About ConnectFX
ConnectFX provides a flow graph environment where you perform procedural compositing with integrated access to all effects
and image-processing commands. An effect you create in ConnectFX is a setup applied directly to one or more timeline segments.
You use the ConnectFX processing environment to assemble a process tree of clips and nodes where the result of each operation
serves as the source for the next one. Because a ConnectFX pipeline is not fixed, you have the flexibility of reordering and
editing nodes.
If you entered ConnectFX with the Generate Composite option selected, any Timeline FX already applied to your segment are
replicated in the ConnectFX schematic. You can then edit these effects directly in the ConnectFX view, or add or delete as
many other effects as needed.
Here is a typical ConnectFX view:
- The default viewport layout is a 2-Up view with the schematic (displaying the process tree) on the left, and the result view
on the right. Use the Layout settings under the left viewport to change the layout, or return to this default view.
- You can change the actual view of the selected viewport using the View box under the right viewport. If a selected node has
its own views, such as Action, you can select node-specific views also.
- The bottom portion of the ConnectFX view displays the nodes that you can add to your process tree. This bottom area can also
display the menu for the selected node in the schematic view. To switch between the node view and selected menu view, use
the FX Nodes button (located under the left viewport).
- You can Render your result in the ConnectFX view, or wait until you return to the timeline sequence.
