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Advanced Effects Guide

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Avid Xpress Pro Advanced Effects Guide • 0130-07616-01 • March 2007

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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

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

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 1 Effects Concepts and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Effects Creation Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Deconstructing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Effects Settings Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Effect Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Understanding Effect Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing the Effect Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Setting Effect Grid Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Chapter 2 Applying and Customizing Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to

Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the

Quick Transition Alignment Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Deleting a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Working with the Effect Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Displaying Position Coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using Local Grid Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Effect Editor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing a Parameter with a Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using Parameter Enable Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Macintosh Colors Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Defining a Motion Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Saving an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Displaying Effect Templates in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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

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

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

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

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

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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

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

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

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Vertically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Controls and Options for Advanced Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

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

Shortcut Menus for Keyframe Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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

Chapter 4 Rendering Effects and Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Creating and Using Render Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Partial Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Rendering a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Rendering Effects at Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Rendering Effects Between IN and OUT Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Rerendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

16-Bit Processing Support for Rendered Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Rendering HQ (Highest Quality) Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Managing Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Understanding Effect Media Files Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Revealing Effect Media Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Deleting Effect Media Files from a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Chapter 5 Working with Plug-In Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Working with AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Support for AVX 1.x and AVX 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

AVX 1.x Plug-ins and Memory Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Installing AVX Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Locating the AVX 1.x Plug-Ins Folder (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Upgrading and Promoting AVX Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Assigning Multiple Tracks in Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using AVX Plug-in Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using AVX 1.x Plug-In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using AVX 2.0 Plug-In Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Using the Client Monitor to Preview the Plug-In Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Avid After Effects External Monitor Preview Plug-In (Windows Only). . . . . . . . . . . 154

Installing the Avid After Effects EMP Plug-in (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using the Avid After Effects EMP Plug-in (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Tips for Using the Avid After Effects EMP Plug-in (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . 156

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

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

Creating Traditional Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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

Controlling a Freeze Frame with a Single Button or Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

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

Creating a Traditional Variable Speed Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

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

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

Playing and Rendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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

Understanding When to Render or Rerender Motion Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Controlling Motion Effect Type When Rendering or

Rerendering Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

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

Using Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Using the FluidFilm Timewarp Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Chapter 7 Creating Layered and Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Creating Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Understanding the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . 174

Creating a Chroma Key Effect or RGB Keyer Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using Post-Key Color Correction in the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Editing with Imported Master Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Nesting Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Changing the Order of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Nesting a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Submaster Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Applying the Submaster Effect to a Multilayered Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using the Submaster Effect with a Series of Short Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Using the Collapse Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Understanding the Collapse Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Chapter 8 Working with Camera Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Using the Reformat Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Working with the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Understanding the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Outputting the Media with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Positioning the Pan and Scan Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Applying the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Selecting the Source and Target Aspect Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Setting Up Your Monitors for the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Viewing Pan and Scan Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Using the Effect Grid with the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Setting an Origin in the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Subdividing the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Using the Wire Frame in the Pan and Scan Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Scaling the Pan and Scan Wire Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Positioning the Pan and Scan Wire Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Adjusting the Pan and Scan Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Combining the Pan and Scan Effect with Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Placing Pan and Scan Effects on the Video Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Using the Region Stabilize Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Stabilizing an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

