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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

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