Smoke
While doing this tutorial, I've learnt many new effects such as:
- Color rama - Using the Colorama effect, you can subtly tint an image or radically change its color palette. Colorama works by first converting a specified color attribute to grayscale and then remapping the grayscale values to one or more cycles of the specified output color palette. One cycle of the output color palette appears on the Output Cycle wheel. Black pixels are mapped to the color at the top of the wheel; increasingly lighter grays are mapped to successive colors going clockwise around the wheel. For example, with the default Hue Cycle palette, pixels corresponding to black become red, while pixels corresponding to 50% gray become cyan. Hence, in this case, i've used the colorrama effect to change the smoke color to match my background or my post-production video.
- Turbulent displace - The Turbulent Displace effect uses fractal noise to create turbulent distortions in an image. For example, use it to create flowing water, funhouse mirrors, and waving flags. In my case, i've use this effect to distort my smoke layer in order to make it look more natural.
Heart Monitor - EKG
While doing the EKG, the effects i've used:
- Grid - The background is made up of the grid effect. Upon clicking the grid effect which is applied to the background, a grid will be shown like my video. There are controls to control the size of the grid and the color of it.
- Vegas - The Vegas effect generates running lights and other path-based pulse animations around an object. You can outline just about anything, surround it with lights or longer pulses, and then animate it to create the appearance of lights chasing around the object. Hence, by making the ekg runs, we just need to add value to the "stroke" in the vegas effect. Then, we will be able to see the ekg run clearly.
After doing both tutorial, i find them very useful as they will be part of my post-production and i do not need to do them again. I can just import them into my post production.