Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Hollywood FX User's Guide
Release 5.0 Plus for Edition - Revision A - English
Pinnacle Systems, Inc. 280 North Bernardo Avenue Mountain View, CA 94943
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION...................................... 1
What is Hollywood FX?.......................................................................... 1 Hollywood FX levels............................................................................... 2 Before you start ....................................................................................... 3 Installing Hollywood FX......................................................................... 4 Licensing and registration ....................................................................... 6 Customer support..................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 2: GETTING STARTED ............................... 9
Hollywood FX in the application ............................................................ 9 Adding a Hollywood transition ............................................................. 10 Changing an existing HFX transition .................................................... 11 Using Hollywood FX as a filter............................................................. 12
CHAPTER 3: TUTORIALS........................................... 15
Tutorial 1: Transitions and options ........................................................ 15 Selecting an FX...................................................................................... 16 The Monitor panel ................................................................................. 17 Basic effect options ............................................................................... 17 Basic flight options................................................................................ 18 Basic lighting, shadows and shine......................................................... 19 Basic render options .............................................................................. 21 Tutorial 2: Transition+ ............................................................................ 23 Selecting the Transition+....................................................................... 23 Mapping a video clip to Source 3.......................................................... 24 Tutorial 3: MultiWindow FX .................................................................. 26 Selecting the FX and setting options ..................................................... 27
CHAPTER 4: PINNACLE ONLINE .............................. 29
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CHAPTER 5: TROUBLESHOOTING........................... 31 CHAPTER 6: PERFORMANCE ................................... 35
CPU speed, bus speed and memory....................................................... 35 Graphics card drivers............................................................................. 36 Adjusting preview rendering performance ............................................ 36
CHAPTER 7: ADVANCED TUTORIALS ..................... 39
Tutorial 4: Keyframe editing with envelopes......................................... 39 The Envelope Editor.............................................................................. 40 Selecting an object and option............................................................... 40 Creating the envelope ............................................................................ 41 Setting up the first keyframe ................................................................. 42 Adding a keyframe ................................................................................ 43 Other envelope controls......................................................................... 44 Tutorial 5: Flight path editing................................................................. 45 Modifying the path ................................................................................ 47 Tutorial 6: Creating new FX from existing FX PRO .............................. 49 Saving your custom FX ......................................................................... 52 Adding a filter plugin ............................................................................ 53 Tutorial 7: Warp plugins PRO .................................................................. 56 Changing Peel options........................................................................... 58 Keyframing the angle of peel ................................................................ 60 Tutorial 8: 3D text generation
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CHAPTER 8: THE HOLLYWOOD FX WINDOW ......... 65 CHAPTER 9: MENUS AND PANELS .......................... 67
Menus .................................................................................................... 67 The FX Tree panel................................................................................. 74 FX Tree Advanced Features PRO ........................................................... 75 The Monitor panel and associated controls ........................................... 78
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CHAPTER 10: THE ALBUM ........................................ 83 CHAPTER 11: FX PROPERTIES ................................ 85
Quick Flight Controls ............................................................................ 86 Quick Lighting Controls........................................................................ 86
CHAPTER 12: MEDIA PROPERTIES.......................... 91
Media Selection ..................................................................................... 91 Trimming............................................................................................... 94 Cropping controls .................................................................................. 94
CHAPTER 13: OBJECT PROPERTIES....................... 95
Object hierarchies.................................................................................. 95 Positioning controls ............................................................................... 97 Shape and dissolve ................................................................................ 99 Object flags.......................................................................................... 100
CHAPTER 14: SURFACE OPTIONS......................... 101