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

Using Avid Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Working with Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Applying the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Adjusting Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Viewing the Image While You Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Adjusting the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Using Velocity In and Velocity Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Creating a Simple Ease In and Ease Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Creating a Path with Constant Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Setting the Path Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Options for Rendering the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Selecting the Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Adjusting for Source Image Pixel Shape and Color Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Memory Management with the Avid Pan & Zoom Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Chapter 9 Working with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Understanding Xpress 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Accessing 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Applying Xpress 3D Effects from the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using Matte Keys with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Understanding 3D Geometry and Degrees of Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Accessing 3D Effects Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Resetting Default Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Using Effect Templates with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Manipulating 3D Effects Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Manipulating 3D Effect Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Using the Motion Path Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Applying 3D Effects: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Creating a Page Fold Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Chapter 10 Creating and Editing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Understanding the Title Tool Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Advanced Title Tool Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Installing Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Using Safe Colors with Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Displaying and Snapping to a Grid in the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Creating Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Page Count Limits for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Using Auto Size Mode for Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling and Crawling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Workflow Options for Creating Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Typing the Text in a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Resizing the Width of a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Scrolling Through a Rolling Title or a Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Working with Pages in Rolling or Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Formatting Rolling and Crawling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Modifying Box Corners, Lines, and Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Selecting a Line or Border Width. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Changing Arrowhead Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Adjusting the Color of a Title or Graphic Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Blending Two Colors in an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Adjusting the Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Blending Transparency of Fills and Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Adjusting Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Setting Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Adjusting Shadow Softness On-the-Fly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Viewing Shadow Softness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Creating a Glow Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Manipulating Title Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Basic Object Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Layering Text and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Grouping and Ungrouping Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Locking and Unlocking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Aligning Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Distributing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Saving and Recalling Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Saving a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Title Style Sheet Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Recalling a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Confirming Function Key Mapping of Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Managing Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Creating and Using Title Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Adjusting Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Revising a Title in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Replacing Fill Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Rendering Fast-Saved Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Playback Restrictions for Rolling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Troubleshooting Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Title Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Wrong Title Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

HD Title Filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Chapter 11 Working with PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Understanding PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

PlasmaWipe Folder Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Using PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Creating PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Creating PAL and NTSC Versions of the Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating a PlasmaWipe from a Custom Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating a Wipe Using the Photoshop Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Creating a PlasmaWipe Effect from an Existing Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Tips for Working with Gradient Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Testing the Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Saving the Image for PAL and NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Storing Images in the PlasmaWipes Folder Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Tips for Adjusting an Existing PlasmaWipe Effect While the

Application is Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Using PlasmaWipe Frame and Border Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Applying and Adjusting Frame and Border Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Default Values for PlasmaWipe Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Creating Custom Border and Frame Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Using PlasmaWipes with HD Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Chapter 12 2D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Blend Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Blend: Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Blend: Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Blend: Fade from Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Blend: Fade to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Blend: Picture-in-Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Blend: Superimpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Box Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Box Wipe: Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Box Wipe: Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Box Wipe: Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Box Wipe: Left Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Box Wipe: Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Box Wipe: Top Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Box Wipe: Top Left to Bottom Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Box Wipe: Top Right to Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Conceal: Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Conceal: Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Conceal: Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Conceal: Left to Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Conceal: Right to Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Conceal: Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Conceal: Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Conceal: Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Edge Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Edge Wipe: Horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Edge Wipe: Horizontal Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Edge Wipe: Lower Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Edge Wipe: Lower Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Edge Wipe: Upper Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Edge Wipe: Upper Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Edge Wipe: Vertical Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Edge Wipe: Vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Film Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Film: 1.66 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Film: 1.85 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Film: 16:9 Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Film: Anamorphic Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Film: Blowup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Film: Film Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Film: Film Fade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Film: Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Illusion FX Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Illusion FX: Color Mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Illusion FX: Crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Illusion FX: Film Grain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Illusion FX: Flare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Illusion FX: FluidBlur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Illusion FX: FluidColorMap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Illusion FX: FluidMorph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Illusion FX: Iris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Illusion FX: Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Illusion FX: Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Illusion FX: Melt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Illusion FX: Motion Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Illusion FX: Pagecurl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Illusion FX: Particle Blast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Illusion FX: Particle Orbit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Illusion FX: Particle Wind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Illusion FX: Pattern Generator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Illusion FX: Pinch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Illusion FX: Radial Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Illusion FX: Random Blend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Illusion FX: Ripple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Illusion FX: Rollup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Illusion FX: Shear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Illusion FX: Sparkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Illusion FX: Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Illusion FX: Swirl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Illusion FX: Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Illusion FX: Twist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Illusion FX: Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Image Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Image: Avid Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Image: Color Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Image: Color Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Image: Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Image: Flip-Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Image: Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Image: Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Image: Region Stabilize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Image: Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Image: Safe Color Limiter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Image: Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Key: Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Key: Luma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Key: Matte Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Key: RGB Keyer (AVX Plug-in Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

