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Nicholas Harauz
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Nicholas Harauz

Nick Haurauz has directed and filmed a host of celebrities such as Nelly Furtado, Lady Gaga, and Richard Branson. He was responsible for crafting video magic for clients such as Diageo, Virgin Mobile, United Way, and Procter and Gamble. He has an uncanny ability to engage his students and create a level of relatedness that keeps them coming back for more. As an FCP X, Motion 5, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and an Avid-certified trainer, he is able to put his BA in Film and Sociology from the University of Toronto to good use. In 2005, Nick founded Inconscience Productions and continues to work with domestic and international brands to shoot, produce, and cut masterpieces. In 2010, he was handed the opportunity of a lifetime to co-edit a feature documentary entitled My Father and the Man in Black; the untold story of a bad boy Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend. When he is not busy impressing his students at Witz Education and travelling to or from post-production conferences, this half Ukrainian, half Trinidadian can be found playing tennis. This is his first book!
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Tweaking replicator parameters in the Inspector


In the last recipe, we switched a few parameters in the HUD for our replicator of stars; however, if we're looking to fine-tune the replicator, we need to go to the Inspector. Let's take a look at the additional parameters available.

Getting ready

In the exercise folder of this chapter, double-click on the 08_02 project. Play back the project. If you've worked on the previous exercise, you'll see it's where we finished tweaking our replicator in the HUD.

How to do it...

  1. Select Replicator in the Layers tab. Press the F4 key to open the Emitter tab of the Inspector. In the Cell Controls add an Angle Randomness value of 90. Each star now starts from a different angle position.

  2. Change the value of Color Mode to Over Pattern.

  3. Under the Gradient Presets menu to the right-hand side of Color Gradient, change it to Rainbow as indicated in the following screenshot:

  4. Change the value of Color Repetitions to 20 and the Scale End to 20. Notice how the gradient...

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Nicholas Harauz

Nick Haurauz has directed and filmed a host of celebrities such as Nelly Furtado, Lady Gaga, and Richard Branson. He was responsible for crafting video magic for clients such as Diageo, Virgin Mobile, United Way, and Procter and Gamble. He has an uncanny ability to engage his students and create a level of relatedness that keeps them coming back for more. As an FCP X, Motion 5, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and an Avid-certified trainer, he is able to put his BA in Film and Sociology from the University of Toronto to good use. In 2005, Nick founded Inconscience Productions and continues to work with domestic and international brands to shoot, produce, and cut masterpieces. In 2010, he was handed the opportunity of a lifetime to co-edit a feature documentary entitled My Father and the Man in Black; the untold story of a bad boy Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend. When he is not busy impressing his students at Witz Education and travelling to or from post-production conferences, this half Ukrainian, half Trinidadian can be found playing tennis. This is his first book!
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