MacroSystem Bogart SE Ver.2 User manual - Manual (Page 32)

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font and style used and even present a background picture .
If you want to show a background picture instead of a color
or pattern, set the alpha channel value to 0% . This makes the
selection translucent and allows you to select a background
picture . The current project‘s scene bin will be shown, allowing
you to select a suitable image from the available scenes . If the
background scene is shorter than the countdown, the scene
will repeat . If it is longer, only the necessary part will be shown .
b) Color bars
This scene creates a striped test image according to the
standard IRE 100 (for PAL) or IRE 92 .5 (for NTSC) with change-
able duration . In professional usage, it is normal to have a
colorbar test image several seconds before each video project .
c) Color
This option creates a one-color scene that is mainly used as
background for titling . Selecting the option "Color" opens the
color box so that you may select the color .
d) Ksebara
The `Ksebara´ function allows you to convert DVDs that have
been created with Arabesk back into a video scene . Press `Im-
port´ and then press `Show contents´ . The menu will allow you
to select films from the DVD (you can select multiple entries,
see chapter 3 .2) . Press OK or `All´ and wait until the import has
finished . This can take a few minutes .
For each film, a separate scene will be created . The scenes are
added to the scene bin .
Note: Please remember that the scene will most likely display
compression artefacts compared to the original footage. DVDs
are compressed in MPEG II.
e) Pattern
After you select this button, you see the "Select pattern" but-
ton to the right . Click on this button to open a screen in which
you can select a pattern from the Image Pool . More informa-
tion on this image pool can be found in section 3 .3 of this
manual .
The special effect called "Pattern" applies the aspect ratio of
the used pictures and patterns to the 16:9 format (in PAL and
HDV) . Activate the function "Enable distortion" to stop this
correction .
f) Black
This mode creates black video that can be used as back-
ground for titles or combined with the transition effect Cross-
fade for fading into and out of a video .
Below the selection list you find the "Preview" button . This al-
lows you to view a moving video preview .
Clicking on the button "Full size" (if your system is provided
with this button) brings up another menu that again displays
the effect options in the area to the right .
In the left area you see the "Frame" slider under the effect
name . With this slider you can set the point in time in the new
scene you wish to see .
Below, you can see the button `Display´ . In the case of these
effects, it does not hold any further options . The function is re-
quired for other effects options . You can also shrink the panel
by pressing the slider above .
With "OK" the settings for the effect options in this menu are
accepted and you are returned to the "New scene" window .
With "Cancel" you exit the "Single image" menu without having
made any changes .
The arrow button serves to move the single-image menu to the
upper screen edge . Next to the `Full size´ preview, you'll find
a loop preview option . This plays a small preview loop of the
scene with all settings activated . You can directly change op-
tions and see the result in the animated preview .
The selection button displayed underneath the "Preview" but-
ton offers three settings . The function "All" shows all possible
"New scenes", which can be found in the system . "Default"
shows the scenes, which are integrated in the system and
"Optional" shows only the scenes, which have been installed
afterwards .
(20) In the "Special" menu you find various special effects and
all image processing effects .
Listing of all Image Processing effects under this item has a
special reason: multi-layering .
If you want to edit a scene with several Image Processing ef-
fects then you must first activate the scene in the scene bin .
Then select the Image Processing effect from the list in the
"Special" menu, (not in the Image Processing effects screen) .
The Image Processing effects listed in the "Special” menu are
not applied to a scene in the storyboard, instead a copy is
made of the active scene in the scene bin . The copy incorpo-
rates the effect, and its name is supplemented with SP, SP 2,
etc . You can repeat this procedure at will . (see also section 4 .8
Image Processing effects, item (12))
The list is separated into two sections, the first of which is also
divided . The top section contains the effects you already used .
This section is called the `Favourite lists´ . It contains the last
10 used effects . You can use this list to faster access common
effects . Below the division line, you'll find the complete list of
effects .
Some of the special effects (the ones listed in the upper part of
the list—above the line) are only available here . These include:
Backwards, Clipboard (availability depends on system used),
Copy, Jitter, Photo-Transfer (availability depends on system
used), Quick motion, Scene --> audio Sample, Slow motion,
and Still Scene . These effects do not appear in the Image
Processing screen .
Here, too, several effects have a "Preview" and (if your system
supports this function) a "Full Size" preview option . To the right
you find the effect options, to the left you see the "Frame" but-
ton under the effect name . You use this button to set the exact