CoreMelt TRX V2:
Introduction
PolyChrome V2 - TRX, is a set of twenty-seven filmic transitions, to enhance the work flow of motion graphics artists and video editors.
All plugins render using the graphics card of your computer for fastest performance and all effects can render in high precision float colour depth.
Whats New in V2:
Transition Effects are Available as filters in Motion and After Effects:
Most Transition effects that were previously only available in Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express now appear as filters in Motion and After Effects. In some cases where a very similar plugin already existed as a filter the transition effect does not appear as a filter.
Motion blur can now be rendered in all hosts:
All plugins now render with motion blur in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion and After Effects CS3/CS4
V Twin FX Engine / Standalone installation:
All CoreMelt plugins now use the 2nd generation V Twin FX plugin engine and are now completely standalone and no longer require FxFactory to be installed first.
Graphical Texture/Mask Pulldowns:
Masks or built in textures such ad the Imageflow Fx frames now appear as thumbnails in the menu to allow you to select them easily. You can also add your own masks to the CoreMelt Masks menu by creating a folder in your home directory "~/Library/Application Support/ CoreMelt/V2 Vector Masks". Any PDF, AI or PNG image files placed in that directory will be available for all CoreMelt plugins to use as built in masks. You can customise other texture browsers in the same way, a full list of directories is in the full documentation.
Quick Start:
Video Transitions in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express
- Create a new project.
- Drop in the two clips of content you wish to edit.
- Bring up the "Video Transitions" panel.
- Browse to the "C2 TRX - Filmic Looks" folder
- Drag the filter you want onto the overlap between your content.
- Alter the settings until you have achieved the desired result.
Video Transitions in Motion and After Effects CS3/CS4
Transition effects are indicated by a star on the end of the effect name in the filters list.
- Create your composition.
- Drag your start content onto the timeline.
- Apply your transition filter to your content.
- Drag your end content to the image well* named "second image".
- Edit the "transition time" value.
- At "Transition Time" value "0", the entire original clip is visible.
- At "transition time" value "1", the entire "second image" is visible.
* For further information on adding content to an image well, please refer to the help documentation of the software you are using.
List of Plugins and Parameters:
Additive Dissolve:
Duplicates the FCP Additive Dissolve with the addition of advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Blend Mode Dissolve:
Transitions between clips applying one of sixteen different layer blend modes to transition from the source to the destination clip. Includes advanced curves control to let you control exactly how the clips transition in and out.
Unique Parameters:
Composite Type: Choose one of the sixteen blend modes from the pull down menu.
Blocks Fade In Fade Out:
Makes the image dissapear in a random pattern of any number of blocks across and down.
Unique Parameters:
Seed: change this setting to change the random block pattern.
Num H: number of blocks across.
Num V: number of blocks down.
Blocks Reveal:
Makes the target clip be revealed in a random pattern of any number of blocks across and down.
Unique Parameters:
Seed: change this setting to change the random block pattern.
Num H: number of blocks across.
Num V: number of blocks down.
Camera Shutter:
Camera Shutter changes from source to destination with controllable shutter type, number of leaves, and shutter width.
Specific Parameters:
Shutter Type: choose the style of shutter image
Shutter Width: adjust width of the shutter
Num Leafs: choose how many leaves the shutter has around the circle
Chroma delay dissolve:
Fades the red, green, and blue channels out with different rates of delay in each channel.
Chroma drain dissolve:
Drains the image of colour except for a selected hue, and then fades the colours back into the destination clip.
Chroma grow shrink:
Fades the red, green, and blue channels out with different rates of delay in each channel.
Chroma key fade:
Leaves a chosen colour longer over the destination clip and then fades that colour out last.
Cross Dissolve:
Duplicates the FCP Cross Dissolve with the addition of advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Curl Apart:
Applys a page curl through the middle of the image producting an effect like unzipping the image in the middle.
Unique Parameters:
Horizontal or Vertical: choose whether the tear goes across or down the image.
Angle: choose the angle the two sections tears off at.
Radius: choose how title curled the page is.
Num Strips: choose how many strips are torn off, each strips angle is the opposite to the one next to it, with high numbers of strips it causes an effect like peeling off into confetti.
Dip to Color:
Duplicates the FCP Dip to Color with the addition of advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Dither Dissolve:
Duplicates the FCP Dither Dissolve with the addition of Noise Scale controls, advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Unique Parameters:
Noise Scale: Scale the noise which is used to gradually dissolve the clip.
Static Noise: Chose whether the noise pattern is static or changes each frame.
Expose Darks:
Fades out to black by underexposing dark areas of the A clip, then fades the B clip back in by reverse overexposing the darsk areas.
Exposure Flash:
Simulates a camera flash where the camera slows down while shootting keeping the shutter open for longer and longer until it stops.
Unique Parameters:
Max Exposure: the amount to decrease the exposure by in the mid point of the transition.
Fade In Fade Out:
Duplicates the FCP Fade In Fade Out with the addition of advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Film Blowout Wipe:
Wipes a filmic optical glow across the image at any angle.
Unique Parameters:
Angle: the angle of the wipe.
Power: the maxium strength of the blowout glow.
Softness: width of the glowing wipe.
Lo Threshold, Hi Threshold: chooses the luminance range to apply the glow effect to.
Take Glow From: choose to have the glow color generated from the clips or tinted a color chosen.
Tint Color: choose the tint color.
Tint Percent: choose how much of the original color mixes with the tint.
Use Breakup: choose whether to apply a random noise breakup to the glow.
Breakup Strength: the strength of the breakup that is subtracted from the glow.
Breakup Scale: the scale of the breakup that is subtracted from the glow.
