Digital Tutors - Integrating Titles into Footage in Composit

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to composite a text title into background footage. This is a common task for

show openers or to add extra information into your shot.

We'll begin this project by importing our background plate and creating the text we'll integrate. Then we'll track the

background plate and attach our text to the track. We'll then learn how to texture our text and how to combine various

tools to make our text look more three dimensional. We'll then learn how to take elements from our background and layer

them into our text to create the illusion that the text is in the scene. We'll finish by doing some quick color

correction and render out our finished shot!

Lesson Outline (13 lessons)

1. Introduction and project overview
2. Importing and setting up our composition and slate
3. Tracking our plate movement and adding it to a 2D Transform
4. Adding texture to our slate using Noise and CC Basics
5. Using the Drop Shadow node to create shadows
6. Using the Emboss PXL node to create a 3D text effect
7. Rotating our Emboss light source and controlling intensity
8. Using a Luma Keyer to isolate our plate shadows for layering
9. Creating static shadows using our tracker and a Garbage Mask
10. Rotoscoping our moving shadow using multiple masks
11. Refining our shadow garbage masks
12. Filling in our shadows with a modified Slate
13. Making final tweaks to various tools to finish our composite