Pinnacle Systems Xpress DV - 3.5 User Manual

Avid Xpress® DV

Effects Guide

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Avid Xpress DV Effects Guide • Part 0130-05341-01 • June 2002

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Effect Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Understanding Effect Playback Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Understanding the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Displaying the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Resizing the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Displaying Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Understanding AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

IllusionFX Pack Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Installing AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Locating the AVX Plug-Ins Folder (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Upgrading AVX Plug-ins and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using AVX Plug-in Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Accessing an AVX Custom Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Custom AVX Controls in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Plug-in Does Not Appear in the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Plug-in Does Not Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Avid Xpress DV Cannot Render the Plug-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Blank Effect Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Missing Effect Categories in the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Chapter 2 Basics of Effects Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Deconstructing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Applying Effects to a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Applying an Effect to a Single Transition or Segment . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Dragging an Effect from the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Double-Clicking an Effect Icon in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . 52

Applying an Effect to Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Applying an Effect to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the Fade Effect Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Working with Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Applying a Dissolve Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the Effect Palette to Create a Dissolve Effect . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons . . 62

Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Creating an Effect Using the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . 64

Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions Using the

Quick Transition Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick

Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Trimming a Transition Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Chapter 3 Customizing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Opening the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Customizing the Effect Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Understanding the Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . 83

Changing Position in an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor. . . . . . . . . . . 90

Understanding Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Using Parameter Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Using Parameter Enable Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using Fast Menu Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Other Options Button to Access Parameters. . . . . . . . . . 94

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using the Eyedropper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Macintosh Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Understanding Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Using Standard Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Adding a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Selecting a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Moving a Standard Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing a Standard Keyframe’s Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Copying and Pasting Standard Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . . . 101

Deleting a Standard Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Working with Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Opening Keyframe Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Shortcut Menus for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Adding and Deleting Keyframes in Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using the Add Keyframe Mode Menu and the Delete

Keyframe Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Moving Keyframes in Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Copying and Pasting Advanced Keyframe Parameters . . . . . . . . . 119

Selecting and Deselecting Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Elastic Keyframes and Fixed Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Parameter Changes at Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Options for Controlling Parameter Changes at Keyframes . . . 125 Adjusting Parameter Values with the Bézier

Interpolation Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing the Adjustment Method for the Bézier

Interpolation Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Align Keyframes and Slip Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Aligning Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Slipping Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Extrapolate and Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adjusting the View in Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Zooming and Scrolling Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Resizing Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Moving Keyframe Graph Views Up or Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Resetting Keyframe Graph Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Options for Using Advanced Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Manipulating Effects Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Defining Motion Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Moving the Image Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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

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

Chapter 4 Playing, Previewing, and Rendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Playing an Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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

Playing an Effect in a Continuous Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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

Previewing Effect Frames with Render On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Interrupting Render On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Real-Time Preview of Video Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Understanding Real-Time Effects Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Understanding Monitor Options for Real-Time Effects Preview. . . 160

Enabling Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Understanding Real-Time Playback Information in the

Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Controlling Real-Time Effects Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Using Video Display Settings for Real-Time Effects Preview . . . . 166

Rendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Creating and Using Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Creating a New Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Adjusting Render Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Activating a Render Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Partial Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Interrupting a Render. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Customizing Render Ranges Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Rendering Effects at Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

ExpertRender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Understanding ExpertRender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Using ExpertRender to Render Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Modifying ExpertRender Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Considerations When Using ExpertRender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Revealing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Chapter 5 Creating Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Understanding Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Creating Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Rendering Considerations When Creating Motion Effects . . . . . . . 197

Displaying Information About Motion Effect Type Changes . . . . . . 198

Freeze Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Creating a Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Controlling a Freeze Frame with a Single Button or Key . . . . . 201

Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Creating a Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Using the Fit to Fill Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Creating a Strobe Motion Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Stabilizing an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Making Adjustments to the Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Chapter 6 Creating Layered and Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Creating Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating a Chroma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image . . . . . . . 220

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Editing with Imported Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Changing the Order of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Submaster Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence. . . . . . 232

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips . . . . . . . . 234

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Chapter 7 Creating Titles and Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Workflow for Creating Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Opening the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Understanding the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Understanding the Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Using the Selection Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Setting Up the Drawing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Installing Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Previewing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Displaying Safe Title or Safe Action Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Using Safe Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Selecting a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Switching Between Video and Color Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . 248

