6/6/2023 0 Comments Natron vs blender![]() In the Project Settings panel in the Properties area, set the Output Format to a reasonable demo frame size. Natron sets your viewer size to the size of the first image you import. After you release the mouse button an arrow appears between the nodes and the image appears in your viewer window. Click on the arrow head on the bottom edge of the Read image node and drag your mouse cursor over to the Viewer1 node. Once the image is in your workspace, it may not show up in the viewer (depending on how you imported it) because it is not connected to the viewer. To import a movie or image sequence or, in this case, a single image, into Natron, right-click any where in the Node Graph area and select Image > Read, or just press the r key on your keyboard whilst your mouse cursor is within the bounds of the Node Graph. Set the Frame Rate to 12 or so (only because this is a demo and full specs are not required). Set the Frame Range from its current default value of 1-1 to 1-24. ![]() In the Project Settings panel in the Properties area, set the colorspace if that is important to you (for this demo, it is not). The right half of the Natron window is the Properties panel.The bottom left is the Node Graph (called a "script panel" by most compers).The top left of the Natron window is a viewer.Launch Natron if it's not already running. To get started, download the Slackermedia logo from the front page of and save it to your hard drive in a sensible location. Basic compositingĬompositing is both a science and an art, but the user mechanics of Natron don't take long to pick up. Running Natron at the close of the installer may or may not work depending on how you installed it either way, after the install, launch it from either your file manager or applications menu. The install wizard will offer to install several third party tools, including the Tuttle effects install everything. Run it either as a normal user to install it into your home directory (you might install it to ~/bin/natron, for instance), or with the kdesu or gksudo commands to install it systemwide (for example, you might put it in /opt/natron so that any user can access it). ![]() To install Natron, just download the installer from its website. ![]() A more recent addition to the team has been Natron, an application that models itself on established compositing conventions and leverages existing initiatives for an open VFX landscape such as, , and. The first is Blender, which has well proven its worth as a compositor, most recently in Tears of Steel, a movie that combines live action with CG seamlessly. There aren't many dedicated compositing applications on the market, and open source owns not one, but two of them. On the big screen, you'll see this in nearly every movie since 1933's King Kong (or thereabouts), but the art has reached a science in the digital realm, where some movies are practically not so much as edited as they are superimposed. A "comp artist," as they are called in the industry, specializes in taking disparate moving images and placing them in the same frame, usually to make it appear that the different elements were shot at the same time. If you've ever taken a digital photograph into GIMP to remove red eye or an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend, or crop out a finger that got into the edge of the frame, then you are practically a compositor.
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