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Avid Symphony Nitris Advanced Effects Guide • 0130-07612-01 • March 2007

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Chapter 1 Effects Concepts and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Effects Settings Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Changing Timeline View Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adjusting Trim Settings for Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting Effect Grid Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 2 Applying and Customizing Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to

Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the

Quick Transition Alignment Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using Big Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Working with the Effect Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Displaying Position Coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using Local Grid Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Obtaining Position Information in a Film Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Position Information for the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Position Information for the Blowup Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Stepping Through Field-Based Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Changing a Parameter with a Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using Parameter Enable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Defining a Motion Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Chapter 3 Working with Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Understanding Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Horizontally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Verticallysb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using Zoom to Curve Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Adding Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Deleting Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Keyframe Mode Menu Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Selecting and Deselecting Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Moving Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Aligning and Slipping Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Aligning Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Slipping Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Copying and Pasting Advanced Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Controlling Parameter Changes at Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Adjusting Parameter Values with the Bézier Interpolation Option . . . . . . . . . . 111

Reversing Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Controlling Advanced Keyframe Behavior with Trimmed Effects. . . . . . . . . . . 114

Controlling Parameter Changes Outside First and Last Keyframes. . . . . . . . . 115

Controls and Settings for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Shortcut Menus for Keyframe Tracks and the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . 120

Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Chapter 4 Rendering Effects and Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Creating and Using Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Partial Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

16-Bit Processing Support for Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Rendering HQ (Highest Quality) Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Rendering Effects for the Media Station XL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Modifying the Render to Media Station Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Canceling a Render to Media Station Command During Modification . . . . . . 139

Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Understanding Effect Media Files Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Revealing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 5 Working with Plug-In Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Understanding AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Support for AVX 1.x and AVX 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

AVX 1.x Plug-ins and Memory Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Installing AVX Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Locating the AVX 1.x Plug-Ins Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Upgrading and Promoting AVX Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using AVX 1.x Plug-In Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using AVX 2.0 Plug-In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Using the Client Monitor to Preview the Plug-In Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Chapter 6 Creating and Customizing Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Understanding Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Creating Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Creating a Traditional Freeze Frame Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating a Traditional Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using the Fit to Fill Button to Create a Variable Speed Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Creating a Traditional Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Playing and Rendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Playback Capabilities for Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Understanding When to Render or Rerender Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Controlling Motion Effect Type When Rendering or

Rerendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Considerations for Motion Effects in Progressive Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Understanding the Timewarp Effect and FluidMotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Differences Between the Timewarp Effect and

Traditional Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Understanding Speed and Position Controls for the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . 172

Understanding Keyframe Interpolation Options for the Timewarp Effect . . . . . 173

Rendering Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Creating a Timewarp Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Promoting a Traditional Motion Effect to Timewarp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Working with the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Opening the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Understanding the Motion Effect Editor Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Setting Input Format and Output Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Selecting a Rendering Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Displaying the Speed Graph and Position Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Changing a Graph Display with the Scale Sliders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Motion Effect Editor Fast Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Toolbar Buttons for the Active Control Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Timewarp Speed Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Using the Source Anchor Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using the Timewarp Position Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Setting Up the Motion Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Timewarp Effect Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Speed Graph Example: Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Speed Graph Variations: Moving Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Strobe Motion Using the Timewarp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Setting Effect Position with the Position Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Position Graph Example: Reverse Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Working with FluidMotion Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Opening FluidMotion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Making Corrections with FluidMotion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Displaying Vectors in FluidMotion Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Defining a Region Around an Artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Applying Corrections to a Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

FluidMotion Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

FluidMotion Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

FluidMotion Effect and the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Fixing Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Using Timewarp Preset Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

FluidFilm Preset Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Using the FluidFilm Preset Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Default Values for the FluidFilm Preset Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Setting Input and Output Options for Format Conversion with

Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Chapter 7 Creating Layered and Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Creating Key Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Understanding the SpectraMatte Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Understanding SpectraMatte Analysis Displays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

How the SpectraMatte Effect Calculates Key Color Values . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Creating a SpectraMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Understanding the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . 226

Creating a Chroma Key Effect or RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using Post-Key Color Correction in the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Promoting a Chroma Key Effect to the SpectraMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Real-Time Moving Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Editing with Imported Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Changing the Order of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Nesting a Matte Key Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Submaster Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Using the Collapse Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Understanding the Collapse Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Chapter 8 Working with Camera Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Using the Reformat Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Working with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Understanding the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Outputting the Media with the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Positioning the Pan and Scan Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Applying the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Selecting the Source and Target Aspect Ratios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Setting Up Your Monitors for the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Viewing Pan and Scan Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Using the Effect Grid with the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Setting an Origin in the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Subdividing the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using the Wire Frame in the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Scaling the Pan and Scan Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Positioning the Pan and Scan Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Adjusting the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Combining the Pan and Scan Effect with Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Placing Pan and Scan Effects on the Video Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Using Avid Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Working with Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Applying the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adjusting Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Viewing the Image While You Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Adjusting the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Using Velocity In and Velocity Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Creating a Simple Ease In and Ease Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Creating a Path with Constant Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Setting the Path Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Options for Rendering the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Selecting the Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Adjusting for Source Image Pixel Shape and Color Levels . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Memory Management with the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Chapter 9 Motion Tracking and Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Understanding Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Understanding the Tracking Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Uses of Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Motion Tracking and Footage Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Workflow for Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Effects and Effect Parameters That Use Tracking Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Understanding the Tracking Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Tracking Controls in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Tracking Controls in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

The Tracking Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Setting Up an Effect for Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Understanding Video Layers and Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Applying an Effect for Motion Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Making Non-Tracking Parameter Adjustments to an Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Preparing to Generate Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Enabling Tracking in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Creating and Mapping Trackers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Understanding Tracker Selectors and Tracker Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Creating and Mapping Trackers Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Enabling, Disabling, and Deleting Trackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Setting Up Tracking in the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Displaying Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Adjusting Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Guidelines for Positioning Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Guidelines for Resizing Tracking Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Setting Up Tracking in the Tracking Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Choosing a Tracking Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Choosing Background or Foreground Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Understanding Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Generating Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Offset Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Understanding Offset Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Adding and Deleting Tracker Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Moving to a Tracking Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Performing Offset Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Understanding Generated Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Tracking Data in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Tracking Data in the Tracker Timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Customizing Tracking Data Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Setting the Reference Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Using SteadyGlide or Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Modifying Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Finding a Specific Tracker Data Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Selecting Tracker Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Deleting Tracking Data From Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Moving Tracker Data Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Moving Tracker Data Points Outside the Frame Boundary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Stretching a Range of Tracker Data Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Limiting the Effect of Position Tracking Data to a Single Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Playback of Effects Using Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Understanding Stabilizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Stabilizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Guidelines for Using Multiple Trackers When Stabilizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Using the Region Stabilize Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Stabilizing an Image with the Region Stabilize Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Making Adjustments to the Region Stabilize Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Editing Segments That Use Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Segment Mode Editing with Segments That Use Tracking Data. . . . . . . . . . . 324

Trimming Segments That Use Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Adding Transition Effects to Tracked Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Reusing Existing Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

When to Reuse Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Copying and Pasting Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Conforming Symphony Meridien Sequences with Tracking Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Examples of Effects Using Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Example 1: Replacing the License Plate on a Moving Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Example 2: Special Effects Using Targets for Motion Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Chapter 10 Working with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Understanding 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Accessing 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Applying the 3D Warp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Using Xpress 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using Matte Keys with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Real-Time Playback of 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Understanding 3D Geometry and Degrees of Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Accessing 3D Effects Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Resetting Default Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Using Effect Templates with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Manipulating 3D Effects Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Manipulating 3D Effect Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Using the Motion Path Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Applying 3D Effects: Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Tips for Creating 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Creating a Page Fold Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Using the Spline Parameters with 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Corner Pinning an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Basic Procedure for Corner Pinning an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using the Corner Pin Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Using the Quick Pin Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Using the Corner Pin Parameter Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Returning a Corner to the Default Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Creating a Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Using Axis for a Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Applying a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Chapter 11 Creating and Editing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Understanding the Title Tool Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Advanced Title Tool Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Installing Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Using Safe Colors with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Displaying and Snapping to a Grid in the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Using the 16:9 Display Format for Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Creating Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Page Count Limits for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Using Auto Size Mode for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Typing the Text in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Resizing the Width of a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Scrolling Through a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Working with Pages in Rolling or Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Formatting Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Modifying Box Corners, Lines, and Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Selecting a Line or Border Width. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Adjusting the Color of a Title or Graphic Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Blending Two Colors in an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Adjusting the Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Blending Transparency of Fills and Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Adjusting Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Viewing Shadow Softness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Manipulating Title Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Basic Object Manipulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Locking and Unlocking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Aligning Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Distributing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Saving and Recalling Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Saving a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Title Style Sheet Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Recalling a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Managing Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Creating and Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Working with Multiple Title Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Creating Multiple Format Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Saving Multiple Format Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Revising a Title in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Working with Existing Multiple Format Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Replacing Fill Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Playback Restrictions for Rolling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Re-creating Title Media from the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Creating Media for Unrendered Titles in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Re-creating Title Media With Multiple Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Troubleshooting Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Title Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Wrong Title Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

HD Title Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Chapter 12 Intraframe Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Understanding the Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Rendering Intraframe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Getting Started with the Paint and AniMatte Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Applying the Paint or AniMatte Effect to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Using the Effect Editor with the Paint Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Using the Effect Editor with the AniMatte Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Intraframe Editing with Single-Field Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Using Effect Templates with the Intraframe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Using the Intraframe Drawing Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Understanding Intraframe Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Using an Optional Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Using the Brush Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Selecting a Color for the Brush Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Painting with the Brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Creating a Custom Brush Head from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Saving and Applying Brush Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Using Path to Create a Signature Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Creating Rectangular Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Creating Oval Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Drawing Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Creating Polygons with Straight-Line Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Creating Polygons with Curved Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Creating a Straight Line Following a Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Creating Curved Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Changing the Parameters of a Painted Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Working with Vector-Based Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

The Elements of Vector-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Getting Started with Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Reshaping an Object with Straight Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Transforming a Rectangle into a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Experimenting with Direction Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Creating a Corner Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Modifying Lines and Curves Summarized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Bézier Curves and New Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Adding a Control Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Removing a Control Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Moving to Adjacent Control Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Moving Control Points Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Moving Control Points and Objects in Small Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Previsualization Marker Tool for Film Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Applying a Previsualization Marker Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Creating a Cut List with Previsualization Marker Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Manipulating Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Moving Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Reshaping Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Reshaping Objects Created with the Curve Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Rotating Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Scaling Intraframe Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Changing Intraframe Object Parameters over Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Layering, Grouping, and Locking Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Layering with the Paint Effect and AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Locating Layered Objects with the Outline/Path Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Changing the Layer Order of Objects and Mattes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Grouping and Ungrouping Intraframe Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Locking and Unlocking Intraframe Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Understanding an Exported PICT File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Exporting a Matte PICT File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Scratch Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Understanding Scratch Removal Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Processing by Frame or Field When Using Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Understanding Frame Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Understanding Field Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Removing a Flaw Within a Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Removing a Flaw by Using Nearby Frames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Selecting Material to Use When Correcting Flaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Isolating a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Isolating a Flaw by Using the Scratch Removal Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Isolating a Flaw by Using Add Edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Detecting Video Dropout in 24p or 25p Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Using Intraframe Tools to Remove a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Drawing a Shape over a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Dragging Replacement Material over a Flaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Using IN and OUT Points with Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Using the Scratch Removal Positioning Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Examples of Scratch Removal Parameter Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Example 1: Replacement Material in the Same Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Example 2: Replacement Material from a

