Pinnacle Systems Deko - 5.3.1 User’s Guide

Avid® Deko® Products

User’s Guide

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Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software [i.e., the TIFF library] and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

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This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

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Portions of this software licensed from Paradigm Matrix.

The following disclaimer is required by Ray Sauers Associates, Inc.:

“Install-It” is licensed from Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. End-User is prohibited from taking any action to derive a source code equivalent of “Install-It,” including by reverse assembly or reverse compilation, Ray Sauers Associates, Inc. shall in no event be liable for any damages resulting from reseller’s failure to perform reseller’s obligation; or any damages arising from use or operation of reseller’s products or the software; or any other damages, including but not limited to, incidental, direct, indirect, special or consequential Damages including lost profits, or damages resulting from loss of use or inability to use reseller’s products or the software for any reason including copyright or patent infringement, or lost data, even if Ray Sauers Associates has been advised, knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages.

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“Videomedia, Inc. makes no warranties whatsoever, either express or implied, regarding this product, including warranties with respect to its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose.”

“This software contains V-LAN ver. 3.0 Command Protocols which communicate with V-LAN ver. 3.0 products developed by Videomedia, Inc. and V-LAN ver. 3.0 compatible products developed by third parties under license from Videomedia, Inc. Use of this software will allow “frame accurate” editing control of applicable videotape recorder decks, videodisc recorders/players and the like.”

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Certain real-time compositing capabilities are provided under a license of such technology from Ultimatte Corporation and are subject to copyright protection.

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Certain waveform and vector monitoring capabilities are provided under a license from 3Prong.com Inc.

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Avid Deko Products User’s Guide • 0130-07482-01 Rev D • July 2010

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About this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Keyboard Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Getting Started with Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Welcome to Our Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Verifying Your Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

About Deko Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

ClipDeko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

DekoObjex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

DVE Effects Group 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Make DekoMovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

SportsWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

StillDeko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Aston Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chyron Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Determining Enabled Options for Your Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Switching Between SD and HD with Deko Hybrid Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Availability of Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Starting Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Starting Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Starting Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Adding a Deko Icon to your Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Checking Your Desktop Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Starting Deko Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Locating the Deko Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Once you Start Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Hiding the Windows Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Initial Deko Desktop Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using Your Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

About the Enhanced Keypad Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Enabling or Disabling the Enhanced Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

About the Optional FastAction Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Enabling and Disabling the FastAction Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Enabling and Disabling FastAction Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Setting your Save Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using Other Applications without Exiting Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Exiting Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Deko Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Desktop Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Style Edit Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using Other Layouts for Other Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Sequence Playback Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Effect Playback Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Motion Compose Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

More Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Navigating the Deko Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Accessing Functions with the Menu Bar and the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Accessing Functions with the Menu Bar and Alt Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Accessing Functions with Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Accessing Functions by Pressing Alt and Another Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Accessing Windows and Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Determining the Look and Behavior of your Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Fixing Mistakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Undoing Previous Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Redoing Undone Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Deleting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Clearing the Program Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Typing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Confirming you are Using the Style Edit Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Enabling or Disabling Word Wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Selecting a Style for Your Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Adjusting Text Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Typing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Remembering Cursor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Changing the Home Position of the Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Positioning the Cursor to Edit Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using an International Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Changing the Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Creating Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Saving Deko Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Designing and Applying Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Styles for New or Existing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Style Edit Layout Windows and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Menu Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Text Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Style Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Program Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Tools Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Shader Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Preset Style Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Current Style Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Defining the Current Style for Typing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Moving the Current Style Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Resizing the Current Style Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing the Letter Used as Sample Text in the Current Style Window. . . . . . 84

Using a Preset Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using a Modified Version of a Preset Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Selecting and Adjusting a Typeface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing Additional Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Adjusting Size, Bold, Italic, and Justification Rules to the Current Style . . . . . . 89

Applying Rotate, Skew, Kerning and Leading to the Current Style . . . . . . . . . . 90

