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Smoke 5 timeline effects

Sep 06, 2014

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Samuel Edsall

Timeline effects including Axis, Titles, Resizing,
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Smoke VTimeline Effects

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Effects Ribbon Once you select an effect, the parameters for

that effect appear in the toolbar

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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

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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

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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

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Check Out Some Axis Effects

Change the Shadow setting back to Surface

Click on the Soft button

Change the Soft value to 40

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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%

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Check Out the Effects on the Clip

Select the Resize effect Notice the current

width and height settings

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Resizing Types Fill

This will take the original image and stretch it to fit the height and width of the sequence

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Resizing Types Crop edges

Uses the bounding box in the original image side to crop the clip to the desired size in your sequence

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Creating Titles Simple titles are

easily created using timeline effects

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Set up for a Title Select the gap

clip above sunset quest and immersed and move so it completely over sunset quest

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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

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Set up for a Title Select the gap

clip

Click on the FX button and select Text

Enter the Editor

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Set up for a Title On the right

side change the view from 100% to Fit Now we can see

the whole clip

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Titles Layout Color

controls Sets the text

face, edge and shadow colors

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Titles Layout Font

Type style and size

Copy/paste Copy attributes

in one place and paste them somewhere else

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Titles Layout Paragraph

controls Margins Leading

Text path tools Text follows a

designated path

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Titles Layout Axis

Change position and scale to the entire text object or individual characters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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%

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Changing Speed Select the teachers clip at

the end of your sequence

Right click (Control click) and choose Add Effect

Choose Time Warp

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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%

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Do a Variable Speed Back up 10 frames

Shift

Set the speed at this frame for 100%

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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Smoke VTimeline Effects