Updating the Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Creating a Color Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Using the Alignment and Snap Grids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Bringing the Title Tool to the Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Copying and Pasting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Resizing Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Repositioning Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Editing a Text String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Formatting the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Selecting Text for Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Setting the Default Text Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Changing the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Changing the Point Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Making Text Bold or Italic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Justifying the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting Text Kerning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Adjusting Leading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Creating Graphic Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Drawing a Square or Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Drawing a Circle or Oval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Drawing a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Selecting Line Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Selecting a Line or Border Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Changing Arrowhead Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Adjusting the Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Blending Two Colors in an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Using the Title Tool Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Adjusting the Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Blending Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Working with Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Applying Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Adjusting Shadow Color and Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Viewing Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Manipulating Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Basic Manipulation Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Locking and Unlocking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Aligning Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Distributing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Saving Titles, Title Styles, and Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Saving Multiple Titles in a Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using the Fast Save Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Saving a Title with Fast Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Viewing Fast-Saved Titles in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Rendering Fast-Saved Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Using a Keyboard Shortcut to Save a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Saving and Recalling Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Saving a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Recalling a Title Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . 292

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Managing Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Creating and Using Title Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Creating Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Chapter 8 Editing with Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Workflow for Editing with Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Restrictions on Title Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Understanding Title Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Displaying Title Frames in the Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Editing a Title into a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Splicing or Overwriting a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Dragging a Marked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Dragging an Unmarked Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Removing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Replacing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Fading a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Revising a Title in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Replacing Fill Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Chapter 9 2D Effects Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

2D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Global and Keyframeable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Color Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Luma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Luma Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Luma Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Chroma Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Color Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Color Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Secondary Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Spill Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Matrix Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Motion Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Plug-in Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Region Stabilize Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Region of Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Auto Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Progressive Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

2D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Fade from Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Fade to Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Picture-in-Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Superimpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Box Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Left Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Top Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Edge Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Horizontal Open. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Lower Left Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Lower Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Upper Left Diagonal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Upper Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Vertical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Vertical Open. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Film Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

1.66 Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

1.85 Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

16:9 Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Anamorphic Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Blowup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Film Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Film Fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Color Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Flip-Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Region Stabilize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Luma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Matte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

L-Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Matrix Wipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

One-Way Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Zig-Zag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Peel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Bottom Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Bottom Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Top Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Top Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Push Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

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

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

Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Sawtooth Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Horizontal Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Horizontal Open Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Vertical Open Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Vertical Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Shape Wipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

4 Corners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Center Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Horizontal Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Horizontal Blinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Vertical Blinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Spin Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

X Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Y Spin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Squeeze Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Bottom Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Bottom to Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Centered Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Horizontal Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Left Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Right Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Top Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Vertical Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Title Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Comparison of Similar Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Tables

Table 1 Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Table 2 Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Table 3 Effect Editor Toolbar for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . .105

Table 4 Keyframe Graph Shortcut Menu Options. . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Table 5 Effect Editor Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Table 6 Render Settings Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Table 7 Title Toolbar Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242

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 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.

DV system, you have

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 DV users, from beginning to advanced.

Using This Guide

About This Guide

This guide is designed to keep pace with current advances in the Avid Xpress DV effects capabilities by consolidating in one comprehensive resource all the information you will need to take advantage of the many options available. 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 DV, 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 DV User’s Guide and the Avid Xpress DV 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.

• Creating and editing titles and graphic objects: Chapter 7 and

Chapter 8 cover 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 9 provides quick access to specific information about the 2D effects and parameters available with Avid Xpress DV.

•The Index helps you locate specific topics.

Symbols and Conventions

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows

XP and Mac® OS X operating systems. When the text applies

to a specific operating system, it is marked as follows:

• (Windows) or (Windows only) means the information applies to the Windows XP operating system.

• (Macintosh) or (Macintosh only) means the information applies to the Mac OS X operating system.

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

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

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

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

- 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.

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, the term “user’s guide” refers to the Avid Xpress DV

User’s Guide. The term “getting started guide” refers to the Avid Xpress DV Getting Started Guide. The term “online publications CD-ROM” refers to the Avid Xpress DV Online Publications CD-ROM.

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Using This Guide

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If You Need Help

If you’re having trouble using Avid Xpress DV:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for the latest information that might have become available after the hardcopy documentation was printed.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4.Visit the online Knowledge Center at www.avid.com/support. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Center to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read/join online message-board discussions.

5. For Technical Support, please call 800-800-AVID (800-800-2843). For Broadcast On-Air Sites and Call Letter Stations, call

800-NEWSDNG (800-639-7364).

