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Blender and Natron pipeline in a nutshell

Blender and Natron pipeline in a nutshell

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Blender and Natron pipeline in a nutshell

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to take a look at how to use Blender's video editor and the Natron compositor to help you process all those rendered frames you made. Natron is an open-source compositing software out of France that's getting a lot of traction in the visual effects world. It's cross-platform and it's fairly easy to use. Inside of Natron, you're going to want to go to your Node graph, right click, and go to Image, Read. Now find where you saved your rendered frames out. In my case, they're right here, these dot EXRs. So I'm going to click on Open. That's going to connect our EXRs to a simple viewer node so we can see what's going on in the scene. And I can scrub to see what's happening in my timeline. Now, as you might have guessed, Natron is very similar to Nuke with these node graphs and thus has a lot of power. So, let's go to our read node right here. Double click on it and we need to switch the decoder options output layer from AO to combined. There we…

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