ImageFlow Fx Advanced Techniques

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High Quality Renders with Supersampling and Motion Blur

If you are getting diagonal stepping on ImageFlow renders you can reduce or eliminate this by using the Supersampling setting thats now available in ImageFlow 1.5. You can find the Supersampling control at the bottom of every imageflow plugin as shown in the screenshot at left.

Depending on the motion of your animation, turning on Motion Blur will also eliminate any stepping artifacts. Motion Blur is currently only available in Apple Motion, and is enabled by turning on Motion Blur in the project wide settings.

Random Crop and Minimum Crop Settings

You can randomly crop the images in all ImageFlow plugins and set a different "minimum crop" percentage of each image. "Min Crop" set to a value of 50 means that it will randomly crop between 50 and 100 percent of each image away. Masks and frames are scaled and applied to the cropped area of each image. The images below show the result of different Random Crop settings.

Scaling Options

ImageFlow lets you scale images in four different ways. The default setting is Scaling As Is which leaves each image set to it's actual pixel size, you can then scale all the images up and down together using the Scaling Parameter. The other options let you rescale every image to fit the project dimensions in various ways. Fit Width scales each image width to match the project dimensions while keeping the original aspect ratio. Fit Height scales each image height to match the project dimensions while keeping the original aspect ratio. Fit Both squashes the image to match the project width and height regardless of aspect ratio. The differences are illustrated in the gallery below.

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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