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-1080 to 480: Extracts 2 1920x540 fields from image,
- resizes, and combines to 1920x480.
-1080 to 540: Extracts 2 1920x540 fields from image,
- resizes, and combines to 1920x540.
+1080 to 480: Extracts 2 1920x540 fields from 1920x1080
+ image, resizes them separately, and
+ combines them to 1920x480 interlaced image.
+1080 to 540: Extracts 2 1920x540 fields from 1920x1080,
+ image, resizes them separately, and
+ combines them to 1920x540 interlaced image.
AgingTV: Use to achieve an "old" movie or TV show
effect by adding moving lines and snow.
Auto Scale: Automatically scale to a specified size.
-Blue Banana: Used for color transformation or
- remapping; also for chroma-key filtering.
-Blur: Blurs a video track in the horizontal or
+Blue Banana: Used for color transformation or remapping as
+ well as chroma-key filtering. Basic usage:
+ . Select a specifc target color.
+ . Create a selection region by expanding color.
+ . Optionally reduce or expand the alpha plane.
+ . Optionally apply a color remapping to selection.
+ . Optionally reset the output alpha to opaque.
+ 1) choose your color, click Pick, check Mark Selected
+ 2) modify selection in the Color Selection area
+ 3) uncheck Mark Selected, and check Filter Active
+ 4) adjust your color choice as desired
+Blur: Blurs a video track in horizontal and/or
vertical in chosen color channels.
Brightness/Contrast: Use to change the brightness or
- contrast; could reduce quality.
-BurningTV: Makes your video "burn" by adding small
- light colored patches.
-C41: Converts C-41 negative film into the positive image.
+ contrast, but could reduce quality.
+BurningTV: Makes your video "burn" where there are
+ small light colored patches of video.
+C41: Converts C-41 negative film to the positive image.
Chroma key: Erases pixels which match chosen color;
- replaces with black or transparency.
-Chroma key (HSV): Removes a color with another color or
+ they are replaced to black if there is no alpha
+ channel and transparency if there is alpha.
+Chroma key (HSV): Replaces a color with another color or
transparency using HSV variables.
Color 3 Way: Modify color of Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights as
wanted.
Color Balance: Modify RGB colors or white balance to compensate
- compensate for errors in video.
+ for errors in video such as low lighting.
CriKey: Regionally based chroma key with interpolation;
- only a specific zone defined.
+ useful when you only want a specific zone defined.
+ .
+ Color button is used to specify the key by color.
+ Threshold slider is used to set tolerance (0-1).
+ Key mode choices let you pick the method by which
+ the chroma key will be defined.
+ . Search - point at a zone or spot to define
+ area then uses the specified tolerance to pick an
+ edge. A fill will be performed in that area.
+ . Point - the point is the Mask, not the color.
+ . (This method has drag capabilities).
+ . Search all - works same as standard Chroma key.
+ Draw mode options let you use
+ . Alpha - matching pixels replaced with see-thru.
+ . Edge to just outline the edges of the region.
+ . Mask - matching color pixels replaced by black.
Decimate: Drop frames from a track which are most similar
in order to reduce frame rate.
-Deinterlace: Various line replication to eliminate comb
- artifacts in interlaced video.
-Deinterlace-CV: Variation of deinterlacing video to eliminate comb
- artifacts.
+Deinterlace: Several selections of line replication to eliminate
+ comb artifacts in interlaced video.
+Deinterlace-CV: Selection of deinterlacing mode for your video to
+ eliminate comb artifacts.
Delay Video: Delay the video by some number of seconds.
-Denoise video: Clear the video of noise.
+Denoise video: Clear the video of noise; specify R,G,B, or Alpha.
Difference key: Creates transparency in areas which are similar
between 2 frames; must be applied to 2 tracks.
DotTV: Puts various size dots over the picture to simulate
transfer of a film.
Invert Video: Method of reversing the colors of a video track.
Lens: Create the effect of looking through a lens.
-Linear Blur: Blur with parameters of length, andle, number of
- steps, and which channels.
+Linear Blur: Blur with parameters of length, angle, # of steps,
+ and which channels. Does Linear, Radial, or Zoom.
Live Video: Reads video directly from the capture card input and
- will replace current.
+ replaces any video on the track.
Loop video: Loop video by specifying the length of the region to loop.
Motion: Tracks translation and rotation motion to stabilize
shaky video.
Motion Blur: Uses X/Y camera automation vectors to apply a linear
blur trailing camera direction.
Motion51: Compensates for unwanted motion and stabilizes the
- image using a unique curve/spline algorithm. Has a
- reset option to use default parameters.
+ image using a unique curve/spline algorithm. A reset
+ option for defaults helps as does OpenGL if available.
+ .
+ Samples - number of pixels which software uses
+ Draw vectors - demonstrates the search operation
+ Sample Radius - radius of circle denoting area of sample
+ Center X/Y - center position of the sample circle
+ Search W/H - determines width/height used for search
+ Horiz/Vert shake limit - uses as translation constraints
+ Shake fade - how fast translation cancellation fades
+ Twist limit - determines rotation constraints
+ Twist fade - how fast rotation cancellation fades away
+ Enable Tracking - caches search results for later use
+ Tracking file - name of file with calculate results
MotionCV: Motion tracking/stabilization from the community
version of cinelerra.
