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the corresponding pencil and click on the eraser
tool. Position the cursor and simply erase the
superfluous area!
The changes you have made will be extended
to all individual frames of the scene during
calculation.
Note: Please remember that the mask is fixed
and does not move with your video material!
5.4 Title with transparency gradient
In this example you will learn how to create a
title with a transparency gradient.
Take any short scene that you would like to add
a title to. Start Akaba – New Concept, enter
Draw mode and select the mask button.
In mask mode click on the Transparency button
(above the Undo button), then click on Bleed and
afterward on Bleed direction.
Now position the screen cursor to any position,
click on the left trackball key, drag a horizontal
line from left to right and confirm this with a
further click on the left trackball key.
After you have clicked on Ok in the
Transparency window, you will again see the
mask mode operating panel, in which you now
choose the filled rectangle.
Now extend the mask to cover the upper third of
the picture by dragging from the left to the right
screen edge. You see that your rectangular mask
has a color gradient from black to white.
After you have positioned the mask, return to
mask mode by clicking on the right trackball key.
From there you return to drawing mode.
Here you don’t see your mask because it
operates in the background.