Natron | The FREE VFX Software that's Comparable to After Effects
This is a brief introduction to Natron, a visual effects compositing software that's heavily based on the industry standard and is open source (meaning it's free)! Then a very basic explanation of how it works.
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https://natrongithub.github.io/
Head to my channel or this playlist for a FREE COURSE on how to learn and use Natron:
• Learn Natron Compositing
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Natron Series Course Outline:
Ep1: Introduction and GUI overview
Node Menu and side menu
Top menu
Invisible Setting node
User settings (shift + s)
Node graph
Viewer
Nodes being a tools/settings container
Ep2: Key framing
Keyframe state on and off and note expressions
Using the viewer timeline and dope sheet to spot keyframes
Animate a colour wheel to bounce
Using the curve editor
Ep3: Tracking
Tracker node
Point track
Copying track to transform node
4 point track and corner pin
Linked vs unlinked
Using corner pins to do quick roto
Ep4: Channels and Premultiplication
RGB
Alpha channel
Premultiplication
Ep5: The Merge node
Quick explanation of A over B
Over, under, max, screen, mask, stencil, difference, minus
How to see the math for the others
Ep6: Marker removal
Paint clean frame
Transform offset
Corner pin
Switch matte
Ep7: Basic Compositing
Text Element
Apply corner pin
Make cast shadow
Ep8: Rendering
Movie files vs image sequences
Common file types; exr, mov
Render settings: channels, path, hash, frame range, unpremultiplied
Babying the render
Checking the render
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