Usage guide for compositing with Carbon or MuxMan

Usage guide for Compositing with Carbon or MuxMan
Element types

Images

The most basic and useful element is an image. This can be a still, or motion video. All can be resized, rotated, squeezed, stretched, cropped, zoomed, panned, flipped, faded, color processed, and masked. All the parameters controlling these operations can have values that change with time for motion compositing.
Carbon accepts the following file types:

BMP DIB	paletted:	4-bit or 8-bit index into 24-bit colors, uncompressed or RLE compressed.
BMP DIB	direct data:	24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA.
TGA	paletted:	8-bit index into 15, 16, 24, or 32-bit colors, uncompressed or RLE compressed. 32-bit may contain alpha channel.
	monochrome:	8 bit uncompressed or RLE compressed.
	direct data:	15, 16, 24, or 32-bit colors, uncompressed or RLE compressed. 32-bit may contain alpha channel.
SGI restrictions	paletted:	not allowed as SGI format kept palettes in separate files.
	monochrome:	8 or 16 bit uncompressed or RLE compressed.
	direct data:	24, 32, 48, or 64-bit colors, uncompressed or RLE compressed. 32 and 64-bit may contain alpha channel.
MPEG m1v m2v mpv vob		mpeg-2. restrictions
AVI		restrictions

Shapes

The compositor can generate circles, ellipses, chords, pies (wedges), squares, rectangles, polygons of 2 to 999 sides, arcs, and lines of any color. All except lines and arcs can be filled with a different color or transparent. Polygons with overlapping lines can uses multiple brushes for different colors in each of the enclosed regions. The straight lines of chords, pies, squares, rectangles, and polygons can be curved.

Text

Text can be composed using any font in your system with any combination of bold, strikeout, underlined, or italic styles in any color.

Index

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