Two-Frame Relative Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Example 3: Replacement Material from a Single Clean Frame . . . . . . . . 463

Common Intraframe Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Colorizing with Magic Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Applying the Paint Effect to Regions of a Clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Creating Animated Matte Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Applying the Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Animating the AniMatte Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Creating a Single-Layer Organic Matte Wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Working with the Blur Effect and Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Using the Effect Editor with the Blur Effect and Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Creating Blur and Mosaic Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Modifying Blur and Mosaic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Chapter 13 Working with PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Understanding PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

PlasmaWipe Folder Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Using PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Creating PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Creating PAL and NTSC Versions of the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Creating a PlasmaWipe from a Custom Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Creating a Wipe Using the Photoshop Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Creating a PlasmaWipe Effect from an Existing Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Tips for Working with Gradient Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Testing the Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Saving the Image for PAL and NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Storing Images in the PlasmaWipes Folder Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Tips for Adjusting an Existing PlasmaWipe Effect While the

Application is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Using PlasmaWipe Frame and Border Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Applying and Adjusting Frame and Border Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Default Values for PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Creating Custom Border and Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Using PlasmaWipes with HD Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Chapter 14 2D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Blend Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Blend: Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Blend: Dissolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Blend: Fade from Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Blend: Fade to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Blend: Picture-in-Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Blend: Superimpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Box Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Box Wipe: Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Box Wipe: Bottom Left to Top Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Box Wipe: Bottom Right to Top Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Box Wipe: Left Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Box Wipe: Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Box Wipe: Top Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Box Wipe: Top Left to Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Box Wipe: Top Right to Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Conceal: Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Conceal: Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Conceal: Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Conceal: Left to Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Conceal: Right to Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Conceal: Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Conceal: Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Conceal: Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Edge Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Edge Wipe: Horizontal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Edge Wipe: Horizontal Open. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Edge Wipe: Lower Left Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Edge Wipe: Lower Right Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Edge Wipe: Upper Left Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Edge Wipe: Upper Right Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Edge Wipe: Vertical Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Edge Wipe: Vertical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Film Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Film: 1.66 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Film: 1.85 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

Film: 16:9 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Film: Anamorphic Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Film: Blowup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Film: Film Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Film: Film Fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Film: Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Illusion FX Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Illusion FX: Color Mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Illusion FX: Crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Illusion FX: Film Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Illusion FX: Flare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Illusion FX: FluidBlur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Illusion FX: FluidColorMap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Illusion FX: FluidMorph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Illusion FX: Iris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Illusion FX: Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Illusion FX: Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Illusion FX: Melt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Illusion FX: Motion Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Illusion FX: Pagecurl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Illusion FX: Particle Blast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Illusion FX: Particle Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Illusion FX: Particle Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Illusion FX: Pattern Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Illusion FX: Pinch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Illusion FX: Radial Blur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Illusion FX: Random Blend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Illusion FX: Ripple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Illusion FX: Rollup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Illusion FX: Shear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Illusion FX: Sparkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Illusion FX: Sphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Illusion FX: Swirl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Illusion FX: Timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Illusion FX: Twist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Illusion FX: Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Image: Avid Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Image: Blur Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Image: Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Image: Color Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Image: Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Image: Flip-Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Image: Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Image: Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Image: Mosaic Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Image: Paint Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Image: Region Stabilize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Image: Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Image: Safe Color Limiter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Image: Scratch Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Image: Spot Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Image: Stabilize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Image: Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Key: AniMatte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Key: Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Key: Luma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Key: Matte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Key: RGB Keyer (AVX Plug-in Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Key: SpectraMatte Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

L-Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

L-Conceal: Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

L-Conceal: Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

L-Conceal: Top Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

L-Conceal: Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Matrix Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Matrix Wipe: Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Matrix Wipe: One-Way Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Matrix Wipe: Speckle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Matrix Wipe: Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Matrix Wipe: Zig-Zag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Motion Effect: Freeze Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Motion Effect: Variable Speed and Strobe Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Peel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Peel: Bottom Left Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Peel: Bottom Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Peel: Bottom to Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Peel: Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Peel: Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Peel: Top Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Peel: Top Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Peel: Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Push Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Push: Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Push: Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Push: Bottom to Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Push: Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Push: Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Push: Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Push: Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Push: Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Reformat Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Reformat: 14:9 Letterbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Reformat: 16:9 Letterbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Reformat: 4:3 Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Reformat: Pan and Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Sawtooth Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Sawtooth Wipe: Horizontal Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Sawtooth Wipe: Horizontal Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Sawtooth Wipe: Vertical Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Sawtooth Wipe: Vertical Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Shape Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Shape Wipe: 4 Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Shape Wipe: Center Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Shape Wipe: Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Shape Wipe: Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Shape Wipe: Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Shape Wipe: Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

Shape Wipe: Horizontal Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Shape Wipe: Horizontal Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Shape Wipe: Vertical Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Spin Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Spin: X Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Spin: Y Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Spin: Z Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Squeeze Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Squeeze: Bottom Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Squeeze: Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Squeeze: Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Squeeze: Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Squeeze: Centered Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Squeeze: Horizontal Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Squeeze: Left Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Squeeze: Left to Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Squeeze: Right Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Squeeze: Right to Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Squeeze: Top Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Squeeze: Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Squeeze: Top Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Squeeze: Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Squeeze: Vertical Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Timewarp: 0% To 100% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Timewarp: 100% To 0% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Timewarp: FluidFilm 2:3 Cadence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Timewarp: FluidFilm Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Timewarp: Pulldown Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Timewarp: Pulldown Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Timewarp: Reverse Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Timewarp: Speed Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Timewarp: Speed Bump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Timewarp: Timewarp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Timewarp: Trim to Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Title Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Title Effects: Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Title Effects: Rolling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Title Effects: Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Comparison of Similar Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Common 2D Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Custom Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Feathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Foreground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

Magic Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Film Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Blowup Effect Blowup Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Illusion FX Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Border Parameter for Illusion FX Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Color Mix Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Crystal Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Film Grain Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Flare Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

FluidBlur Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

FluidColorMap Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

FluidMorph Effect Source Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

FluidMorph Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Iris Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Kaleidoscope Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Kaleidoscope Effect Center Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Kaleidoscope Effect Offset Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Lightning Effect Generation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Lightning Effect Core Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Lightning Effect Glow Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Melt Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Motion Blur Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Pagecurl Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Particle Blast Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Particle Orbit Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Particle Orbit Effect Parameter Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Particle Wind Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Pattern Generator Effect Background Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Pattern Generator Effect Number Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Pattern Generator Effect Circle Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Pinch Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Radial Blur Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Random Blend Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Ripple Effect Motion Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Ripple Effect Generation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Ripple Effect Illumination Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Rollup Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Shear Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Sparkler Effect Generation Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Sparkler Effect Movement Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Sparkler Effect Glow Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Sparkler Effect Core Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Sphere Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Swirl Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Timecode Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Timecode Effect Start Timecode Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Twist Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Wave Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Image Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Other Options Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Display Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Display Options Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Size Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Position Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Velocity Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Path Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Filtering Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Background Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Advanced Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Cache Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Render Mode Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Blur Effect Blur Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Color Effect Luma Adjust Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Color Effect Luma Range Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Color Effect Luma Clip Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Color Effect Chroma Adjust Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Color Effect Color Style Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

Color Effect Color Gain Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Mosaic Effect Mosaic Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Paint Effect Mode Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Paint Effect Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Paint Effect Color Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Region Stabilize Effect Model Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Region Stabilize Effect Region of Interest Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Region Stabilize Effect Options Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Safe Color Limiter 422 Safe Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Safe Color Limiter Source Monitor Analysis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Safe Color Limiter Composite/Luma Levels Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Safe Color Limiter RGB Levels Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Scratch Removal Effect Scratch Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Spot Color Correction Effect Color Match Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Key Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Key Effects Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

AniMatte Effect Mode Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Chroma Key Secondary Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Chroma Key Spill Suppression Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

RGB Keyer Key Color Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

RGB Keyer Chroma Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

RGB Keyer Matte Control Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718

RGB Keyer Color Correction Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

SpectraMatte Bypass Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

SpectraMatte Key Color Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

SpectraMatte Matte Analysis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

SpectraMatte Chroma Control Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

SpectraMatte Luma Control Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

SpectraMatte Matte Processing Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

SpectraMatte Spill Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Motion Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Reformat Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

14:9 Letterbox Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Pan and Scan Aspect Ratios Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Pan and Scan Actions Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

FluidMotion Edit Parameters for Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

FluidMotion Edit Display Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

FluidMotion Edit Mask Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

FluidMotion Edit Mode Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

Title Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Crawling Title Position V Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Crawling Title Scroll Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Rolling Title Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Rolling Title Scroll Position V Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Chapter 15 3D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

3D Warp Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Xpress 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

Hierarchy of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

Axis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Background Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756

Corner Pin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

Defocus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

Erode/Expand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Foregnd (Foreground) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Full Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Luma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

Chroma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

SpectraMatte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Highlight Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Lowlight Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Page Fold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Examples of Page Fold Angle Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Tuck Over Fast Menu: Manipulating the Flap and

Bottom of a Page Fold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Highlight Fast Menu: Highlight Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Slats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Skew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Spill Suppression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Spline Parameter Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Adding a New Point to a Spline Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

Tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Using This Guide

This guide covers all of the effects capabilities of your Avid® editing application that are not described in the basics guide. The guide explains effects concepts, provides step-by-step instructions for advanced effects tasks, and includes reference information for every effect and effect parameter available in your Avid editing application.

This guide is intended for all Avid editing application users, from beginning to advanced.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Using This Guide

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

Courier Bold font

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid editing application:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,

they ship with your application and are also available online.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is

supplied in your Avid application folder as a PDF document (ReadMe.pdf) and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select Help > ReadMe, or visit the Knowledge

Base at www.avid.com/readme.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

mouse action, for example, Ctrl+drag.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Library

The Online Library for your Avid editing application contains all the product documentation in PDF format, including a Master Glossary of all specialized terminology used in the documentation for Avid products.

Most Avid online libraries also link to multimedia content such as tutorials and feature presentations. This multimedia content is an excellent first resource for learning how to use your application or for helping you understand a particular feature or workflow.

The Online Library for your Avid editing application installs along with the application itself.

Accessing the Online Library

You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download the latest version from the Adobe web site.

To access the Online Library, do one of the following:

t From your Avid editing application, select Help > Online Library. t From the Windows desktop, select Start > All Programs > Avid > Avid editing

application Online Library.

t Browse to the Online Library folder, and then double-click the MainMenu file.

The Online Library folder is in the same location as the application itself, for example: C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid editing application\Online Library

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Chapter 1

Effects Concepts and Settings

This chapter describes concepts you should understand before you begin creating effects and settings adjustments that affect how you work with effects. This chapter supplements the basic information found in “Working with Effects: Basics” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

• Effects Settings Adjustments

• Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

Effect icons in the Effect Palette and in the Timeline display color-coded dots to help you determine whether an effect is real-time or non-real-time.

Real-time effects show a green dot. Real-time effects play in real time in a sequence, subject to the playback capabilities and constraints of your Avid editing system. For more information, see “Real-Time Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

For more information, see “Displaying Color Correction Information in the Timeline” in the Help.

