Casablanca Prestige, User Manual

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" Clip ". The controls " Min " and " Max " are
used to change brightness and contrast. Under
"
Compress
", however, image information is
lost for areas brighter than maximum or darker
than minimum, which are set to maximum or
minimum, respectively. You lose the details in the
bright and dark areas. Other areas are unaffected.
9. Fade in:
This effect helps you to fade in the
scene, e.g. at the beginning of your film. Choose
the desired color with the effect options and see
how the color becomes less and less dominant
until the scene is completely revealed and the
color no longer visible. This effect fades in only
the picture material, not the audio!
10. Fade out: This effect helps you to fade out the
scene, e.g. at the end of your film. Use the " Co-
lor " option to select the desired color to which
the scene is faded. At first, the effect 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 completely 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 " Hori Vertical " combi-
nes these two effects.
12. 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 re-
drawn with a charcoal pencil on a piece of white
paper. The "
Contrast " control is used to set the
blackness of the lines from 1-8 depending on the
contrast of the original scene.
13. Mirror: A scene is mirrored. Under " Type " the
following directions 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 image half (left or right) should
be mirrored.
14. Mosaic: With this effect you make a mosaic
out of your scene. The scene is divided up into
individual squares that become 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.
15. Negative:
This is the negative effect known
from photography. 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 image for use in the video.
For this effect you also have (under "
Type ") the
choice between " Brightness " and " Brig
Color ". There is an interesting effect for example,
if you invert the " Brightness ". The video seems
like a negative, but the colors are correct.
16. 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
abbreviation for "
No OPeration
".
17. Out of focus: With this effect you can make a
scene appear blurred. You can set the blur "
In-
tensity " from 2-20. Under " In " and " Out " you set
the start and end points of the effect (up to 12
seconds).
18. Rectangle : A rectangle is inserted into your
video. You can set the " Position/Size " and the
"Color".
19. 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.
20. Sharpen: Sometimes you may want to impro-
ve a blurred segment of a scene (e.g. old archive