What is the Cinefusion actor type in Liberty IRIX Animation?
The Cinefusion Actor (IRIX only) allows you to access and use Ultimatte’s Cinefusion software from within Liberty’s Animation environment. Although the Ultimatte plug-ins (see paragraph above) are newer, some users may be accustomed to using Ultimatte’s Cinefusion software, and the Cinefusion Actor is a way to do this. This feature allows the user to key-frame the Ultimatte parameters by calling up the Cinefusion menus from Liberty. Once the parameters have been key-framed, Liberty will call Cinefusion (when the Animation is rendered), to perform the composite for each frame. The Cinefusion Actor requires at least two other actors to work with. After adding the Cinefusion actor to the timeline, add one Cel actor below the Cinefusion actor, and one Cel actor above the Cinefusion actor. The actor below is the background image, and the actor above is the foreground image. Note that there can also be other images below the background image, all of which will contribute to the background th
