Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion

Essential Techniques

Lee Lanier

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138668270
• eBook ISBN: 9781317211792
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Create complex composites with Blackmagic Fusion. Learn the basics of node-based compositing and get up to speed quickly so you can undertake your own compositing projects.

In Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion: Essential Techniques, industry veteran Lee Lanier covers the most important components, tools, and workflows any serious compositor needs to know. Practice your knowledge and skill as you read the book with the included mini-tutorials and longer chapter tutorials. An accompanying eResource features video image sequences, 3D renders, and other tutorial materials, allowing you to immediately practice the discussed techniques.

Critical topics in this book include:

• Tool / Node networks
• Color space and color channels
• Transformations
• Masking and rotoscoping
• Keyframing and animation splines
• Green screen keying
• The Fusion 3D environment
• Color grading and color manipulation
• Filter tools
• Motion tracking
• Particle simulation
  
• Stereoscopic workflow

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Working with Tool Networks
• Chapter 2: Manipulating Colors, Channels, and Spaces
• Chapter 3: Combining Inputs and Recombining Render Passes
• Chapter 4: Transforming and Motion Tracking
• Chapter 5: Keyframing and Adjusting Animation Splines
• Chapter 6: Masking and Rotoscoping
• Chapter 7: Altering Outputs with Filters
• Chapter 8: Chroma Keying
• Chapter 9: Working in the Fusion 3D Environment
• Chapter 10: Repairing, Painting, and Distressing
• Chapter 11: Rendering, Scripting, and Customizing
• Final Tutorial: Creating the Cover Art
• Appendix A: Additional 3D Tools and Techniques
• Appendix B: After Effects to Fusion Chart
• Index