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Table Of Contents
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- Contents
- Composite Tutorial
- Introduction
- The Composite UI
- Customizing the Format of your Composition
- Create a New Composition
- Adding a Ramp Tool in the Schematic
- Importing Footage
- Zooming and Panning in the Player
- Customizing the Player Options
- Adding Tools to Your Composition
- Importing Footage (Alternate Method)
- Connecting Passes and Renders
- Compositing the Renders
- Changing the Blend Mode
- Compositing the Occlusion Pass
- Adding Color Correction to Fine-tune Results
- Node Details and Pixel Masking
- Adding Blur Tools
- Adding Motion Blur and Depth of Field
- Rendering the Results
- Index
In the tool’s panel, you’ll notice there are tools with a sphere icon next
to them. These are called super tools. The Image Import super tool is
used to import footage into the composition.
2 Select the Image Import super tool and drag and drop it into the
Schematic view without connecting it to any other nodes.
The tool is added and it is currently selected. The Tool Details area now
displays the parameters for this tool. You’ll see a path and a browse folder
icon along the top of the Tool Details area.
3 Click the browse button to access your drives attached to your computer.
4 The Image Import browser dialog box will open.
5 Use the navigation pane on the left to navigate and open the folder
named “Composite 101.”
6 Click the “Renders” folder to open the folder and you will see all of the
files you need for this tutorial.
Creating Bookmarks
Since you will need to access this folder often during this tutorial, it will be
helpful to create a bookmark for this path.
To create a Bookmark:
1 Click the Bookmark button. The bookmark options will appear.
2 Click the “Add Bookmark” option and the name option appears.
3 Name this bookmark “Red Car Renders” and click OK.
Cclick the bookmark label again to see that the bookmark has been added
to the list area for the bookmarks
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