Subtitles of the Movie

In this tutorial, we will have an overview of the Color Picker, Pixel Analyzer, and Time Bar areas. Below the Node View is a tab called the Color Picker. Now, this tab is most useful when you're using a node that requires a color input via a color chip in its parameters area, such as the Mult 1. Double clicking the color chip brings up the color picker, where we can pick colors by clicking on the color wheel and the Luminance Bar or by typing in numeric values, found here. Or we can choose them in a color palate. You can store often used colors in the palate area as Swatches. The Pixel Analyzer is a tool for finding and comparing different colors on an image by dragging with the mouse on any area of the viewer; gives you minimum, average, current, and maximum pixel values on a selection or across an entire image. Current refers to the last pixel you clicked or dragged your mouse over. Average samples all the color values of the pixels you dragged your mouse over. Min shows the sample of the lowest or darkest color value that you dragged over. Max shows you a sample of the highest or brightest color value you dragged over. The Time Bar is at the bottom of the Shake Window, below the tool tabs. It shows your current range of frames, your playback buttons, and the Info Field, which gives you short descriptions of each control that you're hovering your mouse over. To change the current range of frames, that are displayed in the Time Bar, go to the globals and change the time range parameter up here, and then click on the house icon, down here. In the Time Bar, the number to the left is the start frame, and the number to the right, on the other side of the Time Bar, is the end frame. Current frame tells you where your play head is positioned at the current time and the Increment Field controls how far forward or back you're going when controlling frame by frame playback with your arrow keys. One means every frame, two means every other frame, and 0.5 is useful when working with video footage because it allows you to see each field separately. Here we have our playback buttons. Clicking the Home Button makes your time range, here, the same as your Globals time range, here. The Back Key and Forward Key buttons go back a key frame and forward a key frame if key frames have been set. The Play Forward, Play Back buttons play the comp. The playback is limited to the currently defined frames per second parameter in the Globals Format section, see, frames per second. And if the playback speed is inconsistent, that's normal. It will vary 10% slower or faster than this value when you're playing it back through here. Not to worry though, there are other options. Stop stops the playback. Shift clicking a playback button renders all frames in the current range and stores them to memory, which means faster playback next time, so shift click a playback button to render to memory. To review, the Color Picker allows you to choose colors for use in various parameters of your nodes. The Pixel Analyzer examines the pixels in your composition based on different modes of color sampling. And the Time Bar allows you to play back your composite, or a range of frames in the viewer, though generally not in real time.