Adjusting the Display of Capitalization, Quotes and Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Typing in a Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Controlling the Typeface in the Style Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Restoring a Numeric Parameter to Its Default Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Adjusting the Sharpness of a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Adding Details to a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Displaying the Look Tab in the Style Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Adding a Face, Edge, Frame, Shadow, or Underline to the

Current Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing a Face, Edge, Frame, Shadow or Underline from the

Current Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Adjusting Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adjusting Face Detail Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Adjusting Edge Detail Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Adjusting Shadow Detail Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Adjusting Underline Detail Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Adjusting Frame Detail Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Applying Color, Ramp, Texture, CAP, or Keyhole to a Style Detail. . . . . . . . . 106

Activating a Shader Window for the Current Look’s First Detail. . . . . . . . 108

Activating the Shader for Any Detail in the Current Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Applying or Changing the Color of a Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Selecting Colors using the Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting a Color Using the Eyedropper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Creating Color Gradients Using the Ramp Shader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Applying a Ramp to a Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Applying Highlighting to a Ramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Previewing a Ramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

About the Texture Shader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Specifying a Default Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Associated Files in the Texture Shader Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing the Pixel Aspect of the Source Graphic (for Non-Deko Texture Files)

125

Changing the Auto Scale Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Filling a Detail with Keyed Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating Texture Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using the CAP Shader Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Playing a Cel Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using Preset Shaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Opening a Preset Shader File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Applying a Preset Shader to a Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Assigning the Current Shader to a Preset Shader Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Saving the Current Preset Shaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Resetting the Preset Shader Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Saving and Reusing the Styles You Create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Assigning the Current Style to a Preset Style Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Saving Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Saving Modified Preset Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Saving the Eight Preset Styles in a new Presets File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Saving or Renaming a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Saving a Modified Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Saving the Current Style as a Prerendered Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Retrieving Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Working with Text and Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Selecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Selecting a Block of Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Selecting Multiple Blocks of Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Selecting a Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Selecting all Text in a Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Selecting all Text in a Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Selecting all Text Characters in a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Selecting all Text Characters in the Current Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Deselecting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Modifying Selected Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Applying a Font to a Typeface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing Normal Text to Bold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing Normal Text to Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Underlining Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Changing how Selected Text displays the Case of Typed Characters. . . 145

Deleting and Clearing Text or Program Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Deleting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Clearing the Program Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Details and Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Cutting or Copying a Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Pasting a Detail into the Details Look. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Copying and Pasting a Look. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Copying and Pasting a Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Copying and Pasting a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Selecting a Style from a Graphic and Assigning it a Preset Style

Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Selecting Multiple Styles from a Graphic and Assigning them to Preset

Style Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Selecting a Typeface from a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Building Graphics with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Understanding Layers and Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Working with Backgrounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Turning the Background On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Applying a Color, Ramp or Texture to the Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Opening a Graphic Directly into the Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Opening a Graphic into the Background Using a Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Turning the Background into a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Replacing the Background with Luminance from a Graphic File. . . . . . . . . . . 158

Adding Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Adding a Text Layer to a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Typing Text in a Newly Added Text Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Creating New Layers for Selected Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Adding a Rectangle to a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Adding an Ellipse to a Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Using Layers to Display Other Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Creating a Layer with a “Sticky” Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Creating Clip Filled Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Playing a Motion on a Graphic with a Clip Filled Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Associating a Clip with an Entire Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Modifying Layers and Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Selecting Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Determining Which Layers are Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Selecting a Layer in the Active Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting a Layer in Front of the Current Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting the Layer Behind the Currently Selected Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting All Layers in the Active Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Selecting Multiple Layers in the Active Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Deselecting All Selected Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Specifying Layer Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Moving the Layer Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Moving the Layer Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Using the Layer Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Opening the Layer Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Locating a Thumbnail Image in the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Selecting a Layer Using the Layer Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using Layer Browser Tools to Facilitate Your Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Viewing or Hiding a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Locking or Unlocking a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Zooming In and Out on a Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Naming Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Naming a Layer in the Style Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Naming or Renaming a Layer in the Layer Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Reordering Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Appending a Graphic to a Second Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Pasting Layers to the Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Loading and Clearing Associated Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Editing Text and Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Modifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Changing Text Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Changing Character Spacing (Kerning) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Changing Row Spacing (Leading). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Changing Character Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Finding and Replacing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Checking Text Spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Manipulating Text or Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Rotating Text or Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Skewing Text or Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Specifying a Numerical Value for Skewing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Specifying a Numerical Value for Skewing a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Scaling Text or Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Limiting Text Renderings to a Fixed Number of Characters. . . . . . . . . . . 213

