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Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects
By Marco Paolini
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: October 25, 2005
ISBN: 0-321-25609-3
Pages: 480

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Acknowledgments
		Getting Started
			About Apple Pro Training Series
			System Requirements
			Installing Shake
			Copying the Shake Lesson Files
			Resources
			Apple Pro Certification
		Lesson 1.  The Shake Workflow
			Interface Workflow
			The Shake Interface
			Importing Images and Sequences
			Using the Viewer
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 2.  Basic Compositing
			Understanding Process Trees
			Creating a Simple Tree
			Creating a Drop Shadow
			Rendering Your Tree
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 3.  Intermediate Compositing
			From Robot to Robzilla
			Creating a Drop Shadow from Scratch
			Animating over Time
			Applying the Finishing Touches
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 4.  RotoShape
			Add Shapes vs. Edit Shapes
			Creating and Modifying Shapes
			Knot Modes
			Right Mouse Controls
			Roto Tips
			Creating a Rotoshape
			Integrating Rotoshapes into the Composite
			Miscellaneous RotoShape Viewer Controls
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 5.  Color Correction
			Basic Color-Correction Tools
			Using PlotScanline to Understand Color Corrections
			Concatenation
			Color Matching Using Channel Isolation
			Color Matching Using ColorMatch
			The ColorCorrect Node
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 6.  QuickPaint
			Setting Resolution
			Edit vs. Paint Mode
			Using the Brushes
			Choosing a Color
			Modifying Strokes
			Understanding Stroke Modes
			Converting Strokes
			Creating a Write-On Effect
			Painting in Perspective
			Dustbusting and Rotoscoping
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 7.  Tracking
			One-Point Tracking with MatchMove
			One-Point Tracking with Stabilization
			Applying Four-Point Tracking
			Making Tracker Adjustments
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 8.  Film Compositing
			Film Resolution Files
			Proxies
			The Bullet Composite
			Rendering Full Resolution
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 9.  Video/Audio
			Video Fields
			Remastering Media in the FileIn Node
			Miscellaneous Video Functions
			Audio
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 10.  Keying
			Understanding Primatte
			Adding a Reflection
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 11.  MultiPlane Compositing
			FileIn the Source Material
			Preparing the Elements
			Taking a Tour of MultiPlane
			Hooking Up the MultiPlane Node
			Creating the MultiPlane Composite
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 12.  Advanced Compositing
			FileIn the Source Material
			Creating a Macro
			Create a Flickering Neon Light
			MultiPlane and 3D Tracking Data
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 13.  Warping
			FileIn the Source Material
			The Old Stabilize/Destabilize Trick
			Key the Scarf
			Compositing Outside Keylight
			Warping the Scarf
			Color-Correcting the Scarf
			Destabilizing the Composite
			Lesson Review
		Lesson 14.  The Command Line
			Shake in the Command Line
			Command-Line Compositing, in Depth
			Lesson Review
		Final Cut Studio Workflows
		Inside Back Cover
			The Apple Pro Training Series
		Glossary
			A
			B
			C
			D
			F
			G
			I
			K
			M
			N
			O
			P
			R
			S
			T
			V
			W
		Index