Is there any way to do wipes, dissolves and mattes using cinemachine?

I've been googling up a storm on this.

I seem to have discovered how to do fade to white/black either using a weighted PP Stack or storyboard camera, but as part of virtual filmmaking; crossfades, wipes and mattes are part of the expected toolkit.

The only reference I've found so far is the statement that "A Cinemachine blend is not a fade, wipe or dissolve". I get that. They are moves or cuts, depending on the definition of the blend.

But are there solutions to fades, wipes or dissolves? Are there alternatives or workarounds?

Or does this require shot-rendering, export and traditional editing/processing?

This seem to defeat the concept of doing it all in Unity, no?

 

Thanks! I’d seen the fade in-fade out thread, as it successfully googled, but the interpolate images thread I had not seen, and is good food for thought.

I am aware that cinemachine is a camera positioning package, but the hype around Unity for Film screams “Use timeline and cinemachine to make movies!”, so I was hoping that there was some solution to dissolves, fades, mattes and wipes in-engine. The fall back is always render and finish off-line in the traditional way. I’m aware that the reality is, well, reality! Not the Hype and Hyperbole of the promo-pages.

Thanks for the tips.

 

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'll look at that package and see how I can adapt it to two channels.

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This may not be the correct place to talk about this, but: Speaking of Unity for Film, I'm struggling to find a good pipeline for episodic material.

There is no dedicated forum for Unity for Film. I'm searching the documentation, forums and what Unity has published; and yes, the high level (what I said seems like hype and hyperbole) is very attractive and engaging. However, the down and dirty detail on setting up a robust pipeline is missing. With information on items like timeline and cinemachine being so disparate and treated as separate technologies, the information is not well integrated; couple that with the emphasis on Unity for gaming and the lack of a dedicated forum for filmmaking, I'm finding it difficult to piece together a good working model.

If I'm going to create a professional volume of material - say 13 episodes - of an animated product inside of a nominal schedule, I will need to show a clear savings of time and money over traditional methods. I will also need to show that the pipeline is solid and robust and won't easily break. A fragile platform is too risky to use.

So far, the demos I've seen look great, but they have a large number of people working for a long period of time to create a single piece of well crafted work. To produce those proverbial 13 episodes, this demo-model needs to move into a robust production-model; one that is conservatively finishing an episode every 3-4 weeks; if not quicker.

I've not given up, by any means, and I expect I'll find find a solution - but I have yet to feel confident that I can stand in front of that big glossy walnut table, present my budget and schedule to the head of the studio and know I can meet it with Unity.

 

I hope this discussion will evolve into a proper documentation of a good production workflow,I would be interested in that.