Non-real-time effects have no dot in the Effect Palette. In the Timeline, the effect icon shows a blue dot until you render the effect.

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All color-coded dots disappear in the Timeline when you render effects.

Effects Settings Adjustments

The following topics describe settings adjustments that affect the way you work with effects.

Green dot indicates a real-time effect that might not be playable in real time.

No dot indicates a non-real-time effect; in the Timeline, a non-real-time effect icon contains a blue dot until the effect is rendered.

Changing Timeline View Settings for Effects

All effect icons are displayed in the Timeline by default. You can change the Timeline settings to display all effect icons, all effect icons except Dissolve Effect icons, or no effect icons. If you have changed the setting to display no effect icons, you have to reset it before you begin applying effects. The fewer effect icons you display, the faster the Avid application refreshes the screen.

To change the Timeline settings:

Timeline View Name button

Effects Settings Adjustments

1. In the Timeline window, click the Fast Menu button. The Timeline Settings Fast menu appears.

2. Do one or more of the following:

t To display all effect icons in the Timeline, select Effect Icons. t To display all effect icons except Dissolve icons, select Effect Icons and deselect

Dissolve Icons.

t To display no effect icons, deselect Effect Icons. Dissolve Icons appears dimmed

and is now unavailable.

3. (Option) To save your Timeline settings, click the Timeline View Name button, select Save As, and type a view name.

Adjusting Trim Settings for Effects

In Trim mode, you can control whether or not the effects you apply are computed immediately on the screen (that is, on-the-fly) or appear later when you render them. For example, viewing transitions as cuts (without rendering on-the-fly) can facilitate the trimming process. This setting is defined in the Trim Settings dialog box.

To change the Trim settings for Render On-the-Fly:

1. In the Project window, click the Settings tab. The Settings list appears.

2. Double-click Trim. The Trim Settings dialog box opens.

3. Click the Features tab, and then select or deselect Render On-The-Fly.

4. Click OK.

For more information on changing Trim settings, see “Trim Settings” in the Help.

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Setting Effect Grid Options

You can display a grid in the Effect Preview monitor in Effect mode to help guide your work as you create and adjust effects. For information on using the grid, see “Working with the

Effect Grid” on page 60.

The Grid Settings dialog box allows you to customize the grid.

To set the default grid values, do one of the following:

t In the Settings list of the Project window, double-click Grid. t If the effect you are working with has a Grid parameter group, click the Other Options

button for the Grid parameter group in the Effect Editor. The Grid Settings dialog box opens. For information on the Grid Settings options, see “Grid Settings” in the Help.

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Many video effects work the same way in both SD and HD and work the same way in both interlaced and progressive formats. This section describes several situations where effect behavior varies depending on whether a project is SD or HD, or is interlaced or progressive.

Effects Considerations for HD Projects

Effects that use square geometry automatically use the correct pixel aspect ratios. These effects include Titles, Box Wipes, certain paint modes like Mosaic, and so on. Effects such as Color Correction, Color Effect, and Luma keys automatically use the correct color space (ITU-709 for HD).

The Safe Color Limiter effect converts from 709 to 601 color space before limiting unsafe colors, and then converts back to 709 color space. For more information, see “Understanding the Safe Color Limiter” in the Help.

Note the following:

• Titles: There is no need to generate 4:3 media.

• Timewarps: These effects use a 60p input and output format in 720p/59.94 projects.

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Effects Considerations for Progressive Frame Projects

Since effects in progressive frame projects are frame based rather than field based, their normal behavior is slightly different from effects in interlaced projects. In particular, temporal artifacts might appear in some effects under certain circumstances. This section explains when temporal artifacts might appear and suggests ways to create effects that do not show perceptible temporal artifacts.

Effects that do not involve any movement across the screen — for example, masks, Color Effects, and dissolves — always look the same in progressive projects as they do in interlaced projects.

Effects that involve movement across the screen — for example, wipes, 3D shapes, or moving titles — might look different in 24p or 25p projects from their equivalents in interlaced projects for the following reasons:

• Since the effect is created using 24 or 25 progressive frames per second (24p or 25p), motion across the screen is interpolated in 24 or 25 increments per second. (Contrast the 50 increments per second for a PAL interlaced project or the 60 increments per second for an NTSC interlaced project.) For example, the edge of a 1-second Horizontal Edge Wipe effect will appear in 24 or 25 different positions across the screen. For effects of short duration in particular, this difference might be perceptible to the viewer.

• When the 24p or 25p media is output (to the interlaced Client monitor or as a digital cut), it is interlaced again and pulldown is inserted to achieve 60 fields per second (NTSC). Your Avid editing application inserts pulldown by duplicating some of the existing frames to create the correct number of fields per second. Temporal artifacts created by this duplication process might be perceptible to the viewer. This behavior is a normal result of the pulldown insertion process and is often perceptible in conventional transfers of films to video formats.

PAL output with pulldown also duplicates certain frames but is less likely to exhibit perceptible temporal artifacts since fewer frames require duplication.

Motion effects created in 24p or 25p projects, such as Variable Speed effects, might also look different from motion effects created in interlaced projects. For more information on 24p or 25p motion effects, see “Considerations for Motion Effects in Progressive Projects”

on page 170.

For more information on how the Avid application handles 24p or 25p material, see “Working with 24p Media” and “Working with 25p Media” in the Help.

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If an effect in a 24p or 25p project does not look completely smooth, do one or more of the following:

• Slow down the effect. For example, a 2-second Horizontal Edge Wipe effect, while it is still performing at the

same rate (24 increments per second), moves across the screen in 48 steps. These smaller movements make the wipe appear smoother to the viewer.

• Soften the edges of the effect. The more the edges of the effect are blurred, the less noticeable the movements between

the increments of the effect is.

• When working with moving titles, avoid small font sizes and sharp edges. In a moving title such as a roll, lines of small text might move less smoothly than lines

of larger text.

Chapter 2

Applying and Customizing Effects

This chapter contains advanced information on applying and customizing effects that builds on the information presented in “Working with Effects: Basics” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main topics:

• Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

• Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

• Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

• Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

• Using the Effect Preview Monitor

• Stepping Through Field-Based Media

• Using the Effect Editor

• Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

One of the most common transition effects is a dissolve. You can apply a Dissolve effect using any of the following methods:

• Select the Dissolve effect from the Effect Palette. For more information, see “Applying Effects from the Effect Palette” in the Help.

• Click the Quick Transition button. For more information, see “Using the Quick Transition Button” in the Help.

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• Type a duration in the Transition parameters in Trim mode or in the Effect Editor. For more information, see “Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the Transition

Parameters” on page 46.

• Use the Head Fade button or the Tail Fade button. For more information, see “Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade

Buttons” on page 47.

Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the Transition Parameters

You can create a Dissolve effect by using the Transition parameters displayed in Trim mode and in the Effect Editor. Simply enter the duration for which the effect will play, and the application adds the Dissolve effect to the sequence.

To create a Dissolve effect by using the Transition parameters:

1. Click a transition in the Timeline while in Trim mode or Effect mode.

2. In the Transition Effect Duration text box in the Effect Editor, type the dissolve’s duration.

The duration format is determined by the Duration setting above the Record monitor — for example, seconds:frames.

Transition Effect Alignment button

Transition Effect Duration text box

Transition Effect Alignment menu

The application adds the Dissolve effect at the transition, and the Dissolve Effect icon appears in the Timeline.

3. Click the Transition Effect Alignment button, and select the effect’s position relative to the cut point.

For an explanation of the Transition Effect Alignment menu selections, see “Transition

Parameters” on page 638.

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons

You can use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button to add a dissolve for selected audio and video tracks.

When you use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button this way, all the selected tracks, including layered tracks, receive the effect.

When you use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button with filler, your Avid application treats the filler like another video clip. You can use the Tail Fade button, for example, to fade from filler at the beginning of a sequence into the opening video clip.

To add a fade (dissolve):

1. Move the position indicator to a clip where you want the dissolve to end or begin. Your Avid editing application uses the location of the position indicator to begin or end

the dissolve. For example, if you move the position indicator ten frames after the beginning of the clip and then use the Head Fade button, the Avid editing application creates a ten-frame dissolve that lasts from the beginning of the clip to the location of the position indicator.

2. Select the tracks on which you want to create dissolves. If you select more than one track, the editing application creates dissolves of appropriate

lengths for each track, as shown in the following illustration.

Before After — Two dissolves of different

lengths are created on the two tracks.

3. Select Tools > Command Palette.

4. Click the FX tab, and then click Active Palette.

5. Click the Head Fade button or the Tail Fade button. The dissolves appear in the Timeline. If a dissolve begins or ends at the edit point

between two clips, the dissolve crosses between the two clips. Otherwise the dissolve is a fade from or to black.

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6. (Option) If, for any selected track, there is insufficient source media to create a dissolve of the length you specified with the position indicator, the Insufficient Source dialog box opens. Do one of the following:

t Click Size to Fit.

Your Avid editing application creates the longest dissolve possible. For more information on sizing effects to fit available media, see “Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media” in the Help.

t Click Skip Track.

Your Avid editing application does not create a dissolve on the track with insufficient source material but does create dissolves on any other selected tracks with sufficient source material.

t Click Cancel.

Your Avid editing application does not create any dissolves.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

You use the Quick Transition button to apply basic transition effects without using the Effect Palette or entering Effect mode.

You can apply a single transition effect using the Quick Transition button by following the procedure in “Using the Quick Transition Button” in the Help.This section includes instructions for applying effects to multiple transitions at one time using the Quick Transition button, as well as detailed information about the graphical controls in the Quick Transition dialog box.

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to Multiple Transitions

You can select multiple transitions by marking IN and OUT points. Then you can apply an effect from the Quick Transition dialog box in one of the following ways:

• Apply the effect to all transitions between the IN and OUT points.

• Apply the effect to only those transitions that do not already have an effect applied.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

To apply an effect to multiple transitions by using the Quick Transition button:

1. Mark IN and OUT points around the transitions to which you want to add the effect.

2. Make sure that the Record Track buttons in the Track Selector panel are selected for the tracks to which you want to add the effect.

3. (Option) If you want to see a particular transition in the graphical display of the Quick Transition dialog box, move the position indicator to that transition.

The graphical display in the Quick Transition dialog box always shows the transition closest to the position indicator. When you define an effect to apply to multiple transitions, the positioning details of any one transition might not be useful since you need to create an effect that will fit all the transitions. However, you might want to select one transition as a model. For example, you might use the transition with the least amount of handle as a model. If your effect fits that transition, it should fit all the others you have selected.

4. Click the Quick Transition button.

The Quick Transition button appears on the Tool palette, in the Timeline top toolbar, and on the Command palette. For more information, see the following topics in the Help: “Using the Tool Palette,” “Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar,” and “Using the Command Palet te .”

