Autodesk Smoke Essentials (eBook)

Autodesk Official Press

Alexis Van Hurkman (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2013 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-75035-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Autodesk Smoke for Mac combines familiar tools for non-linear video editing with powerful features for digital compositing and visual effects creation, all within one seamless application. Busy post-production professionals can streamline effects-intensive projects by editing, compositing, and finishing within a single environment. Learn to harness these myriad capabilities with Autodesk Smoke Essentials. This practical book walks you through the fundamentals of the Smoke toolset with basic lessons, step-by-step instruction, and professional video footage covering each area of Autodesk Smoke functionality. It includes downloadable, hands-on project files drawn from Alexis Van Hurkman s narrative short, The Place Where You Live, so you start doing and learning right away using real-world examples. Autodesk Smoke Essentials covers every aspect of Smoke you need to acquire a solid foundation of the software: The Smoke interface inside and out, including all key tools Managing media with the MediaHub and Media Library Editing and trimming clips in a timeline to assemble and polish an edit Creating transitions, adding dissolves, and using Timewarp Building basic composites using the Axis effect How to use ConnectFX (CFX) and the Action Node for advanced compositing Working with audio clips, and adding and mixing audio, music, and sound effects Techniques for color correction and styling titles and credits

Autor

Alexis Van Hurkman is a writer, director, and colorist.He previously worked as a freelance editor and compositing artist,contributing effects and color-correction on a wide variety ofprojects. Hurkman has also graded features and shorts that haveplayed at the Telluride and Sundance Film Festivals. He is theauthor of software documentation for DaVinci Resolve, Apple Color,Apple Shake, and Final Cut Pro.

Inhalt

Introduction xix

CHAPTER 1 Before You Begin 1

CHAPTER 2 The Smoke Interface 17

CHAPTER 3 Importing Your Project's Media 45

CHAPTER 4 Editing a Rough Assembly 55

CHAPTER 5 Editing Dialog and Advanced Trimming 73

CHAPTER 6 Adding Transitions and Timewarp Effects 93

CHAPTER 7 Using Timeline Effects 113

CHAPTER 8 Introduction to ConnectFX 147

CHAPTER 9 Using the ConnectFX Action Node 181

CHAPTER 10 Working with Audio 217

CHAPTER 11 Color Correction 233

CHAPTER 12 Adding Titles 277

CHAPTER 13 Exporting from Smoke 289

APPENDIX Answers to Additional Exercises 299

Index 309

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► CAD-Programme
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Autodesk Smoke • Bild- u. Videoverarbeitung • Computer-Ratgeber • Computer Science • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • End-User Computing • Graphics & Design software (Non-Microsoft) • Graphik- u. Designsoftware (außer Microsoft) • Image and Video Processing • Informatik • Visualisierung u. Computergraphik • Visualization & Computer Graphics
• ISBN-10: 1-118-75035-7 / 1118750357
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-75035-3 / 9781118750353