"Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

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"Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby debngar » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:47 pm

You can make frames, all within Producer and make them different colors. Also you can substitute an image for your frame instead of a plain color too. Do it ALL in Producer. No Photoshop required.

If using the BorderStandard.png in layer 2 doesn't appeal to you to make the white border inside the colored frame, the gradients are very powerful and a great way to make the white framed area with the center hole.

Create another rectangle gradient that is purely black and white with the black on the INSIDE. Chroma-key the black completely out of the image (leaving the hole). Then unlock X & Y and resize the white so it shows a tiny bit inside the colored frame that lays on top in layer 1.

I just choose to not bother having to reinvent the wheel since Photodex already provides the user with that png file.

This was done in Producer 3.0 1967 but the concepts remain the same.

"Frame Alternatives" - 1:14 min
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... alb=127032
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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - 1:14 min

Postby jbetta » Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:58 pm

Hi Debbie,

I love this idea, but, I'm not getting how to chroma key the black out to get the hole you are referring to in this tut.
I guess I am being a little dense on my part. Can you explain a in more detail please.

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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - 1:14 min

Postby debngar » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:21 am

Check the box for the chroma key function to work.

Use the eye dropper to select the white as the color to remove. This would be how you use it for ANY color you wish to remove in an image actually.

Then look at the sliders and start moving the ones it allows you to move - usually threshold and drop off. I don't know what makes some show up as usable and not others but maybe it has to do with what color you are trying to get rid of.

I happened to set the threshold at 8 and the drop off at 3 in this case. It can vary from image to image but this works for the gradient you're trying to make into a frame.

I don't usually include a ton of detail in my tutorials to keep them short and simple. They require some comfortable amount hands-on working knowledge of the program, else they'd be 3-4 times longer having to include how to find all those things to adjust. You may want to take notes of the settings if you need those as you work and experiment.

Here's a link to a forum thread on the chroma key for more info:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8975&p=72792&hilit=+chroma+key#p72792

And a link to Photodex's explanation of the tool I found on their website:

http://www.photodex.com/training/howto/ ... makey.html

Hope that helps.
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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - 1:14 min

Postby jbetta » Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:04 pm

Thanks Debbie!
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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - 1:14 min

Postby debngar » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:04 pm

You're welcome Joyce.
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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby woodnut » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:29 pm

Hi Debbie

when you create the first rectanglar gradient layer....how do you make it rectangular, say "landscape shape"...mine always wants to be a square.

I chroma keyed out the center and could see my picture below the frame, but when I unlocked the x and y to "landscape" the frame, it crept in on the sides so I could see the photo below...Does that make sense


I'm using Ver 4

thanks

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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby debngar » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:12 pm

That's normal - it starting out as a square I mean. In the motion edit window, you unlock the zoom x and y to resize it, either making the vertical or horizontal whatever size you want.

Yes, it's called a rectangle gradient but you can make it a non-square with that trick.

You may or may not have to fiddle with how large/small the white area is to begin with in the gradient edit window first. This means fiddling with the positions of the two inner arrows on the color line. Ideally, the outer part of the frame should fully cover your slide area at the perimeter. If by unlocking x and y, and resizing it creeps into the slide and does not cover it, you must go back and edit the gradient arrows so the hole starts out larger, a bit closer to the top and bottom of your slide area. Then go to the motion edit window and do the x&y thing to resize and finish.

I don't know if you noticed but that color line where the arrows are, they are positioned from the left at 0 and to the right at 100%. Put the two center arrows on top of each other at about 54 or 55. This still is a square but you pull the top/bottom left/right sides apart in the motion edit window as needed to resize. Use your safe area as a guide to size the hole and see how that works for you.

Hope that makes sense. Play with it, you will eventually get it.
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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby woodnut » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:17 pm

Debbie

Thanks for your prompt reply. I'll play with that tomorrow. I've been reading a lot of your posts and watching your tutorials. You're a big help to all the newbies out there.

cheers

Neil

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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby woodnut » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am

Debbie

I got it.....thanks...works like magic!

cheers

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Re: "Frame Alternatives" - do it all in Producer!

Postby debngar » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:38 am

Neil,

You're welcome. :D
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