Limiting Text Layer Renderings to the Layer Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Changing the Size of a Layer without Changing the Text Size . . . . . . . . 214

Scaling Selected Text or Layers Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Scaling Selected Text Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Specifying Numerical Values for Font Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Specifying Numerical Values for Layer Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Moving Text and Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Moving a Layer Using the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Positioning Layers by Specifying Numerical Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Moving Text Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Moving Text Using the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Justifying Text and Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Justifying Text Using the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Justifying Text Using the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Justifying a Rectangle, Ellipse, or Text Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Deleting Text and Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Deleting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Deleting All Text Within a Layer Without Deleting the Layer . . . . . . . . . . 229

Deleting One or More Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Deleting All Layers (but not the Background) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Clearing the Background from the Active Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Clearing the Layers and the Background from the Active Graphic . . . . . . 229

Having Deko Prompt You to Save Modified Files before Clearing

Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Cutting and Pasting Text or Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Cutting or Copying Text or a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Pasting a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Typing on a Curve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Controlling the Placement of Text Within a Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Creating a Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Creating a Curve, an Ellipse, or a Rectangle Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Drawing a Line-Segment Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Editing a Baseline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Deleting or Inserting a Point on a Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Reversing the Direction of the Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Changing the Type of Point on the Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Adjusting the Continuity Between Two Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Reshaping a Baseline by Moving the Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Cancelling Changes to a Baseline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Using Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Setting Tab Stops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Clearing Tab Stops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Finding Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Moving Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Cutting or Copying Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Pasting Tab Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Changing the Decimal Tab Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Displaying or Hiding Tab Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Working with Charts and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Accessing the Chart Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Basic Procedure for Creating Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Creating a Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Configuring Chart Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

(Optional) Assigning Interactivity for the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Assigning Data to a Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Working with Advanced Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Using Series Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Setting the Series Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Setting the Series Data Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Setting the Series Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Setting the Series Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Setting the Series Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Modifying the Series List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using Axes Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Setting the Axes Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Setting the Axes ConstLines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Setting the Axes Gridlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Setting the Axes Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Setting the Axes Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Setting the Axes Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Setting the Axes Stripes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Setting the Axes Ticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Setting the Axes Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Using Background Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Setting the Background Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Setting the Basic Frame Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Setting the Image Frame Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Using Labels Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Setting the Label Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Setting the Label Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Setting the Label Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Creating the Label List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Using Legend Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Setting the Legend Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Setting the Legend Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Setting the Legend Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Setting the Legend Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Setting the Legend Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Using Walls Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Setting the Wall Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Setting the Wall Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using Watermarks Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Setting the Watermark Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Setting the Basic Frame Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Setting the Watermark Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Creating the Watermark List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Using Lighting Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Setting the Lighting Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Setting the Lighting Attenuation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Setting the Lighting Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Setting the Lighting Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Setting the Lighting Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Creating the Lighting Source List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Using View Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Setting the Global Setup View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Setting the View Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Setting the View Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Setting the View Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Setting the Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Template Configuration Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Configuring Your Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Creating Custom Typefaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Creating a Custom Typeface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Opening a Custom Typeface Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Importing an Active Graphic as a Character into a Custom Typeface . . . . . . . 324

Importing a Graphic from a File as a Character into a Custom Typeface . . . . 325

Changing Pin Location and Set Width of a Character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Specifying Custom Typeface Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Saving a Custom Typeface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Accessing Graphics Assigned to a Custom Typeface with a Single Keystroke . . . 331

Creating Useful Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Creating and Using Lower Thirds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Building Lower Thirds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Building a Simple Lower Third Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Custom Designing a Lower Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Building a Lower Third Template with a Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Creating Graphics from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Using an Existing Graphic as a Template for a Similar Graphic. . . . . . . . 350

