Universe

MODES

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Getting Started

• Place two clips in a timeline onto their own source layers, one above the other.
• Apply the uni.Modes effect onto the top clip and set Background Layer to the layer behind it used for the blending effect.

Modify the Effect

• Input Color Space sets how the color space is integrated into the blend processing.
  Note there is an Output Color Space parameter at the end of the effect controls which sets how these integrations translate out of the effect.
  
  • RGB leaves the RGB input values unchanged.
  • RGB to HSL converts  Red to Hue, Green to Saturation, and Blue to Lightness.
  • RGB to YUV converts Red to Luma, Green to Chroma Blue, and Blue to Chroma Red
  • HSL to RGB converts Hue to Red, Saturation to Green, and Lightness to Blue.
  • YUV to RGB converts Luma to Red, Chroma Blue to Green, and Chroma Red to Blue.
  • RGB to Lightness merges all RGB channels into their lightness equivalents.
  • RGB to Luminance merges all RGB channels into weighted luminance equivalents.
• Blend Mode A and Blend Mode B offers various standard blending modes used to mix the layers together.
  

  		Normal: All RGB information is preserved during the blend process.
  		Darken: Preserves the darkest of the colors and luminance values of the layers blending together.
  		Multiply: Combines the contrast and lightness between the two layers, often resulting in greater range in darker areas of the image.
  		Color Burn: Adds contrast between layers before multiplying the lightness values between the two.
  		Add: Brightens the base layer's RGB channels to blend the image's color information together.
  		Lighten: Makes darker areas of the layers invisible while keeping lighter areas visible.
  		Screen: Multiplies light pixels in each layer, creating greater variance in the brighter areas of the image.
  		Color Dodge: Both brightens and adds color to the layer. Produces more subtle effects at lower opacities.
  		Overlay: Darker tones darken the image and add contrast, while lighter tones lighten the image and add contrast.
  		Soft Light: Darker tones darken the image and add a subtle contrast, while lighter tones lighten the image and add subtle contrast.
  		Hard Light: Combines the Multiply & Screen modes, keeping the whites and blacks unchanged. Typically used with lower opacities.
  		Vivid Light: Lightens anything greater than 50% gray, and darkens anything lower than 50% gray. Typically used with lower opacities.
  		Linear Light: Turns the blend source into a light source. If the source is lighter than 50% gray, it uses the Color Dodge effect; if the source is darker than 50% gray, it uses the Color Burn effect.
  		Pin Light: Uses both Ligthen and Darken blend modes at the same time, which removes midtones.
  		Difference: Subtracts lighter values from darker values, with white inverting the base entirely, and black producing no change to the colors.
  		Exclusion: Subtracts lighter values from darker values, with white inverting the base entirely, black producing no change to the colors, and gray producing gray.
  		Subtract: Subtracts pixel values between layers, resulting in a darker output in darker areas of the lightness values, and vise versa.
  		Hue: Leaves saturation and brightness intact while mixing the hue of the layers.
  		Saturation: Leaves brightness and hue intact while mixing the saturation of the layers.
  		Color: Leaves brightness intact while mixing both the saturation and hue of the layers. Typically used with black and white images.
  		Luminosity: Leaves hue and saturation intact while mixing the brightness of the layers.

  • Custom Blend allows you to adjust and create your own mixing
• A <-> B Mix sets the amount of blending between the two layers.
• Foreground Intensity and Background Intensity adjusts the brightness of the layers to be higher or lower than their original values.
• Swap FG/BG toggles whether the background and foreground layer orders are reversed.
• Stretch Background to Fit toggles whether the background layer stretches to fit the composition

• Custom Blend Settings offers parameters that adjust each of the RGB channels through equations targeting their various pixel values.
  • Each pixel of an image has a value between 0 and 1 in the Red, Green, and Blue channels. The higher the value, the more of that channel is represented in the pixel.
    • Example 1: A pixel with 1 in the Red channel, 0 in Green, and 0 in Blue would be Red.
    • Example 2: A pixel with 0 in all channels would be black.
    • The lower your values, the darker your image
  • The settings in this area control the equations that affect these pixel values to create the output of the blending effect.
    Tip: Use the Show Equations toggle below to see the input values of these parameters.
  • Initial Value sets the starting value for each of the channels. A value of 1 in a channel treats that pixel as an absolute value of that channel.
  • Initial Operator sets what function is applied (None, Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Less Than, or Greater Than) to the equation.
  • Combine (R=G=B) toggles whether each channel shares the same formula (set by the Red Channel parameters)
  • Red, Green, and Blue Channel Settings
    Each parameter set carries the same set of controls for each of the three channels, so the settings below for the Red Channel also apply to Green and Blue.
    • Red Source sets what channel of the image source is used for the channel's input.
      • Red sets the source to the red channel.
      • Green sets the source to the green channel
      • Blue sets the source to the blue channel
      • Alpha sets the source to the alpha channel
      • 1 - Red sets the source to the inverted red channel
      • 1 - Green sets the source to the inverted green channel
      • 1 - Blue sets the source to the inverted blue channel
      • Full On sets the source to 100% white in the alpha channel
      • Full Off sets the source to 0% black in the alpha channel
    • Red Source Multiplier sets what number the source input is multiplied by.
    • Red Operator sets what function is applied between the source and its output
      • Add: source + destination
      • Subtract: source - destination
      • Multiply: source * destination
      • Divide: source / destination
      • Less Than: Source < destination; only returns a value if the foreground layer is less than the background layer.
      • Greater Than: Source > destination; only returns a value if the foreground layer is greater than the background layer.
      • min(src, dest) - Returns the smaller value between the source and the destination.
      • max(src, dest) - Returns the larger value between the source and the destination.
    • Red Destination sets which channel the image source is output to.
      • Red sets the output to the red channel.
      • Green sets the output to the green channel
      • Blue sets the output to the blue channel
      • Alpha sets the output to the alpha channel
      • 1 - Red sets the output to the inverted red channel
      • 1 - Green sets the output to the inverted green channel
      • 1 - Blue sets the output to the inverted blue channel
      • Full On sets the output to 100% white in the alpha channel
      • Full Off sets the output to 0% black in the alpha channel
    • Red Destination Multiplier sets what number the output is multiplied by. 

• Output Color Space sets the color space the output is translated into. This can be used to convert the colerspace back to RGB if you'd set the input to HSL or YUV.
  Note there is an Input Color Space parameter at the beginning of the effect controls which sets how these integrations translate into the effect.
  
  • Pass Through leaves all of the output values unchanged.
  • RGB to HSL converts  Red to Hue, Green to Saturation, and Blue to Lightness.
  • RGB to YUV converts Red to Luma, Green to Chroma Blue, and Blue to Chroma Red
  • HSL to RGB converts Hue to Red, Saturation to Green, and Lightness to Blue.
  • YUV to RGB converts Luma to Red, Chroma Blue to Green, and Chroma Red to Blue.
  • RGB to Lightness merges all RGB channels into their lightness equivalents.
  • RGB to Luminance merges all RGB channels into weighted luminance equivalents.
  • Linear toggles whether the colorspace is converted from sRGB to Linear before any image processing, then converts back from Linear to sRGB after image processing.
  • Show Equations toggles an overlay showing all of the equations set by the blend mode effect between the background (bg) and foreground (fg) layers.