1-36Inserting Characters and Graphics (1) — Title Key

Masking Part of a Title Key

You can apply a rectangular mask, to eliminate unwanted parts of the key.

The masked part is filled with the background image.

This operation is common to luminance and chroma keys.

2

Inserting Characters and Graphics (2) — Downstream Key

As its name implies, the downstream key (often abbreviated as DSK) is a key which is added downstream the title keying stages, to the already- formed composite image made up of the background and foreground images.

Background image

Foreground image

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1 TITLE 2

DSK

EDGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDITOR

LUM

LUM

LUM

TRAIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

SHADOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GPI

CRK

CRK

BORDER

BEVELD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDGE

 

INITIAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SET UP

MASK

MASK

MASK

SOFT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHIFT

CCR

LIGHTING MATTES

BORDER

 

PATTERN

PAGE

F1

 

F2

F3

F4

F5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADJ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EFFECT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRANS RATE

 

 

DSK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FTB

SET

 

 

 

CCR

TITLE 1

TITLE 2

DSK

SUPER BG FRGD 2

MEMORY

FRAME

FREEZ

MIX

EFFECT

 

 

AUXILIARY

 

SOURCE

SOURCE

FILL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACK

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

MEMORY

INT

 

TITLE

 

 

BACKGROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACK

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

MEMORY

INT

CUT

 

 

VIDEO

 

 

FOREGROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACK

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

MEMORY

INT

AUTO

 

 

VIDEO

TRANS

 

USER PGM

SNAP SHOT

 

 

 

STATUS EDIT

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT

LEARN

 

 

 

 

 

RECALL

 

 

 

 

 

HOLD

 

LOCATION

 

 

INPUT

 

 

 

 

PATTERN NUMBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SET

 

 

N/R

REV

DIRECT

DIRECT

DSK PVW

 

 

 

RECALL PATTERN

 

 

 

 

 

LAST X

FADE

 

7

8

9

 

TO

 

INS

BLACK

 

4

5

6

DEL

 

 

 

 

 

P IN P

DSK

 

1

2

3

RST

 

 

 

DOWN

UP

ENTER

 

0

PATTERN/KEY PAD

Key source signal

Chapter 3 Basic

DFS-700/700P

Operation

3-44Chapter 3 Basic Operation

1 In the TITLE section of the menu control section, press one of the MASK buttons, turning it on.

The mask menu appears in the menu display.

The following example appears when the MASK button in column 1 is lit.

T1MSK

Left

Right

Top

Bottom

INVERT

1/1

–400-400

–400-400

–300-300

–300-300

OFF

PAGE

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

2 Turn the F1(Left), F2(Right), F3(Top), and F4(Bottom) knobs to set the mask region.

Removing the mask

Press the MASK button lit in step 1, turning it off.

To invert the mask

In the mask menu, press the F5(INVERT) button, setting it to “ON”.

Operation

Program output

Note that if a preview monitor is connected, you can use it to preview the downstream key on the composite image by pressing the DSK PVW button in the fade-to-black/downstream key section.

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Sony DFS-700P, BKDF- 702, 702P Inserting Characters and Graphics 2 Downstream Key, Removing the mask, To invert the mask
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