L-Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

L-Conceal: Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

L-Conceal: Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

L-Conceal: Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

L-Conceal: Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Matrix Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Matrix Wipe: Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Matrix Wipe: One-Way Row. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Matrix Wipe: Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Matrix Wipe: Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Matrix Wipe: Zig-Zag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Motion Effect: Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Motion Effect: Variable Speed and Strobe Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Peel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Peel: Bottom Left Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Peel: Bottom Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Peel: Bottom to Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Peel: Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Peel: Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Peel: Top Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Peel: Top Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Peel: Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

PlasmaWipe Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Push Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Push: Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Push: Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Push: Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Push: Left to Right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Push: Right to Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Push: Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Push: Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Push: Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Reformat Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Reformat: 14:9 Letterbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Reformat: 16:9 Letterbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Reformat: 4:3 Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Reformat: Pan and Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Sawtooth Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Sawtooth Wipe: Horizontal Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Sawtooth Wipe: Horizontal Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Sawtooth Wipe: Vertical Open Sawtooth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Sawtooth Wipe: Vertical Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Shape Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Shape Wipe: 4 Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Shape Wipe: Center Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Shape Wipe: Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Shape Wipe: Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Shape Wipe: Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Shape Wipe: Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Shape Wipe: Horizontal Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Shape Wipe: Horizontal Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Shape Wipe: Vertical Blinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Spin Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Spin: X Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Spin: Y Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Spin: Z Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Squeeze Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Squeeze: Bottom Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Squeeze: Bottom Left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Squeeze: Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Squeeze: Bottom to Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Squeeze: Centered Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Squeeze: Horizontal Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Squeeze: Left Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Squeeze: Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Squeeze: Right Centered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Squeeze: Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Squeeze: Top Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Squeeze: Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Squeeze: Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Squeeze: Top to Bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Squeeze: Vertical Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Timewarp Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Timewarp: 0% To 100%. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Timewarp: 100% To 0%. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Timewarp: 50% Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Timewarp: FluidFilm 2:3 Cadence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Timewarp: FluidFilm Progressive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Timewarp: Pulldown Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Timewarp: Pulldown Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Timewarp: Reverse Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Timewarp: Speed Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Timewarp: Speed Bump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Timewarp: Trim to Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Title Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Title Effects: Crawling Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Title Effects: Rolling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Title Effects: Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Comparison of Similar Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Common 2D Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Acceleration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Crop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Custom Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Scaling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Film Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Blowup Effect Blowup Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Illusion FX Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Border Parameter for Illusion FX Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Color Mix Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Crystal Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Film Grain Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Flare Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

FluidBlur Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

FluidColorMap Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

FluidMorph Effect Source Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

FluidMorph Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Iris Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Kaleidoscope Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Kaleidoscope Effect Center Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Kaleidoscope Effect Offset Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Lightning Effect Generation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Lightning Effect Core Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Lightning Effect Glow Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Melt Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Motion Blur Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Pagecurl Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Particle Blast Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Particle Orbit Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Particle Orbit Effect Parameter Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Particle Wind Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Pattern Generator Effect Background Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Pattern Generator Effect Number Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Pattern Generator Effect Circle Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Pinch Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Radial Blur Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Random Blend Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Ripple Effect Motion Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Ripple Effect Generation Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Ripple Effect Illumination Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Rollup Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Shear Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Sparkler Effect Generation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Sparkler Effect Movement Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Sparkler Effect Glow Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Sparkler Effect Core Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Sphere Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Swirl Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Timecode Effect Input Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Timecode Effect Start Timecode Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Twist Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Wave Effect Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Image Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Other Options Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Display Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Display Options Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Size Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Position Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Velocity Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Path Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Filtering Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Background Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Advanced Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Cache Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Avid Pan & Zoom Effect Render Mode Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Color Effect Luma Adjust Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Color Effect Luma Range Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Color Effect Luma Clip Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Color Effect Chroma Adjust Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Color Effect Color Style Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Color Effect Color Gain Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Region Stabilize Effect Model Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Region Stabilize Effect Region of Interest Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Region Stabilize Effect Options Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Safe Color Limiter 422 Safe Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Safe Color Limiter Source Monitor Analysis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Safe Color Limiter Composite/Luma Levels Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Safe Color Limiter RGB Levels Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Key Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Key Effects Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Chroma Key Secondary Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Chroma Key Spill Suppression Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