The Quick Transition dialog box opens.

5. Click the Add menu, and select a transition effect: For an explanation of individual effects shown in the menu, see “Blend Effects” on

page 509.

When you save a Dissolve effect template into a bin named Quick Transitions, the effect template appears in the Add menu. For more information, see “Working with Effect Templates” in the Help.

When you select a color transition with Quick Transition, the default color is black. You must enter Effect mode to select another color. For more information, see “Using the Effect

Editor” on page 66.

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6. Select the transition duration by doing one of the following:

t Type the duration in frames in the Duration text box. t Click either the left edge or right edge of the Dissolve Effect icon and drag it to

change the duration. For more information, see “Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box” on page 51.

The graphical display changes — the size of the effect icon increases or decreases, and the numbers in the Duration and Start text boxes change — to reflect the new duration.

7. Adjust the effect’s position relative to the cut point in one of the following ways: t Click the Position menu, and select an option to have the effect end at the cut point,

center on the cut point, or start at the cut point.

t Click the Position menu, select Custom, and then type a number in the Start text box

to specify how many frames before the cut point you want the effect to begin.

t Click the Dissolve Effect icon and drag it to position the effect with respect to the

cut point.

t Click one of the alignment buttons below the graphical display.

Alignment buttons

These buttons appear when you select Custom from the Position menu or click in the graphical display. For more information on the graphical display options, see

“Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box” on page 51.

Your Avid editing application positions the effect, updates the graphical display to show the new position of the effect, and updates the value in the Start text box.

If you select an alignment for which there is not enough media, the application comes as close as it can to the alignment you requested.

8. Click the Target Drive menu, and select a drive on which to store the effect if you choose to render it.

The Effect Source Drive is the drive where the media on the outgoing shot of a transition resides.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

9. Select Apply to All Transitions (IN -> OUT).

10. (Option) To apply the effects only to transitions that do not already have a transition effect applied, select Skip Existing Transition Effects.

11. Do one of the following:

t To add the effect without rendering it, click Add. t To add the effect and render it, click Add and Render.

Your Avid editing application adds the selected effect to all the transitions between the marked IN and OUT points on the selected tracks in the sequence.

If there is not enough incoming or outgoing media material to apply the effect to a transition, a dialog box opens. For more information, see “Sizing Effects to Fit the Media” in the Help.

Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

The graphical display of the transition effect that appears in the Quick Transition dialog box allows you to control the length and position of the effect with frame accuracy simply by dragging. You can also quickly reset the position of the effect by using the three alignment buttons.

Outgoing media

Frames of incoming media available for the effect

incoming media

Transition effect

Alignment buttonsHandle on

Incoming media

Handle on outgoing media

Frames of outgoing media available for the effect

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The graphical display shows the following:

• The outgoing (A) and incoming (B) media for the transition to which you are applying the effect.

The amount of handle available for each piece of media is indicated both as a darker area on the graphic itself and as a number of frames.

• The transition effect that you are applying. The display shows the effect icon and indicates the length and position of the effect in

relation to the media. You can adjust the effect by dragging this part of the display. For more information, see “Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick

Transition Dialog Box” on page 52.

• Three alignment buttons. These buttons appear when you select Custom from the Position menu or click in the

graphical display. The buttons allow you to quickly reposition the effect so that it either ends at the cut point, is centered on the cut point, or starts at the cut point. For more information, see “Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition

Alignment Buttons” on page 54.

Your Avid editing application draws and scales the graphical display so that it represents the relative size and position of the transition effect in relation to the media. For example, in the illustration above, the effect is 30 frames long while the incoming handle is 46 frames long. The effect is therefore shown about two-thirds the size of the incoming handle.

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

You can control the length or position of the transition effect by dragging in the graphical display.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

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To adjust the length of the effect:

1. Do one of the following: t To adjust the length of the effect without changing its start point, move the pointer

over the right edge of the effect.

t To adjust the length of the effect without changing its end point, move the pointer

over the left edge of the effect.

The pointer changes to a resizing arrow.

ng arrow

2. Do one of the following:

t To lengthen the effect, drag away from the effect icon in the center. t To shorten the effect, drag toward the effect icon in the center.

The graphical display and the Duration text box update to reflect your adjustment. If you are dragging the left edge of the effect, the Start text box also updates to reflect the changed start point.

To adjust the position of the effect:

1. Move the pointer inside the effect. The pointer changes to a hand.

2. Drag the effect to adjust its position with respect to the cut point. The graphical display updates to show the new effect position, and the Start text box

updates to show the new number of frames before the cut point.

You cannot drag an effect beyond the ends of the handles on the media because you cannot create a transition unless both incoming and outgoing media are available for every frame of the transition. You also cannot drag an effect beyond the cut point.

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Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition Alignment Buttons

You can use the alignment buttons to quickly reposition the effect so that it either ends at the cut, is centered on the cut, or starts at the cut. The buttons have the same effect as the Ending at Cut, Centered on Cut, and Starting at Cut commands in the Position menu.

Centered on Cut Starting at CutEnding at Cut

To reposition the effect with an alignment button:

t Click one of the following buttons:

Button Description

Ending at Cut Aligns the effect so it ends at the cut point.

Centered on Cut Aligns the effect so it is centered on the cut point.

Starting at Cut Aligns the effect so it starts at the cut point.

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

You can adjust transitions directly in the Timeline while you are in Trim mode.

You can trim a transition effect by using the standard transition trim procedures. For more information, see “Working in Trim Mode: Basics” in the Help.

You can also change the duration of transition effects just by dragging them in the Timeline. To use this feature, you open the Transition Corner Display in Trim mode.

The Transition Corner Display feature is only available when you are in Big Trim mode. To ensure that you enter Big Trim mode when you click the Trim Mode button, select “Never use Small Trim mode” in the Features tab of the Trim Settings dialog box. For more information, see “Trim Settings: Features Tab” in the Help.

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

To adjust a transition by using the Transition Corner Display:

1. Click the transition in the Timeline.

2. Click the Trim Mode button below the Timeline to enter Trim mode.

3. Click the Transition Corner Display button. The button changes to bright green, and the display is enabled. As you position the

pointer over the transition, it changes to look like a film clip that has been cut for a splice.

Trim pointer in Transition Corner Display

4. Lengthen or shorten the transition effect by dragging the transition to the length you want.

t To shorten a transition, drag toward the transition point. t To lengthen a transition, drag away from the transition point.

The pointer changes to a hand that moves as you drag. You can adjust either the outgoing or the incoming video.

5. To review your edit, click the Play Loop button.

To customize transition effect parameters, see the procedures in “Transition Parameters” on

page 638.

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

While in Effect mode, you can replace an existing effect.

To replace an effect:

1. If the application is not in Effect mode, enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing.

For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help.

2. In the Effect Palette, select an effect category.

3. Do one of the following to replace the effect: t Drag the new effect’s icon to the Timeline. To replace an existing effect, move the

new effect’s icon on top of the existing effect’s icon.

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t Drag the new effect’s icon to the Effect Preview monitor. t Select the effect in the Timeline, and double-click the new effect’s icon in the Effect

Palette.

4. Set the applicable effect parameters in the Effect Editor.

Some effects cannot replace other effects. For example, some segment effects, such as the Mask effect, cannot replace transition effects. In addition, two-track effects, such as wipes, cannot replace three-track effects, such as matte keys.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

The Effect Preview monitor displays the selected effect in the sequence where the position indicator is located in the Timeline. The effect’s position bar, located directly below the Effect Preview monitor, represents only the selected effect, not the entire sequence.

For information on entering Effect mode and displaying the Effect Preview monitor, see Entering Effect Mode in the Help.

Effect Preview Monitor

Press and hold mouse button for tracking information.

Length of effect

Current position in effect

Scale bar for expanding the position bar

Keyframe

Effect’s position indicator Effect’s position bar

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

If the effect you expect does not appear in the Effect Preview monitor, make sure that you have selected the Record Track Monitor button in the Track Selector panel. If a black frame appears in the Effect Preview monitor, the position indicator might be at a location in the Timeline where an effect has not been applied to the sequence. The following illustration shows the Record Track Monitor buttons.

Record Track Monitor buttons

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar

The Effect Preview Monitor toolbar has buttons for controlling effect position and adjustment. The following table describes the buttons in the toolbar that you use to play and adjust the effect.

Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons

Button Description

Rewind Places the position indicator at the first frame or field of the sequence.

Fast Forward Places the position indicator at the last frame or field of the sequence.

Add Keyframe Creates a keyframe at the current position of the position indicator in the effect’s

position bar. Alt+click to delete the selected keyframe.

Step Backward One Frame

Step Forward One Frame

Play Plays the effect from the current position in the effect’s position bar. Click again

Play Preview Plays back a wire-frame preview of an unrendered effect.

Moves the position indicator one frame backward.

Moves the position indicator one frame forward.

or press the space bar to stop play. Rendered effects play at full speed, and real-time unrendered effects play at full

speed in most circumstances. For information, on effect playback, see “Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

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Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons (Continued)

Button Description

Play Loop Plays back the current effect repeatedly in a loop. Click again or press the space

bar to stop play. Rendered effects play at full speed, and real-time unrendered effects play at full

speed in most circumstances. For information, on effect playback, see “Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

Dual Split Click to divide the Effect Preview monitor in half, showing the image with and

without the effect applied. Click again to remove.

Reduce Reduces the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Enlarge Enlarges the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

You can also Ctrl+click in the Effect Preview monitor to enlarge the

image.

The Effect Editor also contains controls that you use to adjust and preview effects. For more information, see “Effect Editor Controls” on page 68.

Using Big Effect Mode

Big Effect mode lets you work on an enlarged Effect Preview monitor if you have a high-resolution monitor. The Source monitor disappears, and the Effect Preview monitor becomes a larger working space that makes it easier to create effects and make changes to them.

To enter or leave Big Effect mode:

1. If the application is not in Effect mode, enter Effect mode by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing.

For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help.

2. Alt+click the Effect Mode button.

- If the application was in the default Effect mode, it enters Big Effect mode. You can

click the Effect Editor and drag it to the left of the enlarged Effect Preview monitor.

- If the application was in Big Effect mode, it returns to the default Effect mode.

Once you enter Big Effect mode, it remains enabled until you Alt+click the Effect Mode button again.

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode

You can customize the buttons that are available in Effect mode by mapping user-selectable buttons directly from the Command palette to the Tool palette or to the area below the Effect Preview monitor.

To remap user-selectable buttons, enter Effect mode and use the procedure in “Mapping User-Selectable Buttons” in the Help.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

When you customize the display of buttons in Effect mode, the new configuration appears in Effect mode only. The default editing mode buttons reappear when you exit Effect mode.

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information

The two boxes above the Effect Preview monitor display the length of the effect in seconds and frames and the current position in the effect’s position bar.

