The compositor is very good and I just want to thank all the people who have worked on it so much but I also see some room for improvement. Most specifically, there are a couple of features that should be added.
- Deform by Shape
There should be a way to make it so that you can plug an image into a mask and instead of cropping the image it deforms is much in the same way you can use a lattice to deform a mesh. - IPO Curves
I know that you can technically use the time curve to achieve the same effect but it is very unreliable. When you are using video of more than say 50 frames, you can’t get anything to happen just as it should. There should be a way to say double click on the time curve and it could open up as a single IPO that could be plugged into anywhere as a value. - Curves
There ought to be a way to add a curve that would not show up in the composite but can affect certain nodes. For example, You ought to be able to translate a layer along a curve guide so that can be camera matched with say CG and Live video.
If there is any way to do these things already and I’m just being dumb let me know, but other wise I think these should be added. If anyone else has any suggestions I think we should compile a list so that the developers can get a general idea of good ways the compositor can be improved in the next version.
Just a thought.