RGB Keyer Key Color Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

RGB Keyer Chroma Key Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

RGB Keyer Matte Control Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

RGB Keyer Color Correction Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Motion Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Reformat Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

14:9 Letterbox Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Pan and Scan Aspect Ratios Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Pan and Scan Actions Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Title Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Crawling Title Position V Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Crawling Title Scroll Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Rolling Title Position H Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Rolling Title Scroll Position V Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Chapter 13 3D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Xpress 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

3D Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

3D PIP Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Page Fold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

3D Slats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Hierarchy of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Axis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Background Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Border. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Foregnd (Foreground) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Using This Guide

This guide covers all of the effects capabilities of your Avid® editing application that are not described in the basics guide. The guide explains effects concepts, provides step-by-step instructions for advanced effects tasks, and includes reference information for every effect and effect parameter available in your Avid editing application.

This guide is intended for all Avid editing application users, from beginning to advanced.

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

X operating systems.The majority of screen shots in this document were captured

XP and

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

Using This Guide

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

k This symbol represents the Apple or Command key. Press and hold the

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

Ctrl+key or mouse action k+key or mouse action

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid editing application:

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

2. Check for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Command key and another key to perform a keyboard shortcut.

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows XP or Macintosh

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the mouse action. For example, k+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

OS X.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes,

they ship with your application and are also available online.

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is

supplied in your Avid application folder as a PDF document (ReadMe.pdf) and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, select Help > ReadMe, or visit the Knowledge

Base at www.avid.com/readme.

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

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

Accessing the Online Library

The Online Library for your Avid editing application contains all the product documentation in PDF format, including a Master Glossary of all specialized terminology used in the documentation for Avid products.

Most Avid online libraries also link to multimedia content such as tutorials and feature presentations. This multimedia content is an excellent first resource for learning how to use your application or for helping you understand a particular feature or workflow.

The Online Library for your Avid editing application installs along with the application itself.

Accessing the Online Library

You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download the latest version from the Adobe web site.

To access the Online Library, do one of the following:

t From your Avid editing application, select Help > Online Library. t (Windows only) From the Windows desktop, select Start > All Programs > Avid > Avid

editing application Online Library.

t Browse to the Online Library folder, and then double-click the MainMenu file.

The Online Library folder is in the same location as the application itself, for example: C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid editing application\Online Library Macintosh HD/Applications/Avid editing application/Online Library

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Chapter 1

Effects Concepts and Settings

This chapter describes concepts you should understand before you begin creating effects and settings adjustments that affect how you work with effects. This chapter supplements the basic information found in “Working with Effects: Basics” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Effects Creation Tools

• Deconstructing Effects

• Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

• Effects Settings Adjustments

• Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

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Effects Creation Tools

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

Sources of effects:

Effect Palette

Apply transition and segment effects directly to tracks.

Effects editing in default editing mode:

Motion Effect dialog box

Edit effect clips into the Timeline.

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

Effects adjustment in Effect mode:

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

Effect Editor: Allows you to adjust effect parameters.

Deconstructing Effects

Breaking down existing effects into their basic elements provides one good way to understand how the Avid editing application builds effects. By learning how the various pieces fit together, and how the application allows you to manipulate them, you can begin to construct new effects from these building blocks.

The sequence depicted in the following Timeline contains a series of effects that cover all the basic techniques — from simple dissolves to nested layers.

Layered background elements

Layered foreground elements

Deconstructing Effects

Imported title elements set in motion with a 3D wipe effect

The sequence includes both transition and segment effects applied horizontally, vertically, and nested within video tracks. The callouts summarize deconstructed elements and list the sections of this guide that describe them in more detail.

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Deconstructing an Effects Sequence

Imported graphic used as a wipe. See “Working with Imported Graphics and Animation”

on page 180.

