Effect settings for the entire movie

You can open the effects from the the settings via the "Effects" menu.

All of the settings made here influence the entire movie. Settings are made separately for each individual movie in the project. On the right, you'll see a preview of the current setting. Use the position slider to jump to different positions in the movie or to various scenes in order to see how the selected setting affects the image material.

Brightness/Contrast

Brightness: Use the sliders to reduce or increase the object's brightness.

Selective brightness (gamma): “Gamma” determines the mean gray scale that can be calculated from the various color ranges. "Selective brightness" is the most important function for enhancing images. In the preset list, select the various envelope curves to edit only the dark, median, or brightest areas of the image.

Using the fader you can also set the power of the brightness/darkness adjustments.

Contrast: You can increase or lower the object's contrast.

Adjust color space: This option is effective for correcting extreme colors that violate TV standards and can no longer be displayed properly on-screen. The color saturation of the affected material is thereby reduced until the maximum permitted value is reached.

Paint

NOTE This feature is available in the Plus/Premium version of Movie Studio.

Hue: Use the palette to select a hue for coloring-in the picture.

Saturation: Use the saturation slider to increase or reduce the hue proportions in the image. A newly developed algorithm is applied which makes color changes related to other parameters (e.g. contrast settings) in order to achieve the most natural coloration possible.

Red/Green/Blue: Changes the color portion mix.

Sharpness

Use the slider to adjust the sharpness or blurriness of the entire film.

Apply to: Set whether the sharpness should only affect edges or whether the blurriness should only affect surfaces. This enables you to effectively reduce ongoing image distortions.

Presets: Try out the presets from the preset menu.

Temporarily switch off all effects: With this option, you can temporarily deactivate all effects. This way, you can quickly compare the original with the edited version.

TV picture

This option ensures that the image size is adapted to fit the real television picture (anti cropping). Without this adjustment, the screen could cut off edges of the image in some cases.

Fade in TV display area in the program monitor: This option displays the image borders of the television as lines in the program monitor. The four image borders of the TV display area can be set by means of the 4 input fields. Here, it is of course necessary to know the actual size of the TV picture. To determine it, proceed as follows:

The four input fields also enable the borders of the four sides to be adjusted freely in percent. It is important to find the optimal balance between distortion, reduction, bar formation, and image cropping:

  • If the same value is entered for every margin the image size is reduced proportionally. In this case no distortions will occur, but there will be bars along the edges.

  • If different values are entered for the 4 fields the image size will not be reduced proportionally. This will distort the image.

Apply border range to:This option enables the input values for the four image borders to be applied to the respective photos in reduced form. The result can immediately be viewed on the program monitor.

Determining the visible TV frame size

To determine the picture properties of your television as well as optimal image size editor settings, you should perform a test run:

  • Load the project "Visible TV image" from the folder "My Media > Projects > Visible TV image" in the Media Pool.

  • Play back the film and read the instructions on the program monitor.

  • Burn the project to DVD

  • Place the disc into your player and play back the movie. Compare the TV picture to the picture displayed on your program monitor by Movie Studio.

  • Determine the proportional value of the borders cropped by the television with the 4 measurement scales along the edges of the test picture.

  • Enter the values in the “Full TV size” editor.

The image size is now optimized to your TV picture. Please note: Depending on device settings and disc carrier type, the cropping values may vary slightly.