To access useful presets per section, click the Section Presets button at the
top of the Spice, Blur, Extras or Texture section.
NOTE: Words cannot do justice to the power of several of the controls below and their synergy. Please explore the available presets, as mentioned above, and experiment with modifying control values to create truly unique effects.
Spice/Position
OrganiBlur uses the luminance of your clip's image or the luminance of a selected spice file (or a variable mix of both) as the basis for the blur. At
the top of the OrganiBlur are the Choose Spice
File button and related controls for positioning and modifying the effect when it is based on a spice file. To select from hundreds of available spice geometries, click the Choose Spice
File button. If you also have our SpiceMASTER plug-in, the controls work identically.
H Flip -- Flip the spice horizontally.
V Flip -- Flip the spice vertically.
Invert -- Reverse spice (invert the effect).
Center -- Drag the handle or enter X and Y coordinates to move the spice.
Rotate -- Rotate the spice.
Mixer -- This unique control
blends the spice and source clip's luminance to create a blur direction that is determined
by your clip. At 100%, purely the SOURCE clip's luminance is used as the basis for the blur. To mix using
the spice geometry AND your clip's luminance, adjust
the Mixer to an intermediate value, such as 50%.
Experiment -- the Mixer is one of OrganiBlur's most
unique and powerful controls. NOTE: Progress must not equal 0 or 100 for the Mixer to have visual impact.
Blur
Progress -- Progressively sets the extent of the blur established by other controls. Maximum is 50%. No blur appears at 0% and 100%.
Thus the slider is designed, when keyframed from 0% to 100%, to gradually increase the effect to a maximum and then decrease back to no effect during a clip. To just set a static blur area during the entire clip, there is no need to keyframe -- just experiment with the slider to determine its best constant value for your desired effect.
Blur Amount -- Controls the overall blur power.
Spread -- Specifies the size of the blurred area, as determined by the chosen spice file and/or Mixer value (see below). Values
less than 1.0 blur only part of the image. High values produce a uniform blur
over the entire image, which is useful if you do not want to vary the blur amount within the image.
Angle -- The blur direction will follow the
luminance gradient's direction unless you use this control to rotate the blur direction. Keyframing it can easily create swirling blur effects.
Off-center -- At its default 50% blurs in two opposite directions; in one direction at 0% and 100%.
Gaussian % -- Change the blur's look from Average (0%) to Gaussian (100%).
Ramping -- At its 50% default value, the blur power has its maximum
at the center of the blurred area and decreases toward the edges. Other values move the blur maximum elsewhere within the blurred area. 0% moves the maximum
to the beginning of the blurred area; 100% to the end.
Preserve alpha -- For titles and source clips with an alpha channel, this sets the alpha channel processing. "On" retains sharp frame edges in clips that are smaller than the project's frame size. "Off" is handy for text blur since the alpha channel is also blurred which can create text glows and related effects.
Extras
Softness -- Blurs the pixel basis used by OrganiBlur.
Therefore, it can significantly smooth the blur direction/power variations, especially in fine-textured
source images when the Mixer is activated.
Input -- Like our popular SpiceMASTER plug-in, when the default Spice File choice is active, OrganiBlur utilizes our top-rated, industry-standard
"spices" to generate the effect. Use the Spice/Position controls described at the top of this page to adjust many aspects of the spice file. Or, you can base the OrganiBlur effect on the Image's Luminance, which creates an entirely different/unique effect basis that relates directly to your image content.
Multiplier -- When Input > Image's Luminance is active, controls how many times the blur repeats in each direction. When Input > Spice File is active, dampens the blur power at the high-gradient areas and sharp edges.
Grain
Amount -- This control
can add variably-sized organic texturing to the blur effect. At 100%, purely the texture is used as the basis for the blur. To mix using
the spice geometry AND the texture, adjust
the Amount to an intermediate value, such as 50%.
NOTE: Progress must not equal 0 or 100 for the Amount to have visual impact.
X Size and Y Size --These sliders stretch the texture horizontally or vertically.
Values range from 1 (single pixel) to 100 (frame width or height). This enables
you to create random streak effects (increase one slider much more than the other),
large particles (increase both sliders, but stay below the 100 maximum), weaves, and other cool textures.
Several presets show the creative possibilities.
Density -- Lower values decrease the density
of the texture elements.
Spectrum -- Adjust the noise spectrum to generate cloud-like patterns.
Motion -- Progressively adds random movement/animation
to the texture during the effect.
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