Compositing Video; Basic Operation - Roland VR-50HD Owner's Manual

Video Operations

Compositing Video

Three video-composition modes are available.
* If you're using STILL KEY, then it's necessary beforehand to use the procedure on p. 35 to assign a still image to the VIDEO INPUT SELECT [STILL]
button.
Mode Explanation
PinP This displays an inset screen against a background (Picture-in-Picture).
PinP/KEY
This lets you use picture-in-picture simultaneously with key compositing.
STILL KEY This lets you take a still image assigned to the VIDEO INPUT SELECT [STILL] button and superimpose it on background video.

Basic Operation

1.
Touch the screen or press one of the INPUT SELECT [1]–[4]
buttons to select the channel of the video to use for the
background .
2.
Press the [COMPOSITION SETUP] button to display the
COMPOSITION setting screen .
3.
Touch Edit <PinP>, <PinP KEY>, or <STILL KEY> to choose
the video-composition method .
4.
Touch <Source> .
The Source screen appears.
5.
Touch a selection from <SDI 1>–<HDMI 4> to select the
connector where the video to composite is input .
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When <ANALOG/HDMI 1> or <ANALOG/HDMI 2> is selected
The same connectors as the ones specified by the Input Assign
settings (p. 16) are selected from the input connectors displayed in
the lower row. For example, if HDMI has been selected for INPUT 1
at Input Assign, HDMI is selected at the Source screen as well.
NOTE
PinP and PinP KEY share the input connector selected using
<ANALOG/HDMI 1> or <ANALOG/HDMI 2>.
Even when <Composite> has been selected for PinP, selecting
<HDMI> for PinP KEY changes PinP to <HDMI> as well.
6.
Press the [COMPOSITION SETUP] button to finish making
the settings .
7.
Composite the video .
• "Compositing Using Picture-in-Picture (PinP)" (p. 27)
• "Compositing Using a Key (PinP/KEY)" (p. 27)
• "Compositing a Still Image (STILL KEY)" (p. 28)
MEMO
• You can see an on-screen preview of composition by going
to the COMPOSITION setting screen, and at Preview, touching
<PinP>, <PinP KEY>, or <STILL KEY>, making it light up in green.
• Going to the COMPOSITION setting screen and touching
<Layer> lets you specify the order of superimposed layers to
be composited. Also, touching <Detail> displays a screen for
making more-detailed settings for video composition.
8.
Press one of the COMPOSITION [PinP]–[STILL KEY] buttons
to output the composited results .
Pressing a button outputs the video at the inset screen and the
foreground.
The button's indicator lights up while output is in progress.
Pressing it a second time makes it go dark, and the inset screen and
foreground video disappear.
MEMO
The length of the transition-effect interval that has been set
using the TRANSITION [TIME] knob is applied as the length
of the fade time when the inset screen and foreground video
appears and disappears.