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More Control of Matte Fills
The Matte Fills on the Kalypso are awesome! Almost every matte can be a single colour, a video source, or a wash between two colours, two videos or one of each. And the wash pattern can be from five different sources. Now for the but...
- The main "Matte Fill" for a key has the video sources (from the Utility rows) disabled. Conceptually, the operator is trying to do a split key, and there is another way to do that. But I can think of no reason why it shouldn't be possible to do it using matte fill with Utility Row video as the matte. Besides, it would give the ability to do a matte fill wash between two video sources, which would be much harder by alternative means.
- The "Shadow" matte colour in the Transform Engine has only a single base colour available. There should be a second wash colour, even if the wash pattern was a straight line wipe such as is used on the Colour Background Generator Sources.
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This would ideally be controllable from the main panel in the Mattes subpanel (as well as from the menu - you can do anything in the menus as an afterthought).
- There is no physical button in the Mattes subpanel to delegate a TE shadow. But a bit of creative re-mapping of button functions might be possible.
- Instead of four "Copy" buttons and four "Swap" buttons, you could have four noun buttons ("M/E", "Wipe", "Keyer" and "Matte") and two verb buttons ("Copy" and "Swap"). The procedure would be to simultanously press a verb and a noun. For the grammatically-challenged among you, this might mean pressing "Copy" and "Key" at the same time, or "M/E" and "Swap". This would achieve the same result, and free-up two buttons. (Help me think of a use for the extra button!)
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One of these buttons (perhaps the bottom left "Matte Copy" position) would become the "TE Shadow" sub-delegation. It's unfortunate that someone decided the "Copy/Swap" subpanel shouldn't line-up with the buttons below it - it makes the end result somewhat messy.
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Alternatively,
 the "Bkgd 1" and "Bkgd 2" buttons could be moved into the position currently occupied by the Matte Copy and Matte Swap buttons, with the new "TE Shadow" button going alongside the M/E-Pgm delegation buttons. Just scratch-off the silk-screened "grouping lines" between the buttons. (It would have been better to have planned this, and put a fourth button with the three "Key Only" sub-delegations. My hindsight is 20/20 vision.)
- Come to think of it, that extra button could be used as a "Push-on/push-off"-style button labelled "Sec", to change the wipe colours for the Secondary Partition of an M/E. So performing a simultaneous wipe on the Primary and Secondary Partition with Wipe 1 could have different colour borders on each Partition. The "Sec" button allows selection of the Wipe matte for the Secondary Partition's Point of Use, or (when inactive) for the Primary Partition's Point of Use. Brilliant!
- It would be nice to be able to apply textures to other mattes, not just to Colour Background Generator Sources. I know it can be done as a Wash using a Utility Row, but I want it internal
If you have a tip that you think would suit this category, please email me using the Contact link above.
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