Smoke V Timeline Effects
Sep 06, 2014
Smoke VTimeline Effects
Let’s Get Started Load your 420 lesson
project
Create a new sequence 1920 X 1080 Title it Effects Create
Select the journey clip Set duration around 3
seconds
Insert into the timeline
Add More Clips to the Sequence
Select my fall into the Viewer Set in and out points before
and after the breach (@ 4 seconds duration)
Insert into the sequence
Select teachers into the Veiwer Set the in point before the
seal enters the shot Set the out point by setting
the duration to 5 seconds Insert into the sequence
Shift Z to see your whole sequence
Adding Effects to Clips
Right click a clip Select the clip Right click (Control
click) and choose ‘Add Effect’
Effects button in the tool bar Select the clip Click on the Effects
button
The Effects Ribbon Shows you all the effects you can apply to the clip
They are applied in the order that they appear
On/Off If the LED is on, that effect is running If the LED is off, that effect is not running
Check Out Some Axis Effects
Create a new video track
Select the sunset quest clip and drag to the new video track
Trim to set the out point the same as the clip underneath it
Check Out Some Axis Effects
Select the clip if necessary
Click on the FX button to bring up the Video Effects ribbon
Click on the AX (Axis) button
The Effects Ribbon Once you select an effect, the parameters for
that effect appear in the toolbar
The Effects Ribbon If you have more than
one effect in the effects pipeline, when you select the effect, the parameters for that effect will appear in the toolbar
Basic tools appear in the toolbar
Basic and advanced tools are available in the Editor
Check Out Some Axis Effects
Make sure the AX button is selected so you have the axis controls available in the toolbar
Drag left on the Scale X or Y box and reduce the scale to 75%
Change the Blend mode to Spotlight
Check Out Some Axis Effects
Set the Blend mode back to Blend
Click on the Surface button and change the setting to Shadow
Turn Shadow on, the set the X value to 30 and the Y value to -30
Check Out Some Axis Effects
Change the Shadow setting back to Surface
Click on the Soft button
Change the Soft value to 40
Turning Effects On and Off
Click on the lit LED will turn off the selected effect Usually no rendering
will be needed since it will refer back to the original clip
Click the LED part of the effect to turn the effect back on
Turn Your Effect On and Off
Select your clip in the timeline
Click on the Axis LED button to turn off the effect
Click on the Axis LED button again to turn it back on
Remove an Effect Permanently
Three ways Control click on the
effect and select Delete Click on the Delete
button on the far right of the effects toolbar
Drag the effect to the very bottom of the screen by the Media Hub button until you see the trashcan, then release
Remove an Effect Permanently
The render file When you render an
effect to a clip a separate render file is saved in the media folder
If you delete the effect, the render file will also be deleted No unused render files
are saved with your project
Practice an Effect Delete
Select the Axis effect and press the Delete button
Undo the delete
Now try dragging the effect button to the bottom until you see the trashcan icon, then release
Undo the delete
Render/Partial Rendered Effects
Dotted line on top of the clip Represents a partially
rendered effect on the clip
Solid line All the active effects
on that clip have been rendered and can play back in real time
Render/Partial Rendered Effects
Render more frames Move the play head
forward or backward a frame at a time
Render all the frames Click on the Render
button
Render Your Effect Position the play head
over the clip you wish to render
Click on the Render button It will render all clips at
the current play head position
When the render is done, back up the play head the play your effect
Gap Effects Allows you to span an
effect across part of a clip or across multiple clips in your sequence
Uses the empty video track above the active video track
Like an Adjustment Layer in Photoshop
Create a Gap Effect Create a new video track
Move the focus point on your play head to the top track
Press Control V to create a splice somewhere above sunset quest and another past the out point
Select the space in-between the two splices to create a gap clip for that set duration
Create a Gap Effect
Click on the Effects button and select Colour Correct
Adjust the parameters like Contrast, Gain, Saturation and Hue
Scrub though your sequence to see how this effect is applied on multiple clips
Trim the Gap clip to change when this effect occurs
Resizing Effect Allows you to use any
media at any size and framerate in any sequence setting