Filmstrip:
Zooms out of the source clip revealing a scrolling loop of images then flys into the target clip.
Unique Parameters:
Images Moved: chose how many images to fly across before we land on the target clip.
Zoom Out Amount: choose how far we pull back before landing on the next clip.
Choose Strip: pick which frame is used around the film strip of images from the built in ones or use an image well.
Direction: pick if the strip moves left or right before landing.
Choose Strip Images: the extra images traversed before landing can either be repeated of the source and target or use new images from image wells. If you choose extra images then the image wells appear below to select additional layers to use.
Focus pull dissolve:
Dissolves into a defocused version of the target clip then refocuses again.
Lab Film Blowout:
Wipes a filmic optical glow across the image at any angle.
Unique Parameters:
Angle: the angle of the wipe.
Power: the maxium strength of the blowout glow.
Softness: width of the glowing wipe.
Lo Threshold, Hi Threshold: chooses the luminance range to apply the glow effect to.
Take Glow From: choose to have the glow color generated from the clips or tinted a color chosen.
Tint Color: choose the tint color.
Tint Percent: choose how much of the original color mixes with the tint.
Use Breakup: choose whether to apply a random noise breakup to the glow.
Breakup Strength: the strength of the breakup that is subtracted from the glow.
Breakup Scale: the scale of the breakup that is subtracted from the glow.
Lab Film Dissolve:
Creates a dissolve which mimics an optical film dissolve, the more exposed (eg brighter) areas come in sooner of the incoming clip and fade last of the outgoing clip.
Unique Parameters:
Blacks Fall: the speed at which the blacks fall away in the source/target clips.
Whites Fade: the speed at which the whites fade last in the source/target clips.
Light Wash:
Animates a light rays glow across revealing the destination clip.
Unique Parameters:
Angle: Choose the angle of the light rays wipe.
Light Length: set the length of the rays.
Light Strength: set the strength of the rays.
Light Width: choose the thickness of the area the rays are generated from.
Lo Threshold: choose the minimum luminance threshold that the rays apply to.
Hi Threshold: choose the luminance threshold that generates the maximum effect.
Non Additive Dissolve:
Duplicates the FCP Non Additive Dissolve with the addition of advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Page Curl:
Duplicates the FCP Page Curl with the addition of reflection settings, advanced curves control, and high precision GPU based rendering.
Unique Parameters:
Angle: choose the angle the strip tears off at.
Radius: choose how title curled the page is.
Reflect Strength: choose how much the back side reflects.
Reflect Image: select which image is reflected by the back side.
Backside Color 1,2: if the reflection strength is low then the backside shows a gradient of these two colors instead of reflecting.
Page Curl Strips:
Tears the source image off in a series of strips revealing the target image underneath.
Unique Parameters:
Num Strips: choose how many strips the image is torn into.
Angle: select the angle that the tear happens at.
Radius: choose how tightly curled the strips are torn off.
Sliders:
Animates the source and target clips off and on in almost any fashion by letting you manually set the size and position of each clip in the mid point of the transition.
Unique Parameters:
Src Move to, Size: sets the size and position of the source clip at the mid point of the transition.
Dest Move From, Size: sets the size and position which the target clip moves from at the mid point of the transition.
Soft Edge Wipe:
A basic soft edge mask with high precision GPU based rendering. This effect also has options to subtract the mask from the original or output the wipe mask which can be used to create your own custom transitions by stacking layers and outputting the wipe mask for source clip / target clip and edge mask.
Unique Parameters:
Angle: choose the angle of the wipe effect.
Softness: adjust the width of the wipe bar.
Edge Gamma: adjust the curve of the fade from white to black of the wipe bar.
Show Mask: choose to output the final wipe or the generated mask.
Mask Type: output the source / target clip or edge masks of the wipe.
Mask Color: choose the color of the wipe mask.
Subtract Mask: choose to subtract the mask shape from the wipe.
Spotlight In/Out:
Breakups the image up into "reels" and then spins each one a different amount before settling on the destination clip.
Unique Parameters:
Reels: choose how many reels to break the image up into.
Images to Spin: choose how many times the the reels will spin before landing.
Zoom Out Amount: increase this if you want the to pull the camera back from the reels before landing again.
Strobe Transition
Changes from the A to B clip is a series of flashes back and forth of different lengths. You can choose to have the flashes uniform length in time, increasing length or random length.
Common Parameters
Transition Curves:
Most of the PolyChrome transitions allow you to precisely change the way the luminance is mixed between the outgoing and incoming clips.
When the Transition Curve slider is all the way to left then at the mid point of the transition both clips are at 50 percent luminance.
This is the same as the FCP "Cross Dissolve" transition. When the Transition Curve slider is all the way to the right, both clips are at 100 percent luminance at the mid point.
This is the same as the FCP "Additive Dissolve" transition.
Using PolyChrome you can set each transition to any point in between those two alternatives or adjust a seperate curve for the incoming and outgoing clips.
Curve Types:
- Transition Curve:
- The Transition curve controller adjusts both the incoming and outgoing clips to have a the same curves fade. Change the type of Curve from "Symmetrical" to "In/Out" and new controllers will appear below.
- In Curve:
- adjusts the luminance curve only of the incoming clip as it fades in.
- Out Curve:
- adjusts the luminance curve only of the outgoing clip as it fades out.
- Fader Curve:
- For fade in/fade out transitions, adjusts the luminance curve as the clips fade to reveal the layer underneath (or black).
- Fader In Curve:
- Adjusts the luminance curve only of the incoming clip as it fades up from black.
- Fader Out Curve:
- Adjusts the luminance curve only of the outgoing clip as it fades down to black.
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