Input and Output Format Settings
- Input Format box
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Select the type of image you want to convert.
- Cubic Type box
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Select horizontal or vertical to identify the type of cubic image you are inputting. Select Spliced Faces to stitch together
multiple images to create a horizontal cubic image.
Available when Cubic is selected in the Input Format box.
- Output Format box
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Select the output format for the image you are converting.
The Map Convert effect accepts the following format types:
| Type: |
Description: |
| Spheric |
Sometimes referred to as a chrome ball or mirrored ball. An image of a mirrored ball in an assumed orthogonal projection.
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| Angular |
Similar to the mirrored ball format, except that the radial dimension is mapped linearly with the angle, giving better sampling
around the edges.
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| Cylindrical |
An image mapped onto an unfolder cylinder (also known as longitude and latitude maps). |
| Cubic (Horizontal or Vertical) |
An unfolded six-sided cube. |
| Cubic (Spliced Faces) |
A type of cubic map available as an input format using a different frames displayed as an unfolded cube showing six sides
of the image. To use this input type, frames from the input clip are used as the 6 faces.
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| Polar |
A coordinate system for locating points in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and
an angle from a fixed direction. When using this input format, only Cartesian is available as the output format.
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| Cartesian |
A coordinate system for locating points on a plane by measuring the horizontal and vertical distances from an arbitrary origin
to a point. When using this input format, only Polar is available as the output format.
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Transform Settings
These Transform settings apply to Cylindrical, Angular, Spheric, and Cubic, (Horizontal or Vertical) input formats.
- Transform X Position field
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Displays the horizontal value of the image. Editable.
- Transform Y Position field
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Displays the vertical value of the image. Editable.
- Transform Z Position field
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Displays the depth value of the image. Editable.
In addition to the common transform settings, a Cubic (Spliced Faces) input format also contains the following settings:
- Sequence Length field
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When creating a cubic map from spliced images, indicate how frequently images change in the sequence. Each change in the sequence
gets mapped to a different face of the cube.
- Face Assignments fields
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These locked fields display the order that the face assignment follows when creating the cubic map.
- X Position field
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Displays the horizontal position of the output image. Editable.
- Y Position field
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Displays the vertical position of the output image. Editable.
- Scale field
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Displays the scale of the output image. Editable.
- Rotation field
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Displays the rotation of the output image. Editable.
- Repeat Mode box
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Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
- X Position field
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Displays the horizontal position of the output image. Editable.
- Y Position field
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Displays the vertical position of the output image. Editable.
- Scale field
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Displays the scale of the output image. Editable.
- Rotation field
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Displays the rotation of the output image. Editable.
- Radius Scale field
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Displays the scale of the radius for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Radius Offset field
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Displays the offset of the radius for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable
- Radial Repeat Mode box
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Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
- Angle Scale field
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Displays the scale of the angle for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Angle Offset field
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Displays the offset of the Angle Scale for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Angular Repeat Mode box
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Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
Output Size Settings
- Output Size box
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Select whether to output the map at the size of the input image (Automatic), or select Custom to change the size of the output
image.
- Output Width field
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Displays the width of the output image. Editable when you select a custom output size.
- Output Height field
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Displays the height of the output image. Editable when you select a custom output size.
- Ratio field
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Displays the width to height ratio of automatic outputs. Non-editable.
