Generators

As the name suggests, Generators generate a short video clip or still images for specific purposes. Many of you will recognize them from the good old days of bulky TV sets.

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Using generators

There are three generators available:

Counter

Color Bars

White Noise

Counter

This generates a counter timer video clip in various formats.

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Counter generator

Count up:

You can choose to have the clip count up by checking that option, otherwise it will count down. .. .. versionadded:: 17.04

No Background:

This option will remove the black lines and the white circles from the counter leaving only the grey background.

Counter Style:

Choose the display style for the counter

  • Seconds to 1 (default)

  • Seconds to 0

  • Frames

  • Timecode

  • Clock

Sound:

Choose whether and what sound to playback

  • Silent

  • 1 kHz before end

  • 1 kHz each second

Drop frame timecode:

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To change the size and position of the clip, you can add an effect to the clip on the timeline or in the project bin such as the Poloha a zvětšení or the Transformovat.

Color Bars

Generates a color test pattern of various types.

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Color Bars generator

Bar Type:

  • PAL color bars

  • PAL color bars with red

  • BBC color bars

  • EBU color bars

  • SMPTE color bars

  • Philips PM5544

  • FuBK

  • Simplified FuBK

White Noise

This generates a video noise clip - like the „snow“ on an out-of-tune analogue TV including the audio white noise

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