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Remember the Asymmetrical Dissolve Debate?
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[Tim Wilson] “I think any spot producer, certainly any trailer producer, anyone working on bumpers, opens, title sequences, a good many folks working with graphics, ANY kind of high-impact editing, will find this a powerful toolset for adding a spectacular level of finesse with just a few quick clicks, without sacrificing extraordinary control.
That’s an awful lot of adjectives,”
I think you nailed it.
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[Tim Wilson] “I think any spot producer, certainly any trailer producer, anyone working on bumpers, opens, title sequences, a good many folks working with graphics, ANY kind of high-impact editing, will find this a powerful toolset”
I just wanted to mention in this context, speaking as an editor who works in the fields you are describing (and I know that there are a few of us on this forum), that more often than not we will be using fades or dips rather than dissolves these days – which are obviously a variety of dissolve but which also have their own specific requirements.
Just because you’re “only” transitioning to black (or white, or a lot more rarely some other colour), doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with the way that the compositing works. You mention the “gray” quality that digital dissolves often exhibit and of course if whites are fading to black (or vice versa) you’re always going to get some form of gray – the ideal is for the transition to mask that characteristic as much as possible (I think), and that’s where you need some tricky compositing.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I just wanted to mention in this context, speaking as an editor who works in the fields you are describing (and I know that there are a few of us on this forum), that more often than not we will be using fades or dips rather than dissolves these days – which are obviously a variety of dissolve but which also have their own specific requirements. “
This is my favorite part of your plug-in!
With a few flicks, the dissolve can be more of a dip. you can delay the start, the end, the curve, the composite, added color, the grey, the sweep of the luma.
It’s like adding a dissolve to dips.
It’s awesome.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I just wanted to mention in this context, speaking as an editor who works in the fields you are describing (and I know that there are a few of us on this forum), that more often than not we will be using fades or dips rather than dissolves these days – which are obviously a variety of dissolve but which also have their own specific requirements. “
This is my favorite part of your plug-in!
With a few flicks, the dissolve can be more of a dip. you can delay the start, the end, the curve, the composite, added color, the grey, the sweep of the luma, separate from the luma in the clips.
It’s like adding a dissolve to dips.
It’s awesome.
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Although I use dissolve sparingly, I’m adding this to my list of must have plug-ins:
Super Dissolve, Color Finale, Film Convert, Dashwood Editor Essentials (for the White Balance plugin), Neat Video, CineFlare Detailer
Now maybe Simon could work on a Pan and Zoom plug-in and actually do it right!
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Really nice plugin. I wonder if there will be a way to share presets? I would love to get some ideas on settings with this.
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[Kirk Pitts] “I wonder if there will be a way to share presets? I would love to get some ideas on settings with this.”
Hi Kirk,
If you’d like to save any of your dissolves/dips/fades as presets for future use or for sharing with other users, you can do this via the presets option.
Simply click on the Presets/Save As button to save your current settings. (You can find this at the bottom of the Inspector.) The default path is User/Library/Application Support/FxFactory/Presets, but you can save to a destination of your choice. To recall a preset, simply click on the Open button and navigate to wherever you have saved it.
For more information about Super Dissolve, you can find the manual here. Or if you’d like to contact us directly, we are always very happy to try and help.
Simon Ubsdell
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Thanks, I wasn’t completely clear. I know I can save presets and share them. But what I really want is to be able to download some presets from other more experienced users so I can learn from examples. Some example of starting points to work from.
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[Kirk Pitts] “Thanks, I wasn’t completely clear. I know I can save presets and share them. But what I really want is to be able to download some presets from other more experienced users so I can learn from examples. Some example of starting points to work from.”
OK, sorry, I see what you’re saying.
Given that we only released a week ago today, I’m not sure that there will be that many users who have built and shared presets so far, but it might be worth asking on the FCP X Techniques Forum or indeed on fcp.co (if we are allowed to mention it here).
We do plan to offer a presets package when we come to the next release (which should also be available for Premiere users), but so far I’m still experimenting myself because the range of options is so very diverse.
I can tell you that I really like switching to Overlay blend mode for fades and dips. Also if I’m wanting to emulate a film dissolve, I will go for the Inverse sRGB gamma option, or you could set the gamma encoding manually – go for something in the region of 0.5 and adjust it to taste from there.
Beyond that, I’d just recommend that you experiment and see what you like the look of. Because no two sets of shots are alike, and no two people like exactly the same thing (!), you’ll probably always want slightly different settings depending both on the content and the look that you personally prefer.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com
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