Preprocessor Effects
Preprocessor effects include wide range defocus with separate H and V controls, mosaic,
posterization, colorization, and a strobe effect that allows you to vary the number of on
and off frames to provide enhanced creative possibilities. All preprocessor effects are
available to be combined simultaneously.
Planar Transforms with Lighting
Squeeze & Tease MD has dedicated circuitry incorporating 10-bit processing, superb
filtering, and full sub-pixel resolution to manipulate 2D images in 3D space with crystal
clear quality.
Planar transforms include squeeze or zoom, crop, reposition, aspect, and rotate. These
effects can be applied to images and keys.
All images and keys can also have realistic natural lighting applied to them. Squeeze &
Tease MD makes it easy with “quick presets”, a positionable light source, and powerful
ambient and min/max lighting controls.
Advanced Picture Frame Border Generator
Squeeze & Tease MD can add a picture frame to border over-the-shoulder boxes. This
variable width border perfectly tracks all image resizing and special effects. The picture
frame generator instantly adds a polished, professional look to your squeeze backs.
This picture frame can be the simple, single color type, or one of many fancy picture frame
effects including roman column, tubular, beveled, computer style, tri-color, and more.
These picture frame effects have the following adjustable controls:
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hard or variable edge softness
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edge width/scaling
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inside/outside edge softness symmetry
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diagonal, horizontal, and vertical corner joint selection
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full control of all three picture frame color generators.
Advanced Planar Controls
The following advanced controls make building the ideal look for your show just that
much easier:
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Front Side/Back Side
in one channel and one keyer. When you look at the backside
of an effect, you can have it automatically select a different video signal on the key
bus. This makes it possible, for example, to rotate between 2 channels of still store in
an over the shoulder box in a single keyer, using only 1 channel of S&T MD.
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Auto Flip
. When you rotate an image in normal mode, the backside appears upside
down or mirrored. Turning on Auto Flip ensures that the front side of an image is
always presented. This is great for the manipulation of still store and CG text.
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Internal Key Combiner.
Up to four squeeze backs can be combined and displayed in
a single keyer. This effectively adds three more keyers to the Synergy MLE.
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Key Combiner Priority Control.
Getting the channels the way you want them is easy
with S&T MD.
When several squeeze backs are combined in a single keyer, you can
choose fixed priorities, auto-priority, or intersecting planes. Auto-priority
automatically calculates the channel priority based on their relative positions in 3D
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