Create tailored views with video filters
In addition to Reeltime’s composite features (available in composite slots and the reference mode of input slots), you can choose from various video filters to create tailored views for the different watching roles on set. For example, the Director may prefer a clean image where the camera’s metadata HUD is cropped, while for Script/Continuity seeing the camera’s metadata is essential and in addition they would like to see a metadata overlay with the camera name and the slate info. You can flexibly add filters to your slots to serve everyone’s needs.
Tip: Consider if it makes sense to apply a filter to an input slot or an output slot. For example, if you want to ensure that everyone sees a look from a LUT filter, you can apply the filter to the input slot. However, if only some watchers want to see metadata overlays, apply the metadata overlay filter individually per output slot.
- Video filters: The application provides the following video filters for input slots, library slots, or output slots:
- Crop with a height/width/offset (with option to lock aspect ratio) and a top/bottom/left/right mode and an auto-detection to crop out black-bordered camera OSDs
- Flip for flipping the image horizontally/vertically
- Transform with scale, rotation, and offset parameters, e.g., for re-positioning cropped layers of a compositing
- Anamorphic Desqueeze with various lens squeeze factors for de-squeezing signals shot with anamorphic lenses; its “Extent” parameter allows choosing the resulting dimensions after desqueezing and the scale slider allows fitting the disquieted contents to the available canvas size
- Fit to Canvas filter with a customizable canvas color adapts signals in other aspect ratios to the 16:9 viewer canvas, allowing overlays on the entire viewer area
- Frame Lines filter with ARRI FLLIT XML and ASC-FDL import, see the dedicated Frame Lines filter article for further details
- Metadata Overlay with parameters for the metadata fields Camera, Slate Info, Slot Mode (Playback/Live), Tally State (Record/Live/Play/Pause), Clip Name, Timecode and Custom Text
- Tally with various indicator options, and style and size parameters allows to apply an on-screen tally to indicate the current operation state (Record, Record Rehearsal, Live, Play, Pause) in various styles
- Image Overlay with opacity, scale, offset parameters, e.g., for adding a watermark or overlaying frame lines from a PNG
- LUT for loading a 3D LUT in a .cube format, e.g., for applying a look if you receive an ungraded signal
Tailored views configured with individual filters per output slots
- Chroma key and compositing filters: The application provides the following chroma key and compositing filters for input slots, library slots, or output slots:
- Keyer with various matte and fill control parameters and a spill suppression allows real-time removal of greenish or blueish areas from live or playback signals and creating a transparent, isolated foreground for compositing (via the overlay layout mode of a composite slot)
- Color Adjust with basic color adjustment parameters such as contrast, temperature and saturation (e.g., for balancing the foreground and background of a compositing)
- Blur adds a Gaussian blur (e.g., for softening the background plate of a compositing)
- Filter Settings:
- You can inspect and edit filter settings in the settings tab of each slot.
- You can adjust the values in the filter setting text fields using the arrow up and down keys on your keyboard.
- You can reset a filter’s parameter to its default value by double-clicking on the parameter’s label.
- There are consistent layout options in composite slots and the reference mode of input slots (Side-by-Side, Swipe, Overlay).
- Filter settings of all currently connected slots are accumulated (for example, an output slot shows filter settings for itself but also for the connected input slot(s) under “Related Filter Settings”).
- Dedicated menu items and controller actions allow you to copy and paste filters and their settings between slots or remove all filters from the selected slot.
Configured filter settings with crop and image overlay filter