Pinnacle Systems Xpress - 5.0 User Manual

Avid Xpress

Effects Guide

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Avid Xpress Effects Guide • Part 0130-05015-01 Rev. A • April 2002

Using This Guide

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects

Effect Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Understanding Effect Playback Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Understanding the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Displaying the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Resizing the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Understanding the Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Displaying Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Understanding AVX Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

IllusionFX Pack Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Installing AVX Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Locating the AVX Plug-Ins Folder (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . 47

Upgrading AVX Plug-ins and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Accessing an AVX Custom Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Custom AVX Controls in the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Plug-in Does Not Appear in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Plug-in Does Not Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Avid Xpress Cannot Render the Plug-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Blank Effect Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Missing Effect Categories in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Chapter 2 Basics of Effects Editing

Deconstructing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Applying Effects to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Applying an Effect to a Single Transition or Segment. . . . . . . . . 57

Dragging an Effect from the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Double-Clicking an Effect Icon in the Effect Palette . . . . . . . 59

Applying an Effect to Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Applying an Effect to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Deleting a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Fade Effect Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Working with Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Applying a Dissolve Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using the Effect Palette to Create a Dissolve Effect. . . . . . . . 68

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and

Tail Fade Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Creating an Effect by Using the

Quick Transition Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions Using the

Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Trimming a Transition Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Chapter 3 Customizing Effects

Opening the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Customizing the Effect Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Understanding the Tracking Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . 89

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . 91

Changing Position in an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Effect Editor Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . 97

Understanding Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using Parameter Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Using Parameter Enable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using Fast Menu Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Using the Other Options Button to Access Parameters . . . . . . . 102

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using the Eyedropper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Using the Macintosh Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Working with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Adding a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Selecting a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Moving a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Changing a Keyframe’s Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Copying and Pasting Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Deleting a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Manipulating Effects Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Defining Motion Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Moving the Image Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles. . . . . . . . . 115

Working with Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Opening Keyframe Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

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

Adding and Deleting Keyframes for

Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Using the Add Keyframe Mode Menu and the

Delete Keyframe Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Moving Keyframes in Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Elastic Keyframes and Fixed Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Parameter Changes at Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Options for Controlling Parameter Changes

at Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Adjusting Parameter Values with the

Bézier Interpolation Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Align Keyframe and Slip Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Aligning Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Slipping Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Extrapolate and Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Adjusting the View in Keyframe Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Zooming and Scrolling Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Resizing Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Moving Keyframe Graph Views Up or Down. . . . . . . . . . . 147

Resetting Keyframe Graph Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Options for Using Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Saving an Effect Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Chapter 4 Playing, Previewing, and Rendering Effects

Playing an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Basic Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Playing an Effect in a Continuous Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Playing a Preview of an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Playback Capabilities for Two-Stream Video . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Playback Capabilities for Single-Stream

Uncompressed Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Playing Complex Effect Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Combined Rendering of Real-Time and

Non-Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Previewing Effect Frames with Render On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . 161

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Rendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Creating and Using Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Creating a New Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Adjusting Render Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Activating a Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Partial Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Interrupting a Render. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Customizing Render Ranges Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Rendering Effects at Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

ExpertRender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Using ExpertRender to Render Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Considerations When Using ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Examples of ExpertRender Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Rendering Process for a Media Station XL Workflow . . . . . . . . 185

Modifying the Render to Media Station XL Results. . . . . . . . . . 187

Managing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Revealing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Chapter 5 Creating Motion Effects

Understanding Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Creating Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Playing and Rendering Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Rendering Considerations When Creating

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Rendering and Rerendering Existing Motion Effects . . . . . 200

Displaying Information About Motion Effect

Type Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Freeze Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Creating a Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Controlling a Freeze Frame with a

Single Button or Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Creating a Variable Speed Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Using the Fit to Fill Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Creating a Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Stabilizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Making Adjustments to the Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Chapter 6 Creating Layered and Nested Effects

Creating Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image . . . . . 227

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Editing with Imported Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Creating a Simple Nested Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Changing the Order of Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Submaster Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence . . . 240

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . . . 241

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Performing a Video Mixdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Chapter 7 Working with 3D Effects

Understanding the 3D Effects Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Accessing 3D Effects in the Effects Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Creating a Matte Key for Use with 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Moving in 3D Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

The 3D Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Rotation Axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Working with 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Accessing 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Using the Default Keyframe Parameter Values . . . . . . . . . . 258

Resetting Default Parameter Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Using Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . 260

Manipulating 3D Effects Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Manipulating 3D Effect Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Using the Motion Path Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Applying 3D Effects: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Creating a Page Curl Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Avid Xpress Effects and Effects in Other Avid Systems. . . . . . . . . . 267

Chapter 8 Creating Titles and Graphic Objects

Workflow for Creating Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Opening the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Understanding the Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Using the Selection Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Setting Up the Drawing Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Installing Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Previewing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Displaying Safe Title or Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Using Safe Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Selecting a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Switching Between Video and Color Backgrounds. . . . . . . 279