Effect template applied repeatedly to crop and position foreground images on V2. See “Applying an Effect Template” on page 78.

Nested segments add more layers to the foreground track. See “Nesting Effects”

on page 182.

Submaster segment, created from collapsed layers, forms the background on V1. See “Submaster Editing” on page 189.

Various effect parameters are adjusted throughout to soften, distort, or position images.See “Using the Effect Editor” on page 62.

Title graphics imported as Matte Key effects. See “Working with Imported Graphics and Animation”

on page 180.

Keyed titles are faded in and out. See “Using the Fade Effect Button” in the Help.

Dissolve sequence forms the foreground on V2. See “Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions” on page 41.

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

Effect icons in the Effect Palette and in the Timeline display color-coded dots to help you determine whether an effect is real-time or non-real-time.

Real-time effects show a green dot. Real-time effects play in real time in a sequence, subject to the playback capabilities and constraints of your Avid editing system. For more information, see “Real-Time Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

Non-real-time effects have no dot in the Effect Palette. In the Timeline, the effect icon shows a blue dot until you render the effect.

All color-coded dots disappear in the Timeline when you render effects.

Effects Settings Adjustments

The following topics describe settings adjustments that affect the way you work with effects.

Effect Aperture

The Effect Aperture setting allows you to control the number of horizontal lines of an image that are used to create an effect. For example, if you are working with DV media and notice black lines above and below Picture-in-Picture effects, you can instruct the system to ignore the lines by changing the effect aperture.

Effects Settings Adjustments

Green dot indicates a real-time effect that might not be playable in real time.

No dot indicates a non-real-time effect; in the Timeline, a non-real-time effect icon contains a blue dot until the effect is rendered.

This feature applies only to NTSC projects.

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Understanding Effect Aperture

Your Avid editing application uses 243 horizontal lines per field to display media for NTSC video as follows:

• For uncompressed and non-DV resolutions, the system uses all 243 lines to display the image.

• For DV media, the system uses 240 lines for the image and adds two black lines above the image and one black line below the image.

The effect aperture allows you to decide whether to use all 243 lines of the image to create an effect. For DV resolutions this allows you to decide whether or not to use the three black lines when you create effects.

In a DV project the black lines can become visible when you create effects such as Picturein-Picture or Squeeze effects. The following example shows four PIP effects. In the first illustration you can clearly see the black lines between the effects. This illustration uses the default ITU 601 aperture.

ITU 601 aperture used with DV 25 media. Black lines are visible between the PIP effects.

The following example displays the same media with the DV25 effect aperture. In this illustration the lines are removed.

In a project that uses only DV media, it is useful to switch to the DV 25 aperture setting. In a project using uncompressed or mixed resolution media, use the ITU 601 aperture.

Changing the Effect Aperture

Effects Settings Adjustments

DV25 aperture used with DV 25 media. Black lines are no longer visible between the PIP effects.

To change the effect aperture:

1. Double-click General in the Settings list in the Project window. The General Settings dialog box opens.

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2. Select one of the following Effect Aperture options:

- ITU 601 (720x 486): Select this setting when you are using uncompressed media or mixed resolutions. This is the default setting.

- DV25 (720 x 480): Select this setting when you are using DV media exclusively.

3. Click OK.

Setting Effect Grid Options

You can display a grid in the Effect Preview monitor in Effect mode to help guide your work as you create and adjust effects.

The Grid Settings dialog box allows you to customize the grid.

To set the default grid values, do one of the following:

t In the Settings list of the Project window, double-click Grid. t If the effect you are working with has a Grid parameter group, click the Other Options

button for the Grid parameter group in the Effect Editor. The Grid Settings dialog box opens. For information on the Grid Settings options, see “Grid Settings” in the Help.

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Many video effects work the same way in both SD and HD and work the same way in both interlaced and progressive formats. This section describes several situations where effect behavior varies depending on whether a project is SD or HD, or is interlaced or progressive.

