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Orientation On Secondary Windows / Curve Editor / Audio Panel & Time View

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This movie is an overview of the Curve Editor, Audio Panel, and Time View. The Curve Editor lives here, under the tool tabs. And this is a graph where you can look at, create, and change the animation and Color Lookup Tables that go with various parameters of your composite. On each of the curves here, you'll see points connected by lines that connect the curves. The Curve Editor allows you to add and change the control points, or key frames on these graphs and change the type of curve that it is, and how it cycles. For more information on the Curve Editor, please view the movies regarding animation, Color Lookup Tables, and using the Curve Editor. The Audio Panel lives under the Node View, and here you can load AIFF or WAV files for your project. Different files can be mixed down to one or two tracks. Audio wave forms can be shown through the Curve Editor and sound can be turned on in the Time Bar play controls, but only on Mac OS X because it's a Mac Quicktime specific feature. For more information on the Audio Panel, please take a look at the movies under the subject of working with video and audio. The Time View; this lives under the tool tabs and allows you to view and arrange the timing of your nodes. It shows all of your image nodes, as well as your sound nodes, and any nodes that have more than one input. In the Time View, nodes are stacked over a Time Bar that's similar to the Time Bar at the bottom of the Shake Window. You can retime each image node, change the in point and out point of each element and tell the program what to do at the last frame: sustain it, go to black, or loop. To learn more about the Time View, you can watch the movies about timing, retiming, keyframing, and slipping time sync. In summary, the Curve Editor, located under the tool tabs shows animation and Color Lookup curves for the selected parameters. The Audio Panel allows for some sound manipulation features when AIFF or WAV files are loaded in. And the Time View shows your image nodes as well as nodes with more than one input, and audio nodes in a multi-track way representing how the nodes are sequenced in relation to one another.

Tutorial Information

Course: Apple Shake 4
Author: Kalika Kharkar
SKU: 33768
ISBN: 1-933736-87-9
Release Date: 2007-06-28
Duration: 9 hrs / 106 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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