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Smoke I Tour of the Interface

Smoke 1 The Interface

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An introduction to Autodesk Smoke as taught by Professor Sam Edall using clips from FCP7 Quest media files. This first lecture shows the Media Hub and Timeline interface.

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Smoke ITour of the Interface

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Getting Smoke Installed

Setting up Smoke with a stand-alone license Click here to open YouTube video

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Tour of the Interface Video

Tour of the interface Click here to open Yo

uTube video

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Firing Up Smoke Student version

When Smoke starts a welcome screen that says this is a student version of Smoke Lucky you, you

don’t have to buy it!

Just click Continue

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Title Screen On the bottom

Set who the user is You!

Set your storage volume

Set what project you are working one or create a new one

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Title Screen To the left

Access to the Smoke Learning Channel on YouTube That’s where these

videos come from Smoke forum for

questions and answers Smoke on Facebook

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Getting Started Set who’s project

you will work on

Under User choose New

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Getting Started In the name box

enter your name

Under Keyboard shortcuts choose FCP7

Leave the other settings the same and choose Create

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Getting Started In the welcome

screen under Project

-- Click New

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Getting Started In the Create New

Project screen by Name Let’s name this project

‘BC 420 Practice’

Click on the Config Template pop-up Choose ‘1920 x 1080’ This sets the recording

format for your project

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Getting Started Click the Create

button in the bottom right

Then click Start on the Welcome screen That’s how we make

or load projects when Smoke starts

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Getting Started

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Different Tabs for Different Jobs

On the bottom MediaHub

Where your media is kept Conform

Troubleshoot imported timelines and to relink segments

Timeline Where you do your

editing Tools

Special effects

Select Timeline

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Panels The workspace is

where you accomplish all of your project tasks.

Three main panels: The Media panel The Viewing panel The Editing panel

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Media Panel Where you manage the

media in your current project.

Any media listed in the Media panel is saved inside the project.

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Media Panel Libraries

All media and folders reside in a Library. You can create as many Libraries as you

want, enabling you to better organize your project media.

Folders Create folders to organize your media. You can create as many folders as you

want. Folders can be expanded and collapsed in

the Media panel.

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Media Panel Source Clips:

A source clip has only one video segment. It contains no edits and all its audio segments

have the same tape name, source timecode and duration as the video.

Sequences: A sequence is the same as in FCP7 or a project

in FCPX. It contains multiple clips.

Effect Clips: An effect clip is a metadata-only clip. You can use this type of clip to copy timeline

effects from one clip to another.

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Media Panel Load in some

content Right click or

control click on the Default Library and choose New > Folder

Name the new folder Video

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Media Panel Two more times

Make two more folders by right clicking on the default library and name the 2 news folders Music and Sound Effects

Good idea to put your stuff into separate folders so you can find it easier later

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Viewer Panel Load them up

Click on the Bookmarks button and select User Home

Double-click on the Documents folder to open it

Double-click on the BC 420 folder to open that folder

Double-click on the Smoke Content folder to open it

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Viewer Panel Save that

directory While the Smoke

Content folder is open, click on the Bookmark button again.

This time select Add Bookmark

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Viewer Panel Load them up

Double-click on the Quest Clips folder to open them in the Media Hub

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Viewer PanelChecking out your

stuff Different views

Thumbnails only Thumbnails with a

preview screen List view only List view with a

preview screen

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Viewer Panel Move your cursor

left and right inside the lower third of a clip to scrub through the thumbnail

Double-click the clip to open the viewer and load the clip

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Viewer Panel Check them out

Change the view to Thumbnail with Preview Select the Began clip and use the playback controls

to check it out

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Viewer Panel Scrubbing your

footage Go to beginning Go to In point Back 1 frame Play/pause Forward 1 frame Go to Out point Go to end

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Viewer Panel Get around

Select a clip and use the controls to scrub though a clip

Pause playback, then put your cursor in the video clip and drag left and right to scrub though your clip

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Media Panel & Viewer Panel

Load up your media panel Select the video

folder in the media panel

Select any clip in the media hub, then press Command A to select all of the clips

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Media Panel & Viewer Panel

Load up your media panel By the Media Hub

button in the lower left click the Import button

Open your Video folder You should see all

the clips now inside

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Getting Around Backing up

Use the directory tree on top of the media hub Click on the folder

you wish to look at Press the Up button to

back up to its parent directory

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Media Panel & Viewer Panel

Load up the music Click on the Smoke Content

folder to step back to the parent directory

Then double-click on the Music folder to open its contents

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Media Panel & Viewer Panel

Load up the music Make sure the

Music folder in the Media Panel is selected

Select all three music clips

Press the Import button

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Media Panel & Viewer Panel

Load up the SFX Use this same procedure to load the sound effects

clips into the Sound Effects folder in the Media Panel

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Timeline Click on the

Timeline tab on the bottom to switch to the timeline view.

Click on the Viewer Mode box and select Player

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Timeline Double-click on

the ‘immersed’ clip in the Video folder to load it into the viewer.

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The Viewing Panel About the Viewing Panel

The Viewing panel gives you different visual representations of the clips in the Media panel.

From the View mode box, you can select from the following views: Thumbnail Player Source – Sequence Triptych Player

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The Viewing Panel Thumbnail View

Displays the clips within the selected Media panel folder as thumbnails.

Player View Displays and plays back

the selected clip in a player.

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Viewing Pane Click on the

View button and change the view to Thumbnail (if necessary).

Click on the Thumbnail Task menu and choose Arrange > Fit All This will show all

your clips

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Viewing Pane Now you can see all the clips inside

the Video folder.

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Viewing Pane Click on the View button and change

the view from Thumbnail to Player.

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Viewing Pane Click on the View button and change the

view from Thumbnail to Player.

Select the immersed clip

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Getting Around While immersed is

still selected, change the view to Triptych Player

See the same clip in three players Default view

Media start Middle of clip Media end

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Homework Assignment: Using the Grab application

take a snapshot of the media panel Make sure you have the Music,

Sound Effects, and Video folders open to show the contents

Save the image and post to Western Online in the Smoke I dropbox folder.

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Smoke ITour of the Interface