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Rendering Effects .................................................... 218
Rendering Effects Command.............. .................... 218
Effects Panel and Rollout......................................... 219
Merging Effects ....................................................... 220
Hair and Fur Render Effect ..................................... 220
Lens Effects Rendering Effects ............................ 223
Lens Effects Rendering Effects ................................ 223
Glow Lens Effect.............................. ........................ 226
Ring Lens Effect............................ ........................... 230
Ray Lens Effect ........................................................ 234
Auto Secondary Lens Effect .................................... 238
Manual Secondary Lens Effect................................ 242
Star Lens Effect ........................................................ 246
Streak Lens Effect .................................................... 250
Lens Effects Dialogs.............................................. 254
Circular Falloff Graph (Lens Effects)...................... 254
Radial Density Dialog (Lens Effects) ...................... 256
Radial Falloff D ialog (Lens Effects) ........................ 257
Radial Size Dialog (Lens Effects) ............................ 259
Blur Rendering Effect.............................................. 260
Brightness and Contrast Rendering Effect ............. 265
Color Ba lance Rendering Effect .............................. 265
File Output Rendering Effect .................................. 266
Film Grain Rendering Effect ................................... 268
Motion Blur Rendering Effect................................. 269
Depth of Field Rendering Effect.............................. 269
Environment and Atmosphere Effects ................ 271
Environment and Atmosphere Effects.................... 271
Environment Panel.......... ........................................ 272
Fire Environment Effect .......................................... 276
Fog Environment Effect .......................................... 282
Volume Fog Environment Effect............................. 284
Volume Light Environment Effect .......................... 288
Exposure Controls ................................................ 293
Exposure Controls............................................ ....... 293
Automatic Exposure Control .................................. 295
Linear Exposure Control..................................... .... 296
Logarithmic Exp osure Control ................. .............. 297
Pseudo Color Exposure Control ............................. 300
Lighting Data Exporter Utility................................ 303
Atmospheric Apparatus Helper Objects ............. 304
Atmospheric Apparatus ................................... ....... 304
Add Atmosphere Dialog ......................................... 304
BoxGizmo Helper............................................. ....... 304
CylGizmo Helper.......................... ........................... 306
SphereGizmo Helper............................................... 307
19 Video Post-Production............................311
Video Post............................................................ .... 311
Video Post Queue......... ........................................... 312
Video Post Status Bar / View Controls.................... 313
Troubleshooting Video Post................ .................... 314
Useful Video Post Procedures................................. 315
V ideo Post Toolbar ............................................... 323
Video Post Toolbar.................................................. 323
New Sequence ........................ ................................. 323
Open Sequence ....................................................... 323
Save Sequence ......................................................... 324
Edit Current Event .................................................. 324
Delete Current Event .............................................. 324
Swap Events ............................................................ 325
Execute Sequence ........... ........................................ 325
Configure Presets .................................... ................ 327
Edit Range Bar ........................................................ 327
Align Selected Left ........................... ....................... 328
Align Selected Right ............................................... 328
Make Selected Same Size ........................................ 328
Abut Selected .......................................................... 329
Add Scene Event ..................................................... 329
Add Image Input Event ........................................... 332
Image Input Options............................................... 334
Add Image Filter Event ........................................... 335
Add Image Layer Event ... ........................................ 337
Add Image Output Event ........................................ 339
Add External Event ................................................. 340
Add Loop Event ...................................................... 342
Filter Events .......................................................... 343
Contrast Filter ......................................................... 343
Fade Filter................................................................ 344
Image Alpha Filter................................................... 344
Lens Effects Filters................................................... 345
Negative Filter................................... ....................... 345
Pseudo Alpha Filter ................................. ................ 346
Simple Wipe Filter................................................... 347
Starfield Filter .......................................................... 347
Lens Effects Filters................................................ 349
Animating Lens Effects Properties.......................... 349
Flare Filter ............................................................. 350
Lens Effects Flare Filter ........................................... 350
Flare Preferences................................................ ...... 353
Flare Glow Parameters ............................................ 355
Flare Ring Parameters ............................................. 355
Automatic Secondary Flare Parameters.................. 356
Manual Secondary Flare Parameters ...................... 357
Flare Ray Parameters..................................... .......... 358
Flare Star Parameters............................................... 359
Flare Streak Parameters........................................... 360
Flare Inferno Parameters......................................... 360