Jeremy KerrEducator, Discreet Logic
4.6 Visual Effects Systems
The final stages of post-production typically involve various amounts of special effects generation. Whether it is basic colour correction (post-film transfer) compositing, or more complicated effects such as particle generation, morphing or 3D camera tracking, many projects make use of visual effects.
Visual effects systems are utilised in the post-production phase of the project. These systems run on a variety of platforms such as PC, Mac, SGI or even dedicated hardware and offer a wide range of toolsets. Determining the visual effects system to use for a given project is dependent on many factors, such as budget, format of footage, time and the complexity of work required. ...
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