Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 205)

Chapter 6 Importing Video and Anamorphic Film 205
Video Functions
Shake has several other video-oriented functions. When using these features, make
sure that field rendering is off, because field-rendering options may interfere with the
desired result. These functions include the following:
Interlace
Located in the Layer tab, this node interlaces two images. You can control field
dominance, whether the input images are themselves separate field images (for
example, half Y resolution), or if the fields are extracted from every other line.
Location Function Description
Globals tab timecodeMode Sets the timecode format displayed in the Time Bar.
Time Bar T on keyboard Toggles timecode/frame display.
Image tab FileIn Has de-interlacing, as well as pulldown/pullup capabilities under
the Timing subtree. See the “Using the FileIn (SFileIn) Node” on
page 110 for more information.
Color tab VideoSafe Limits your colors to video-legal ranges. See “VideoSafe” on
page 208.
Layer tab Constraint Limits effects by certain criteria, either zone, change tolerance,
channel, or field. Naturally, field is of interest here. You can affect a
single field with this node. This is generally done with field
rendering off. See Chapter 16, “Compositing With Layer Nodes,” for
more information.
Layer tab Interlace Interlaces two images, pulling one field from one image, and the
second field from the other image. You can select field dominance.
This is generally done with field rendering off. See “Interlace” on
page 205.
Other tab DeInterlace Retains one field from an image and creates the other field from it.
You have three choices as to how this is done. The height of the
image remains the same. This is generally done with field rendering
off. See “DeInterlace” on page 206.
Other tab Field Strips out one field, turning the image into a half-height image.
Generally done with field rendering off. See “Field” on page 207.
Other tab Swapfields Switches the even and odd fields of an image when fieldRendering
is off. To do this when fieldRendering is on, just switch from odd to
even or even to odd. Generally done with field rendering off. See
“SwapFields” on page 207.