TUTORIALS FOR MISTIKA ULTIMA & MISTIKA BOUTIQUE - THE FULL COLLECTION

Important notes:

This is a live compilation of Mistika Ultima and Mistika Boutique tutorials found on Internet, organised by categories like in a user manual.

Please note that many of these tutorials were not created (and neither maintained) by SGO but by independent users. Please report if you find broken links, and also if you find other interesting tutorials not mentioned in here.

Some tutorials are made with older versions, they are still considered very useful but may miss some changes compared with latest versions. When those changes are significant those links are prefix with an orange label to warn about this: **

All the followintg tutorials are in English language, except when said in contrary.

Introduction (crash courses)

English language: Masterclass: Mistika Boutique Fundamentals

Spanish language - Cursos en español: Cursos de iniciación a Mistika Boutique (ColorDoctor)

한국어 (Korean) -  전문적인 색상

Mistika Configuration and project settings

Downloading and installing the educational version

License activation - Automatic licensing on login

License activation - Traditional activation method

Mistika Configuration Tool - mConfig. (file paths, project resolution, video settings, render paths, hardware resources...)

Mistika user login ( creating different users with customized hotkeys for each one)

Project manager

Current settings information in the Mistika interface

Performance optimizations

(Note: some parameters in this video have been recently automated and will not appear in current versions)

How to setup Mistika to work in a other computer in a different location

How to activate DVO plugins in Mistika

Note: Diagrams about the folder structures of Mistika software and Mistika Projects mentioned in the above tutorials are available here

File Browser, mass import and media management

File browser and source monitor

Single clip import

Mass import (import multiple clips, .lnk files, clipnames and media folders structure)

Controlling horizontal / vertical placement on the Timeline during import, and also the placement order. (User example tutorial for VR360)

Replicating an original media folder tree inside the Mistika project

Details mode and Icon mode.

Working with enumerated sequences

Path bookmarks

Selection bookmarks

Batch import of single image Vs enumerated sequences

How to organise your media under sub-folders of the DATA folder of the project

How to delete a project folder (with separate control for Mistika metadata files and other user files not created by Mistika)

How to configure or disable Timeline autosave

How to export a group

Online Editing and Timeline panel

Timeline & Edit panels

Creating a new timeline

Timeline navigation (scrolling with right mouse button, play head, temporal axis locking, center monitor, zoom levels)

Zoom to selection

Shuttle and Play Marks

Next Clip / Previous Clip

Media clips (view modes, clip icons and icon strips, scrubbing, audio break, active frame)

Clip movement constraints,

Autoexpand (automatic stack expansion when inserting new FX nodes or ungrouping)

The overview panel

Groups

Frame numbers Vs Timecode visualization

Flow monitor (Visual clues about effect stack hierarchy)

Raise monitor function

Align functions

Cutting clips (Split at active frame, Split at play head),

Global razor (Editing a whole stack of effects)

Clip parameters. Internal framing and color space parameters. Explained at [03:35..06:00] in this video

Clip attributes (clip metadata, clip timecodes, trimming head & tail, join adjacent clips)

Editing Timecodes in the Attributes panel

Trimming by dragging the clip active frame. Freeze Head / Freeze tail. Clone function.

How to snap clips together (Pack left / Rigth)

Shift function

Using the calculator in combination with the editing functions, and direct math on the TC field.

Clip reverse

Remove Time. how to extract part of the timeline while contracting the gap)

Removing empty space from the Timline (Remove time)

How to colapse ransitions into a single track

Lock, Hide, Mute, and Bypass functions

Split conform macro. (Propagate all cuts found on any track to the whole stacks)

Controlling the effects on trimming on parameter animations (Animation Extend / Animation stretch )

Fast comparison of clip durations with edit & play marks

Scene detection

** Playout to VTR

Gestual controls (Scribe). A full explanation is available in this webinar from 9'25" to 31'50" time. In addition, a diagram with all the supported gestures is a here.

Audio controls in the Timeline

Mute audio

Audio Vumeters

How to break or combine audio and video tracks

Cross fades and transitions

Fade Up effect. Controlling the effect duration.

Transitions between clips located in two tracks

Transitions between clips in the same track.

Tricks & Tips: Fast range adjustment by dragging Down+Up. Fast creation of one-second fades. Fast fade reverse.

Fade from color. Easy In / Out ( moothing tangents)

Editing workflows with the Source Monitor

Editing with the Source monitor (Filtering, 3 point edit, Paste on Top)

Using the source monitor as a clipboard

Global copy and insert with edit marks and the source monitor

Conform workflows

Match & Paste

XML conform (Example using an XML from Adobe Premiere)

Timewarps & Retiming. How to adapt clips to project's FPS

[24:3 .. 35:30] RND Round trip conform: How to create proxies with basic adjustments for the offline editing, then conform an Xml, AAF, or EDL against Mistika .RND files including Mistika effects. (Example at 24:30 to 35:30)

Advanced conform and timeline organization example for complex project (Masterclass)

Notes and Markers

Creating notes and markers

Timeline navigation by using notes, graffity, and markers (and how to hide notes content when not necessary).

Removing markers and notes

Mistika Effects and the Visual Editor

Preliminar note: The Visual Editor interface has been redesigned in version 10, but some of the tutorials below were made with previous versions. Their content is still usefull as the functionality is very similar, but if you don't find a particular widget in the new layout you can find all the differences in the tutorial: Moving from Mistika 8 to Mistika 10

Introduction

Introduction to effects and parameters panel. (Example with Wipe effect . Introduction to Keyframe graph & animation curves. Adjusting sensitivity when dragging numeric values).

Mistika effects

Framing effect. The Visual Editor "Unscale" function. How to convert between different resolutions and aspect ratios.

Title effect. Example: Text fade in/out animation using Autokey.

Comp3D effect. Creating effect layers.

** Warp. Creating Warps and Morphs

** Basic keying: Pick key. Luma key. Green screen / Blue Screen. Screen build. External Key. Difference key. Grow alpha. Shrink alpha. Show key Blur alpha. Alpha clear. Edge build. Stroke. Foreground blur.

FX basic techniques

Text shadows (Example: Using Comp3D & Title )

Effect reverse

Letterbox

RGBA channels visualization mode (Wipe example).

Tracker. Stabilization example . Plus how to drag several parameters at the same time.

FX presets (Example with LUT3D)

Display Filters.

Shapes: Introduction

Shapes: Populating trackers (automatic tracker). Explained at [40:28...42:20] in this video(Colorist Meetup April 23 2020)

** Shapes: Advanced usage

** Shapes: Tracking shapes

** EXR object selection in CGI images.

** EXR positional relighting

** EXR directional relighting

Compositing and colour grading EXR multilayer images (full overview)

How to automatically import new VFX Versions

How to import and export ST-Maps

How to import and export ST Maps in Mistika Boutique?

VFX specialized technique examples

How to import and export ST Maps and work with them

** Give your 2D image a 3D look. Example using Comp3D displacement mapping

** Label substitution. Example combining stabilization, Comp3D, Shapes, and the Warp effect,

** Compositing layer shadows on walls and floor (Example using Comp3D, Gradient, Non linear mix, Distort )

** Lightwrap. Example creating masks to isolate edges and work on them. Plus a example of using dummies for creating a Group template,

** Fixing chromatic aberration

** Importing 3D Tracking from Boujou

** Match moving

** Creating Bolts

Frequency separation (Beauty technique). Example 1

** Frequency separation (Beauty technique). Example 2

AI Tools

AI Deinterlacing

Integration with Topaz Labs OFX plugins

Colour grading

Preliminar note: The colour grading interface has been redesigned in version 10, but some of the tutorials below were made with previous versions. Their content is still usefull as the functionality is very similar, but if you don't find a particular widget in the new layout you can find all the differences in the tutorial: Moving from Mistika 8 to Mistika 10

Introduction

New colour grading interface (since Mistika version 10)

The Mistika 10 color toolset

** Introduction to the ColorGrade node

** Masterclass: The Color Grade functions

Masterclass: Color management in Mistika. (Raw formats, Unicolor, color management "per clip" or global. Color management Examples: ACES, DCP XYZ, HDR / SDR, Dolby Vision. Display filters. Propagating color management to multiple versions.

Color grading specialised workflows

Printer lights / Printer steps

- Introduction at 33:00 in this video

- Example at 26:00 in this masterclass

ACES 2.0 workflow

LUT3D & Propagate example. (Applying a 3D LUTs and propagating it to other clips).