Creating Graphics for Multiple Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Setting Up for Creating Multiple Format Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Creating and Saving an Alternate View Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Creating Multiple Format Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Playing Back Multiple Format Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Applying Fancy Frames for Your Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Selecting and Using a Preset Style with a Fancy Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Creating Styles with Fancy Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Creating a Graphic to Use as a Shader for a Fancy Frame . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Creating and Using Real-Time Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Defining a New Clock or Editing an Existing Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying a Clock in the Current Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Starting the Countdown or Countup Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Resetting the Countdown or Countup Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Preventing Digits from Shifting as the Clock Advances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Starting, Pausing, Resuming or Resetting a Clock from the

Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Creating and Using a Leaderboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Creating Leaderboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Changing Information on a Leaderboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Moving a Row Up or Down the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Changing the Font or Look of a Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Creating and Using a Full Screen Bulleted List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Creating a Bulleted List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Designing a Background for Your Bulleted List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Saving your Bulleted List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Creating a Template for Interfaced Data Applications such as DekoMOS . . . . . . . 381

Creating a Replaceable Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Creating a Replaceable Still Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating a Replaceable Clip Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Creating and Using Partial Graphics with the SportsWare Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

About Pops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Creating Pops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating a Text Pop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating a Style Pop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Creating a Place Pop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Using Pops in Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Managing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Organizing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Creating File Directories (Folders) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Best Practice for Storing Custom Typefaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Best Practice for Storing Design Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Best Practice for Organizing News Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Best Practice for Organizing Sports Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Best Practice for Organizing Postproduction Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Telling your Deko Where to Save and Find Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Opening Files Using the Open Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Opening a Graphic File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Opening a File From a Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Opening a New Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Viewing Thumbnails of your Graphics in Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Viewing a Preview of Your Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Viewing a Key Signal or Alpha Channel of an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Viewing Image Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Opening Non-Deko Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Opening Files in Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Saving an Untitled File or Saving a File Under a New Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Creating a New Directory for Saving Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Saving an Existing File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Saving a Graphic in a Different Video Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Specifying Whether to Save Character Glyphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Saving a Fully Rendered Bitmap with a Graphic File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Saving a Graphic with an Automatic Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Adding File Properties to a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Viewing File Information for Associated Clips and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Closing Files and Exiting Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Closing a File in the Active Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Closing all Open Files and Exiting Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Having Deko Prompt You to Save Modified Files Before Closing Them. . . . . 409

Having Deko Prompt You to Save Before Exiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Moving or Renaming Multiple Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Deleting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Importing Still Images and Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Understanding Computer Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

About Key Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Saving PICT, TIFF, and TARGA Files with Alpha Channel Within Deko . 416

Saving TIFF and TARGA Files with File Compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Creating Graphics in Other Applications and Importing to Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Importing Deko and Non-Deko Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Pixel Shape, Aspect Ratio, and Graphic Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Recommendation for Images that are not Full Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Recommendation for Full Screen Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Traditional Method of Adjusting Pixel Shape for Square to Rectangle. . . 420

Creating and Importing Full Screen PhotoShop Images into Deko. . . . . . . . . 422

Creating and Importing Images Created in an Old Version of Photoshop 422

Creating and Importing Images Created in Photoshop Using Square Pixels .

424

Creating and Importing Images Created in Photoshop CS2 or Later . . . . 425

When to use Pixel Aspect Source Set to NTSC, NTSC Wide, PAL, or PAL

Wide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Auto-Scaling Options Override Pixel Aspect Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Using Photographs or Continuous Tone Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Importing Adobe Photoshop Layers as a Deko Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Importing Graphics from Legacy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Transferring GF/Halo/Kseries/Presto Images to Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Aston Import Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Chyron Import Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Managing Stills with StillDeko, and Thunder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Connecting to an Existing Remote Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Setting Up a Database on Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Using Thunder Browse with StillDeko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Opening a Still Image from Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Browsing for Images in Thunder Browse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Opening a Still Image in Thunder Browse and Editing it in Deko . . . . . . . 435

