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Highlight Properties 371
Inter face
When you select Lens Effects Highlight from the
Image Filter Event drop-down list and click Setup,
the Highlight dialog is displayed.
The Lens Effects Highlight interface is almost
identical to the Glow module, with a large preview
window, and tabs to control every aspect of your
highlight effects.
Preview group
Preview window—Lets you quickly preview the
glow effect. The preview window is multi-threaded
to take advantage of systems with multiprocessors,
and updates every time you make a change to any
of the glow settings that might affect the scene.
Prev iew—Act ivates a generic cross star fi lter so you
can quickly set up a Highlight effect. However, as
w ith the Glow module, it is more effect ive seeing
your entire scene and how your effect will interact
with your geometry.
V P Qu eue—Lets you preview the scene in the Video
Post queue. Preview must be selected for the VP
Queue function to work.
Highlight Control tabs
Similar to the Glow settings, Highlight is a lso
broken down into tabbed sections for fine control
over each aspect of the Highlight effect. The four
tabs are:
Highlight P roperties (page 3–371)
Highlight Geometry (page 3–374)
Highlight Preferences (page 3–376)
Lens Effects Gradients (page 3–377)
Button group
Reset—Resets Lens Effects Highlight to its default
settings.
Loa d—Displays a Windows-standard file open
dialog from which you can select the settings file
you want to load.
Save—Displays a Windows-standard Save As
dialog in which you specify a directory and
filename. Lens Effects Highlight settings are saved
as LZH files.
Highl ight Pr oper t ies
Video Post toolbar > Add Image Filter Event > Choo se
Lens Effects Highlight from Filter Plug-In list > Setup >
Properties tab
The Lens Effects Highlight properties enable you
to determine which parts of your scene will have
high lights applied to them, as well as how the
highlights are to be applied.