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Creating a quick vignette

Creating a quick vignette - SpeedGrade Tutorial

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Creating a quick vignette

We're going to use masks to create a quick vignette. And a vignette, basically, is a darkening. Typically around the edges, of an image and, you know, usually when you're shooting stuff there's a lot of just extraneous data. Especially in this world where the landscape orientation is so wide, you can't always get every single thing in frame beautiful. For example, in this shot we have our heroine here, the main character is a beautiful girl running away, running for her life. It's a cool nightmare sequence, and there's just garbage everywhere and there's, it's supposed to be garbage everywhere. But it oftentimes takes the focus away from her, from the girl. So, in this case, there's a, a bunch of cardboard boxes, and these all, all these things are just fighting for our attention. So, vignettes are a way to kind of quiet that down. So, I'm going to go over to the mask area here. And again, I need to raise up my interface so I can see all my controls, and I'm just going click this…

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