MacroSystem PiP-Studio 3D - Manual (Page 11)

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the trackball, until you have reached the desired
position, which you can then confirm by clicking
on the left button. You can then move other lines
as well to define the desired extract.
By clicking on the top left hand corner, all lines
change to blue and you can select the whole
selection frame, to move it to the scene. This
function is of course only useful if you have
already reduced the size of the frame by moving
the lines.
If the whole box is to become enlarged or
reduced, even though you have already
activated a line, then the Aspect ratio function is
active (tick in the box).
Please make sure that the video scene that
has been selected for the PIP has not changed
significantly once you have chosen an extract
from a scene – otherwise your PIP will display
something completely different!
Press the Full button to determine that the whole
scene is to be used.
Click on Center to place the selection box in the
middle of the scene. This function is only useful
if the box is smaller than the scene.
Click on the Select scene button to pull up the
scene bin from which you can select a new
scene for your PIP.
• Copy style: By pressing this button, you will
see a warning note, prior to the style of the
current path being copied to all other paths.
• Extrusion: If you have set an edge for the
PIP, then you can use this button to pull up the
image pool where you can now determine the
colour of the edge or inclination.
• 3D depth / Border thickness: This function is
used to determine the depth of the object. Click
on this button to display a bar, where you can
read the value of the current depth. Move the
trackball to the right to increase the depth, move
it to the left to flatten the object again.
Caution, if the PIP is viewed from the front, you
will not see these changes!
• Bevel percent / Border blur: Click on this
button to display a toolbar, where you can set
the size of the inclination as a percentage value.
Move the trackball to the left to reduce the value,
move it to the right to increase the value.
The appearance of the inclination is influenced
by the Bevel that is set.
• Scale: This function is used to display the
toolbar where you can change the size of the PIP.
The size doesn’t just change at the active
position, but also for the whole path.
If you have already changed the size at other
route points, then it changes in relation to this
setting.
• ScaleX: Click on this button to display the bar
where you can set the width of the PIP.
If the aspect ratio does not fit into the desired
width, the image is “tiled”.
• Bevel: Click on this button to display a selection
of different options. Here you can determine
how the cant of the edge of the frame is to be
created.
• Shadow: This function is used to select a
shadow. At the time of printing, this function can
only be selected for one Bevel with the selection
---(2D).
After you have clicked on the Shadow button,
a menu is displayed where you can create the
shadow.
Click on the Distance, Direction or Blur buttons
to pull up a toolbar where you can set the value
for Distance, Direction (in degrees) and Blur (as
a percentage) and then confirm the settings by
clicking on the left button.
Select the Color button to display the colour
palette where you can define a shadow colour
– usually black.
Once you have created the shadow, exit the
menu by clicking on Ok.
Once you have determined the settings for all
four menus, click on the symbol in the bottom
right hand corner. You thereby exit PIP-Studio
3D and accept all settings.