VFX & Motion Graphics
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Practical Effects - a special effect that is produced physically without any computer-generated imagery.
Special Effects - an illusion created for movies and television by using props, camera work, etc.
Visual Effects - the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live action shot in film making.
Chroma Key - is a visual effects/post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues.
Green Screen - a green background in front of which moving subjects are filmed and which allows a separately filmed background to be added to the final product.
Garbage Mattes - it allows you to define an area around your image to remove any unwanted items from view.
Differences and Similarities -
1. To import files, there are two ways, the first way is to click file and go to import and then click import. The second way is to double click in the project folder.
2. Motion Graphics are pieces of digital footage or animation which create the illusion of motion or rotation.
3. Compositing is to combine (two or more images) to make a single picture, especially electronically.
4. Frame Rate is the frequency at which frames in a television picture, film, or video sequence are displayed.
5. A composition is a container that stores layers of video, audio, etc..
6. You should use RAM preview because it allows you to playback the video in real-time.
7. OpenGL is a set of standards for high-performance processing of 2D and 3D graphics on the graphics processing unit (GPU) for a wide variety of applications.
Adaptive Resolution - An option where the resolution would degrade itself in order for the video to play back quickly.
8. To render a video. 1. click composition, then click add to render queue. 2. Go to output module and choose what output you'd like. 3. Choose your save destination. 4. Then click render.
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Digital Video Effects commonly called DVEs, are digital visual effects that provide transitions from one scene to another, rather than making hard cut frame translational changes. DVEs include fading or dissolving frames, wiping from one frame to another, and frame flipping. More complex effects might include morphing, depending on director’s intent. Many of these effects will be explained in this activity.
DVEs are used in by the broadcast television industry in live production environments like television studios, outside broadcasts or during any other program productions.
DVEs are used in by the broadcast television industry in live production environments like television studios, outside broadcasts or during any other program productions.
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.
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This is the first one, I couldn't get a normal greenscreen shot.
Keying is a technique for compositing two images or frames together in which a colour (or a small colour range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. This technique is also referred to as colour keying, colour-separation overlay, greenscreen, and bluescreen. It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein the presenter appears to be standing in front of a large map, but in the studio it is actually a large blue or green background. The meteorologist stands in front of a bluescreen, and then different weather maps are added on those parts in the image where the colour is blue. If the meteorologist wears blue clothes, their clothes will become replaced with the background video. This also works for greenscreens, since blue and green are considered the colours least like skin tone.
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