Updating the Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Creating a Color Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Using the Alignment and Snap Grids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Bringing the Title Tool to the Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Copying and Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Resizing Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Repositioning Text Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Editing a Text String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Formatting the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Selecting Text for Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Setting the Default Text Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Changing the Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Changing the Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Making Text Bold or Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Justifying the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Adjusting Text Kerning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Adjusting Leading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Drawing a Square or Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Drawing a Circle or Oval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Drawing a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Selecting Line Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Rounding Corners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Selecting a Line or Border Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Adding Arrowheads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Page Count Limits in Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Using Auto Size Mode for Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . 302

Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling and

Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Typing the Rolling and Crawling Title Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Resizing the Width of Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . 305

Scrolling Through a Rolling or Crawling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Going to a Page in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Adding Pages in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Copying or Moving Objects to Pages in a

Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Inserting Blank Pages in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . 308

Deleting Pages in a Rolling or Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Formatting Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Adjusting the Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Blending Two Colors in an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Using the Title Tool Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Adjusting the Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Blending Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Working with Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Applying Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Adjusting Shadow Color and Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Setting Shadow Softness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Viewing Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Manipulating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Basic Manipulation Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Locking and Unlocking Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Aligning Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Distributing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Saving Titles, Title Styles, and Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Matching Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Saving a Title with Fast Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Viewing Fast-Saved Titles in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Rendering Fast-Saved Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Saving and Recalling Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Saving a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Recalling a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles . . . . . . . 338

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Managing Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Creating and Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Creating Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Using Title Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Chapter 9 Editing with Titles

Workflow for Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Guidelines for Working with Titles and Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Downstream Keying of Titles and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Restrictions of Downstream Key Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Converting a Downstream Key Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Restrictions of Non-Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Playback Capabilities of Title Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Playback Capabilities for Titles with

Two Video Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Playback Capabilities for Titles with

One Video Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Understanding Title Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Displaying Title Frames in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Editing a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Setting Marks in Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Trimming the Duration of Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . 361

Removing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Replacing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Revising a Title in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Replacing Fill Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Promoting a 2D Title to 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Troubleshooting Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Title Does Not Display Over Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Downstream Key Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Wrong Title Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Chapter 10 2D Effects Reference

2D Effects Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Global and Keyframeable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Color Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Luma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Luma Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Luma Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Chroma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Color Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Color Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Downstream Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Secondary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Spill Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Matrix Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Motion Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 401

Plug-in Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Scroll Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Region Stabilize Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Auto Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Progressive Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

2D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Dissolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Fade from Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Fade to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Picture-in-Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Superimpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Box Wipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Left Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Top Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Top Left to Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Top Right to Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Edge Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Horizontal Open. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Lower Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Lower Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Upper Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Upper Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Vertical Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Film Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

1.66 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

1.85 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

16:9 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Anamorphic Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Blowup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Film Dissolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Film Fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Color Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Flip-Flop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Region Stabilize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Luma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Matte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

L-Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Top Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Matrix Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

One-Way Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Zig-Zag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Peel Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Bottom Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Bottom Right Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Top Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Top Right Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Push Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Top Left to Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Top Right to Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Sawtooth Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Horizontal Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Horizontal Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Vertical Open Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Vertical Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Shape Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

4 Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Center Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

Horizontal Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Horizontal Blinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Vertical Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Spin Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

X Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Y Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Z Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Squeeze Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Bottom Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Centered Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Horizontal Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Left Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Left to Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Right Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Right to Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Top Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Top Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Vertical Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Title Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Comparison of Similar Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Chapter 11 3D Effects Reference

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Global Versus Keyframeable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

The Hierarchy of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Direct Manipulation of 3D Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Acceleration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Axis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Shadow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Trail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Page Turns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Tips for Page Curl Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Page Curl Angle Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Radial Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

3D Multi Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

3D Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Limitations to Radial Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Offset Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

3D Slats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

3D Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

3D Center Burst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

3D Sine Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

3D Bumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Index

Tables

Table 3-1 Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Table 3-2 Effect Editor Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Table 3-3 Effect Editor Toolbar for Advanced Keyframes. . . . . 119

Table 3-4 Effect Editor Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Table 4-1 Render Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Table 5-1 Playback Capabilities of Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Table 8-1 Toolbar Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Table 9-1 DSK and Non-DSK Title Playback Capabilities. . . . . 351

Table 9-2 Title Effect Playback Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Using This Guide

This guide is your introduction to the wealth of effects and design options available for use in your projects. Along with the standard editing features included with this latest release of the Avid Xpress system, you have at your fingertips all the sophisticated effects capabilities of a high-end postproduction suite, combined with the versatility of a digital nonlinear system.

You can use the tools and techniques described in this guide to create and incorporate into your sequence titles and effects with a wide variety of attributes. This guide also describes how to apply third-party plug-in effect filters for stunning effects formerly available only on high-end graphics workstations.

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.

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is intended for all Avid Xpress users, from beginning to advanced. The term “user’s guide” refers to the Avid Xpress

User’s Guide. The term “getting started guide” refers to the Avid Xpress Getting Started Guide.

About This Guide

This guide is designed to keep pace with current advances in the Avid Xpress effects capabilities by consolidating in one comprehensive resource all the information you will need to take advantage of the many options available to you. This guide leads you through even the most complex procedures with task-oriented instructions. The information provided here builds on editing procedures described in the getting started guide and the user’s guide for Avid Xpress, while adding a complete explanation of all the tools and techniques required to create, apply, and adjust various effects and graphics, including useful tips, shortcuts, and custom options.

