Glossary
The words the app uses.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Plate | The original footage of the shot. |
| Project / clip | A project folder holds one clip: its frames, layers and results. |
| Layer | One object you work on. It has prompts, a Hard and a Soft. |
| Prompt | What you tell the tracker: a positive or negative point, a rectangle, a text. |
| Track | Following the object through the IN/OUT range. Its result is the Hard. |
| Hard | The layer's tracked, drawn or imported mask. |
| Soft | The matte from Auto enhance, with real transparency on the edge. |
| Auto enhance | The job that makes the Soft from the Hard. |
| Refine | Checking and correcting the Soft: Fine detail mix and marks. |
| Fine detail mix | How much fine strand detail (hair, fingers, blur) goes into the Soft. |
| Marks | Strokes in Refine: Background, Unknown, Object. |
| Key | A frame where you placed prompts or marks. |
| IN/OUT | The frame range for processing; Export also supports the whole range. |
| Cleanup | Removing an object and rebuilding the background. |
| Take / artefact | A result of Cleanup or Edge Fix, listed in the Artefacts tab. |
| Edge Fix | Rebuilding clean foreground colour under and past the edge. |
| Despill | Removing green or blue screen colour from the subject. |
| Straight colour | Colour not multiplied by the matte; you premultiply in Nuke. |
| Premultiplied | Colour already multiplied by the matte (the Pre view). |