Natron Tutorials Part 1: The basics of the Software Layout
This is the first part in a mini series of Natron Tutorial videos. Part one is for people new to Natron and the goal is to get familiar with the software layout so we can comfortably move onto common node based compositing techniques.
Footage download:
720:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dn3L...
UHD:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ouA...
X-Wing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qioU...
Music: https://www.bensound.com
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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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Sections:
Series Intro: (0:00)
Natron Basics: (1:10)
Node Graph: (2:27)
Import Footage: (2:50)
Connect Viewer: (4:06)
Properties: (4:31)
Change Image Colorspace: (5:00)
End of File Error: (5:55)
Movie File vs Image Sequence: (6:21)
Keyboard Shortcuts: (8:05)
Project and User Settings: (9:10)
Viewer: (10:43)
Layout Customization: (15:24)
Outro: (15:57)