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Grain added to composition.
The grain management tools let you create convincing composites with film
material. You may want to add grain to clips that originate from video to give
them a film look.
The grain management tools are useful when:
Mixing film clips originating from different film stocks; you may want to
match the grain in the clips to make your results more consistent.
Working with footage originally shot on film that was transferred to video,
you may want to remove the grain if you want to mix film material with
video material.
Working with CG-generated elements, you may want a film look result.
Adding Grain to a Composition
The Add Grain tool lets you sample the grain from one image (the reference
image) and apply it to another image (the input image) or sequence. In the
following example, a CG character is used as the input image and the mountain
background is used as the reference image (the grain will be analyzed from
this image).
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