Casablanca Prestige, User Manual

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first scene. Under " Direction " you specify whether
the opposite sides are top and bottom, or left and
right. After the bars have met at screen center,
they reverse direction, moving out of the picture
and revealing the second scene.
11. Picture in picture: This is not really a true
transition effect. But
Casablanca Prestige
handles
it as an effect because it affects two scenes simul-
taneously. The first of the two scenes fills the enti-
re screen in the background. The second scene is
inset on it as a reduced image. The position of the
small image can be set in the effect options with
the button "
Location
". The buttons "
Shadow
" and
" Frame " are used to set a value from 0-50. The
frame color can be set with the color box through
the button "
Frame Color ". Avoid using very
strong colors, because this can lead to jaggedness
in the upper-right and lower-right corners. For
the picture-in-picture effect audio is not crossfa-
ded, as is the case with all other effects in
Casab-
lanca Prestige , but instead only the audio of the
first scene (background video) is used. You can
change this default setting by using audio mixing.
12. Random lines: This real-time effect trans-
forms the first scene to the second by continuous-
ly covering the first scene with randomly positio-
ned lines from the second scene.
13. Rectangle wipe: This real-time effect chan-
ges from one scene to another with a rectangle
containing a scene and which becomes steadily
larger or smaller. Under "
Position " you can set
the " Location " and " Size " of a rectangle where the
sides increase or decrease in proportion to each
other. The direction can be chosen with "
Mode ".
" In " means that the second scene overlays the first
scene with a rectangle that begins in the center
of the screen and grows outward until only the
second scene is visible. With "
Out " the first scene
is in a rectangle covering the screen but which
then becomes steadily smaller until it disappears,
having been replaced by the second scene.
14. Scale:
Under "
Position
" you can set the "
Lo-
cation " and " Size " of a rectangle where the sides
always increase or decrease in proportion to each
other. If you choose the option "
Grow
" under
" Type ", the second scene is zoomed into the first
scene. The scene is scaled to fit proportionately
into the rectangle and increases or decreases in
size according to the sides of the rectangle. If you
choose the option "
Shrink " the opposite occurs.
The first scene is in the rectangle covering the
screen and gradually becomes smaller until it
disappears, having been replaced by the second
scene.
15. Stripe fade: This real-time effect changes from
one scene to another by dividing the first scene
into stripes which are then faded out while the se-
cond scene can already be seen in the background.
You can specify the number of "
Stripes
" from
2-32. Under " Mode " you can specify the direction
of the stripes (you have the choice between " Hori-
zontal " and " Vertical ").
16. ZI Page turn: This effect lets the first scene
fold over like a book page, revealing the second
scene. You can specify the "
Direction
", the direc-
tion of the " Fixed corners ", and the " Quality ".
Note: Since this manual was printed, the software
version may have been changed. The standard ef-
fects in your
Casablanca Prestige may vary from
the ones listed here.
5.8 Image Processing effects
Apart from transition effects there are also the
Image Processing effects.
In contrast to transition effects, Image Proces-
sing effects are applied to entire scenes or seg-
ments of the storyboard. You can make a part
of your video brighter or invert it, or convert
it into a charcoal drawing or relief. These are
sometimes referred to as "filters" in old analog
editing systems. In the same way, for example,
as a yellow filter on a camera lens modifies the
color of pictures taken, an Image Processing
effect is applied to a particular segment of the
storyboard.
In the Image Processing effects screen only one
scene is selected. The selected scene represents