MacroSystem SplitX Image Collection User Manual

SplitX Image Collection

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SplitX Image Collection

1. Introduction

This product contains one Image Processing effect and a collection of 100 images.

These images are designed, that they only cover a part of the scene, if they are placed in
front of the animated video.
Thus, striking scenes can be underlined, trailers and credits can be improved or subtitles
can be provided with a pleasant background.
For instance, the images are suitable for text background panels.
The graphics were designed by „GOGrafiX“.

2. Starting the effect „SplitX“

To use the effect directly in the storyboard, please enter the menu “Image Processing”,
choose the effect “SplitX” and add it into the storyboard.

If you want to use the effect in a scene found in the scene bin, click onto “Special” in the
“Edit” menu and choose the effect “SplitX”.

3. The images

„SplitX“ consists of 100 images.
They can be found in the imagepool (product “SplitX Images”, Type “images”). These
images can be used in all programs or parts of the programs, which support the Casa­blanca imagepool (e.g. PIP-Studio, DVD-Arabesk,...). However, some do not support the
transparency of the images. Others, such as titling or “SplitX” do. If the transparency is
not supported, the parts, that should be transparent, are displayed in black.

4. Select mask

Clicking onto this button opens the selection window of the imagepool, in which you can
see all “images”. Choose the product “SplitX Images” for displaying the included images.
The parts of the images, which should later be transparent, are displayed in black.

Clicking onto “Mode” allows you to mirror the images horizontally and/or vertically. “Al­pha” defines the transparency of the visible parts of the images. The standard value is
100%, smaller values lead to higher transparencies (not visible in this preview).

5. Color Correction

If this button is not active, the chosen image will be displayed in its original colours, as
shown in the selection preview. Activating this button changes the specific colour of the
image (see “Select Color”).

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6. Select Color

Clicking this button calls up the colour box, which helps you to influence the specific col­our (upper slider), the saturation (horizontal slider) and the brightness (vertical slider) of
the image. Correcting the specific colour refers to the dominating colour of the original
image. That means, that the colour, which is used most frequently in the image, is re­placed by the selected specific colour. All other colours displayed in the image are as­similated automatically.

7. Applications

The images can be used to

• provide scenes with masks

• designe a box background in the titling menu

• create effect backgrounds (PIP-Studio, Akaba – New Concept, Motion 3D...)

• design DVD menus

• create new scenes (patterns)

8. Practice Examples

8.1 Credits

Enter the Edit menu, activate a scene in the scene bin and click onto the button “Special”.
Choose “SplitX” in the lower effect list and click onto the effect option “Select mask”.
Then the imagepool opens, in which you select e.g. the mask “Light 05”. Confirm with
“Ok” and exit the “Special” menu by clicking on “Ok”.
Add this new scene into the storyboard and cover the mask with a text in the titling menu.

8.2 Text notes in the video

If you want to use a text panel in the video for displaying e.g. an address, you can high­light this text with the aid of a mask, e.g. “Note 01”.
You can render the masks with an alpha value to make them transparent and to integrate
them into the scene.

Tip: If you use the masks as a box background in the titling menu, you can minimize the
mask by changing the box size.