Beyond the Basics
This chapter has covered some of the basics for adjusting and matching footage. Obviously there are exceptional situations, some of which occur all of the time: depth cueing, changes in lighting during the shot, backlighting, interactive light and shadow. There are even cases in which you can, to some degree, relight a shot in After Effects, introducing light direction, exchanging day for night, and so on. These topics and more are covered in depth in Chapter 12.
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Section I. Working Foundations
The 7.0 Workflow
- The 7.0 Workflow
- Workspaces and Panels
- Making the Most of the UI
- Settings: Project, Footage, Composition
- Previews and OpenGL
- Effects & Presets
- Output: The Render Queue
- Study a Shot like an Effects Artist
The Timeline
- The Timeline
- Organization
- Animation Methods
- Keyframes and The Graph Editor
- Uber-mastery
- Transform Offsets
- Motion Blur
- Manipulating Time Itself
- In Conclusion
Selections: The Key to Compositing
- Selections: The Key to Compositing
- The Many Ways to Create Selections
- Compositing: Science and Nature
- Alpha Channels and Premultiplication
- Masks
- Combining Multiple Masks
- Putting Masks in Motion
- Blending Modes: The Real Deal
- Track Mattes
Optimizing Your Projects
- Optimizing Your Projects
- Navigating Multiple Compositions
- Precomposing and Nesting
- Adjustment and Guide Layers
- Understanding Rendering Order
- Optimizing After Effects
- Onward to Effects
Section II. Effects Compositing Essentials
Color Correction
- Color Correction
- Optimizing Plate Levels
- Color Matching
- Beyond the Basics
Color Keying
- Color Keying
- Good Habits and Best Practices
- Linear Keyers and Hi-Con Mattes
- Blue-Screen and Green-Screen Keying
- Understanding and Optimizing Keylight
- Fixing Typical Problems
- Conclusion
Rotoscoping and Paint
- Rotoscoping and Paint
- Articulated Mattes
- Working Around Limitations
- Morphing
- Paint and Cloning
- Conclusion
Effective Motion Tracking
- Effective Motion Tracking
- The Essentials
- Optimizing Tracking Using 3D
- Extending a Track with Expressions
- Tracking for Rotoscoping
- Using 3D Tracking Data
- Conclusion
Virtual Cinematography
- Virtual Cinematography
- 5D: Pick Up the Camera
- Storytelling and the Camera
- Camera Blur
- The Role of Grain
- Film and Video Looks
- Conclusion
Expressions
- Expressions
- Logic and Grammar
- Muting Keyframes
- Linking Animation Data
- Looping Animations
- Smoothing and Destabilizing
- Offsetting Layers and Time
- Conditionals and Triggers
- Tell Me More
Film, HDR, and 32 Bit Compositing
- Film, HDR, and 32 Bit Compositing
- Details
- Film 101
- Dynamic Range
- Cineon Log Space
- Video Gamma Space
- Battle of the Color Spaces
- Floating Point
- 32 Bits per Channel
- Conclusion
Section III. Creative Explorations
Working with Light
- Working with Light
- Light Source and Direction
- Creating a Look with Color
- Backlighting, Flares, Light Volume
- Shadows and Reflected Light
- HDR Lighting
- Conclusion
Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds
- Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds
- Particulate Matter
- Sky Replacement
- The Fog, Smoke, or Mist Rolls In
- Billowing Smoke
- Wind
- Water
- Conclusion
Pyrotechnics: Fire, Explosions, Energy Phenomena
- Pyrotechnics: Fire, Explosions, Energy Phenomena
- Firearms
- Sci-Fi Weaponry
- Heat Distortion
- Fire
- Explosions
- In a Blaze of Glory
Learning to See
Index
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