Effect .................................................... 246
Lens Effects Dialogs.............................................. 250
Circular Falloff Graph (Lens Effects)...................... 250
Radial Density Dialog (Lens Effects) ...................... 252
Radial Falloff Dialog (Lens Effects) ........................ 253
Radial Size Dialog (Lens Effects) ............................ 255
Blur Rendering Effect .......................... .................... 256
Brightness and Contrast Rendering Effect ............. 261
Color Balance Rendering Effect .............................. 261
File Output Rendering Effect .................................. 262
Film Grain Rendering Effect ................................... 264
Motion Blur Rendering Effect................................. 265
Depth of Field Rendering Effect.............................. 265
Environment and Environment Effects............... 267
Environment............................................................ 267
Environment Panel.............................. .................... 268
Fire Environment Effect ............ .............................. 272
Fog Envi ronment Effect .......................................... 278
Volume Fog Environment Effect............................. 280
Volume Light Environment Effect .......................... 284
Exposure Controls ................................................ 289
Exposure Controls........................ ........................... 289
Automatic Exposure Control .............................. .... 291
Linear Exposure Control.............. ........................... 292
Logarithmic Exposure Control ............................... 293
Pseudo Color Exposure Control ............ ................. 296
Lighting Data Exporter Utility........ ........................ 299
Atmospheric Apparatus Helper Objects............. 300
Atmospheric Apparatus .......................................... 300
Add Atmosphere Dialog ......................................... 300
BoxGizmo Helper............ ........................................ 300
CylGizmo Helper..................................................... 302
SphereGizmo Helper. .............................................. 303
19 V ideo Post-Production............................307
Video Post................................................................ 307
Video Post Queue.............................................. ...... 308
Useful Video Post Procedures ........................... ...... 309
Video Post Status Bar / View Controls.................... 317
Troubleshooting Video Post.................................... 317
V ideo Post Toolbar ............................................... 319
Video Post Toolbar .................................................. 319
New Sequence .............. ........................................... 319
Open Sequence ....................................................... 319
Save Sequence ........... .............................................. 320
Edit Current Event .................................................. 320
Delete Current Event .............................................. 321
Swap Events ............................................................ 321
Execute Sequence ................................................... 321
Configure Presets ................................................. ... 323
Edit Range Bar ..................................................... ... 323
Align Selected Left .................................................. 324
Align Selected Right .............. .............................. ... 324
Make Selected Same Size ........................................ 325
Abut Selected ............................................. ............. 325
Add Scene Event ..................................................... 325
Add Image Input Event .......... ................................. 328
Add Image Filter Event ........................................... 330
Add Image Layer Event ................. .......................... 331
Add Image Output Event .................... .................... 334
Add External Event ................................................. 335
Add Loop Event ...................................................... 337
Editing Events....................................................... 338
Edit Scene Event ..................................................... 338
Edit Image Input Event............................................ 341
Image Input Options............................................... 342
Edit Filter Event............ .............................. ............. 344
Edit Layer Event................................................. ...... 345
Edit Output Image Event.................. ....................... 347
Edit External Event.................................................. 348
Edit Loop Event................................... .................... 349
Editing Filter Events ............................................. 350
Edit Contrast Filter.... .............................................. 350
Edit Fade Filter ........................................................ 351
Edit Image Alpha Filter .............................. ............. 351
Edit Negative Filter.................................................. 352
Edit Pseudo Alpha Filter.......................................... 352
Edit Simple Wipe Filter ... ........................................ 353
Edit Starfield Filter .................................................. 353