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Abstraction (Studio Version Only)
A deceptively powerful filter that lets you create a wide range of cartoon-like renders by simplifying an image into adjustable pools of similar color with optional outlines.
Main Controls
These controls create the foundation of this effect.
— Pre Blur: Simplifies the image by blurring unwanted details prior to this filter taking effect.
— Abstraction Strength and Iterate Abstraction: These parameters work together to then smooth the image, creating pools of simplified color within the details of the image.
— Abstraction Strength: Must be higher than 0 for the Iteration No. parameter to have an effect. Higher Abstraction Strength simplifies image detail even more by averaging adjacent regions of color together.
— Iterate Abstraction: Reduces the amount of small detail in the image even further by “widening” adjacent areas of similar color to blend together as one.
Quantization Controls
These controls simplify the pools of color even more aggressively by quantizing the bit depth used to stylize the image. The result is an even sharper flattening of each region of color.
— Quantization: A checkbox turns this function on.
— Steps: Raising this parameter lets you subdivide each region of color into a greater number of separate regions.
— Softness: Lets you blur the border between each level of color.
Draw Edge Controls
Adds an edge to the regions of color created by this effect.
— Draw Edge: Enables edge drawing.
— Edge Strength: Raising this value results in thicker and better-defined edges.
— Edge Detection Threshold: Raising this value restricts edges to only the boldest edge details in the picture.
Blanking Fill
This plugin is specifically designed to quickly fill black frame blanking with a stylized image derived from the clip itself, to make blanking less intrusive for viewers in documentaries and news segments. In the following example, the Blanking Fill plugin is used to add image to the left and right of “pillarboxed” standard definition 4:3 video that appears within a High Definition or Ultra High Definition 16:9 aspect ratio.
