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Paperback | 19 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Whether this is your first experience with Combustion software or you're upgrading to take advantage of the many new features and tools, this guide will serve as your ultimate resource to this all-in-one professional compositing application. Much more than a point-and-click manual, this guide explains the principles behind the software, serving as an overview of the package and associated techniques. Written by certified Autodesk training specialists for motion graphic designers, animators, and visual effects artists, Combustion 4 Fundamentals Courseware provides expert advice for all skill levels.
Provides:
* A companion DVD that includes Combustion workspace files and project footage to make learning easy
* Heavily illustrated tutorials
* Detailed explanation of the principles behind the tools
* Learn about the many new features in version 4
* Expert advice-written by Autodesk Courseware Developers, Product Education Technical Writers, and Autodesk Training Specialists who know the product inside and out

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"Anyone who is picking up Autodesk's Combustion for the first time will find the learning curve greatly reduced by reading Combustion 4 Fundamentals Courseware. This book earns a Strong Buy Recommendation." - Animation Artist

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Welcome to Combustion	p. 1
Installing the Courseware Media	p. 2
Conventions and Terminology	p. 2
Setting the Preferences	p. 3
Relinking Media	p. 12
Playing Movies	p. 12
Getting More Help	p. 12
Fundamentals	p. 13
Touring Combustion	p. 15
Overview	p. 16
Open a Workspace	p. 16
Play the Clip	p. 18
Explore the Scene	p. 19
Examine the Composite	p. 21
Make Changes to the Composite	p. 24
Explore the Schematic View	p. 25
Creating Simple Composites	p. 27
Overview	p. 28
Create a Composite	p. 28
Scale and Position the Olympic Rings and Torch	p. 31
Position and Animate the Hand	p. 32
Position and Change the Order of the Flame	p. 33
Hide the Black Background of the Flame	p. 34
Add Text to the Clip	p. 37
Animate the Text	p. 38
Using Operators in a Composite	p. 41
Overview	p. 42
Create a Composite	p. 42
Change the Appearance of the Sky	p. 44
Scale and Animate the Clouds	p. 46
Color Correct the Clouds and the Mountain	p. 47
Reintroduce the Plane in the Scene	p. 48
Animate the Plane	p. 49
Timewarping	p. 51
Overview	p. 52
Create a Composite	p. 52
Extend the Duration of the Clip	p. 54
Change the Speed of the Action	p. 55
Improve the Quality of the Change in Speed	p. 57
Editing Clips	p. 59
Overview	p. 60
Open the Starting Workspace	p. 60
Create an Edit Branch	p. 61
Trim the Segments	p. 63
Import Footage and Rearrange the Sequence	p. 65
Overwrite a Range of Frames	p. 66
Slip a Segment	p. 68
Add Transitions	p. 68
Merge the Edit and Title Sequence Branches	p. 71
Optimizing Workflow	p. 73
Overview	p. 74
Open the Starting Workspace	p. 74
View the Contents of the Clip in the Workspace Panel	p. 75
Compare Two Color Correctors to Match a Color	p. 76
Filter Animation and Channels in the Timeline	p. 78
Create a Custom Channel Filter Preset	p. 80
Navigate Viewports	p. 81
Quickly Save an Incremental Version of a Workspace	p. 81
Quickly Render an Incremental Version of the Workspace	p. 82
Using Paint	p. 83
Learning Paint Basics	p. 85
Overview	p. 86
Create a Paint Branch	p. 86
Draw a Rectangle	p. 88
Change the Rectangle Into a Fish	p. 90
Animate the Fish	p. 92
Play the Clip	p. 94
Change the Color of the Fish	p. 94
Duplicate the Fish Object	p. 96
Make the Fish Appear to Jump out of the Bucket	p. 98
Creating, Controlling, and Positioning Objects	p. 101
Overview	p. 102
Open the Starting Workspace	p. 102
Tint One of the Roofs of the First Landmark	p. 103
Animate the Salmon	p. 105
Position the Three Key Words	p. 107
Position the Three Landmark Images	p. 108
Animating Text	p. 111
Overview	p. 112
Create a Composite Branch	p. 112
Add Text to the Clip	p. 115
Change the Appearance of the Text	p. 116
Animate the Text Along a Path	p. 119
Add a Timecode Generator to the Clip	p. 121
Add Another Text Object	p. 122
Animate a Text Roll	p. 124
Exploring Draw Modes in Text	p. 127
Overview	p. 128
Open the Workspace	p. 128
Examine the Draw Modes	p. 129