If you are working with two-field media, the current position display indicates the field that appears in the monitor. The current position display ends with .1 for the first field of a frame and with .2 for the second field. These boxes replace the name of the sequence that normally appears in this position.

If the position information boxes do not appear above the Effect Preview monitor, increase the size of the window.

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors

Many effects can utilize the outer edges of the viewing screen area. If you are editing material that will be viewed on screens with more limited viewing areas, such as standard televisions, you can use the Safe Title and Safe Action options to provide visual guidelines in the Effect Preview monitor that replicate the actual viewable area on a standard television screen.

For example, you can use the Safe Title option as a template for the area in which you want the effect to operate. In this way, you can avoid the appearance of the effect floating off into a nonviewable area of a standard television screen.

You can also display safe title and safe action guidelines in other monitor types and in the Title tool. For information on displaying guidelines in the Title tool, see “Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in the Title Tool” in the Help.

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To display the Safe Title and Safe Action guidelines in the Effect Preview monitor:

t Click the Grid button in the Effect Editor.

You can customize the type of grid displayed by the Grid button. For more information, see

“Working with the Effect Grid” on page 60.

Two outlined boxes appear in the Effect Preview monitor. The inner box is the safe title area. All text and objects should remain within the inner box. The outer box is the safe action area for video display

Working with the Effect Grid

Safe title area

Safe action area

The Effect Grid provides a variety of ways for you to position effects with accuracy and previsualize them in the Effect Preview monitor. The grid coordinates can be expressed in traditional fields or X–Y pixels in any resolution.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

The following illustration shows a 12-field grid displayed in a video project.

Axis with tick marks

Safe title area

Grid points

You can use the Effect Grid to:

• Display the aspect ratios for film categories such as standard film, Academy, Super 35 mm, and Anamorphic, as well as the 4:3 safety area for the 16:9 aspect ratio.

• Show coordinate information to track the exact location of an effect in the frame.

• Use the snap-to-grid feature to easily position effects.

In film projects, you can also use the Effect Grid to:

• Create position information for the following effects: Paint, AniMatte can include this information in an optical list created using Avid FilmScribe

• Create position information for an effect you previsualize using the Previsualization Marker tool. You can include this information in an optical list created using Avid FilmScribe. For more information, see “Previsualization Marker Tool for Film

Projects” on page 437.

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode

As with the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines, you use the Grid button in the Effect Editor to display the Effect Grid.

To display the Effect Grid rather than the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Press the Alt key and click the Grid button.

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To switch between the Effect Grid and the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Press the Alt key and click the Grid button until the appropriate grid is displayed.

To remove the display of either the Effect Grid or the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Click the Grid button without pressing the Alt key.

Displaying Position Coordinates

Your Avid editing application uses compass coordinates and X, Y coordinates to describe the position of an effect.

For compass coordinates, the point (0, 0) is the center of the axes. For X, Y coordinates, the point (0, 0) is the upper left corner of the monitor. X values increase to the right, and Y values increase as you move down.

The compass coordinates describe the effect’s position in terms of film optical house standards. Each compass coordinate begins with a direction (N, S, E, or W, the abbreviations for North, South, East, or West) followed by a numerical value. This numerical component reflects the Fields and Sub Fields parameters you select in the Grid Settings dialog box or the Grid parameter group.

The X, Y coordinates describe position in terms of the Source Scan Size parameters you select in the Grid Settings dialog box or the Grid parameter group.

To enable display of position coordinates:

1. In the Settings tab of the Project window, double-click Grid. The Grid Settings dialog box opens.

2. Select Show Position Info, and then click OK.

3. Enable the Effect Grid as described in “Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode” on

page 61.

To display position coordinates in Effect mode:

1. Deselect all tools in the Effect Editor (including the Outline/Path button and the Selection tool for Intraframe effects).

2. Press and hold the mouse button, and drag the pointer in the Effect Preview monitor.

To display position coordinates in Source/Record mode:

t Move the pointer to the Record monitor, press and hold the mouse button, and move the

mouse.

Using Local Grid Parameters

The Grid parameter category in the Effect Editor allows you to customize the grid display for an individual effect. Grid parameters set in the Effect Editor apply only to that effect and temporarily override the current settings in the Grid Settings dialog box. For more information on the parameters available with the Grid parameter category, see “Grid” on

page 632.

Obtaining Position Information in a Film Project

You can use the Effect Grid to include position information in a cut list for the Paint and AniMatte effects on a keyframe-by-keyframe basis. Additionally, you can display the position information for the first keyframe of a Blowup effect in a cut list.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Position Information for the Paint and AniMatte Effects

You generate film cut lists and change lists with Avid FilmScribe. For general information on using Avid FilmScribe, see the Avid FilmScribe Help.

You can also generate effect information in a cut list by using the Previsualization Marker Tool in the Paint Effect. For more information, see “Previsualization Marker Tool for Film

Projects” on page 437.

Your Avid editing application can include both compass coordinate and X, Y coordinate information in a cut list for each corner of a Paint or AniMatte effect. For example, a rectangle you create with the Paint Effect shows four compass and four X, Y coordinates for each keyframe.

To include coordinate information in a cut list:

1. Enable the Effect Grid before you generate the list. For more information, see

“Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode” on page 61.

2. In the Cut List tool within Avid FilmScribe, select the Key Frames check box in the Options pane for the optical list.

The following illustration shows the presentation of Paint Effect information for a rectangular object in a cut list.

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Grid information

Keyframe number and reference numbers

Shape type and color information

Compass and (X, Y) coordinate information for each corner of the rectangle

Position Information for the Blowup Effect

The event section of the cut list displays the compass coordinates of the effect at the first keyframe in the segment and the Fields parameter you have selected for the effect. You must enable the Effect Grid before you generate the cut list to display this information in the list.

The following illustration shows the presentation of Blowup effect information in a cut list.

Keyframe number

Grid information

Field parameter value

Compass coordinates

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor

You can use the Enlarge and Reduce buttons in the Effect Editor or the Effect Preview Monitor toolbar to zoom in or out on an image in the Effect Preview monitor.

This allows you to view parts of an image in detail or to view parts of effects and effect controls that extend beyond the limits of the standard-size image. For more information, see

“Effect Editor Controls” on page 68and “Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar” on page 57.

When you use the Enlarge button to increase the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor, you cannot view the entire frame all at once. When you are creating an effect that requires great detail, you can reposition the enlarged frame in the monitor to view the sections that need your attention.

This feature applies only to an enlarged image in the Effect Preview monitor, not to a standard-size or reduced image.

To move an enlarged image within the Effect Preview monitor:

1. Click within the boundaries of the Effect Preview monitor.

2. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt. The pointer changes to a hand.

Zoom ratio

Pointer

3. Drag the hand in any direction to reposition the image within the Effect Preview monitor.

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Similarly, you can enlarge the frame in the Source monitor and move the frame around by pressing and holding Ctrl+Alt. To access the Enlarge and Reduce buttons when you are not in Effect mode, you must use the Command palette, or map the buttons to your keyboard or to the user-selectable palettes. You can also use Ctrl+L to enlarge the frame and Ctrl+K to reduce the frame.

Stepping Through Field-Based Media

Your Avid editing application behaves differently when stepping through two-field media depending on the mode you are in.

In Effect mode, your Avid editing application displays each field in the media as you step forward or back using the standard controls, for example, the Step Forward and Step Backward buttons below the Effect Preview monitor.

In Source/Record and Color Correction modes, your Avid editing application displays only field 1 of each frame by default. If you need to view both field 1 and field 2 of each frame of video while in Source/Record or Color Correction mode, you can use the Step Forward One Field and Step Backward One Field buttons.

To step through footage one field at a time in Source/Record or Color Correction mode:

t Click the Step Forward One Field button or the Step Backward One Field button.

As you step, the number “2” appears in the upper right corner of the image display in the Record monitor whenever field 2 of the media is displayed. The number disappears during the display of field 1 (the default display).

Using the Effect Editor

Use the Effect Editor to adjust the parameters for an effect. The following topics provide procedures and information for working with the Effect Editor.

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor

You display the Effect Editor by entering Effect Mode. The Effect Editor shows effect parameters for the effect currently selected in the Timeline.

Using the Effect Editor

To display an effect’s parameters in the Effect Editor:

1. Move the position indicator to the effect’s icon in the Timeline.

2. Make sure that the Record Track button for the track that contains the effect is selected in the Track Selector panel.

3. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. The Effect Editor opens. The name of the effect and its icon appear at the top of the

Effect Editor and the parameters that pertain to the effect appear in the Effect Editor.

Effect name

Triangular opener

Parameter group (parameter category)

If the Effect Editor is already open and active, select the segment or transition effect to display the effect’s parameters in the Effect Editor.

Effect icon

Slider used to adjust parameter

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Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor

Effect parameters are values that define the appearance of an effect. For example, you can set parameters that control the size and position of a Picture-in-Picture effect.

Parameter controls are grouped in parameter categories within the Effect Editor. For example, the Border parameter category includes all the controls that you can use to define the color and appearance of an effect border.

A number of parameters are common to many effects, such as parameters affecting size, position, or foreground level (transparency). You can adjust these parameters once for the entire effect, or you can use the Effect Editor along with keyframes to change the effect parameter over time. Other parameters can be adjusted only once for the entire effect, regardless of keyframe selection.

Not all effect parameters apply to all effects. Parameters that do not apply to an effect do not appear in the Effect Editor for that effect.

If the position indicator is not on an effect’s icon in the Timeline, or if the track that contains the effect is not selected, the Effect Editor is blank.

For reference information on all of the available effect parameters (including which effect parameters apply to each effect), see “2D Effects Reference” on page 507 and “3D Effects

Reference” on page 749.

Effect Editor Controls

This topic describes the controls in the Effect Editor. Not all controls apply to each effect. If a control is not applicable, it does not appear in the Effect Editor for that effect.

The following illustration shows the location of controls and buttons within the Effect Editor.

Effect Editor Controls and Parameters

Using the Effect Editor

Effect name Triangular

opener

Parameter category

Parameter name

Render Effect button

button

Transition Effect Alignment button

Effect icon

Other Options button

Slider used to adjust parameter

These buttons always appear on the right side of the Effect Editor. Additional buttons appear depending on the effect used.

Promote to Advanced Keyframes button

3D Promote button

Transition Effect Duration boxOutline/Path

The following table describes in detail the buttons that all effects have in common. Additional buttons appear in the Effect Editor, depending on the effect used. For example, if you are working with a 3D effect, a set of 3D-specific buttons appears along the right side of the Effect Editor. For more information on 3D-specific Effect Editor buttons, see “Working

with 3D Effects” on page 333.

When you are working with advanced keyframes, additional buttons appear in the bottom toolbar of the Effect Editor. For more information, see “Effect Editor Controls for Advanced

Keyframes” on page 118.

