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8.2.25 Special features
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Chroma Keying is used to key from a parcular color. It produces a key which is most suitable for moving
images and “weatherman” style applicaons.
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Using a crosshair, you can select a parcular hue based on what is on screen. Once you have adjusted the
crosshairs to a desired posion, press set/enter to capture the color value at that instant. You can then adjust
the other parameters such as Tolerance to further rene your key.
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R,G,B: these controls allow you to manually select a hue, dened by its Red, Green, and Blue values as you
can nd in Windows (Paint soware).
 the Tolerance parameter allows you to expand your key color selecon to include colors which
are similar to the selected value. A tolerance of 1 will select only the desired hue, whereas a tolerance of
255 will select nearly all hues.
Black Level: this opon permits adjustment of the luminance levels of the keyed hue. The Black Level is the
luminance lower bound. Colors in the selected hue range with a luminance brighter than the Black Level but
darker than the White Level will be considered part of the key.
 this opon permits adjustment of the luminance levels of the keyed hue. The White Level is
the luminance lower bound. Colors in the selected hue range with a luminance brighter than the Black Level
but darker than the White Level will be considered part of the key.
 if you have selected one of the two Titling mode, the tling menu appears. This opon places
a transparent black backdrop behind the enre layer to which the key is applied. This eect is useful for
using bright tles on bright backgrounds, such as clouds.
Invert keying: by default, this mode is disabled. When this mode is acvated, the key selecon will remain
on screen, and all other porons of the image will be keyed away. For example, you would see the green
screen behind the actor, while the actor would be keyed away.