ImageFlow Fx Tips and Tricks

ImageFlow Sample Project

You can download a sample Motion project that includes some images to use with ImageFlow and which demonstrates a number of different styles of animation which can be created.
The images in this project are copyright CoreMelt 2007, you are free to use them in your own commercial projects which use the ImageFlow filters. Redistribution of the images outside this zip file or hosting them on another server is not permitted.

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Download ImageFlow Sample Project (28MB Zip File)

Tips for best performance:

Although ImageFlow Fx works with any resolution images, ImageFlow Fx relies on being able to stream textures to your graphics card fast enough for real time performance. For best results scale down the images to just higher than your output resolution. Eg if you are working in PAL/NTSC then you will get good results with images scaled to 800x600 pixels. For HD you will get good results if you scale the images to 1440 pixels wide. (HDV is only 1440 pixels wide native resolution).

How to rescale a folder of Images using iPhoto:

you can easily use iPhoto to scale any set of images to a desired resolution.

  1. 1. Place all the images you want to use into a folder by themselves.
  2. 2. Start iPhoto.
  3. 3. Import the entire folder of images into your library.
  4. 4. Hold shift and drag across the set of images you want to use.
  5. 5. Select "Export" and then tick the "scale images no larger than" option and select the desired horizontal resolution.
  6. 6. Select a new folder to write your scaled images into

Using Frames from "onOne PhotoFrame Pro" with ImageFlow

PhotoFrame Pro is a powerful Adobe Photoshop plugin which enables you to create a huge range of photo frames for your images. It's very easy to use these borders as frames on any ImageFlow plugin. Here's how.

  1. 1. Make a new blank document in Photoshop which is a little larger than your FCP project resolution, eg 800x600 if you are working in PAL/NTSC.
  2. 2. Go to "Filter->onOne->PhotoFrame" and then select the frame you want to use.
  3. 3. Choose "apply to new layer"
  4. 4. Hide the background layer, see the picture as to what your photoshop layers should look like, you should be seeing the transparency checkboard pattern through your frame.

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  5. 5. crop away any white around the border if needed
  6. 6. Choose "save for web" from File menu. Select the "PNG-24" format with transparency, save your image as "custom_frame.png" (or any other name).
  7. 7. Go to Final Cut Pro or Motion and add an ImageFlow Fx generator to your project.
  8. 8. drag the "custom_frame.png" file into your project
  9. 9. enable "apply frame" in the ImageFlow generator, select "use image well" from the pull down menu and then drop the "custom_frame" image into the image well.
  10. 10. You should now have your Photoframe border as a frame on the ImageFlow plugin.
 
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