Node based compositing for After Effects Users
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Posted in: After Effects, Eyeon Fusion, Video Tutorials
The big transition | We look for the common ground | From layers to nodes
In this tutorial, we take an introductory look at node based compositing from the perspective of an After Effects user. If you are someone who has lots of experience with After Effects, and wants to get into using a program like Shake, Nuke, or Fusion, this will help you get on the right track.
In Part one of this tutorial, we take a look at the differences in importing footage in After Effects VS. a node based compositing application (in this case Fusion 5).
We also cover:
• Different frame rates
• Straight VS. Post Multiplied alphas, and explaining the difference
• Removing fields
• Setting pixel aspect ratios
• Looping your footage
Advanced Multi-pass Compositing
Advanced Photoshop Techniques
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Very nice tutorial. It definitely takes a little while for the bing moment to happen with node base comping, but for me, once it happened I couldn’t go back. Heck, I hate using Photoshop now because the layers are holding me back!
December 12th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Matt F: Totally agree! I’ve been using Photoshop a lot lately, and I wish there was a way to use nodes in it.
I’ve created a tutorial called How to work non destructively in Photoshop. That gets about as close to a node based workflow in photoshop that you can get. 
January 8th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Nice tutorial i’m waiting for next one, great job !
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Great tutorial! Please continue with this series of tutorials for people like us, the ones trying to pass from layers to nodes! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Argentina!
April 13th, 2010 at 2:17 am
Hi Kert,
Thx a great deal for your tut!
im somewhat new to node-based rendering.
I have one question: How can i reuse some effects (for example, i have an animated effect rendered by a group of nodes ) at different times in a single video clip?
To be more precise:
I have a cool logo animation (not pre-rendered, but generated by a lot of nodes on the fly. it’s not done by me), i want it to pop up at the each section’s beginning (and there’re 8 sections in my clip).
What should i do?
Pls give me some advices. thx
Karie
April 13th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Hi Karie,
In this case, what I would do is use a TimeStretcher node to offset all the nodes to the point in time in which you want it to appear. You can use one timestretcher node, and animate it so that it comes in and out at the frames that you want, or you could make separate time-stretchers for each appearance of the logo.
Hope this helps!
April 13th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
thx alot Kert.
I going to give it a try.
Karie
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:49 pm
hi Kert,
Is there any way to let me simulate a type out effect with a blinking caret?
I see there’s a write-on option in Text+ tool, but no way to add a blinking caret.
what should i do?
ty a loooot
April 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Hi Karie,
That might be possible with the text+ tool, but I haven’t really explored that too too much. The easiest thing to do would be to make a BG and mask off a small caret with a rectangle mask. Then set the level of that mask to blink on and off. You can set the keyframes to loop so you only have to make one blink, and the rest will happen automagically
Hope this helps!
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:10 pm
hi Kert,
Thank you for the quick tip. But, does that technique require me to do the same again and again for different clips?
Karie.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Oops, forgot to mention that i found it’s quite difficult and cumbersome to perfectly align my masked blinking caret to the end of the texts. (cuz, when typing plays, the character width is not always the same, i have to make lots of keys to match the caret the last character)
Again, thank you so much for help