Smooth, Ease, Parameter values – Grass Valley Kaleidoscope to Krystal Effect Translator User Manual

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Kaleidoscope to Krystal Effect Translator

Smooth

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There are differences with this path. The default values for TCB are
very different. Try building a three keyframe corner- to-corner move.
Kaleidoscope will move the channel off screen while Krystal will keep
the channel on screen.

Ease

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It appears that EASE converts to S-LIN. Even though EASE is missing
from the Krystal's control panel, the Effects Manger does support it.
Please be aware that if you change the path from ease to another path
type, you will not be able to get back to ease. If you do, reload the effect
from disk.

Parameter Values

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Because of scale factor conversions, some keyframe values will be out
of range. Expect to see percentages above (i.e.+112.25) and below (i.e.-
3.20) the control panel's limits. If you turn a soft knob the control panel
will reset the keyframe value to it's limits. If you did not modify the
keyframe, press Prev and Next keyframe to restore the value. The
effect will still run with the out-of-range values.

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Because of differences between the two wipe systems, you may have to
adjust Krystal's wipes to achieve exactly the same effect Kaleidoscope
produced.

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During a conversion, only those parameter values that have equivalent
functions in Krystal are converted. The additional effect parameters in
Krystal are not affected. They will be kept at unity and the timeline will
be unaffected.

Masking & Cropping

NOTE:

A Kaleidoscope effects that uses masking and has crops disabled will not

translate properly. The mask and crops on this effect will have to be edited on the

Krystal to make them match the Kaleidoscope effect.

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Kaleidoscope does not have a mask bus. Its key bus was used for
certain effects as a mask bus. Effects that used this feature are: Pseudo
Color, Defocus, Motion Track, and Video Only Freeze.

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If an external key was used for masking and not keying, the key is not
applied to channel and picture crops stay disabled.