Saving a Deko Graphic in a Thunder Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Using the ClipDeko Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

About the Clip Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Accessing the Clip Edit Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Creating and Opening Clips Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Recording Clips Using the Clip Record Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Accessing the Record Clip Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Setting Up Your Clip Record Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Recording Your Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Importing Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Importing Clips to the Browser Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Renaming Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Deleting Clips From the Browser Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Using Clips with Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Importing a Fill Clip and Its Associated Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Assigning a Key Clip to a Fill Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Removing the Key Assignment From the Current Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Aligning a Key Clip with a Fill Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Importing MPEG-2 (MXF) Clips into Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

MPEG-2 Compression Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

MXF File Compatibility with Liquid Editing Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Clip Formats and QuickTime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Converting Clips Using QuickTime Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Importing .MOV Files into Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Using Static Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Using ClipAutoUpdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Configuring ClipAutoUpdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Preparing to Play a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Specifying the Genlock Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Previewing a Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Trimming the Beginning or Ending of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Finding the Nearest Point in the Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Looping Clip Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Implementing Three Point Looping of a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Synchronizing Clip Playback with Effect Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Adjusting the Volume of Embedded Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Playing a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Stopping Clip Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Clearing or Hiding a Clip Loaded in the Clip Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Automatically Displaying Clips with Deko Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Associating a Clip with a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Breaking a Link Between a Clip and a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Creating a Graphic with a Clip Filled Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Using Levels and Keys to Adjust Shaped or Unshaped Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Creating Clip Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Creating and Playing “Background” Clips with Default Transition . . . . . . 469

Creating and Playing “Background” Clips with Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Creating Clip Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Selecting a Frame (Frame Grab) from a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Using Power Clips (Deko 3000 SD/HD/HY only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Creating Power Clips in QuickTime Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Creating a Power Clips Database in Deko. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Importing .mov Files into Deko as Power Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Creating Graphics Using Power Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Power Clip Playback During Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Composing for Power Clip Playback in Motion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Playing a Thunder Sequence from Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Configuring Thunder - ThunderNet Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Configuring Thunder - GPI Triggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Configuring Deko - ThunderNET Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Configuring Deko - GPI Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Playing a Thunder Sequence Directly from Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Associating a Thunder Clip with a Deko Graphic (for Use in a Deko). . . . 494

Using Effects and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Layouts for Working with Effects and Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Effect Playback Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Sequence Playback Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Program and Preview Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Switching Preview and Program Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Copying a Graphic from Preview to Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Copying a Graphic from Program to Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Using Deko Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Transitional Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

DVE Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Control Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Text Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Playing a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Opening the Effect Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Playing a Single Effect on the Current Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Associating an Effect with a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Making Sure Associated Effects Play Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Playing an Associated Effect without Reloading the Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Creating Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Opening a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Creating a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Adding a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Saving a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Appending a Sequence to the Active Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Controlling Sequences Using Timecode Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Specifying Timecodes to Begin and End an Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Setting Intime to Outtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Setting Outtime to Intime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Offsetting In and Out Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Finding the Event Closest to the Current Output Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Specifying Timecode Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Using Rolls and Crawls in Your Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Using Command Event to Include Macros in Your Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Editing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Selecting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Inserting and Deleting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Playing a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Pausing Sequence Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Using a GPI Trigger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Stopping Sequence Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Playing Sequences as Clips with Make DekoMovie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Creating Custom Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Tools for Creating Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Using the Motion Edit Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Using the Motion Timeline Editor to Create Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Building a Motion Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Using the Basic Timeline Editor to Create Basic Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

About the Basic Timeline Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Basic Timeline Editor Compared to Motion Timeline Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Creating Motions Using the Basic Motion Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Creating an Action for the Veil Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Creating an Action for the Captions Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Creating an Action for the Picture Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Adjusting Your Motion Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Adjusting Timing of an Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Allowing Time at the Beginning or End of a Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Adjusting Motion Parameters Using the Basic Timeline Editor . . . . . . . . . 537