Basic color attributes ........................................................................... 102
CHAPTER 15: THE ENVELOPE EDITOR ................. 107
The single-value envelope................................................................... 107 Multiple-value envelope ...................................................................... 108 The Envelope window......................................................................... 109 Key Type controls ............................................................................... 110 Keyframe controls ............................................................................... 110 Keyframing example ........................................................................... 111 Saving and loading envelopes ............................................................. 113 Exiting Hollywood FX ........................................................................ 113
CHAPTER 16: PLUGINS
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Managing Plugins................................................................................... 116 Filter - Blur .......................................................................................... 117 Filter - Chroma Key............................................................................. 119 Filter - Luma Key ................................................................................ 120 Filter - Directional Wipe ..................................................................... 121
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Filter  Edge Wipe .............................................................................. 122 Filter - Gradient Wipe ......................................................................... 124 Warp  AlphaParticles......................................................................... 125 Warp  Displacement Map .................................................................. 128 Warp  Explode................................................................................... 130 Warp  Peel ......................................................................................... 133 Warp  Polyshrink............................................................................... 134 Warp  Ripple ..................................................................................... 135 Warp  Swirl ....................................................................................... 138 Warp - Twist........................................................................................ 140
CHAPTER 17: EXPORT HFX CHAPTER 18: IMPORT 3D CHAPTER 19: 3D TEXT
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APPENDIX A: LICENSE AGREEMENT .................... 151 INDEX ........................................................................ 155
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Pinnacle Systems' Hollywood FX. Hollywood FX is a powerful editor of 3D transitions, titles and animated effects. Since 1994 this product has provided many of the same capabilities as broadcast television equipment and high-end compositors. It gives you an incredible collection of 3D transitions that you can quickly add to your video productions, and completely customize to your needs. This chapter will introduce you to Hollywood FX, provide instructions for installation and give contact information for customer support. This is a general guide to using Hollywood FX. If you received Hollywood FX as part of a complete Pinnacle Systems' solution, you should first read the Hollywood FX documentation accompanying that solution.
What is Hollywood FX?
Hollywood FX is an incredible collection of true 3D transitions and effects that you can add to any video production. Hollywood FX works as an integrated plugin to your video editing software (the "host application"). Hollywood FX is:
· True 3D: Hollywood FX uses OpenGL to provide
hardware accelerated, high quality 3D rendering.
· Easy to use: Simply drag-and-drop Hollywood FX
into your timeline like any other transition or filter. The Hollywood FX window will appear and you can
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select a transition, change your options, or customize an effect.
· Organized: Transitions are organized into conveni-
ent bin categories with icons that let you find the transition you want quickly.
· Convenient: With every transition you can quickly
change the flight direction, lighting, shadows, shine and antialiasing with the click of your mouse.
· MultiWindow excitement: Hollywood FX supports
unlimited video sources to create multi-layer 3D composites. Create cubes with different video sources on each side, and much more.
· Expandable:
Additional theme packs of 3D transitions, effects, plug-ins and more are available through Pinnacle Online, and Hollywood FX PRO lets you share your own creations with other users. Visit Pinnacle Online at:
hollywoodfx.pinnaclesys.com
Hollywood FX levels
There are two levels of Hollywood FX for Edition:
· Plus: This version is included with Edition 5 and
includes 300 FX plus advanced control over lighting, light direction, shadows, shine, motion blur, trails, antialiasing and more. Plus lets you customize any transition with full keyframe editing of flight paths, object shape (morphing) and transparency of objects.
· PRO:
Gives you more than 100 additional transitions (over 400 total) and gives you complete control over all 3D rendering options. PRO provides
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a complete suite of 3D tools to create your own 3D transitions and effects: · Complete keyframe editing of all object, surface, light and camera attributes in a full 3D editing environment. · Includes a suite of image filters including: Blurs, Directional Wipe, Edge Wipe, Gradient Wipe and Luma and Chroma key. · Includes a powerful suite of 3D warp plugins including: Alpha Particles, Displace, Explode, Peel, PolyShrink, Swirl and Twirl. · Adds an incredible 3D text generator that lets you create amazing 3D text fly-ons. · Import your own 3D objects (Lightwave 5 format) to create completely unique 3D effects. · Share your customized effects with others by exporting a simple self-installing compressed file that contains the effect and all objects and images needed for that effect. You can easily and instantly upgrade between these levels over the Internet at Pinnacle Online or purcha ...
