4K Support; Creation Of Special Effects And Management Of Data And Operations; Digital Multi Effects (Dme) - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

4K Support

4K image processing is supported by installing 4K upgrade
software and switcher upgrade software.
For details about the switcher configuration required for
4K support, contact your Sony service or sales
representative.
For details, see "4K System" (page 204).
Creation of Special
Effects and Management
of Data and Operations
This section introduces functions used for creation of
special effects, control of external devices or switcher
operations, and data management.

Digital Multi Effects (DME)

When used with the switcher, DME allows you to add
three-dimensional effects such as image movement,
rotation, magnification and shrinking, as well as a wide
variety of special effects.
Each channel can be used on its own or in combination
with other channels, which allows you to create advanced
effects with more complexity.
The following types of DME special effects are available.
• Edge effects: Border, CG Border, Crop, Beveled Edge,
Key Border, Art Edge, Flex Shadow, Wipe Crop
• Effects for entire image: Defocus, Blur, Multi Move
• Video image effects: Sepia, Mono, Posterization,
Solarization, Nega, Contrast, Mosaic, Mask, Sketch,
Metal, Dim and Fade, Glow
• Freeze effects
• Nonlinear effects: Wave, Mosaic Glass, Flag, Twist,
Ripple, Rings, Broken Glass, Flying Bar, Blind, Split,
Split Slide, Mirror, Multi Mirror, Kaleidoscope, Lens,
Circle, Panorama, Page Turn, Roll, Cylinder, Sphere,
Explosion, Swirl, Melt, Character Trail
• Corner pinning effect
• Lighting effects: Lighting, Spotlighting
• Recursive effects: Trail, Motion Decay, Keyframe
Strobe, Wind
• Background color settings
• Separate Sides (effects for front and back sides)
• Signal inversion (Invert effect)
• Key density adjustment
• Key source selection
• Color mix settings
Global effects
Global effects are special effects created by combining the
images of successive channels.
The following types of global effects are available.
• Combiner
• Brick
• Shadow
For details, see "DMEs" (page 209).
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