MotionHV: Motion tracking/stabilization from the original
Overlay: Combine tracks via an overlayer that puts images on
top of a bottom layer.
Perspective: Allows you to change the viewpoint of an object.
-Polar: Bends and warps your video in strange ways based on
- a mathematical algorithm.
+ With left mouse button, you can drag the corner or:
+ .
+ Alt/Shift + Button1 Action:
+ . 0/0 Translate endpoint
+ . 0/1 Zoom image
+ . 1/0 Translate image
+ . 1/1 Translate view but does not change output.
+ .
+ The red colored lines in the box show the composer boundary.
+ Use the zoom slider which changes only the zoom view to see
+ if it goes off the screen. The slider goes from 1/100 to 100.
+Polar: Bends and warps your video in weird ways based on conversion
+ from either polar coordinates to rectangular or vice-versa.
RGB - 601: Used to reduce/increase contrast in your video via
601 compression or RGB expansion.
RGBShift: Align 3 separate planes of R, G, B if misaligned in
- in the video or just shift for interest.
+ the video or just shift for interest. Adjust via sliders.
Radial Blur: Creates a whirlpool based on settings that simulates
a swirling camera.
ReframeRT: Changes number of frames in a sequence of video
- directly from timeline.
+ directly from timeline; has Stretch and Downsample modes.
Reroute: Selectively transfer the alpha channel or the
RGB/YUV components from source to target track.
Reverse video: Reverse media on the timeline in realtime.
Inkscape without having to exit the program.
Scale: Reduce or expand the image size depending on the ratio.
Scale Ratio: Manipulate your video to maintain the pixel aspect
- ratio (proportional geometry).
+ ratio (proportional geometry). Change values on the
+ left and see the resuluts in the compositor window.
+ . In R,Out R - current input and output aspect ratios
+ . In W/H,Out W/H - current width and height
+ . Scale type of None,Scaled,Cropped,Filled,Horiz/Vert
+ Top aspect ratio data is used to compute bottom part.
+ Bottom part allows for repositioning the input/output.
Selective Temporal Averaging: Smooths out non-moving areas of a video
clip by averaging the color across frames.
Sharpen: Sharpen the video, either the luminance, horizontal,
ShiftInterlace: Shift the interlace lines using odd or even.
Swap Frames: Swap frames with 0-1, 2-3, 4-5... or 1-2, 3-4, 5-6...
Swap channels: Swap R,G,B,Alpha with another color channel.
-Threshold: Converts the image to pure luminanceand replaces
+Threshold: Converts the image to pure luminance and replaces
pixels with 1 of 3 colors.
-Time Average: Takes a number of frames to average or
- accumulate-stacking 1 frame on top of another.
+Time Average: Use to create trail patterns, or reduce noise in still
+ images. A number of frames is accumulated and then
+ divided by a divisor to the the average.
TimeFront: Performs spatio-temporal video warping.
-Title: Add text/timestamp/background pngs to video with
- many nice variations such as changing font color,
- size, bold, subscripts.
+Title: Add text/timestamp/background pngs to video along with
+ the ability to drag to a location if Drag checked on.
+ Current text string limitation of 3071 characters.
+ Flexible attributes in textbox (mouse right click):
+ . color, font, alpha, size, png, bold, italic, blink,
+ . ul, caps, sup(super/sub script), fixed, nudge.
+ Special characters are <, >, \, /, # (see manual).
Translate: Allows displacing, cropping and/or scaling video
horizontally/vertically.
Unsharp: Applies a traditional darkroom technique, unsharp
Whirl: Creates a whirl (spiral) of the video around the center.
YUV: Modify the Y, U, V settings.
YUV411: Modify the 411 yuv to look like 420 color space instead.
-YUVShift: Realign the 3 sets of YUV inputvideo nubers when
- misaligned.
+YUVShift: Realign the 3 sets of YUV input video numbers when they
+ are misaligned. Use slider bars to modify.
Zoom Blur: Blur the video and use a zoom effect.
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# Description of FFmpeg Video Plugins
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# audio plugins
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-#AM pitchshifter:
-#Aliasing:
+#AM pitchshifter:
+#Aliasing:
#Allpass delay line, cubic spline interpolation:
#Allpass delay line, linear interpolation:
#Allpass delay line, noninterpolating:
#Dyson compressor:
#EQ Graphic:
#EQ Parametric:
-Echo: Add echoing to audio for an interesting effect.
-EchoCancel: Remove echos from audio in order to
- improve the quality.
+Echo: Add echo - reflection of sound - for effect.
+ . Level represents the volume adjustment
+ . Atten is attenuation meaning a reduction in reflection
+ . Offset is the lag in the attenuated echo signal
+EchoCancel: Removes echoes from audio to improve the quality.
+ Recommended to just set the Mode to On for simplicity.
#Exponential signal decay:
#FM Oscillator:
#Fast Lookahead limiter:
#L/C/R Delay:
#LFO Phaser:
#LS Filter:
-Live Audio: Reads audio directly from the soundcard input,
+Live Audio: Reads audio directly from the soundcard input,
replacing any audio on track.
#Loop audio:
#Mag's Notch Filter:
#Nonbandlimited single-sample impulses (Frequency; Control):
#Overlay:
#Pitch Scaler:
-Pitch shift: Uses FFT to try to change the pitch without
+Pitch shift: Uses FFT to try to change the pitch without
changing the duration.
#Plate reverb:
#Pointer cast distortion: