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Chapter 4
Apart from transition effects there are also image process-
ing effects. In contrast to transition effects, image processing
effects are applied to entire scenes or segments of the story-
board. You can make a part of your video brighter or invert it,
or convert it into a charcoal drawing or relief and a lot more.
These are sometimes referred to as ‘filters’ in old analog edit-
ing systems. In the same way, for example, as a yellow filter on
a camera lens modifies the color of pictures taken, an image
processing effect is applied to a particular segment of the
storyboard. In the image processing effects screen only one
scene is selected. The selected scene represents the approxi-
mate range for the intended effect. You can process just one
image, or an entire scene, or in the extreme case the entire
storyboard.
(1) The ‘Image processing’ screen shown above displays the
storyboard you are already familiar with. You should select the
scene to which you want to apply the image processing effect.
A difference to the storyboard from the ‘Edit’ menu is the play
button. In the image processing effects screen the play button
does not play the entire storyboard, but only the active scene.
If an effect has been added, then the length of the entire effect
is played.
(2) You can select an effect in the effect list. Either click on the
effect directly so that it is highlighted by the bar, or use the
slider or arrow buttons in order to move the desired effect to
the correct position. If you do use the slider, then after select-
ing the effect you must press the left trackball button so that
the indicator bar selects the current effect.
(3) After you have selected an effect that has further options,
the effect options are displayed in the field to the right of the
effect list. There you can define, for example, the colors and
intensity of the effect.
(4)
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This button allows you to switch the effect list to
single points. The button offers at least three settings. The
function ‘All’ shows all image processing effects, which are to
be found in the system. ‘Default’ shows the image processing
effects, which are integrated in the system, ‘Favorites’ are the
ones you have recently used or have selected in ‘Settings-
Effects, Rendering-Edit favorites’ and ‘Optional’ only shows
the image processing effects, which have been installed
afterwards. If you have installed additional image processing
effects, they are also shown in this list (underneath the three
settings listed above). Thus it is possible just to see only one
effect type in the list.
(5) Clicking on the ‘i’ button, you’ll get information about the
image processing effect activated in the effect list. If it is an
add-on effect, the window ‘product information’ appears,
which offers a description of the effect. Is the effect a standard
effect, the product information refers to the manual.
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Options: With these settings, you have the ability to in-
fluence the course of an effect. By default, an effect is applied
to a scene with uniform speed. Here you have the option of
changing the course of action of an effect by slowing it down
or speeding it up. Use ‘Slow down’ to have the effect slow
down at the end of the effect. Use ‘Speed up’ to have the ef-
fect speed up at the end of the effect.
When you open these options in the title effects, then there is
one more option for text processing, if you have also activated
Title-Studio. Use this function to determine which titler is to be
used to create the title effects you have inserted. If the setting
is set to ‘Standard’, the next title effects that will be inserted
in the storyboard will be opened with the standard titler. If the
choice is set to Title-Studio, effects that will be inserted in the
future will be opened with the add-on product Title-Studio.
Titles that had already been inserted in the storyboard will be
opened with the titler that was set at that time.
(7) With the ‘Add’ button you can apply the selected and
configured effect to the scene located in the center. The ef-
fect symbol appears in the scene outlined in red. If you select
a new image processing effect even though there is already
one in the scene, the new effect replaces the old, without you
having to click again on ‘Add’. The length of the newly inserted
effect corresponds at first to the length of the actual scene, but
can be changed with the button located at the top-left (item(8)).
(8) A click on the ‘Remove’ button removes the added effect
from the storyboard. If you would like to replace the current
effect with another, then you can simply select the new effect
and it automatically replaces the current effect in the story-
board. In this case you don’t have to click on the ‘Remove’
button.
(9) After you have inserted a scene the scene length is dis-
played in this button (and thus the maximum length of the
effect). Click this button so that the ‘Specify Range’ menu
opens and you are given four selection options. You can let
the effect run ‘1 sec at beginning’, ‘1 sec at end’, over the
‘complete scene’, or over a specifiable ‘Range’. Choosing the
function ‘Range’ opens a Trim menu, similar to ‘Trim’ from
the ‘Edit’ menu, in which you can set the applicable range for
the effect. The effect will begin at the In point (first frame of
the scene), and end at the Out point (the last frame). Some
segments of the storyboard cannot be selected. The reason
is that other effects are already defined. Overlapping between
image processing effects and titling is not possible. You can
also choose between the ‘Trim’ and ‘Position’ functions here
as well. Please refer to the notes for ‘Insert’ (chapter 4.7, item
(13)). When you have set the range of your choice, return to the
‘Image Processing’ menu (click on the right button). If you have
extended the effect to other scenes, then you will also see the
effect symbol in these scenes. (By choosing the option ‘com-
plete scene’ you can remove the selected effect from the other
scenes.) The range that you just set is displayed in this button.
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