Editing Motions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Deleting Selected Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Appending a Motion to the Active Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Saving a New Motion Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Opening a Motion File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Creating a Motion to Play a Cel Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Adjusting Motion Parameters with the Timeline Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Position (X Position, Y Position, and Z Position). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Rotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Skew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Kern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Blur Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Editing an Action with the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Using Motion Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Adding a Local Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Adding a Targeted Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Playing Motions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

How Deko Determines Which Motion or Effect to Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Ability to Handle Motions Created on More Capable Deko Models . . . . . . . . . 564

Playing Motions in the Motion Edit Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Manually Playing the Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Specifying the Playback Rates of Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Pausing Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Playing Selected Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Pausing and Resuming Motions During Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Stopping Motions During Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Playing Motions Using the Scrub Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Synchronizing a Clip with a Motion Scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Playing Clips Associated with a Graphic and Linked to a Motion or

Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Pausing and Holding Effects (at Start) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Playing a Motion within a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Playing a Motion as a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Associating a Motion with a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Creating 3D Animated Objects Using Depth Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Creating a Cube-like Motion with a Graphic on Two Sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Creating Motions on Large Images for Real-time Playback (Pan & Scan) . . . 574

Making a Zoom Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Defining the Motion Origin Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Using Differential Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Using Auto-Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Understanding Motion Playback Compared with Auto-Motions . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Motion and Auto-Motion Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Triggering Associated Effect Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Determining the Associated Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Determining if Auto-Motion Is Available. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Determining Which Auto-Motion Is Used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Adding a Graphic Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Viewing Selected Motions and Graphics for a Graphic Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Checking Auto-Motion Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Checking Auto-Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Saving an Auto-Motion File with a New Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Saving an Auto-Motion File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Opening an Auto-Motion File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Editing a Graphic Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Deleting a Graphic Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Setting a Graphic’s Class in a Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Effect Playback and Auto-Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Play-On and Play-Off Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Using Motion-in-Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Specifying Parent Motion Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Using Differential Motion with the Motion-in-Motion Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Assigning Content-Independent Sound Effects to Deko Motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Applying Sound Effects to Motions Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Creating Animated Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Animating Layers in a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Adding Motion to Your Bulleted List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Naming the Layers of the Bulleted List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Adding Motion to the Bulleted List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Creating Rolls and Crawls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Creating and Playing Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Composing a Graphic for a Roll Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Running a Roll Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Rolling Text within a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Adjusting Duration or Spacing for Smooth Roll Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Importing a Text File for a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Changing Speed During Roll Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Embedding Speed Changes in a Roll Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Creating and Playing Crawls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Composing a Graphic with Crawling Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Running a Crawl Effect:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Crawling Text Within a Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Crawling Text Across a Specific Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Crawling Entire CG Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Running a Continuous Crawl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Changing Speed During Crawl Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Embedding Speed Changes in a Crawl Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Creating Glows and Blurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Using the Deko3D Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Deko Compatibility Requirements for 3D Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Deko3D Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Installing and Using the Deko3D Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Configuring the Deko3D Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Using the Deko3D Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Building a 3D Studio MAX Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Guidelines for Creating 3D Models for Use in Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Exporting the Scene From 3D Studio MAX to D3D File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 638

3D Scene Checklist Before Exporting to FBX File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Exporting the Scene From 3D Studio MAX to FBX File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Exporting the Scene From XSI to FBX File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

3D Scene Checklist Before Exporting to COLLADA File Format . . . . . . . . . . 643

Exporting the Scene From 3D Studio MAX to COLLADA File Format . . . . . . 643

Exporting the Scene From XSI to COLLADA File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Importing the 3D Scene File into Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

About the Deko 3D Layer Mapping Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Using the Deko3D Layer Mapping Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Creating the Play-On Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Creating the Update Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Creating the Play-Off Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Creating a Deko Graphic for Use with a Deko3D Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Setting Up the Auto-Motion Table for Deko3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Playing a Deko Graphic with a Deko3D Motion Using Auto-Motion . . . . . . . . 665

