get RID of it!

[videojim]

How do you erase a previous image that PIP Studio worked with? I am trying to put two new images together, and can't get rid of the old ones. Ideas? Thanks!

[TimKennelly]

Jim,

I am not sure I am understanding the question.

PIP Studio is a transition so the images are always the two Scenes you have placed the transition between.

[LouBruno]

I think I know what he means. When you open the PIP STUDIO, the last sequence of scenes are still stored in "memory" and are displayed on the new background you chose. There is NO default button that one observes in Blue Box World. However, ONCE you assign a new PIP scene, it replaces the prior stored scene. This works in the same manor as CUSTOM IMAGES in the pattern generator, These scenes are merely replaced by a newly picked scene.

EDITED AND PARTIALLY DELETED DUE TO DUPLICATION.

I hope this is what you wanted to know.

[IanPearson]

Jim
I sent you the reply below only a few days ago (PIP-Studio Tip) dated 13 November, which explains how to set and archive a default setting for your PIP program. Lou's reply is on the same lines, however as Tim says, the scenes will always be those that you have applied the transition across.
Ian

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jim
There are two ways to reset all your PIP settings, the first being my preferred method, albeit the slightly longest. This process is for the single PIP settings, but something similar can be done for the double 1 and double 2 settings.

Make two blank colour scenes of the same length (say 5s), one green and one red, place them in the story board. They don’t have to be blank coloured scenes but, it is easy to see what is happening. The first in the story board will be the main scene and the second the PIP.

1. Select “fx Transitions” – “Add” and set the time duration to max, i.e. 5s.
2. Select “PIP-Studio” – “Launch PIP-Studio” to enter the main PIP screen.
3. Make sure the “PIP” setting is at Single and “Shape” = Rectangle
4. Click “Size” and set this to say 200x160 – click. “Position” and place the PIP somewhere in the centre, say 360x288. Neither of these settings are essential, it’s just to set up in a known or familiar format.
5. Select “Boarder” and set both settings to zero and likewise with the “Shadow”.
6. Click “Effect”, first with the “IN” highlighted, set the “Effect” to Custom, “Fade time” to zero and repeat with the “OUT” highlighted.
7. Next click “”Edit Effect” – make sure the PIP box is highlighted (blue) and first with the “IN” highlighted click the “Delete” button until all the way points have been removed and the bar above the IN/OUT is just one light grey bar. Repeat this with the out button highlighted.
8. This has effectively cleared everything and set up the PIP to a known shape, size, position and with no movement. Click “OK” and “OK” again to go back to the main PIP screen.

However, before starting your new work, click the “Archive” button, click “Save” and in the blank title bar type Default Single – click “OK”. Now in the future whenever you want to reset all your single PIP settings, just go into “Archive” – “Load” – make sure the three selection boxes are check marked, click “OK”, select “Default Singe”, which you have set up and click “OK”.

This way you can in future quickly reset all your PIP settings to your known point.

If you use the PIP double program, you can also set up a “Double 1” and “Double 2” default.

I did at the top say there was another way to clear all the settings. Go into “System Setting” – “Install Product” – “PIP Studio V1” and click “Delete”. You then need to reload this program from your system CD and it will load with the MS default settings. If before you do any work you set up the “Archive” as I described above, you can always revert back to the MS blank settings.

Incidentally, some of the programs do have a default setting button, e.g. BB Bluebox World, but most do not. Where there is no default, I always after reloading the software, go in and set up a default in the “archive” of each program.

Ian

P.S. Although the above will reset all the size, movement, etc, this does not include the two blank coloured boxes, the main scene and PIP scene will always be the two you have applied the transition to, in the story board. "End Quote"