Introduction to Visual Effects in SCRATCH

Introduction to Visual Effects in SCRATCH

Kevin P McAuliffe

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The SCRATCH Essential course is designed for new SCRATCH users, but also for DaVinci Resolve colorists who want to add another excellent conform and finishing tool to their toolkit. Instructor Kevin P McAuliffe covers all the basics you need to know to perform the most common daily tasks.

About the instructor

Kevin is an award winning editor and visual effects creator based in Toronto with over 15 years of teaching and training experience. Over the past years Kevin has delivered world-class work for clients such as Warner Bros, Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Elevation Pictures.

Who is this course designed for?

  • DITs
  • Conform Artists
  • Editors
  • Colorists
  • Visual effects artists

Lessons overview

  • Lesson 01: Getting started
  • Lesson 02: Working in the Construct window
  • Lesson 03: Introduction to the Edit module
  • Lesson 04: Working with layers in the ColorFX module
  • Lesson 05: Working with versions in the ColorFX module
  • Lesson 06: Qualifiers and chroma key
  • Lesson 07: Working with LUTs and comparing grades
  • Lesson 08: Effects, transfer modes & mattes
  • Lesson 09: Working with nodes
  • Lesson 10: Animation basics
  • Lesson 11: Dailies part 1 - setup
  • Lesson 12: Dailies part 2 - dealing with audio
  • Lesson 13: Dailies part 1 - exporting
  • Lesson 14: Working with the render module
  • Lesson 15: Introduction to VR 360

Software required

Assimiliate's SCRATCH (20% discount for Lowepost premium members)

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Mazze

Ctrl-select by drawing a rectangle and then move everything to the next frame (hold down X on your keyboard to lock into X-axis movement before starting to drag) 🙂 .

 

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Johan Carrasco

Hello, I'm having some issues working on ACES in Assimilate Scratch 9.2, I'm using the  plugin Colorspace Transform and I'm not sure if im doing it correctly (working as nodes). Because when I'm working on the low lights It starts showing wierd blue and red digital noise, also I can´t find the IDT forder to do it the old way. Would be cool a tutorial about that new workflow. Thanks. 

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Mazze

Hi Johan,

please connect with support on this. There were some changes for ACES in the last couple of builds.
Could even be that all you have to do is to update to the latest build.

Cheers,
Mazze

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Tom Early

In Lesson 5 he says that the Versions thumbnail updates as he grades the shot, but the thumbnail only reflects operations performed on the base layer, which isn't much use.

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Matthias Tomasi
5 hours ago, Tom Early said:

In Lesson 5 he says that the Versions thumbnail updates as he grades the shot, but the thumbnail only reflects operations performed on the base layer, which isn't much use.

I've been wondering the same thing. it makes the thumbnails less useful than they could otherwise be.

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Mazze

The thumbnail 'update' function has been written in.... I believe 2003? Back then, SCRATCH could only do primary grading.
It's been kept this way for performance reasons, even after secondary layers had been introduced back in 2005 or so.
That being said, updating the thumbnails to show the full grade will take quite a hit on performance, because all the thumbnails are actually live references to the underlying source footage. No proxies whatsoever, but the actual footage.

So, making the thumbnails (which btw you can also scrub through by dragging at the upper corner of the thumb) reflect the full grade is somewhere on the list, but nothing for the short or mid term, I'm afraid.

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