Input and Output Format Settings
- Input Format box
- Select the type of image you want to convert.
- Cubic Type box
- Select horizontal or vertical to identify the type of cubic image you are inputting. Select Spliced Faces to stitch together multiple images to create a horizontal cubic image. Available when Cubic is selected in the Input Format box.
- Output Format box
- Select the output format for the image you are converting.
The Map Convert effect accepts the following format types:
| Type: | Description: |
|---|---|
| Spheric | Sometimes referred to as a chrome ball or mirrored ball. An image of a mirrored ball in an assumed orthogonal projection. |
| Angular | Similar to the mirrored ball format, except that the radial dimension is mapped linearly with the angle, giving better sampling around the edges. |
| Cylindrical | An image mapped onto an unfolder cylinder (also known as longitude and latitude maps). |
| Cubic (Horizontal or Vertical) | An unfolded six-sided cube. |
| Cubic (Spliced Faces) | A type of cubic map available as an input format using a different frames displayed as an unfolded cube showing six sides of the image. To use this input type, frames from the input clip are used as the 6 faces. |
| Polar | A coordinate system for locating points in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a fixed point and an angle from a fixed direction. When using this input format, only Cartesian is available as the output format. |
| Cartesian | A coordinate system for locating points on a plane by measuring the horizontal and vertical distances from an arbitrary origin to a point. When using this input format, only Polar is available as the output format. |
Transform Settings
These Transform settings apply to Cylindrical, Angular, Spheric, and Cubic, (Horizontal or Vertical) input formats.
- Transform X Position field
- Displays the horizontal value of the image. Editable.
- Transform Y Position field
- Displays the vertical value of the image. Editable.
- Transform Z Position field
- Displays the depth value of the image. Editable.
In addition to the common transform settings, a Cubic (Spliced Faces) input format also contains the following settings:
- Sequence Length field
- When creating a cubic map from spliced images, indicate how frequently images change in the sequence. Each change in the sequence gets mapped to a different face of the cube.
- Face Assignments fields
- These locked fields display the order that the face assignment follows when creating the cubic map.
- X Position field
- Displays the horizontal position of the output image. Editable.
- Y Position field
- Displays the vertical position of the output image. Editable.
- Scale field
- Displays the scale of the output image. Editable.
- Rotation field
- Displays the rotation of the output image. Editable.
- Repeat Mode box
- Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
- Radius Scale field
- Displays the scale of the radius for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Radius Offset field
- Displays the offset of the radius for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable
- Angle Scale field
- Displays the scale of the angle for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Angle Offset field
- Displays the offset of the Angle Scale for a cartesian to polar conversion. Editable.
- Angular Repeat Mode box
- Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
Output Size Settings
- Output Size box
- Select whether to output the map at the size of the input image (Automatic), or select Custom to change the size of the output image.
- Output Width field
- Displays the width of the output image. Editable when you select a custom output size.
- Output Height field
- Displays the height of the output image. Editable when you select a custom output size.
- Ratio field
- Displays the width to height ratio of automatic outputs. Non-editable.