Change the Draw Modes	p. 131
Wire Removal	p. 135
Overview	p. 136
Create a Composite	p. 136
Remove the Wire	p. 138
Animate the Line Object	p. 141
Hide the Line Object's Red Color	p. 142
Fix the Sidewalk	p. 144
Creating Text Gradients	p. 147
Overview	p. 148
Create a Text Branch	p. 148
Add Text	p. 149
Create a Text Gradient	p. 152
Add a Text Outline	p. 154
Edit a Text Object	p. 155
Animate the Text	p. 157
Animating Gradients	p. 159
Overview	p. 160
Create a Paint Branch	p. 160
Create a Rounded-Corner Rectangle	p. 161
Apply a Gradient	p. 162
Change the Gradient Type	p. 165
Animate the Gradient	p. 166
Add a Text Object	p. 169
Apply a Gradient to the Outline	p. 171
Creating Custom Brushes	p. 173
Overview	p. 174
Open the Starting Workspace	p. 174
Create a Custom Brush from Particles	p. 175
Create a Lighting Effect	p. 179
Change the Appearance of the Background	p. 181
Create a Custom Brush from an Image	p. 181
Create the Wall Construction Animation	p. 182
Animate the Wall Construction	p. 183
Creating Flash Compatible Animations	p. 187
Overview	p. 188
Create a Paint Branch	p. 188
Create the Background Rectangle	p. 189
Animate the Background Rectangle	p. 190
Create a Clone Box	p. 191
Create Copies of the Clone Box and Position Them	p. 192
Extend the Duration of the Clone Boxes	p. 193
Animate the Scale of the Clone Boxes	p. 193
Animate the Offset of the Clone Boxes	p. 194
Create the mood_panoram Image Slide	p. 194
Add a Text	p. 195
Animate the Text Along a Path	p. 196
Preview Macromedia Flash Output	p. 197
Export as Macromedia Flash Output	p. 198
Combining Selections	p. 199
Overview	p. 200
Create a Paint Branch	p. 200
Select the Stars	p. 201
Subtract the Circles	p. 204
Change the Color of the Stars	p. 205
Animating Selections	p. 207
Overview	p. 208
Create a Paint Branch	p. 208
Select the Chair	p. 208
Adjust the Color Balance	p. 212
Animate the Selection	p. 212
Transforming and Controlling Layers	p. 215
Keyframing	p. 217
Overview	p. 218
Create a Composite	p. 218
Loop the Wasp Footage	p. 219
Animate the Wasp	p. 220
Create the Sting	p. 221
Adjust the Wasp's Flight Speed	p. 223
Blur the Wasp	p. 225
Creating Expressions	p. 227
Overview	p. 228
Open the Starting Workspace	p. 228
Animate the Panels Layer	p. 229
Animate the Clouds Layer Using Channel Linking	p. 230
Animate the Electric Glow Layer	p. 231
Animate the Electron Layer with Multi-channel Expressions	p. 233
Adjust the Electron Layer's Position by Editing the Expressions	p. 234
Cropping and Corner-Pinning	p. 237
Overview	p. 238
Create a Composite Branch	p. 238
Scale and Crop the Poster Image	p. 239
Corner Pin the Poster Image	p. 241
Scale and Crop the Logo Image	p. 243
Corner-Pin the Logo Image	p. 243
Change the Appearance of the Logo	p. 244
Position a Layer from the Photoshop File	p. 245
Aligning Objects to a Motion Path	p. 247
Overview	p. 248
Open a Workspace and Import Footage	p. 248
Animate the PCText	p. 250
Duplicate a Layer via the Schematic view	p. 251
Adjust the Opacity of the PcText Layers	p. 253
Import the Earth Footage	p. 253
Animate the Earth Image on the Z Axis	p. 254
Change the Playback Behavior of the Orb Footage	p. 255
Animate the Orb Footage Along the X Axis	p. 256
Customize the Motion Path Tangent Handles	p. 257
Changing Layer Surface Properties	p. 261
Exploring Transfer Modes	p. 263
Overview	p. 264
Create a Composite	p. 264
Animate the Layers	p. 265
Change the Layers' Transfer Mode	p. 268
Displacing a Layer	p. 273
Overview	p. 274
Create a Composite Branch	p. 274
Create the Displacement Source	p. 275
Add a Displace Operator	p. 276
Animate the Displacement Source	p. 278
Using Channels, Mattes, and Masks	p. 281
Using Alpha Channels	p. 283
Overview	p. 284
Create a Composite Branch	p. 284
Create a Matte	p. 285
Animate the Matte	p. 289
Animate the Gradient Layer	p. 289
Create a Stencil Layer	p. 290
Animate the Birds Layer	p. 292
Creating Channel Effects	p. 295
Overview	p. 296
Open a Workspace	p. 296
Add a Compound Alpha Arithmetic Operator	p. 297
Add a Compound RGB Arithmetic Operator	p. 301
Add a Turbulence Operator	p. 302
Add a Blend Operator	p. 306
Using Masks	p. 309
Overview	p. 310
Create a Composite	p. 310
Make Dino Appear from Behind the Building	p. 311
Track the Mask	p. 315
Animate the Shape of the Mask	p. 317
Using Null Objects, Lights, and the Camera	p. 321
Animating with a Null Object	p. 323
Overview	p. 324
