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The saturation master control can completely remove all color from the source image and produce
a monochrome, or black and white, foreground composited with a color background image.
When adjusting the saturation master, the relative difference between the saturation red,
green, and blue components will be maintained.
Advanced Contrast Crossover Master
When the ‘advanced contrast’ button is enabled in the functions section, contrast adjustment
characteristics will acquire an “S” shape curve. The crossover point of the “S” shape can be
moved by the source ‘contrast crossover’ master control.
Fade Control
A fade control is available for the foreground, background and layer sources. This setting lets
you fade the foreground or layer source, if enabled, until it is no longer visible.
When the primary matte is disabled in the matte settings, you can use this feature to fade
between the foreground source and background source to line up props or set items in the
foreground with the background source.
When adjusting the fade or fade-mix control from 0% to 100%, the selected source will gradually
fade until no longer visible.
Color Correcting Black and White Levels
The ‘black/white level’ menu for each background, foreground and layer source lets you make
specific color corrections to the black level and white level. By adjusting the respective red,
green and blue color correction controls you can adjust each respective color level without
altering the overall gain.
TIP Any adjustments to color for the black and white level will only occur after the
matte signal generation and will not affect the source.
Adjusting Color Contrast and Saturation
The ‘contrast/saturation’ menu provides controls to adjust contrast for each color channel in the
selected source. Adjusting the contrast control for each channel will increase or decrease the
amount of contrast in the gamma, or mid level gain.
When the ‘advanced contrast’ button is enabled in the functions section, contrast adjustment
characteristics will acquire an ‘S’ shape curve. The crossover point of the ‘S’ shape can then
be moved by the source ‘contrast crossover’ control. This gives you greater control over how
contrast affects the gamma tonal region.
Color Reset
If at any time you want to restore the color correction back to its default state, simply click on
the color reset button in the functions section.
Source Freeze Button
If you are working with still graphics as your sources, this feature allows for greater flexibility. You
can take a still image from each source by clicking the respective ‘freeze’ button in the functions
section. This stores a still frame in temporary memory which you can use as the source.
The freeze feature can be helpful if you have limited playback equipment. For example, you can
save a still from a playback source graphic, then on the same playback deck, load a different
source and plug it into a different source input on your Ultimatte. This effectively doubles the
amount of sources you can use with your playback equipment.
46Advanced Ultimatte Controls
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