To access useful presets per section, click the Section Presets button at the
top of the Spice, Spatter, Grain or Spice Effect 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
At
the top of the SpatterFlex are the Choose Spice
File button and related controls for positioning and modifying a spice
file. Click the Choose Spice
File button to choose from lots of Pixelan's top-rated, industry-standard "spices"
to form the basic geometry of SpatterFlex's effect. 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 the spatter look will appear within the clip's image. At 100%, purely the SOURCE clip's luminance is used as the basis for the spatter. 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 SpatterFlex's most
unique and powerful controls. NOTE: Progress must not equal 0 or 100 for the Mixer to have visual impact.
Spatter
Type -- Two-way spreads the spatter effect in two opposite directions from any origin point; One-way in one direction. Generally, Two-way creates a stronger effect.
Amount -- Controls the overall spatter power.
Angle -- The underlying blur under the spatter look will follow the
luminance gradient's direction unless you use this control to rotate the direction. Keyframing it can easily create swirling OrganiBlur-like effects underneath the spatter particles.
Ramping -- At its 50% default value, the spatter power has its maximum
at the center of the spatter area and decreases toward the edges. Other values move the spatter maximum elsewhere within the spattered area. 0% moves the maximum
to the beginning of the spatter area; 100% to the end.
Grain
X Size and Y Size --These sliders stretch the spatter particles horizontally or vertically.
Values range from 1 (single pixel) to 100 (frame width or height). Several presets show the creative possibilities.
Softness -- Determines the egde softness of the spatter particles. High values can create molten looks.
Density -- Lower values decrease the density
of the spatter elements.
Motion -- Progressively adds random movement/animation
to the spatter during the effect. Highly desireable for a more compelling look.
Hard particles --
Turn on this checkbox to create a more varigated spatter look.
Spice Effect
Spice FX -- Like our popular SpiceMASTER plug-in, when Mask is chosen, SpatterFlex utilizes our top-rated, industry-standard
"spices" to generate where the spatter effect will appear within the image. Use the Spice/Position controls described at the bottom of this page to adjust many aspects of the spice file.
Progress -- Based on the selected
spice file, this control sets the area where the effect will be visible.
At 0% the effect will appear where blackest pixels reside (in the spice file's
grayscale image, not your content). At higher values, the effect will be visible
where lighter grays reside in the spice file's image, and at 100% where the whitest
pixels exist in the spice file's image.
Softness -- Alters the spice/luminance pixels used by SpatterFlex, especially when the Mixer is activated.
Effect
only in soft area --
Use this option to limit the effect only to the Softness area (set by the above control). Increase Softness to widen the effect area.
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