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 Learn tips and tricks from some of the industry’s best artists, as well as our own ASSIMILATORS.

SCRATCH Tutorials

We and our customers have assembled tutorial and training videos to help you get started, or to help you through a complex project with SCRATCH ®.

Introductory Tutorials Scratch

  • FXPhD Introduction to SCRATCH
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    Mike Seymour of FXGuide takes us through a 30 minute introduction to SCRATCH and its features.  

  • Introduction to SCRATCH Six
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  • SCRATCH Six: Bicubic Shapes
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    See how to warp specific areas of a surface to and fix difficult stereo 3D problems such as keystoning or lens distortion

  • SCRATCH Six: Shape Tracker
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    SCRATCH Six introduces a shape tracker to add to the existing point trackers inside SCRATCH.

  • SCRATCH Six: Autosync
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    See how to sync audio via timecode, to the clap, or trim manually

  • SCRATCH Six: Metadata in VFX Dailies
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    See how you can use notes to keep track of work and search to quickly find the shots you need.

  • SCRATCH Six: Vector Paint Tools
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    See how to use the built in paint tools and OFX visual effects plug-ins

  • SCRATCH Six: Staging Compositing
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    See how to gather and stage all the sources for a composite

  • SCRATCH Six: The CODEC Support Pack
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    See how to seamlessly manage and manipulate any combination of RAW camera format, resolution and colorspace together in a single CONstruct(tm) view

  • SCRATCH Six: Advanced Color Grading Tools
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    See the new tools for grading such as state-of-the-art keying and masks

In-Depth Tutorials Scratch

  • Commercial Grading and Alpha Channels in SCRATCH
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    Andreas Brueckl of colormeup.de explains the workflow used for recent Akbank TVC commercial focusing on his use of alpha channels in SCRATCH.

  • SCRATCH2Nuke Demo
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    Demonstration of a SCRATCH to Nuke Workflow using SCRATCH2Nuke. SCRATCH2Nuke is a set of Python based scripts that exhibit the extensibility of SCRATCH through the use of XML.

  • How to Make a Sunwashed Look
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    Freelance colorist, Andreas Brueckl demonstrates how he created a natural colorwashed look for a recent Coca Cola commercial to make a combination of different footage work together. colormeup.de

  • SCRATCH to Avid Roundtrip
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    SCRATCH to Avid to SCRATCH and back to Avid roundtrip tutorial

  • Roundtripping with Media Composer
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    Assimilator Michael Forrest, reviews an easy process for generating MXF files that can later be updated with high quality, mastering quality files.

  • Surrealistic Skin Tones
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    Andreas Brueckl, freelance colorist, demonstrates how to create surrealistic skin tones in SCRATCH.

  • How to make a monochromatic silver look
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    Freelance colorist, Andreas Brueckl shares a tutorial on how to create a monochromatic "silver look."

  • Reverse Assemble
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    Assimilator, Michael Forrest, explains how to use the Reverse Assemble feature in SCRATCH's EDL management tool.

  • Cleaning up human complexions
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, demonstrates how to clean up human complexions.

  • Using dissolves to animate color effects
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, demonstrates how to use dissolves to animate color effects

  • Paint-out visual effects using texture layers
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, demonstrates how to paint-out visual effects using texture layers.

  • Using scaffolds to shape the lighting of a scene
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, demonstrates how to use scaffolds to shape the lighting of a scene.

  • Using recursive scaffolds for creative effects
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, demonstrates how to use recursive scaffolds for creative effect.

  • Tips for getting the most out of the tracker
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    In this tutorial Local Hero Post artist, Leandro Marini, gives us tips on getting the most out of the tracker.