Catalyst v4.4 m329

[proudlight]

How do I access that?
What I did was just choose a media file, subtract some colour and then turned the colour fx to frame blend, nothing else from a clean start.

[samsc]

How do I access that?
What I did was just choose a media file, subtract some colour and then turned the colour fx to frame blend, nothing else from a clean start.

what do you see here?
in the fxedit window?

[proudlight]

This:

Good way of learning how to find my way around these windows!
//Björn

[samsc]

This:

Good way of learning how to find my way around these windows!
//Björn

you need to another another fx - RGBA- below the frame blend- then set the rgb mapping for each channel

clip on the mapping button-

then use the menu to select the map parameters for each slider in the rgb fx-

this sets the mapping between visual fx designer and the catalyst layer parameters.


as shown in images-

[proudlight]

Ok, i Will give it a try!
Will it work on dmx if I set it up this Way for each layer in the gui?

[proudlight]

Great stuff!
More things to try when I get home!
Have not had any formalitet training on catalyst, so more questions Will probably arise when I use it more!
Best regards Björn

[westintour]

I seem to remember talk about a text generator....am i correct in thinking this or did i mis interpret something? If there is i havent seen it

[NevBull]

The text generator is there - FX 97.

Browse the the Inbuilt Web Server, then click on the Visual FX tab and select 97 from the list of FX numbers at the top of the page. When you get to the FX97 section, there is an option for Text Editor. Click on this, and you can enter up to 255 different text strings.

Then in the Catalyst software, apply FX 97 to a layer and your text will appear. The text entered in the web page above is selected using FX Parameter 1 and the Fonts are changed using FX parameter 2.

While looking at the text options, there are a couple of other FX which are useful - 95 & 96.

95 gives System text - eg time, date, mtc input, SMTPE time etc
96 give System info - clip info, video input previews, mix info etc

just use Parameter 1 to change the type of text required and parameter 2 to change the font.

I hope this helps

Nev.

[westintour]

very much! thank u nev....do we get to see ur handy work on eurovision this year?!

[Eric Holmberg]

I finally had some time to try out the new version. i really like the frame blending, works nice and easy, my first impression is that the frame blend is smother and looks better than the Hippo frame blending i will do an AB test and compare it to the Hippos frame blending. I just played around whit the new color FX and it really looks promising. I think i experienced increased performance but just upgraded my machines to OS X 10.6 at the same time, so it can be just the OS X.

Thanks for some sweet new software!