User manual PINNACLE HOLLYWOOD FX 4.5 FOR STUDIO PRO & STUDIO PLUS

[. . . ] Hollywood FX for Studio Advanced Tutorials Release 4. 5 For Windows Revision A Plus & PRO Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Bernardo Ave Mountain View, CA 94043 www. pinnaclesys. com www. hollywoodfx. com Introduction Thank you for purchasing Hollywood FX. Hollywood FX gives you an incredible collection of 3D transitions that you can quickly add to your video productions, and customize completely for your needs. Plus & Pro also adds the ability to create entirely new FX using the hundreds of 3D objects included or by importing objects from 3D modeling programs. [. . . ] Let's start by looking at the keyframes in the Ball Backup FX. Hollywood FX: Advanced Tutorials The picture above shows each keyframe in the Ball Backup FX. For each keyframe you can see the position, rotation and scale values, as well as a camera preview and a perspective preview of the FX at that time. You can follow along yourself by using the Next and Prev buttons in the Envelope Editor, and using the View buttons in the Monitor panel to switch between camera and perspective view. At the first keyframe, the object is not morphed, and is positioned at 0, 0, 0 on the X, Y, and Z axis. It is not rotated at all (0, 0, 0), and is scaled at 100% of normal size (1, 1, 1). Click-and-drag in the Monitor window to interactively scale the sphere object. Drag to the left until the object is about one quarter its original size (you can watch the scale values and stop scaling when the scale values reach about 0. 25). Click-and-drag in the preview window to interactively move the sphere. Click on the Persp button in the Monitor panel to switch to perspective view. Right Click-and-drag in the preview window to move the sphere along the Z axis. Move the mouse up until the object on the screen moves all the way behind the backdrop video object, and the shadow is no longer visible. Click the Cam button in the Monitor panel to return to camera view. Now if you play the preview, you will see that the sphere simply shrinks and disappears towards the top of the screen. 22 Tutorial: Path Editing How your keyframes should look after modifying the last keyframe Now we will create two more keyframes for the top and bottom of our bounce (then we will use the Envelope Editor's copy function to duplicate the bounce). Click-and-drag to the left in the preview until the object's scale values are around 0. 25. Click-and-drag up in the preview until the object is at the very top of the preview. 23 Hollywood FX: Advanced Tutorials The new keyframe is created automatically at the current time when you change the positioning. How things should look at the top of the bounce Notice that a new keyframe was automatically created for you as soon as you began changing the object's positioning. This eliminates the tedious process of manually creating keyframes that some programs require. You simply move the current time slider to the time you want, and begin editing. To create the bottom of the bounce: Move the current time slider to 20%. The Move tool should already be selected in the Object Options tab, if not, click on it. Click-and-drag down in the preview until the object is at the very bottom of the preview. Right now, at the bottom of the bounce, the keyframe is set to move smoothly through that time, so it won't look much like a bounce. Let's change that by making the spline curve to perform a bounce instead of a smooth curve. To make the current keyframe a bouncy keyframe: Click on the Presets dropdown in the Spline Control group at the bottom of the Envelope Editor. 24 Tutorial: Path Editing Select Bounce from the list of presets. This will adjust the Tension, Continuity and Spline values for the current keyframe to create a bouncy motion. Now we have a single bounce, but we would like the sphere to bounce again and again. [. . . ] As you can see, by modifying existing FX and using plugins you can create dramatic and exciting new FX. 32 Tutorial: 3D Warp Plugins Pro Only. These Warps mathematically change the shape of a 3D object and can be keyframed over time. This tutorial will demonstrate the use of one of the most common Warp plugins called Peel. Unlike more limited effect software, Hollywood FX allows you to attach a Peel to any object (not just a flat plane) and allows you to attach multiple peels to the same object. [. . . ]