Related Information

The following documents provide more information about the Avid Xpress DV product:

• Avid Xpress DV Release Notes for the Windows XP Operating System

• Avid Xpress DV Release Notes for Mac OS X

• Avid Xpress DV Getting Started Guide

• Avid Xpress DV Quick Reference for the Windows XP Operating System

• Avid Xpress DV Quick Reference for Mac OS X

• Avid Xpress DV User’s Guide

• Avid Xpress DV User’s Guide Supplement (available on the Avid Xpress DV Online Publications CD-ROM in PDF format)

• Avid Color Correction User’s Guide

• Avid Xpress DV Online Publications CD-ROM

Related Information

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 DV Help The Help system provides all the information included in the

Avid Xpress DV User’s Guide, the Avid Xpress DV Effects Guide, and the Avid Color Correction User’s 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 DV Help from the Help menu in the Avid Xpress DV application. For information on using Help, click the Using Help button in the Help system.

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Chapter 1

Preparing to Work with Effects

Avid Xpress DV offers many effects that you can apply to your sequences. This chapter describes concepts you should understand before you begin creating and editing effects into sequences.

• Effect Types

• Effects Creation Tools

• Understanding Effect Playback Capabilities

• Using the Effect Palette

• Using Third-Party Plug-in Effects

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects

Effect Types

Much overlapping occurs between the various types of effects you can create, as well as the methods used to create them. Your system offers four basic effect types.

• Transition effects (dissolves, wipes, and so forth) are applied at the

cut point between two video clips that are on the same video track (that is, the same video layer). For more information on creating transition effects, see Chapter 2, “Basics of Effects Editing” and Chapter 3, “Customizing Effects.”

• Segment effects are applied to an entire clip or group of clips. There

are two types of segment effects:

- A single-layer segment effect, such as the Mask effect, is applied

to a segment on one video track. Single-layer segment effects use one stream of video. For more information on creating single-layer segment effects, see Chapter 2, “Basics of Effects Editing” and

Chapter 3, “Customizing Effects.”

- A multilayer segment effect, such as the Picture-in-Picture effect,

is applied to the top layer or a middle layer of segments that contain two or more video tracks that will be played simultaneously. For more information on techniques for creating multilayer effects, see Chapter 6, “Creating Layered and Nested

Effects.”

• Title effects are created with the Title tool and edited onto their own

layers in a sequence. For more information on techniques for creating and editing title effects, see Chapter 7, “Creating Titles and

Graphic Objects” and Chapter 8, “Editing with Titles.”

• Motion effects (freeze frame, variable speed, and strobe) are created

by manipulating the playback characteristics of a clip of footage. For more information on techniques for creating motion effects, see

Chapter 5, “Creating Motion Effects.”

Effects Creation Tools

The following chart presents the basic tools used to create effects.

Effects Creation Tools

Sources of effects:

Effect Palette

Apply transition and segment effects directly to tracks.

Effects editing in default editing mode:

Effects adjustment in Effect mode:

Motion Effect dialog box Title tool

Title and motion effects appear first as clips in the bin.

Edit effect clips into the Timeline.

Effect Editor: Allows you to adjust effect parameters.

Effect Preview monitor: Allows you to preview an effect, manipulate keyframes, and manipulate wire-frame representations of the effect.

Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects

Understanding Effect Playback Capabilities

When you apply an effect to video in Avid Xpress DV, you change the look of that video, for example by altering its color values or by blending frames from one clip with frames from another. In some circumstances, your system is able to calculate these changes and display them in real

time. In other circumstances, your system is unable to do this, so you must render the effect to play it at full speed. When you render an effect, the

system calculates the changes made to each frame of the effect and stores them in a file, known as a precomputed master clip (or simply a precompute), which it can then use to play back the effect.

It is important to understand when you can use real-time effect playback to keep your effect editing work fast and flexible, and when you must render effects. The following paragraphs provide a brief introduction to the main alternatives available. For complete information on effect playback and rendering, see Chapter 4.

Most effects in Avid Xpress DV can be played in real time within the system while your work is still in progress. This allows you to preview the look of effects and make adjustments to them without having to render the effects. Your system cannot play motion effects or some third-party plug-in effects in real time; these effects must always be rendered before you can see how they look when playing at full speed.

Avid Xpress DV’s ability to preview effects in real time is dependent on the complexity of the effects in your sequence and on system factors such as processor speed and available memory. For more information on real-time preview of effects, see “Real-Time Preview of Video Effects” on page 159.

If you want to preview effects that your system cannot play in real time without rendering them, you can use the Render On-the-Fly option to preview them frame by frame. For more information, see “Previewing

Effect Frames with Render On-the-Fly” on page 158.

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