9

Add Image Layer Event 337
Setup—
Displays a setup dialog specific to the
plug-in. Some plug-ins might not use this button.
Mask group
Channels—If you are using a bitmap as the mask
file, you can use the Alpha channel, t he Red,
Green, or Blue channel, Luminance, Z-Buffer,
Material Effects, or Object ID .
Files—Select a file to use as a mask. The name of
the selected file appears above the Files button.
Opti ons —Displays an Image Input Options dialog
(page 3–334) where you can set alignment and
size, relative to the frames of video output. For
animated images, you can also synchronize the
mask with the frame sequence of video output.
ThisisthesamedialogusedforImageInputEvent
options.
Enabled—Enables the mask. If turned off, Video
Post ignores any other mask settings.
Inver ted—When tur ned on, the mask is inverted.
Video Post Parameters group
V P Star t T ime/End T ime—Set the star ting and
ending frames for the selected event within the
overall Video Post queue. Video Post renders the
event over the number of frames specified here.
Enabled—Enables or d isables the event. When
turned off, the event is disabled and Video Post
ignores it when rendering the queue. Each event
must be disabled indiv idually. For example,
disabling a composite layer event does not disable
the composited im age events. The range bars of
disabled events are unavailable in the event track
area.
Add Ima ge Lay er Event
Rendering menu > Video Post > Video Post window
> Make sure the two child events are in the order you
want the Image Layer event to use them. > Select the
two events. > Video Post toolbar > Add Image Layer
EventRendering m enu > Video Post > Video Post window
>SelectaLayerEvent.>VideoPosttoolbar>EditCurrent
Event
TheAddImageLayerEventaddsacompositing
plug-in (page 3–995) to layer the selected images
in the queue.
Provides compositing plug-ins that use the
previous event in the queue as a source, and
composite the next ev ent, using the parameters
of the plug-in compositor. The list might include
plug-ins for special transformations, such as
wipes, etc.
An Image layer event is always a parent event with
two children. The children can themselves be
parents with children. The children of an Image
Layer event can be Scene events, Image Input
events, Layer events that contain Scene or Image
Input events, or Filter events that contain Scene
or Image Input events.
Av ai lable Im ag e La yer Ev e n t Fi lt e rs
Alpha Compositor (page 3–381)
Cross Fade Compositor (page 3–381)
Pseudo Alpha Compositor (page 3–382)
Simple Additive Compositor (page 3–383)
Simple Wipe Compositor (page 3–383)
Procedures
To add an image layer event:
1.
Make sure the two child events are in the order
youwanttheImageLayereventtousethem.
2. Select the two events.