ConnectFX provides a flow graph environment where procedural compositing can be performed with integrated access to all effects and image-processing commands. An effect created in ConnectFX is a setup applied directly to one or more timeline segments.
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, nodes can be freely reordered and edited.
WhenConnectFX is started with the Selection As Flowgraph option enabled, any Timeline FX already applied to the segment are replicated in the ConnectFX schematic. These effects can be edited directly in the ConnectFX view or deleted. Other effects can be added as needed.
- Use the Layout settings under the viewports to change the layout. The default view can be set in Timeline FX / CFX in the Preferences menu.
- To change the actual view of the selected viewport, use the View Mode box in the viewing/layout toolbar under the viewports. If a selected node has its own views, such as Action, node-specific views may be selected as well.
- The bottom portion of the ConnectFX view displays the nodes that can be added to the 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 at the bottom left).
- The results can be rendered in the ConnectFX view or in the timeline sequence.