If the clip does not match the sequence settings, Smoke will resize the clip to fit the sequence as best as possible
In this example the source clip was 3000 X 2000 edited to a sequence of 1920 X 1080
Set Up for aResize Effect
Move the play head over the my fall clip and move the focal point to the video track on top of that clip
Press X This marks in and
out points around the my fall clip
Set Up for aResize Effect
In the Media Browser select the immersed clip and press X This sets an in and
out point for all the media in this clip
Overwrite the clip into the timeline
Check Out the Effects on the Clip
Change the size of this video track wide enough so you can see the effects that have been applied to this clip TW = Time warp RZ = Resize
Check Out the Effects on the Clip
Select the Timewarp effect and notice the settings in the toolbar Speed is faster
In my case 227.36%
Check Out the Effects on the Clip
Select the Resize effect Notice the current
width and height settings
Modify the Resize Effect
Click on the Enter Editor button
Left side Original clip
Right side Result of any changes
you make or what Smoke did to try to make it fit to the sequence
Resizing Types If your source is
smaller or bigger than your sequence, you can choose with resizing is best for you In our case, since our
source clip is almost exactly the same as our sequence, we will not notice any changes
Resizing Types Center cropped
Places the original image in the middle of the sequence and crops off any extra source material on all sides of the source image
No scaling is applied to the original image
Resizing Types Letterbox
Will scale the longest side of the original image to fit the sequence
For example – placing a 16:9 image in a 4:3 frame
Resizing Types Fill
This will take the original image and stretch it to fit the height and width of the sequence
Resizing Types Crop edges
Uses the bounding box in the original image side to crop the clip to the desired size in your sequence
Modify the Resize Effect
Inside the editor, move the play head to where you can see the whales underwater
Change the scale to Crop Edges
Modify the Resize Effect
Under Scale click on the Free button and change the setting to Destination This will keep the
scaling in aspect with the sequence
Click on the green bounding box to move and scale your resize effect to where the whales are
Modify the Resize Effect
On the right side turn on Auto Key
Click Set Key to set a key at the current frame
Move the play head to 10:00:05 or so when the whales move to the upper left
Move the bounding box to where the action is
Make sure your bounding box does not go outside the video clip or you will have a gap edge in your sequence
Modify the Resize Effect
Turn off Auto Key
Scrub though your clip to see your scaled animation applied to your clip
Press Exit to close the Editor
Render your clip and play it back to see the completed result
Creating Titles Simple titles are
easily created using timeline effects
Set up for a Title Select the gap
clip above sunset quest and immersed and move so it completely over sunset quest
Set up for a Title Move the focus
point on the play head to the the track on top of immersed
Press Shift V This sets a splice
on both sides of the immersed clip to the top track
Set up for a Title Select the gap
clip
Click on the FX button and select Text
Enter the Editor
Set up for a Title On the right
side change the view from 100% to Fit Now we can see
the whole clip
Titles Layout Color
controls Sets the text
face, edge and shadow colors
Titles Layout Font
Type style and size
Copy/paste Copy attributes
in one place and paste them somewhere else
Titles Layout Paragraph
controls Margins Leading
Text path tools Text follows a
designated path
Titles Layout Axis
Change position and scale to the entire text object or individual characters
Create and Modify a Title
On the right side below the video clip choose New Layer You can have as
many text layers as you like
At the top, type in Killer Whales
Create and Modify a Title
In the Paragraph section choose Centre to center the text
In the Font section click on the current font to bring up the Font manager
Create and Modify a Title
In the Font manager change the font selection from Type 1 to Auto This is so we can see
all types of fonts in our library
In the Subdirectories section click on System Fonts
Create and Modify a Title
In the upper left, change the view from Titles to Proxies
Click on Generate Proxy so you can preview the fonts
Create and Modify a Title
Scroll down the list of proxies until you find Arial Bold.tff and select
Click Load to load the font
Have a Better Look Click on the small
red icon on the left of the text layer and drag the text to the center lower third of your clip.
