Keyer 3D Menu Settings

General Settings

Image Type box

Select the type of image data that is input into the node or module. Your selection determines the type of transformation that is applied to the input clip.

Key button

Select to open the Key menu, where you set the elements to key in the RGB viewer, or the Pref menu, where you customize the RGB Viewer display properties.

Regen button

Enable to get dynamic updating of the image as you make changes.

Sampling Settings

Sampling box

Select the type of key element value to sample in the image window.

Sampling Reset button

Resets the values for the key element selected in the Sampling box.

Picking Settings

Picking box

Select the key element to restrict selection in the RGB viewer. Select Free to select any element.

Rotation Axis Settings

Rotation Axis box

Select the centre of the RGB viewer or a key element as the axis of rotation of the RGB viewer.

Plot Regions Settings

Plot Region 1 button

Enable to display the first plotted region.

Plot Region 2 button

Enable to display the second plotted region.

Plot Region 3 button

Enable to display the third plotted region.

Plot Point button

Enable to display plotted colour value in the RGB viewer.

Tolerance Display Settings

Tolerance Display box

Select to display the tolerance as an opaque, transparent, or wireframe ellipsoid.

Tolerance ConnexHull Settings

Tolerance Convex Hull option box

Select to display the vertices, surfaces, or both the vertices and surfaces of the tolerance convex hull.

Softness Display Settings

Softness Display box

Select to display the softness as an opaque, transparent, or wireframe ellipsoid.

Softness ConnexHull Settings

Soft Convex Hull option box

Select to display the vertices, surfaces, or the vertices and surfaces of the softness convex hull.

Softness/Noise Settings

Colour box

Select a YUV or RGB colour model.

Softness Scaling box

Select to scale softness proportionally or to remove noise from softened areas.

Scaling field

When Softness Scaling is set to Prop, adjust the X, Y, and Z-axis softness scaling values proportionally. When Softness Scaling is set to Min Noise, adjust the value to increase grain removal. (The scaling value resets to 1.00 after use.) Editable.

Scale X field

Displays X-axis softness scaling. Editable.

Scale Y field

Displays Y-axis softness scaling. Editable.

Scale Z field

Displays Z-axis softness scaling. Editable.

Patches Settings

Patches box

Select the Patch you want to sample.

Active button

Enable to include the sample in the key.

Display box

Select to display the current patch as a wireframe, a convex hull, both a wireframe and convex hull, or a transparent cloud.

Colour field

Enter the percentage of the colour value to use to render the patch. Editable.

Opacity field

Enter the percentage of opacity of the patch. Editable.

Softness field

Enter the softness value of the patch. Editable.

Key Histogram Settings

Plot button

Activates a pick cursor which you use to select a plot value in the image window. If Plot Point is enabled in the Pref menu, a cube with a dashed outline surrounds the point in the RGB viewer.

Home button

Restores the RGB viewer to its original settings and position.

Invert Point button

Inverts the direction of scaling of the softness ellipsoid.

Frame option box

Select an option to display the entire histogram, or a selected range of values.

Range field

Displays the percentage of the full range that is displayed in the histogram. Editable when the Frame option box is set to Free.

Store button

Stores the value in the Range field in memory for later use. Active when the Frame option box is set to Free.

Buffer Value field

Displays the Range value stored in the buffer. Non-editable.

Recall button

Retrieves the last Range value that was stored in the buffer.

Pref Histogram Settings

Histogram button

Enable to display the 3D histogram in the RGB viewer.

Histogram Grid option box

Select an option for the histogram grid resolution.

Opacity field

Displays the percentage of opacity of the cubes. Editable.

Scaling field

Resizes the cubes. Cubes representing less prevalent colours are scaled down more than those representing more prevalent colours. Editable.

Threshold field

Enter a value to edit the display of colours that are less prevalent in the image. As you increase the threshold, less prevalent colours are increasingly removed from the histogram. Editable.

Canvas button

Enable to display the canvas.

Canvas Light field

Sets the lighting in the RGB viewer. The light source emanates from behind the viewer.

Lines button

Enable to display a white outline of the borders of the RGB viewer, and a green wireframe around selected ellipsoids.

Cloud Opacity field

Displays the overall opacity for all ellipses and patches.

Key Element box

Select an element type to change its opacity.

Patch Opacity field

Displays the opacity for the third patch in the RGB viewer.

Plot button

Activates a pick cursor which you use to select a plot value in the image window. If Plot Point is enabled in the Pref menu, a cube with a dashed outline surrounds the point in the RGB viewer.

Home button

Restores the RGB viewer to its original settings and position.

Invert Point button

Inverts the direction of scaling of the softness ellipsoid.