Creating an old movie effect – Matrox Electronic Systems Matrox RT.X2 User Manual

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Chapter 4, Setting Up Realtime Effects with Adobe Premiere Pro

Creating an old movie effect

The Matrox old movie effect lets you create an old film look on your clips by
adding noise, dust, streaks, jitter, and flickers.

° To set up a Matrox old movie effect:

Click the triangle beside

Matrox Old Movie

to expand the property list.

Random Artifact Generator

Adjust this setting to change the placement

of artifacts in your clip. The artifacts are randomly distributed based on the
value you select. For example, if you notice the streaks in your clip are
always in the same place, you can use this setting to move them.

• Border Settings

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Round Corner Size

Allows you to round the corners on the edges of

your clip.

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Softness

Lets you adjust the amount of softness on the edge of your clip

by dragging the slider or entering a percentage in the text box. The higher
the value, the less sharp the edge will become.

Preprocessing

These controls allow you to isolate a channel to process

black and white values for your effect. For example, to adjust black and
white values on the red channel only, select

Red Only

as your mode.

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Enable Preprocessing

Select this option to enable preprocessing.

Enabling this option will turn your clip black and white.

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Note

Adjusting the

Color Gain

and

Color Addition

controls will change

the color of your clip. If you would like your clip to remain black and white,
select

Lock Colors

for both the

Color Gain

and

Color Addition

.

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Mode

Lets you select the channel you want to use for the processing.

Click the triangle on the right to expand the list.

Red Only

Uses the red channel.

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