The Effect Preview Monitor toolbar also contains buttons that you use to adjust and preview effects. For more information, see “Using the Effect Preview Monitor” on page 56.

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Effect Editor Controls

Location in

Button or Control

Effect Editor Description

Triangular opener

Other Options Inside some

Reduce

Enlarge Right side Enlarges the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Dual Split Right side Splits the Effect Preview monitor in half to show the image with

Play Loop Right side Plays back a transition or segment effect in a loop.

Play Right side Plays the effect from the current position in the effect’s position

HQ Right side Appears when the effect has an HQ (Highest Quality) rendering

Left side Opens or closes the parameter group. A downward-pointing

triangle displays the parameter group; a right-pointing triangle displays the parameter name.

Triangular openers also appear to the left of keyframe

graphs when you use advanced keyframes. For more information, see “Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs”

on page 84.

Opens additional parameters for some effects, including the parameter categories

Right side Reduces the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Windows Color dialog box for color selection. For more

information, see “Accessing Additional Parameters for an

Effect” on page 74.

and without effects applied to it.

bar for most 2D and 3D effects.

option. Click to select the HQ implementation or the standard

implementation with which to render the effect. The button is

green when the HQ implementation is selected. For more

information, see “Rendering HQ (Highest Quality) Effects” on

page 135.

Tracking Tool Right side Appears when the effect can use motion tracking data. Click to

open the Tracking window. For more information, see “Motion

Tracking and Stabilization” on page 279.

Grid Right side Displays Safe Action/Safe Title guidelines or the Effect Grid.

For more information, see “Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect

Mode” on page 61.

Render Effect Bottom Renders the current effect.

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Location in

Button or Control

Outline/Path Bottom Displays a wire-frame path to illustrate the movement of an

Effect Editor Description

effect from the first keyframe through the last keyframe.

Transition Effect Alignment

Transition Effect Duration box

Promote to Advanced Keyframes

3D Promote Bottom right

Bottom Opens a menu from which you select the alignment of a

Bottom Sets a duration for the transition effect other than the duration

Bottom Available only for effects that support advanced keyframes.

corner

transition effect relative to the cut point. The appearance of the button changes depending on which alignment option you have selected from the menu. For a detailed explanation of the Transition Effect Alignment menu and the Transition Effect Duration box, see “Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the

Transition Parameters” on page 46.

The Transition Effect Alignment button shows the

alignment of the transition effect applied at the cut point. If the cut point does not have a transition effect, the Transition Effect Alignment button appears as a vertical bar. If the cut point has an existing transition effect, the button indicates the alignment of the transition effect.

displayed.

Promotes the effect to advanced keyframes. See “Understanding

Advanced Keyframes” on page 82.

Available for some effects, including titles, Picture-in-Picture, and imported matte keys. Promotes the effect to a 3D effect.

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Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu

Some effects have parameters that you select from a Fast menu. For example, border types for 3D effects are in the same Fast menu.

To select a parameter from a Fast menu:

t Click the Fast Menu button, and then select a parameter.

Fast Menu button

Menu showing other parameters

Changing a Parameter with a Slider

Many parameters have sliders for controlling parameters with a range of possible values.

Slider Thumbwheel

Activated slider Parameter’s numeric valueActivated thumbwheel

The thumbwheel is a specialized slider that provides a window on a wide range of values and allows precise control over increments.

When you edit an effect that has advanced keyframes, you can choose to display parameters with either sliders or thumbwheels. See “Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes”

on page 118.

Some parameters display a blank slider track until you click an Effect Editor tool that activates the control.

Blank slider tracks

Parameter’s numeric value

Adjustable sliders

Using the Effect Editor

To display an adjustable parameter slider:

t Click an Effect Editor tool that pertains to the slider.

The slider appears on the track.

Rectangle tool (relates to Brush parameter category)

To activate a parameter that has a slider:

t Click the parameter’s slider.

The slider changes to pink.

To change the value of a parameter that has a slider, use any of the following methods:

t Move the slider with the mouse. t Use the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key to change the value by –1 or +1. t Press the Ctrl key and use the mouse scroll wheel to change the value by increments of

–1 or +1.

t Press the Shift key, and use the Left Arrow key or Right Arrow key to change the value

by –10 or +10.

t Press the Ctrl and Shift keys, or the Ctrl and Alt keys, and use the mouse scroll wheel to

change the value by increments of -10 or +10.

t Use the numeric keypad to type a new value, and, if you entered fewer than three digits,

press Enter. The parameter’s numeric value (to the right of the slider) changes as you move the

slider.

To move from one slider to the next slider:

t Press the Tab key.

To move from one slider to the previous slider:

t Press Shift+Tab.

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Using Parameter Enable Buttons

You control some parameters using parameter Enable buttons. These parameters can either be active or inactive but cannot be adjusted over a range of values. For example, the Fixed Aspect parameter Enable button controls whether the aspect ratio of an image is maintained when you adjust one of its dimensions.

To turn a parameter on or off using a parameter Enable button:

t Click the Enable button.

Parameter Enable button

Parameter Enable buttons are pink when the parameter is active and gray when the parameter is inactive.

Off On

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect

Some effects have additional parameters that control their operation. For example, the Grid effect has additional parameters in which you set the number of columns and rows in the wipe.

When an effect has additional parameters, the Other Options button appears next to the effect name or in a parameter group.

To access an effect’s additional parameters:

t Next to the effect name or in a parameter group, click the Other Options button.

A dialog box opens in which you set the additional parameters.

You also use the Other Options button to access the parameters for third-party plug-in effects and for the Windows Color dialog box in effects that allow you to change color parameters.

Adjusting a Color Parameter

In addition to using the Hue, Sat (saturation), and Lum (luminance) sliders, you can change a color parameter or select a key color with the following methods:

• Select a color with the eyedropper.

• Specify a color in the Windows Color dialog box.

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color

To select a color using the eyedropper:

1. Position the pointer over the Color Preview window to activate the eyedropper.

2. Press and hold the mouse button, then drag the eyedropper to the Effect Preview monitor, and release the mouse button on the color you want to select from the video image.

Your Avid editing application updates the parameter’s numeric values, and the selected color appears in the Color Preview window.

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box

The Windows Color dialog box is part of the Windows XP operating system.

To open the Windows Color dialog box:

Using the Effect Editor

Eyedropper Color Preview window

Default choices

Custom colors palette

t Click the Other Options button next to a color parameter.

The Windows Color dialog box opens.

Color matrix

Current color

Color|Solid box

Color slider

Color selection text boxes

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To use the Windows Color dialog box:

1. To select a color from the Basic colors palette, click the color you want.

2. To specify a custom color, do one of the following: t Click in the color matrix to select a color, and then drag the color slider to adjust the

amount of white and black in the color. t Type numeric values for each color component in the color selection text boxes. The new color is displayed in the left side of the Color|Solid box.

3. When you are satisfied with the color, click Add to Custom Colors to add it to the Custom Colors palette.

4. To select a custom color from the Windows Color dialog box, click the color you want.

5. Click OK. The Windows Color dialog box closes, and your Avid editing application applies the

color to the parameter in the Effect Editor.

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

In addition to defining effects using parameter controls, you can make some adjustments to effects by manipulating them directly in the Effect Preview monitor. These adjustments use handles and wire-frame outlines that you can display in the monitor.

You can create a motion path that defines how the foreground image moves across the background video. You can also resize a foreground image, as in a picture-in-picture effect.

Defining a Motion Path

You can define how the foreground image of a multilayer effect moves across the background video by building a motion path, or string of keyframes. You can define a motion path on multilayer video effects such as Picture-in-Picture effects. Use the wire-frame preview feature when you want to see the path an image takes on the screen.

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

When you are creating a motion path that moves beyond the viewing screen, you can use the Reduce button to view an outline of the image at a reduced scale. The reduced scale view shows the area outside the background image and allows you to extend the motion path into that area. The Enlarge button returns the screen to full view.

To define a motion path for the foreground image, do one of the following:

t Move the image directly and automatically add keyframes.

For more information, see “Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path” on

page 77.

t Add keyframes and adjust the parameter sliders.

For more information, see “Working with Keyframes” in the Help.

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path

You can use the wire-frame feature and keyframes to add a motion path to a multilayer effect. The Outline/Path button on the Effect Editor window places a wire frame around the foreground image in the Effect Preview monitor. You can then drag the wire frame to new locations and add keyframes at each location to add movement to the effect.

To add a motion path to the foreground image by using the wire frame and keyframes:

1. Create a sequence with two video layers (foreground video on track V2, background video on track V1).

For information about editing a sequence, see “Creating and Edting Seqeunces: Basics” in the Help.

2. Apply a multilayer effect to the foreground segment on track V2.

3. Select the foreground effect segment on track V2.

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4. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. By default, the wire frame is active. The foreground image is outlined, and both the

starting and ending keyframe indicators are highlighted (pink) in the effect’s position bar.

Wire frame outlining foreground image on track V2

Background image on track V1

Effect’s position bar

Starting keyframe indicator Ending keyframe indicatorPosition indicator

5. (Option) If the wire frame is not displayed, click the Outline/Path button in the Effect Editor to activate the wire frame.

6. Drag the wire frame to the start point of the motion path you are creating. The starting keyframe indicator represents the start point.

7. Click the ending keyframe indicator to select it. Make sure the ending keyframe indicator is the only indicator selected (pink).

8. Drag the wire frame to the end point of the motion path. A path line from the center of the starting position to the center of the ending position

appears.

9. Drag the position indicator in the effect’s position bar to a new location. The wire frame moves with the position indicator; the path line does not change.

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

10. Click inside the wire frame, and drag or stretch the wire frame to add a keyframe at the new location.

A handle appears in the center of the wire frame, indicating the path position of the new keyframe.

11. Drag the wire frame to change the effect’s path.

Path line

Center handle

Wire frame

Selected keyframe

12. Repeat steps 9 to 11 to add more variation to the path.

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles

You can resize the foreground image in a multilayer effect by clicking the wire-frame handles in the Effect Preview monitor and dragging them to a new location. The top center handle adjusts the image’s height and the right center handle adjusts the image’s width. You can use the top right corner handle to change the image’s height and width proportionally, retaining the image’s existing aspect ratio.

Effect’s position bar

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To resize the foreground image by dragging wire-frame handles:

1. Create a sequence with two video layers (foreground video on track V2, background video on track V1).

For information about editing a sequence, see “Creating and Edting Seqeunces: Basics” in the Help.

2. Apply a multilayer effect to the foreground segment on track V2.

3. Select the foreground effect segment on track V2.

4. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. By default, the wire frame is active in the Effect Preview monitor.

Wire-frame resize handles

5. (Option) If the wire frame is not displayed, click the Outline/Path button in the Effect Editor to activate the wire frame.

