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VIDEOGRAPHICS LAB USER GUIDE 28
Working in different display modes
In Video Paint, you can choose to view edit windows in a number of
different display modes. These modes make identifying your edits easier.
They also provide a means for creating mattes and animations. There are
four display modes to select from:
Normal , Onionskin , Ruby Mask , and
No Source Video , each of which can be selected by clicking their respec-
tive buttons on the Standard toolbar or choosing their corresponding
commands in the
View: Display Mode submenu.
Normal mode
Normal mode displays the contents of the active frame in the Filmstrip
panel. This mode is best when you wish to see the actual frame and select
parts of it, or to use it as a reference for performing various painting and
retouching tasks.
Ruby Mask mode
The Ruby Mask mode is useful when you want to create a video or image
matte that protects certain areas of an underlying video from any edits you
may perform. Mattes are often used in conjunction with Video Editor. A
good example of this is a "hold-out" matte that is used to remove the
matte-lines that often occur around objects which have been filmed on a
blue screen background.
Note: To apply the video matte, you must load it into Video Editor.
A Ruby Mask works by placing a semitransparent ruby colored layer over
an image. Whenever you paint on the image, you are actually removing the
mask, therefore revealing the underlying image. The advantage here is that
you do not see the color of the paint as you go, which makes it easier to
identify elements in the image to either cover or remove. When you change
modes, the removed area of the mask is filled with the current foreground
color.