Working with User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Arranging the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Graphic Compose Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Style Edit Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Effect Playback Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Sequence Playback Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Macro Edit Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Macro Record Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Motion Compose Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Typeface Edit Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Customizing Your Deko Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Changing from One Standard Layout to Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Showing or Hiding Desktop Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Closing, Resizing or Repositioning Deko Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Creating Custom Layouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Saving a Layout as the Starting Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Resetting Windows in the Current Layout to Default Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Freezing Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Changing the Video Standard or the Aspect Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Changing the Current Aspect Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Changing the Current Video Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Specifying User Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Specifying Common Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Specifying Prompts Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Specifying Paths Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Specifying Cursor Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Specifying Marker Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Specifying Advanced Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Specifying Alt Compose Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Saving or Resetting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Saving Current Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Automatically Saving Current Preferences Upon Exiting Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Resetting Preferences to Factory Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Resetting All Preferences, Hardware and Software Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Working with Video Input and Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Directing Signal Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

About Keying and Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Specifying Output Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Configuring Hardware Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Using the Hardware Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Switching Between Video Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Determining Output View Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Viewing the Status of a DekoObjex Scene, a Clip, or Video Input . . . . . . . . . 706

Turning On or Off a DekoObjex Scene, a Clip, or Video Input . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Determining the Name of a DekoObjex Scene or an Open Clip . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Reordering Output View Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Displaying a Test Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Working in Dual Channel Output Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Using Frame Grabbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Setting Grab Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Grabbing a Frame of Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Applying Motion Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Applying Motion Suppression When Frame Grabbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Applying Motion Suppression to the Current Background . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Specifying Motion Suppression Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Streamlining Your Work with Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Introduction to Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

A Simple Macro Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Recording Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Playing Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Playing Macros Using the Play Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Recalling and Playing Macros with a Single Keystroke (FAK only). . . . . . . . . 718

Using Macro Autoplay with the SportsWare Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Pausing, Advancing, and Stopping Macro Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Converting a Graphic, Sequence or Motion into a Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Writing and Editing Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

About the Deko Macro Programming Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Conditional Commands and Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Subroutines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Return Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Data Type Conversions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Editing Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Editing a Macro (.mcr) File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Editing a Macro Using the Replace Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Editing Macro Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Saving Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Saving a Macro with a New Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Saving a Modified Macro with the Same Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Appending a Macro to the Active Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

Executing Deko Macros in External Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

Setting Up Your Macro Server Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Sending Macros to the Macro Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Macro Command Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Macro Command Formats for Version 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Macro Command Formats for Version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Macro Command Examples: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Macro Server Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

Using Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

About Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

How Automation Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Example of Newsroom Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Customizing Deko Using Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756

About the I.I.I. Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Accessing the Automation Interface in Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Starting Automation Immediately Every Time You Start Deko . . . . . . . . . 758

Using Deko Graphics with Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Defining a Layer for Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Creating Template Files for Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Creating a Template File to be Filled in by Your Automation Interface . . . 760

Reassigning Order for Template Layers to Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Using a Template to Verify a Successful Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Example of a Successful Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Enabling Your FastAction Keyboard to Read Automation Files . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Querying a Database from Deko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Viewing Installed ODBC Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Specifying a DSN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Setting Up Layers to Query a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Using a Variable Field Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Setting and Using Global Field Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Accessing Optional Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

About DekoObjex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

FastAction Keyboard Commands and Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

FastAction Keyboard (FAK) Callout Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

FastAction Keyboard Function Key Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

FastAction Keyboard Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Using the FAK to Get Random Graphics to Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Using the FAK to Get Sequential Graphics to Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Using the FAK to Call Up Files with Numerical Filenames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Using the FAK to Read in Any Filename. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Using the FAK to Enable Reading Automation Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Performing FastAction Keyboard Functions Using a Standard Keyboard . . . . . . . 782

Using a Standard Keyboard (SK) to Perform Formatting Commands. . . . . . . 783

Using a Standard Keyboard (SK) to Perform Command Functions . . . . . . . . 784

Shaped vs. Unshaped Compositing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

Shaped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Unshaped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Mathematical Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Comparison Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793

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