Trail Settings - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

With no selection With a selection
made in the <Bar made in the <Bar
Light Mode> group Light Mode> group
Bar Light
Diffuse Light
Diffuse Light
Bar Light
Offset = 0

Trail Settings

Note
Enabling Trail automatically disables Motion Decay,
Keyframe Strobe, or Wind if it is set.
Applying the Trail effect
1
Open the DME >Light/Trail >Trail menu (4152).
2
Press [Trail], turning it on.
3
Set the following parameters.
No. Parameter Adjustment
Amount of afterimage displayed
1 Decay
2 Interval Freeze interval
3 Live Proportion of time between frozen
images for inserting live video
a) 0.00 represents no afterimage. 100.00 represents no decay in the
afterimage.
Selecting the priority between the current
image and superimposed trail
In the <Priority> group of the DME >Light/Trail >Trail
menu (4152), select the way in which the images are
overlaid.
Over: Input image is on top.
Under: Afterimage trail is on top.
Width
a)
Selecting the afterimage trail signal
In the <Trail Source> group of the DME >Light/Trail
>Trail menu (4152), select the image to insert in the
afterimage trail.
Notes
• [Rainbow], [Mix Color], and [Ext Video] cannot be
selected on the MVE-8000A.
• Only [Mix Color] or [Ext Video] can be used between
the Background (see page 272), Flex Shadow (see
page 233), Trail, and Wind (see page 264) effects. If
[Mix Color] or [Ext Video] is selected for one of these
effects, the [Mix Color] or [Ext Video] for the other
effects is disabled, and [Flat Color] is selected in its
place.
• When executing a 4-channel combination, [Mix Color]
and [Ext Video] cannot be selected.
Freeze Video: Freeze the input image to use as the
afterimage.
Flat Color: Uses a single color matte as the afterimage.
You can set the following parameters.
No. Parameter Adjustment
1 Luminance Luminance
2 Saturation
3 Hue
Hue Rotate: Use a color matte whose hue varies slightly
with each frame for the trail of the afterimages. You
can set the following parameters.
No. Parameter Adjustment
1 Luminance Luminance
2 Saturation
3 Hue Speed Speed at which the hue changes
Mix Color: Insert a mix color signal (see page 238) in the
afterimage portion.
Ext Video: Insert an external video signal input to the Ext
IN connector in the afterimage portion.
Rainbow: Use a freeze image with the hue changing every
frame in the afterimage portion. The difference from
[Hue Rotate] is that many colors appear
simultaneously. You can set the following parameters.
No. Parameter Adjustment
1 Luminance Luminance
2 Saturation
3 Hue Speed Speed at which the hue changes
Erasing the afterimages that remain in
memory whenever a keyframe is passed
In the DME >Light/Trail >Trail menu (4152), press [Trail
Eraser], turning it on.
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Saturation
Hue
Saturation
Saturation