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PatchMaker manual

Contents

• Introduction

• What is PatchMaker?

• Features & benefits

• System requirements

• License agreement

• Contacts

• PatchMaker activation

• Quick start

• Project & underlay

• Motion tracking

• Tracking segments

• Applying an overlay

• Stabilizing

• Tutorial 1. Applying an overlay

• Tutorial 2. Stabilizing

• Using PatchMaker

• Importing footage

• Importing an underlay

• Importing an overlay

• Alpha channel in overlay

• Rendering

• Composition properties

• Segment properties

• Overlay properties

• User interface

  • View

  • Preview mode

  • Mask editing mode

  • Tools

  • Hand

  • Zoom

  • Brush

  • Paint Bucket

  • Tools panel

  • After Effects^® panel

  • Display Mode panel

  • Time Controls panel

  • Property editor

  • Trackline

  • Navigator

  • Marker line

  • Time ruler

  • Overlay line

  • Segment area

• Communicating After Effects^®

• Direct communication

• AE dialogs

• Clipboard

• Modes of applying transformations

• Mistakes in transferring motion

• Advanced concepts

• How PatchMaker works?

• Good masks & bad masks

• Multiple tracking segments

• Hard cases

• Damping of camera jerks

• Stabilizing advices

• Motion models

• Tracking with static mask

• Reference

  • Glossary

  • Menu commands

  • Hot keys

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