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Grass Valley Kalypso User Manual V.15.0 User Manual

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Kalypso — User Manual

Section 3 — System Operation

2.

Choose on the selected keyer’s key bus the chroma key source
containing the chroma key backing color.

3.

Select

Chroma

as the key type in the Keyers subpanel, if necessary

(source memory may automatically select this key type).

4.

Choose on the A bus the source that will be used to replace the backing
color of the chroma key source.

5.

Go to the Keyer menu (double press the

Keyer 1-4

button for that keyer

in the Keyer subpanel) and make sure

Reshape

is off for the keyer you

are using (

Figure 168

).

Figure 168. Keyer Menu, Chroma Key Reshape Off

6.

Press the

Auto Setup

button on the Main panel. Preview for that M/E will

now display the chroma key source with a superimposed cursor. The
cursor actually represents a box of 16 x 16 pixels.

7.

Use the joystick to position the cursor on the backing color. Select a
darker area, if one exists, to optimize the backing color suppression.

8.

Press the button on top of the joystick. The chroma key will be set up
automatically using the average of the colors selected by the cursor box.
Because

Reshape

was off, fine edges of the key will be preserved.

Reshape Off