Consider keeping the Avid Xpress User’s Guide and the Avid Xpress Quick Reference available during each session.

The Contents lists all topics included in the book. They cover the following general areas:

• Effects editing: Chapters 1 through 6 of this book describe various beginning and advanced techniques for incorporating literally hundreds of digital video effects (DVEs), third-party effect filters, complex motion effects, keys, and layering options.

• Working with 3D effects: Chapter 7 describes techniques for working with 3D effects and provides examples of effects you can re-create to become familiar with the 3D parameters and shapes.

• Creating and editing titles and graphic objects: Chapter 8 and

Chapter 9 cover real-time titling and use of the tools to create and

control the attributes of on-screen text, backgrounds, lines, boxes, ovals, and other graphics objects. You can create multiple titles without exiting the Title tool, and apply shadows, color, transparency, layers, and alignment to both objects and text.

• 2D effects reference: Chapter 10 provides quick access to specific information about the 2D effects and parameters available with Avid Xpres s.

Using This Guide

• 3D effects reference: Chapter 11 provides quick access to specific

information about the 3D effects and parameters available on systems equipped with the 3D Effects option.

• The Index helps you locate specific topics.

Symbols and Conv e nti on s

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows applies to a specific operating system, it is marked as follows:

• (Windows) or (Windows only) means the information applies to

• (Macintosh) or (Macintosh only) means the information applies to

The majority of screen shots in this document were captured on a Windows 2000 system, but the information applies to both Windows 2000 and Macintosh systems. Where differences exist, both Windows 2000 and Macintosh screen shots are shown.

The Avid Xpress documentation uses the following special symbols and conventions:

1. Numbered lists, when the order of the items is important.

• Bulleted lists, when the order of the items is unimportant.

2000 and Macintosh® operating systems. When the text

the Windows 2000 operating system.

the Macintosh operating system.

a. Alphabetical lists, when the order of secondary items is

important.

- Indented dashed lists, when the order of secondary items is unimportant.

t One arrow indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a

list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Symbols and Conventions

The k symbol refers to the Apple® or Command key. Press and hold the Command key and another key to perform a keyboard shortcut.

In this document, Avid drive refers to the Macintosh system’s internal hard drive. Apple Computer, Inc. names the internal hard drive Macintosh HD. Depending on your system’s setup, the internal hard drive might have a different name.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Look here in the margin for tips.

In the margin, you will find tips that help you perform tasks more easily and efficiently.

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.

If You Need Help

If you’re having trouble using Avid Xpress, you should:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide.

2. Check the documentation that came with your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

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3. Check the release notes supplied with Avid Xpress for information on accessing the Avid Web site and the Avid Knowledge Center.

4. For support services, call Avid Customer Support:

- Broadcast products — call 800-NEWS-DNG (639-7364).

- Postproduction products — call 800-800-AVID (2843).

Related Informati on

The following documents provide more information about the Avid Xpres s product :

• Avid Xpress Release 5.0 Release Notes for the Windows 2000 Operating System

• Avid Xpress Release 5.0 Release Notes for the Macintosh Operating System

• Avid Symphony and Composer Products Site Preparation Guide for the Windows 2000 Professional Operating System

• Avid Composer Products Site Preparation Guide for the Macintosh Operating System

• Avid Symphony and Composer Products Setup Guide for the Windows 2000 Professional Operating System

• Avid Composer Products Setup Guide for the Macintosh Operating System

• Avid Xpress Getting Started Guide

• Avid Xpress Quick Reference for the Windows 2000 Operating System

• Avid Xpress Quick Reference for the Macintosh Operating System

• Avid Xpress User’s Guide

Related Information

• Avid Products Collaboration Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for transferring project files, audio files, and graphics and effects files between various Avid products.

The most recent update of the Avid Products Collaboration Guide is provided online. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on accessing online documentation.

• Avid Xpress Online Publications

This online collection provides electronic versions of most documents listed in this section, as well as documents for related Avid applications. You can view these documents with Adobe Acrobat® Reader, which you can install from the CD-ROM.

•Avid Xpress Help

The Help system provides all the information included in the Avid Xpress User’s Guide and the Avid Xpress Effects Guide supplied with your system. It also includes supplemental information not in the manuals. The Help operates in a Web browser. To open the Help, choose Avid Xpress Help from the Help menu in the Avid Xpress application. For information on using Help, click the Using Help button in the Help system.

If You Have Documentation Comments

Avid Technology continuously seeks to improve its documentation. We value your comments about this guide, the Help, the Online Publications CD-ROM, and other Avid-supplied documentation.

Simply e-mail your documentation comments to Avid Technology at

TechPubs@avid.com

Please include the title of the document, its part number, revision, and the specific section you’re commenting on in all correspondence.

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