MacroSystem Akaba – New Concept - Manual (Page 5)

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1. General
1.1 General
Thank you for buying Akaba – New Concept!
We thank you for your trust and hope that this
product will meet your expectations.
Akaba – New Concept will let you get more use
out of your Casablanca than ever before.
We are at your disposal for any questions or
suggestions you may have.
You will find addresses and telephone numbers
in the Casablanca manual.
Please have your device’s serial number or your
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1.2 What is Akaba – New Concept?
Akaba – New Concept is a completely new
program for manually editing single frames or
video scenes. You can retouch, modify or extend
your own individual frames in many ways.
Three different operating modes give Akaba a
wide range of possiblities that are easy to use
and implement.
Draw mode (drawing and animation mode)
features all the usual possibilities for drawing.
Lines, circles, polygons and surfaces can
be drawn with widely varying pencils and
attributes. You can create graphic images or
extravagant titles. The drawing you create can
be moved during the course of the scene, (as is
done in the program PIP Studio).
Retouch lets you select and manually edit each
individual scene frame. The supplied tools let
you easily conceal small dropouts or other
undesired elements. You will find special copy
stamps in addition to the normal drawing tools.
Gamma lets you correct brightness, contrast,
saturation, RGB, etc. - and not just for the entire
frame, but also separately for self-defined areas,
even with variable intensity.
For example, say the image in the lower area is
too dark, but the sky is appropriately exposed.
Normally the video would be unusable, but
correcting it is no problem for the mask function
of Akaba – New Concept (see application
example 5.3 Partial brightness correction.).
Akaba – New Concept saves all settings, pencils
and brushes for each of the three operating
modes.