Grass Valley Zodiak v.6.0 Mar 15 2006 - Manual (Page 421)

Zodiak — User Manual 421
Transform Engine Effects
16. Go to the Transforms subpanel and press the Global Ch button to
delegate control of the Joystick subpanel to the global channel. You can
now select
Spin on the subpanel and spin the position of the cube with
the joystick. When turned completely around you will see the cube is
incomplete, with only three sides.
Alternatively, the cube above can be created using only the Transform
menu by entering the data in
Table 11 after selecting the background and
key sources, turning on the keys, and turning on Int DPM ( Step 1 through
Step 4 on page page 418 ).
The above example is for a cube with centered crops. For crops that are not
equidistant from the edges of the picture (3-D slab), take the negative crop,
add it to the positive crop, divide by two, and use this value to move the
axis for the side of the cube you are working on. This centers the axis so you
can use the negative crop value rule described above to build your 3-D
slab. When done, move the axis back to the center of the screen using Post
Xform and entering a negative of the axis value.
Table 11. Half Size Cube Data
Parameter Key 1 Key 2 Key 3
Global On
Easy Cube On
Crop On
Crop Edge Top = 3
Bottom = -3
Left = -3
Right = 3
Source/Target Select Source Space
Locate X = 0
Y = 0
Z = -3
Size = 0.5
Target Rot X = 0
Y = 0
Z = 0 X = -0.25
Y = 0
Z = 0
X = 0
Y = 0.25
Z = 0