Create a Composite Branch	p. 324
Arrange Three Layers to Form a Six-Sided Star	p. 325
Animate a Null Object	p. 327
Enhance the Clip's Appearance	p. 330
Clean up the Workspace	p. 331
Moving the Camera	p. 333
Overview	p. 334
Create a Composite	p. 334
Scale, Position, and Animate the Footage	p. 335
Set the Viewport Layout	p. 336
Animate the Camera	p. 337
Make an Image Travel with the Camera	p. 342
Creating Shadows with Lights	p. 343
Overview	p. 344
Create a Composite Branch	p. 344
Animate the Film Roll	p. 345
Add Spotlights	p. 346
Target the Spotlights	p. 349
Adjust the Surface Properties of the Layers	p. 350
Tracking and Stabilizing	p. 351
Four-Point Tracking	p. 353
Overview	p. 354
Create a Composite Branch	p. 354
Change the Properties of the Actress Layer	p. 355
Track the Corner Points of the Actress Layer	p. 356
Apply a Mask Around the Actress	p. 359
Key Out the Blue-Screen Background	p. 360
One-Point Stabilizing	p. 363
Overview	p. 364
Create a Composite Branch	p. 364
Stabilize the Woods Footage	p. 365
Analyze the Jitter in the Clip	p. 367
Remove the Black Borders in the Clip	p. 369
Using Other Stabilizing Modes	p. 370
Play the Clip in the RAM Player	p. 370
Two-Point Stabilizing	p. 375
Overview	p. 376
Create a Composite Branch	p. 376
Apply the Stabilize Operator	p. 377
Track the Motion of the Two Points	p. 380
Examine the Stabilize Point Channels	p. 382
Keying and Color Correcting	p. 385
Using the Discreet Color Corrector	p. 387
Overview	p. 388
Create a Composite Branch	p. 388
Adjust the Black and White	p. 389
Add Saturation	p. 391
Adjust the Color	p. 392
Adjust the Shadows	p. 393
Compare the Color Correction Results	p. 393
Using the Diamond Keyer	p. 395
Overview	p. 396
Create a Composite Branch	p. 396
Create an Alpha Channel for the Foreground	p. 397
Remove the Green Spill Around the Sheep	p. 401
Improve the Matte	p. 403
Using the Discreet Keyer	p. 405
Overview	p. 406
Create a Composite Branch	p. 406
Generate a Matte Using the YUV Mode	p. 407
View the Matte	p. 409
Add Softness to the Matte	p. 411
Use the Histogram to Improve the Matte	p. 414
Adjust the Color Suppression Curves	p. 415
Color Correct the Front Clip	p. 418
Nesting Composites	p. 421
Basic Nesting	p. 423
Overview	p. 424
Create a Composite	p. 424
Create a Lens Flare Effect for the Lamp	p. 426
Animate the Crate	p. 427
Add a Motion Blur Effect to the Woman and Crate	p. 429
Clean up the Composite	p. 432
Creating a Motion Blur	p. 435
Overview	p. 436
Open the Workspace	p. 436
Nest the Composite	p. 437
Add a Motion Blur Operator	p. 439
Customize the Motion Blur	p. 441
Color Correct the Clip	p. 442
Additional Topics	p. 443
Applying and Tracking a Particle Emitter	p. 445
Overview	p. 446
Open Footage into a Composite	p. 446
Create a Smoke Effect	p. 447
Track the Smoke to the Toaster	p. 448
Change the Appearance and Behavior of the Smoke	p. 450
Change the Appearance and Behavior of the Emitter	p. 450
Add a Deflector to Produce a more Realistic Look	p. 451
Creating Particle Effects	p. 453
Overview	p. 454
Open the Workspace	p. 454
Add a Particle Operator	p. 455
Add a Particle Emitter to the Clip	p. 455
Track the White Dot	p. 457
Apply the Tracked Emitter to the Train Clip	p. 458
Import a Custom Shape for the Smoke Particle	p. 459
Edit the SmokePuff Particle Type	p. 461
Animate the Values for the Particles	p. 463
Adjust the Size Over Life Setting	p. 464
Creating Capsules	p. 467
Overview	p. 468
Open the Workspace	p. 468
Examine the Schematic and Encapsulate the Operators	p. 468
Edit the Capsule	p. 470
Adding and Creating Controllers	p. 470
Save the Capsule to the Library	p. 471
Reuse the Capsule on New Footage	p. 472
Building G-Buffers	p. 475
Overview	p. 476
Open the Workspace	p. 476
Examine the Schematic and open the Paint Operator	p. 476
Paint the Train Trestle with a Gradient for Z-Depth	p. 477
Reorder and Enable the Remaining Paint Objects	p. 480
Apply a G-Buffer Builder, Use the Paint Operator for Z-Depth	p. 480
Apply a 3D Fog Operator and Animate the Near Plane	p. 481
Morphing	p. 483
Overview	p. 484
Open Footage into a Composite Branch	p. 484
Create Picture Keys and In/Out Points for the Morph	p. 485
Add Control Polygons to Morph Picture Keys	p. 486
Animate the Polygons to Morph to the Next Picture Key	p. 487
Fine-Tune the Morph	p. 488
Index	p. 491
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