On the right change the scale of your clip to 200%
Have a Better Look On the right,
change the Point tool to the Pan tool
Pan down to the bottom of your clip where your text is, then change the tool back to Point
Have a Better Look Adjust the fill color
by clicking on the color box
Turn on the Outline and Shadow and adjust to your liking
When done, change the scale back to Fit
Animate your Text Press the Exit key to return to
the timeline
Turn on Autokey
Go to the last frame of your clip and change the Kern to 35
Go to the first frame of your clip and change the Kern to 0
Turn off Autokey, then scrub though your clip to see your changes
Fade Your Text Click the bottom of the timeline
to deselect all your clips
Make sure the focus point is on the top video track and use the up/down arrow to the beginning of the gap clip
Click on the Transition button and select Dissolve
Deselect the transition
Repeat on the end of the gap clip
Check out the results
Change Speed & Time Warps
Speed changes Can be at a constant
rate or variable Can be forward or
backward Can be fastmo or
slowmo Tools available to
smooth out slowmo stuttering
Changing Speed Select the teachers clip at
the end of your sequence
Right click (Control click) and choose Add Effect
Choose Time Warp
Three Kinds of Time Strobe
Repeats a frame a number of times
Constant Uses the same value to effect the
entire clip
Variable Allows you to modify the speed
across the clip
Changing Speed Set the type of speed
change to Constant
In the % box type 25 Enter Sets the speed to ¼ speed
Scrub through the clip and notice the speed change Also notice that the clip
duration in the sequence did NOT change
Extra frames were pushed off the clip
What to Keep? Anchor pop-up box
Allows you to choose what frames stay with the clip when performing a time warp
Anchor In In point stays, out point pushed off
Anchor Out Out point stays, in point pushed off
Anchor Pos Frame where the play head stay, out point
pushed off
Fix Your Clip The out point of this
clip is more important than the in point, so let’s fix the speed effect
Undo the speed change
Change the anchor point to Anchor Out
Reapply the 25% speed change and notice the difference
Cleaning Up Slomo 3 options to remove the
stuttering effect caused by repeating frames
Frame mixing Mixes the past and future
frames causing a trailing effect
Select Mix then select how many frames before and after the current frame to blend together
Clean up the Slowmo Select Mix in the
pop-up menu
Change the mix frame number to 5.00
Render the clip and play it back Notice that the
slomo is smoother
Cleaning Up Slomo Motion estimation
Sometimes known as optical flow
Morphs existing frames together to make a smoother effect
Looks better with less blurring than Mix, but takes longer to render
Clean up the Slowmo Select Motion
Leave the ¼ Res setting at the default This does not mean ¼
resolution, but the strictness of the motion estimation process
Render out the clip and check out the super-smooth slomo
Cleaning Up Slomo Trail
You choose how many frames before and after the play head to blend together for the final effect
Creates an interesting effect with a high number of frames chosen
Try Out This Effect Select Trail
Change the Pre and Post settings to 10 frames
Render out again and check out the motion this time
Prep for a Variable Speed
Click on the Reset Speed button
Change the speed blend mode back to Mix and Mix frames to 0
Move the play head to where the seal looks at the camera
Do aVariable Speed Change the
speed to Variable The Auto Key light
should turn on
Where the seal is looking into the camera change the speed to 25%
Do a Variable Speed Back up 10 frames
Shift
Set the speed at this frame for 100%
Do a Variable Speed Move the play head 1
second after the 25% change Shift 4 times
Once to catch up to where you were
3 more times to move forward 30 frames
Set the blend to Mix 5 frames and render out your speed effect
Adjust Your Variable Speed
Scrub though your variable speed clip Notice that at the
slow part the speed dips well below 25%
Smoke is trying to smooth out the speed changes at this point in the variable speed setting
Adjust Your Variable Speed
Enter the Editor In the graph, notice
how the Bezier curve handles bend the speed below 25%
Grab the handles and straighten the curve
Adjust Your Variable Speed
This time select the Motion frame blending effect and render the clip
Now check out your super-sweet-super-slowmo effect!
Smoke VTimeline Effects