MacroSystem Bogart SE Ver.2 User manual - Manual (Page 48)

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10. Fade out: This effect helps you to fade out the scene,
e .g . at the end of your film . Use the "Color" option to select
the desired color to which the scene is faded . At first, the ef-
fect overlays your scene very lightly with the color so that the
scene is still clearly visible . In the course of the effect the color
becomes more and more dominant until the scene is com-
pletely overlaid and no longer visible . This effect fades out only
the picture material, not the audio!
11. Flip: This effect flips the scene . If you set the "Direction"
to "Horizontal", then you see the scene with the left and right
halves exchanged . If you set "Vertical", then the scene is seen
upside-down . The setting "Horizontal + Vertical" combines
these two effects .
12. Movie mode: This effect is used to turn 50i format scenes
(interlace) into progressive 25p format footage . In this fashion,
movement is made to simulate the typical cinematic look from
the movies . The effect creates 25 different frames rather than
50 fields .
13. LineArt: With this effect the video is turned into a sort of
moving charcoal drawing . All edges and sharp contours look
like they have been redrawn with a charcoal pencil on a piece
of white paper . The "Contrast" control is used to set the black-
ness of the lines from 1-8 depending on the contrast of the
original scene .
14. Mirror: A scene is mirrored . Under "Type" the following di-
rections can be given: "Horizontal Left-Left", "Horizontal Right-
Right", "Vertical Top-Top", and "Vertical Bottom-Bottom" . You
also have the possibility to mirror the two upper or the two
lower image halves, whereby you can also specify which im-
age half (left or right) should be mirrored .
15. Mosaic: With this effect you make a mosaic out of your
scene . The scene is divided up into individual squares that be-
come larger . You specify the "Size" of the squares from 2-200 .
You specify the beginning and end points for the effect within
the scene with the "In" and "Out" points . Time can be up to 10
seconds .
16. Negative: This is the negative effect known from photogra-
phy . It is often used for special effects, but also has a practical
application . With the macro function of some video cameras
it is possible to film a slide or a negative in full-screen format .
The Negative effect can then be used to create a positive im-
age for use in the video .
For this effect you also have (under "Type") the choice be-
tween "Brightness" and "Brightness + Color" . There is an
interesting effect for example, if you invert the "Brightness" .
The video seems like a negative, but the colors are correct .
17. NOP: You can ignore this effect . It is listed in the regular
effect list but doesn't do anything . This function causes no
change to your video material but is used by MacroSystem
technicians to help find software and hardware errors so that
we can help you with problems by telephone . NOP is an ab-
breviation for "No OPeration" .
18. Out of focus: With this effect you can make a scene ap-
pear blurred . You can set the blur "Intensity" from 2-20 . Under
"In" and "Out" you set the start and end points of the effect (up
to 12 seconds) .
19. Panorama Zoom: This effect converts footage to a dif-
ferent format . For example: 4:3 video footage is converted to
work on a 16:9 monitor and vice versa . A special, non-linear
scaling method usually helps to avoid the black bars on the
screen edges .
The option `Conversion´ is for selecting the format of your
source footage that does not match the project .
Depending on the project format (the setting you made in the
Project Settings in Format 16:9 or 4:3), you can now choose the
corresponding setting . The slider for `Distribution´ determines
the strength of the scaling (values range from -20% to +20%) .
20. Rectangle: A rectangle is inserted into your video . You can
set the "Position/Size" and the "Color" .
21. Relief: The video image is transformed into a sort of
3-dimensional relief . It looks as if it has been chiseled in stone
– a single gray tone with light and shadow at the edges . Edges
appear where the original has strongly contrasting edges .
The button "Direction" can be used to change the illumination
source in order to obtain different effects . The arrow shows the
direction in which the light shines from .
22. Sharpen: Sometimes you may want to improve a blurred
segment of a scene (e .g . old archive material) . The degree of
sharpness can be set from 1-8 with the "Strength" control . The
preview does not do full justice to the result, so you should
experiment beforehand with a shortened version (Edit/Copy,
Trim) of the scene you would like to correct .
23. Solarize: The video is strongly altered with this effect . The
original colors are ignored and new colors are created that
are dependent on the brightness . Black is replaced by blue,
gray values are converted to orange, yellow, green, cyan, and
even blue where the very brightest image areas were . You can
sometimes see similar images in TV science programs or in
crime movies as so-called "heat images" . Hard transitions may
lead to shimmering edges, especially for VHS or when using
the CVBS connection .
The effect "CVBS filter" can be used to alleviate this (before or
after .)
You can set the "Saturation" from 0-100% . The higher the per-
cent number, the more color the image has . For 0% you have
a black-and-white picture .
Tip: False colors are frequently used in science to highlight
small differences in brightness for the human eye. The human