wow... okay now I see the benefit. That workflow was really tight. What would usually take me half a day you do it on a fly. I was worried in the first half and thought AE can do all of this better but this is XLR and you're flowing at a decent pace between composite and premiere.
Back in the days when you could download AE "for free" I learned that software almost 50% of the way Seeing this is really hurting my brain lol. AE is SO much more use friendly. Like insanely compared to this. Welp, I guess I gotta learn.
Thank you for the Natron tutorials! really helped me getting started using Natron! Coming from Nuke, I think what happened at 9:07 is that the default source of the paint is the background. While in Nuke, the default paint source is from foreground. cmiiw. and if the paint node is too heavy, we can always precomp it. :D
DL the 720 file and remove the folder from the zip, then drag the folder into the program and it should auto covert as a video, jus make sure its NOT in the zip!
I find relative addressing unreliable and always resort to switching to full file paths. For that there is a built in tool in the edit menu to find and replace text in the read nodes file knob: Edit > Node > Filename > Search and Replace... Although, I once had a script where I set a global filepath that was editable and would insert at the beginning of every read node via expression... which I think is what you mean? But I can't remember if that was an enjoyable or painful way to work
I'm currently running into this issue bringing over a bunch of my old projects from Premiere Pro CS6 to PP 24...and sure enough; most of the clips in them were shot on a Canon Vixia HFG10, basically a consumer version of the XA-10 you show with an identical form factor apart from the handle. Thanks!
Hi Harry! Is Natron the best tool to make videos like this? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TF4UV_lYl_k.htmlsi=CxstlY_w1aQmZKVO Thanks in advance.
Nice video. But sincerely adobe need to fix up the premier pro enough of all this bug issues, I’m tired of running to RU-vid for solution every time, I have a schedule for myself and client do, why would I take out of my time to fix up issues that shouldn’t have happen, others are doing better this is frustrating
Similar, yes, but it can be used slightly differently. The mask input in Natron is a “apply effect only through here” whereas (if memory serves) AE is only keep what is here… not sure if that makes any sense
Excellent! This is the best tutorial on tracking in Natron that I have seen. I want to echo the comment that this is the only place that explained what the outer rectangle in the tracker setup is for. I wanted to display a video being watched inside some stock footage of a phone with a green screen. I used the corner pin transform and duplicated it, once for the external image that I used to mask out the green screen and tracking marks, and a second time to have the video (merged under the phone) track the motion of the phone. Came out perfectly - thanks man!
Thank you! -- I did this by renaming the original files ina browser, and then in preimere right clicking on the file and selecting "replace file" - - - BOOM! - - - Everything is back as it should be. I'll deffinitly watchout for duplicate filenames in the future! Thanks!
Hi mate. Thanks for tutorial it helps. I found out that exporting in tiff`s is closest and least problematic for my projects using 2.5. must say im total beginer in natron and compositing so i cant be sure why, but after tried lots of other format vid or images tiff wins dont know why just does. Anyway great help
Hi, great tuts, BTW! I am still getting familiar with VFX & haven't gotten too far since I spent alot of time trying to just get community Nuke to install with my (Ubuntu) OS but ran into too much trouble so I'm back trying out Natron . Have you used Natron 2.5? Just wondering if the issues mentioned have been resolved or will I still encounter them? Also since I have Tiff sequences with image.list can I save to Tiff 16bit instead? Finally, if I setup my folder path and ## correctly, when I re-render specific images that failed, Natron will just insert them automatically into the sequence folder? Thanks in advance!
Thanks! I only have the answers to some of those questions so here goes: I think I briefly tried Natron 2.5, still has bugs. Not sure about image.list but I’d assume Natron supports 16 bit tiffs. Yes, when rendering image sequences, filling in only the broken frames will work
sorry but I cant follow how to install on my Mac. Seems things have changed over the year or maybe its my bad computer skills. Please could you show Mac users, how to install on Mac
Very good! just one issue... The example video that I'm going to use is in a JPEG sequence, that is CRAP cuz any online converter I found either said I can't upload more or they were just straight up LYING and didn't convert the images to video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UPLOAD A VIDEO FILE PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don’t need to convert a jpeg sequence to a video file. Natron can read it as if it was a video file as long as they have consecutive numbers in the file name to use as frame numbers
Hello once again!... it looks like I can't post external links. My parametric mask layers were unfortunately saved as RGB even though I saved the whole Tiff image with alpha so when I try to shuffle and merge with my original image, the subject (A) is slightly transparent and the background (wether B pipe or mask) not fully transparent when I try to use my image sequences in my video editor (the desired background is actually video thus easier to composite furthur in the video editor). I wonder if there is a roto tool in Natron that could 'read' my mask layer automatically...
Hello! I have multiple images (sequenced) with layers saved in Tiff (with alpha) but my layers were composed of parametric masks based on luminosity thus I have a layer where visually the subject is white while the background is black (and even for some sequences, a layer that is the opposite), but I didn't know how to convert the parametric masks to an matte or alpha layer in the photo software. How do I convert the layer to an alpha layer (even if they are not perfectly black and white)? I keep using the temp shuffle (community plugin) for layers or the shuffle node but when I try to re-merge with my subject, I can't get the background out. Can it be done in either Natron or Nuke? Otherwise I am stuck going back over a thousand images and attempting to convert to alpha in photoshop...
Hi, yes that definitely sounds possible to do over a sequence in Natron. The Alpha doesn’t have to completely black or white; it works on a floating point between 0-1. I’m struggling to follow the specifics of what you’re describing without seeing the images but from what I gather you should be able to accomplish your goals by shuffling out the colour layer you want then the matte layer and finally copying the matte layer into the alpha channel of the colour layer. That will give you a four channel (RGBA) image
@@HarryChrisp Hello again, thnks for quick reply! I can't get to my project at the moment but I know there was a peculiarity in the channel components of the parametric layers which I don't quite understand how to handle. I can repost with the specifics within the next 24hrs... would greatly appreciate!!
DUUUDE! WOW! Absolute genius! In 2023 I encountered this problem whilst editing a wedding. I have two canon camcorders. A Canon G26 and a Canon XA11, and both have identical clips, and whilst I was culling my footage it was fine, but when it was time to do the final edit, my XA11 footage started acting up and playing audio sources from the G26 clip. I don't want to lie, your video helped me out just when I was about literally shut down my PC and give up. Your video was a great help. Much appreciated man. All the way from South Africa 🇿🇦
