User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 4

Joyce Ryan

Compositing

Next, we want to combine our character with the moving background.

This process is called “compositing.” To create the composite, start at

the first frame of the movie. Open the file that contains the elements

you wish to composite. Pull the elements into the movie file. Hold down

the Step Forward button until you reach the last frame of the movie,

then click Layers > Drop All.

Here is how the composite is created for the Vince movie. First, the

movie is set on frame 1. Next, the car window layer is moved into

position using the Layer Adjuster tool.

Then the Vince layer is positioned in the same way.

Then the background is added.

Once the layers are in place over the first frame of the movie, the frames

are advanced to the end and all the layers dropped.