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Plasma

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Plasma [Plas]

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This background generation tool uses four circular patterns to generate images similar to Plasma. It is useful as a deforming pattern for the shadow and deform tools and to create a variety of other useful shapes and patterns. See also the Fast Noise tool.

Contents




Circles Tab


Scale

The Scale control is used to adjust the size of the pattern created.


Operation

The options in this menu determine the mathematical relationship between the four circles whenever they intersect.


Circle Type

Select the type of circle to be used.


Circle Center

Report and change the position of the circle center.


Circle Scale

Determine the size of the circle to be used for the pattern.





Color Tab


Phase

Phase changes the color phase of the entire image. When animated, this creates psychedelic color cycles.


R/G/B/A Phases

Changes the phase of the individual color channels and the alpha. When animated, this creates color cycling effects.






Image Tab

The controls in this tab are used to set the resolution, color depth and pixel aspect of the image produced by the tool.

Process Mode

Use this menu control to select the fields processing mode used by Fusion to render changes to the image. The default option is determined by the Has Fields checkbox control in the Frame Format Preferences. For more information on fields processing, consult the Frame Formats chapter.

Global In And Out

Use this control to specify the position of this tool within the project. Use Global In to specify on which frame that the clip starts and Global Out to specify on which frame this clip ends (inclusive) within the project's Global Range.

The tool will not produce an image on frames outside of this range.

Use Frame Format Settings

When this checkbox is selected, the width, height and pixel aspect of the image created by the tool will be locked to values defined in the composition's Frame Format preferences. If the Frame Format preferences change, the resolution of the image produced by the tool will change to match. Disabling this option can be useful to build a composition at a different resolution than the eventual target resolution for the final render.

Width / Height

This pair of controls is used to set the Width and Height dimensions of the image to be created by the tool.

Pixel Aspect

This controls is used to specify the Pixel Aspect ratio of the created images. An aspect ratio of 1:1 would generate a square pixel with the same dimensions on either side (like a computer display monitor) and an aspect of 0.9:1 would create a slightly rectangular pixel (like an NTSC monitor).

Depth

The Depth button array is used to set the pixel color depth of the image created by the creator tool. 32bit pixels require 4 times the memory of 8bit pixels, but have far greater color accuracy. Float pixels allow high dynamic range values outside the normal 0..1 range, for representing colours that are brighter than white or darker than black. See the Frame Format chapter for more details.

Right-click on the Width,Height or Pixel Aspect controls to display a menu listing the file formats defined in the preferences Frame Format tab. Selecting any of the listed options will set the width, height and pixel aspect to the values for that format.





Tips for Plasma (edit)

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