Operator`s manual

Planar transforms include squeeze or zoom, crop, reposition, aspect, and rotate. These
effects can be applied to images and keys.
All images and keys can also have realistic natural lighting applied to them. Squeeze &
Tease MD makes it easy with “quick presets”, a positionable light source, and powerful
ambient and min/max lighting controls.
Advanced Picture Frame Border Generator
Squeeze & Tease MD can add a picture frame to border over-the-shoulder boxes. This
variable width border perfectly tracks all image resizing and special effects. The picture
frame generator instantly adds a polished, professional look to your squeeze backs.
This picture frame can be the simple, single color type, or one of many fancy picture frame
effects including roman column, tubular, beveled, computer style, tri-color, and more.
These picture frame effects have the following adjustable controls:
• hard or variable edge softness
• edge width/scaling
• inside/outside edge softness symmetry
• diagonal, horizontal, and vertical corner joint selection
• full control of all three picture frame color generators.
Advanced Planar Controls
The following advanced controls make building the ideal look for your show just that
much easier:
• Front Side/Back Side in one channel and one keyer. When you look at the backside
of an effect, you can have it automatically select a different video signal on the key
bus. This makes it possible, for example, to rotate between 2 channels of still store in
an over the shoulder box in a single keyer, using only 1 channel of S&T MD.
• Auto Flip. When you rotate an image in normal mode, the backside appears upside
down or mirrored. Turning on Auto Flip ensures that the front side of an image is
always presented. This is great for the manipulation of still store and CG text.
• Internal Key Combiner. Squeeze backs can be combined and displayed in a single
keyer. This effectively adds more keyers to the Synergy MLE.
• Key Combiner Priority Control. Getting the channels the way you want them is easy
with S&T MD. When several squeeze backs are combined in a single keyer, you can
choose fixed priorities, auto-priority, or intersecting planes. Auto-priority
automatically calculates the channel priority based on their relative positions in 3D
space. With the intersecting planes choice, channels will literally cut into one another
channel hiding the portions that are hidden behind them.
• Easy Slabs and Objects. Squeeze & Tease MD provides a simple and intuitive user
interface to combine two or more planes into a slab and then manipulate it as a single
object. S&T MD deals with the math and you get a great looking slab the way you
want it within seconds.
Pre-Built Effects, User-Built Timelines, and Key Sequences
Squeeze & Tease MD ships with dozens of prebuilt effects that are ready to take to air.
More effects can be downloaded from our website. All of these effects can be easily user
modified to meet your needs. You can also build entirely new effects of your own from
scratch.
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