6. Drag one of the handles to resize the image:

t Drag the top center handle to adjust the image’s height. t Drag the right center handle to adjust the image’s width. t Drag the top right corner handle to equally change the image’s height and width.

This option maintains the aspect ratio while resizing the image.

Chapter 3

Working with Advanced Keyframes

This chapter describes how to use advanced keyframes to change the behavior of an effect over time. Advanced keyframes allow you to animate each keyframeable parameter in an effect independently, giving you a great deal of flexibility and control for effects adjustments.

You can also use standard keyframes in your Avid editing applications. Standard keyframes apply to every parameter in an effect. While they provide less precise control over effect adjustments, they are simpler to use and might be the best choice for your more straightforward effects adjustments. For information on using standard keyframes, see ”Working with Keyframes” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main topics:

• Understanding Advanced Keyframes

• Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

• Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

• Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

• Controls and Settings for Advanced Keyframes

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Understanding Advanced Keyframes

You can maximize your control of effect parameters for many effects using advanced keyframes. When an effect uses advanced keyframes, each keyframeable effect parameter

has a separate keyframe track that opens to display a keyframe graph — where you set and customize keyframes. Keyframe tracks are also available for each parameter group, and for the entire effect.

You can modify the keyframes for any single parameter independently from the keyframes for any other parameters. You can also modify the keyframes for various groups or combinations of parameters independently from the keyframes for any other parameters.

You can still select standard keyframes, in which each keyframe affects all parameters. You can also use advanced keyframes as if they were standard keyframes.

The following illustration shows part of the Effect Editor display for a Center Box effect that uses advanced keyframes. The illustration shows the three types of keyframe tracks and an open keyframe graph.

Effect track Parameter group tracks

Parameter tracks

Keyframe graph

Parameter group track

Parameter tracks

Parameter group track

The following table describes the three keyframe track types in the Effect Editor.

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Advanced Keyframe Track Types

Track Type Description

Effect track The keyframes in this track correspond to the keyframes in the Effect Preview monitor.

When you select a keyframe in the effect track, the system automatically selects all of the keyframes at that point in time in the effect (all the keyframes directly under that keyframe in the Effect Editor). This makes it easy to move, delete, or perform other operations on many keyframes at the same time.

Parameter group track This track shows all the keyframes in the specific parameter group. When you select a

keyframe in the parameter group track, the system automatically selects all the corresponding parameter keyframes in the group. Parameter groups can have subgroups. For example, in the previous illustration, Color and Blend Color are subgroups of Border.

Parameter track This track shows the keyframes for the individual parameter. Parameter tracks are lighter

in color than the parameter group tracks. You can open individual parameter tracks to fine-tune the parameter values in a keyframe graph.

Advanced keyframe functions are available even when a keyframe graph is closed

to show only the keyframe parameter track.

By allowing you to manipulate multiple keyframes at the same time, effect tracks and parameter group tracks provide similar functionality to the meta curve region available in Avid DS systems.

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

Many effects support advanced keyframes. If you can promote an effect to advanced keyframes, a Promote to Advanced Keyframes button appears in the Effect Editor.

You can control whether a newly promoted effect first appears with no keyframes or with default start and end keyframes for each parameter.

The SpectraMatte key effect uses advanced keyframes by default and does not need to be promoted to advanced keyframes.

To promote an effect to advanced keyframes:

t In the Effect Editor, click the Promote to Advanced Keyframes button.

The Effect Editor displays the effect with keyframe tracks.

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To control default keyframe behavior for effects promoted to advanced keyframes:

1. In the Settings list of the Project window, double-click Effect Editor.

2. Select or deselect Automatic Start and End Keyframes. When Automatic Start and End Keyframes is selected, all keyframe tracks initially

appear with a start keyframe and an end keyframe. When Automatic Start and End Keyframes is deselected, no keyframes appear. For information on all Effect Editor settings, see “Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

Once you promote an effect to advanced keyframes, the Acceleration parameter category no longer appears. You manipulate acceleration (ease-in and ease-out) using the spline or Bézier interpolation options, which give you more control than the standard Acceleration parameter category. For more information, see “Controlling Parameter Changes at

Keyframes” on page 109.

Using advanced keyframes, you can change the order of nested effects by manipulating the Nesting Priority icons that appear in the Effect Editor. For more information, see “Changing

the Order of Nested Effects” on page 241.

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can open a keyframe graph for any effect parameter that is keyframeable. Once a keyframe graph is open, you can customize your view of the graph in a variety of ways.

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Parameters that are not keyframeable, such as the Fixed Aspect parameter, have tracks that do not show the parameter’s name, default keyframes, or time marks. You can drag the effect’s position indicator in these tracks, but you cannot add keyframes to them.

You open a keyframe graph by using the triangular opener that appears to the left of the parameter track.

You do not have to open a keyframe graph to set and manipulate advanced keyframes. You can add and delete keyframes, customize keyframe interpolation options, and use the standard controls for each parameter to set the values for its keyframes while a keyframe graph is closed.

To open a keyframe graph:

t Click the triangular opener.

The keyframe parameter track opens to display a keyframe graph.

Triangular openers for keyframe graphs

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs

In keyframe graphs, the horizontal axis represents the length of the effect and the vertical axis represents the range of parameter values. The graph area itself is very dark grey.

In the default view, a keyframe graph shows the full length of the effect on the horizontal axis and the full range of parameter values on the vertical axis, as shown in the following illustration.

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Parameter tracks (graphs closed)

Keyframe graph (open)

Beginning of effect’s length

Vertical axis (represents range of parameter values)

End of effect’s length

Maximum parameter value

Minimum parameter value

Horizontal axis (represents length of effect)

You can scale and scroll a keyframe graph both horizontally and vertically, for example to concentrate on one part of the effect’s length or one part of its parameter value range. When you do this, the boundaries of the keyframe graph might not be visible. For more information, see “Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display” on page 86.

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The active keyframe graph is highlighted using a darker background. This allows you to see which keyframe graph is active when multiple keyframe graphs are open. When you make another graph active, for example, by clicking a keyframe indicator in that graph, the background for that graph changes to the darker grey color.

In this example, the Radius keyframe graph is active and is highlighted with a darker grey background.

Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display

You can adjust the keyframe graph display in the following ways:

• Resize the display area for a keyframe graph by manipulating the size of the Effect Editor and by expanding or contracting the vertical size of the keyframe graph.

• Zoom the horizontal view of the keyframe graphs using the horizontal scale bar at the bottom of the Effect Editor.

• Zoom the vertical view of a keyframe graph using the graph’s vertical scale bar.

• Use the Zoom to Curve Height feature to quickly focus on part of a keyframe graph.

• Scroll the view in a keyframe graph by using the scroll thumbwheel at the bottom of the Effect Editor or by dragging in the view.

• Reset the view of a keyframe graph so that all keyframes are visible.

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can widen a keyframe graph or create space for expanding a keyframe graph vertically by resizing the entire Effect Editor window. You can expand or contract a keyframe graph vertically by dragging on the keyframe graph’s bottom border.

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

To resize the Effect Editor window:

t Click a corner of the Effect Editor, and drag it to resize the window.

If you make the Effect Editor window wider, the keyframe track area and any open keyframe graphs also become wider. If you make the Effect Editor window taller, you create extra space within which you can expand keyframe graphs vertically.

To change the height of a keyframe graph:

1. Position the pointer over the bottom border of the keyframe graph that you want to change.

The pointer changes to a vertical resizing pointer.

2. Click the edge of the graph, and drag it up or down. The height of the keyframe graph gets smaller or larger.

Before vertical resizing After vertical resizing

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Horizontally

You can zoom (or scale) keyframe graphs horizontally using the horizontal scale bar at the bottom of the Effect Editor.

Horizontal scale bar

The horizontal scale bar expands or contracts the view in the keyframe graphs centered around the position indicator. This allows you to either zoom in to focus on a specific area of your keyframe graph or zoom out to display the entire keyframe graph.

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To zoom in or out horizontally on a keyframe graph:

t Drag the horizontal scale bar to the right (to zoom in) or to the left (to zoom out).

The view in the keyframe graph expands or contracts horizontally to show more or less detail.

Keyframe graph zoomed out horizontally (graph shows full length of effect)

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Verticallysb

You can zoom (or scale) any individual keyframe graph vertically using the graph’s vertical scale bar, located to the left of the graph.

You can also use the Zoom to Curve Height feature to quickly scale a graph so that its keyframe curve fills the available viewing area for the graph. For more information, see

“Using Zoom to Curve Height” on page 89.

Vertical scale bar

Zoom to Curve Height button

Keyframe graph zoomed in horizontally (graph shows detail of the middle of the effect’s length; start and end keyframes are not visible)

The vertical scale bar expands or contracts the view in a keyframe graph. This allows you to either zoom in to focus on a specific area of your keyframe graph or zoom out to display the entire keyframe graph. You can zoom out beyond the limits of the parameter value range.

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

To zoom in or out vertically on a keyframe graph:

t Drag the vertical scale bar down (to zoom in) or up (to zoom out).

The view in the keyframe graph expands or contracts to show a smaller or larger range of parameter values.

Keyframe graph at default vertical zoom (graph shows full range of parameter values)

Keyframe graph zoomed in vertically (graph shows a reduced range of parameter values)

Using Zoom to Curve Height

The Zoom to Curve Height feature provides a quick way to focus on part of the keyframe graph.

Zoom to Curve Height centers the keyframe graph and scales the graph vertically so that the keyframe curve fills the available viewing area.

Keyframe graph zoomed out vertically (graph shows an extended range of parameter values)

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Before: Keyframe graph is zoomed out and hard to read and manipulate

After: Keyframe graph is scaled so the keyframe curve fills the available viewing areaa

If the curve passing through a selected keyframe uses the Bézier interpolation option, the scaling ensures that the Bézier handles for the keyframe are also visible in the viewing area.

Zoom to Curve Height also takes account of the horizontal zoom setting of the graph. If a graph is zoomed in horizontally on a small time range in an effect, for example, Zoom to Curve Height scales the curve vertically while maintaining the horizontal zoom. By combining horizontal zooming and the Zoom to Curve feature, you can quickly make a keyframe graph easier to work with, even when keyframes are very close together and their parameter values are similar.

Before: Multiple keyframes are very hard to see or manipulate in this zoomed out keyframe graph.

After horizontal zooming and scrolling: The keyframes are better separated, but the curve remains flat and hard to read.

After using Zoom to Curve Height: The curve for the zoomed in part of the graph is easy to see and interpret, and keyframes are easy to adjust.

To zoom on a keyframe graph so the keyframe curve fills the available viewing area, do one of the following:

t Click the Zoom to Curve Height button. t Right-click the keyframe graph and select Zoom to Curve Height.

Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally by using the scroll thumbwheel at the bottom of the Effect Editor. You can scroll the view in a keyframe graph both horizontally and vertically by dragging directly in the keyframe graph.

To scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally:

t Drag the scroll thumbwheel to the left or to the right.

The view in the keyframe graph scrolls so that part of the view disappears on one side and more comes into view on the other side.

To scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally or vertically:

1. Alt+click the keyframe graph.

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Scroll thumbwheel

The pointer changes to a hand.

2. Drag the hand to reposition the view within the keyframe graph.

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views

If you move the view in a keyframe graph so that you can no longer see the keyframes, you can use the shortcut menu to recenter the keyframes in the keyframe graph.

To reset the view in a keyframe graph:

t Right-click the keyframe graph, and select Reset All Graph Views.

The keyframes appear centered in the keyframe graph.

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Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

You can manipulate advanced keyframes in a wide variety of ways. You can:

• Add or delete keyframes

• Select or deselect keyframes

• Move keyframes

• Determine whether or not multiple keyframes move relative to one another

• Copy and paste keyframe parameters

• Control how effect parameters change at keyframes

• Reverse the order in which keyframes are applied over time in an effect

• Control how keyframes adjust when you trim effects

• Control how effect parameters change at bracketing (start and end) keyframes

You can also determine whether your keyframe manipulations apply to a single effect parameter or to multiple parameters.

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Display

When you add a keyframe to a parameter, corresponding keyframe indicators appear in the effect track, in the parameter group track, and in the Effect Preview monitor. The following illustration shows the result after keyframes are added to the Position parameters H Pos and V Pos.

rame in the

effect track

New keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor

Keyframe in the parameter group track

New keyframes added to parameters in Position group

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You should be aware of the following aspects of advanced keyframe display:

• Keyframe indicators in the Effect Editor’s effect track or parameter group tracks are darker than those in individual parameter tracks, making it easier for you to distinguish between them.

• Keyframe indicators in parameter group tracks and in the effect track are linked to any keyframes that are beneath them in the parameter hierarchy. You can think of the keyframe indicators that appear in parameter group tracks and in the effect track as parent indicators, and the individual parameter keyframes beneath them as their children.

When you select a keyframe indicator in a parameter group track, any keyframes at that point in time for any individual parameters in that group are also selected and can be manipulated together. When you select a keyframe indicator in the effect track, all keyframes at that point in time throughout the effect are also selected and can be manipulated together.

Remember that a keyframe indicator in a parameter group track or in the effect track does not necessarily indicate that a keyframe exists at that point in time for every parameter in the group or in the effect. The keyframe indicator in the parameter group track or in the effect track might be the parent of one keyframe, or of several, or of a keyframe for every keyframeable parameter in the group or in the effect.

• Keyframe indicators in the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar behave in the same way as keyframe indicators in the effect track of the Effect Editor. When you select a keyframe indicator in the Effect Preview monitor, the corresponding keyframe indicator in the effect track and all keyframes at that point in time in the effect are also selected.

By allowing you to manipulate multiple keyframes at the same time, effect tracks and parameter group tracks provide similar functionality to the meta curve region available in Avid DS systems.

In earlier versions of Avid editing applications, the system highlighted the keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor if you selected any keyframe in the associated column. Now the system highlights the keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor only if all the keyframes in the column are highlighted.

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Adding Advanced Keyframes

You can add keyframes to any keyframeable parameters by using the following commands and buttons:

• The Add Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor

Depending on which method you use and how the Effect Editor is configured, you can add a keyframe to a single parameter, all the parameters in a group, every parameter in an effect, or any other custom combination of parameters.

You can use the Effect Editor shortcut menu to set a default Add Keyframe command that controls where keyframes are added when you use the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu and

Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

You cannot add keyframes to parameters that are not keyframeable (for example, the Fixed Aspect parameter). The graph area for these parameters does not display time marks, default keyframes, or the parameter name.

To add a keyframe by using the shortcut menu for the keyframe track:

1. Move the position indicator to the point in the effect’s duration where you want to add a keyframe.

2. Right-click one of the following: t The keyframe graph or the parameter track for an individual parameter, to add a

keyframe to that parameter only.

t A parameter group track, to add a keyframe to every keyframeable parameter in that

group. The track displays the text “Apply to Group.”

t The effect track, to add a keyframe to every keyframeable parameter in the effect.

The track displays the text “Apply to All.”

3. Select Add Keyframe Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For

more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

To add a keyframe by using the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor:

1. Move the position indicator to the point where you want to add a keyframe.

2. In the Effect Editor, click the Add Keyframe button. The Add Keyframe Mode menu opens.

If the Add Keyframe Mode menu does not appear, Show Add Keyframe Mode Menu is deselected on the Effect Editor shortcut menu or in the Effect Editor settings. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

3. Do one of the following: t Click the Add Keyframe button a second time to select the command that has a

check mark next to it. This is the default command for adding keyframes that you can set by using the

Effect Editor settings or the Effect Editor shortcut menu. For more information, see

“Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

t Select another command from the Add Keyframe Mode menu.

For more information on the command selections, see “Keyframe Mode

Menu Commands” on page 98.

Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

The command you select becomes the default command for adding keyframes and its Delete Keyframe equivalent becomes the default command for deleting keyframes. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

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To add a keyframe by using the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor:

1. Move the position indicator to the point where you want to add a keyframe.

2. In the Effect Preview monitor, click the Add Keyframe button. Your Avid editing application adds one or more keyframes as determined by the current

default command for adding keyframes in the Effect Editor shortcut menu. For more information on this default and how to change it, see “Shortcut Menu and Settings for

the Effect Editor” on page 121.

Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

Deleting Advanced Keyframes

You can delete advanced keyframes by selecting the keyframes you want to delete and then using one of the following:

•The Delete key

• The Delete Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor

To delete advanced keyframes by using the Delete key or the Delete Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track:

1. Click a keyframe indicator to activate it.

2. (Option) Ctrl+click additional keyframes in the same graph or in other graphs.

3. Do one of the following:

t Press the Delete key. t Right-click the keyframe graph or keyframe track, and select Delete Keyframe.

Your Avid editing application deletes the selected keyframes.

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

To delete advanced keyframes by using the Add Keyframe buttons:

1. Click a keyframe indicator to activate it.

2. (Option) Ctrl+click additional keyframes in the same graph or in other graphs.

3. Do one of the following: t In the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor, press and hold the Alt key, and

then click the Add Keyframe button. Your Avid editing application deletes any selected keyframes that are affected by

the current default Delete Keyframe Mode menu command. For example, if Delete From Open Graphs is the current default, the application deletes any selected keyframes in open keyframe graphs.

t In the Effect Editor, press and hold the Alt key, click the Add Keyframe button

while still holding the Alt key and pressing the mouse button, and then select a command from the Delete Keyframe Mode menu.

For more information on the Delete Keyframe Mode menu commands, see

“Keyframe Mode Menu Commands” on page 98.

The command you select becomes the default command for deleting keyframes and its Add Keyframe equivalent becomes the default command for adding keyframes. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on

page 121.

If the Delete Keyframe Mode menu does not appear, Show Add Keyframe Mode Menu is deselected on the Effect Editor shortcut menu or in the Effect Editor settings.

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Keyframe Mode Menu Commands

The Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode menus provide commands that control how parameters are added or deleted when you use the Add Keyframe buttons in the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor. The same set of commands also appears in the Effect Editor shortcut menu.

When you select a command in one of these menus it becomes the default command when you add or delete keyframes using the Add Keyframe buttons. For more information, see

“Shortcut Menu and Settings for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

The Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode menus mirror one another. When you change one, a corresponding change happens in the other.

The following table describes the effect of each of the menu commands.

Several of the menu command names include the word “group.” In these names, “group” refers to a parameter category.

The default command for adding and deleting keyframes applies to the keyframes in the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar just as it does to keyframes in the Effect Editor. For example, if “Add Keyframes to Open Groups” is the default command but no groups are open in the Effect Editor, you cannot add any keyframes to the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar. In this case, open a group in the Effect Editor before you add keyframes or change the command for adding and deleting keyframes.

Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode Menu Commands

Command Description

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

Add to Active Parameter (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Active Parameter (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Active Parameter (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Active parameter (pink)

Add to Active Group (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Active Group (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Active Group (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Adds a keyframe to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter track or keyframe graph for the active parameter only.

The active parameter is the parameter that is currently selected, for example, a slider that you clicked is pink.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the relevant parameter group track and the effect track.

Added keyframes when Add to Active Parameter command is used

Adds keyframes to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter tracks or keyframe graphs of all parameters that are in the same parameter category as the active parameter. If the category containing the active parameter is a subcategory of a larger category (for example, Color is a subcategory of Border), keyframes appear only in the subcategory and not in the larger category.

The active parameter is the parameter that is currently selected, for example, a slider that you clicked is pink.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the parameter group track and the effect track.

Active group (contains active parameter)

Active parameter (pink)

Added keyframes when Add to Active Group command is used. In this case, the Hue, Sat, and Lum parameters each have a new keyframe.

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Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode Menu Commands (Continued)

Command Description

Add to Open Groups (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Open Groups (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Open Groups (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Adds keyframes to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter tracks or keyframe graphs of all parameters in groups that are currently open, whether or not the group is enabled.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the relevant parameter group tracks and the effect track.

Added keyframes when Add to Open Groups command is used. New keyframes are added to all parameters in open groups, even if the keyframe tracks are closed.

Open group and subgroups (Border)

Closed group (Foreground)

Open group (Scaling)

Add to Enabled Groups (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Enabled Groups (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Enabled Groups (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

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Because your Avid application treats all parameter groups as enabled at all times, this command has the same effect as the All Parameters command. It adds keyframes to or deletes selected keyframes from the keyframe tracks or keyframe graphs for every keyframeable parameter in the effect.

Corresponding keyframes appear in all parameter group tracks and the effect track.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

Effects Concepts and Settings

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

Effects Settings Adjustments

Changing Timeline View Settings for Effects

Adjusting Trim Settings for Effects

Setting Effect Grid Options

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Applying and Customizing Effects

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

Applying a Dissolve Effect Using the Transition Parameters

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to Multiple Transitions

Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition Alignment Buttons

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar

Using Big Effect Mode

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors

Working with the Effect Grid

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode

Displaying Position Coordinates

Using Local Grid Parameters

Obtaining Position Information in a Film Project

Position Information for the Paint and AniMatte Effects

Position Information for the Blowup Effect

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor

Stepping Through Field-Based Media

Using the Effect Editor

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor

Effect Editor Controls

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu

Changing a Parameter with a Slider

Using Parameter Enable Buttons

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect

Adjusting a Color Parameter

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

Defining a Motion Path

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles

Working with Advanced Keyframes

Understanding Advanced Keyframes

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Horizontally

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Verticallysb

Using Zoom to Curve Height

Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Display

Adding Advanced Keyframes

Deleting Advanced Keyframes

Keyframe Mode Menu Commands