Effects Considerations for HD Projects

Effects that use square geometry automatically use the correct pixel aspect ratios. These effects include Titles, Box Wipes, certain paint modes like Mosaic, and so on. Effects such as Color Correction, Color Effect, and Luma keys automatically use the correct color space (ITU-709 for HD).

The Safe Color Limiter effect converts from 709 to 601 color space before limiting unsafe colors, and then converts back to 709 color space. For more information, see “Understanding the Safe Color Limiter” in the Help.

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Note the following:

• Titles: There is no need to generate 4:3 media.

• Timewarps: These effects use a 60p input and output format in 720p/59.94 projects.

Effects Considerations for Progressive Frame Projects

Since effects in progressive frame projects are frame based rather than field based, their normal behavior is slightly different from effects in interlaced projects. In particular, temporal artifacts might appear in some effects under certain circumstances. This section explains when temporal artifacts might appear and suggests ways to create effects that do not show perceptible temporal artifacts.

Effects that do not involve any movement across the screen — for example, masks, Color Effects, and dissolves — always look the same in progressive projects as they do in interlaced projects.

Effects that involve movement across the screen — for example, wipes, 3D shapes, or moving titles — might look different in 24p or 25p projects from their equivalents in interlaced projects for the following reasons:

• Since the effect is created using 24 or 25 progressive frames per second (24p or 25p), motion across the screen is interpolated in 24 or 25 increments per second. (Contrast the 50 increments per second for a PAL interlaced project or the 60 increments per second for an NTSC interlaced project.) For example, the edge of a 1-second Horizontal Edge Wipe effect will appear in 24 or 25 different positions across the screen. For effects of short duration in particular, this difference might be perceptible to the viewer.

• When the 24p or 25p media is output (to the interlaced Client monitor or as a digital cut), it is interlaced again and pulldown is inserted to achieve 60 fields per second (NTSC). Your Avid editing application inserts pulldown by duplicating some of the existing frames to create the correct number of fields per second. Temporal artifacts created by this duplication process might be perceptible to the viewer. This behavior is a normal result of the pulldown insertion process and is often perceptible in conventional transfers of films to video formats.

PAL output with pulldown also duplicates certain frames but is less likely to exhibit perceptible temporal artifacts since fewer frames require duplication.

Motion effects created in 24p or 25p projects, such as Variable Speed effects, might also look different from motion effects created in interlaced projects. For more information on 24p or 25p motion effects, see “Considerations for Motion Effects in Progressive Projects”

on page 170.

For more information on how the Avid application handles 24p or 25p material, see “Working with 24p Media” and “Working with 25p Media” in the Help.

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If an effect in a 24p or 25p project does not look completely smooth, do one or more of the following:

• Slow down the effect. For example, a 2-second Horizontal Edge Wipe effect, while it is still performing at the

same rate (24 increments per second), moves across the screen in 48 steps. These smaller movements make the wipe appear smoother to the viewer.

• Soften the edges of the effect. The more the edges of the effect are blurred, the less noticeable the movements between

the increments of the effect is.

• When working with moving titles, avoid small font sizes and sharp edges. In a moving title such as a roll, lines of small text might move less smoothly than lines

of larger text.

Chapter 2

Applying and Customizing Effects

This chapter contains advanced information on applying and customizing effects that builds on the information presented in “Working with Effects: Basics” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main topics:

• Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions

• Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

• Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

• Deleting Effects in a Sequence

• Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

• Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

• Using the Effect Preview Monitor

• Using the Effect Editor

• Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions

When you already have one effect applied to a transition in a sequence, you can apply an effect to multiple transitions at the same time.

To apply an effect to multiple transitions in the Timeline:

1. If there is not already an effect on one of the transitions, add a transition effect.

2. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help.

3. Click the existing transition effect to select it.

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4. Click above the Timeline and begin dragging to activate a selection box. Continue to drag down and either to the left or right to include additional transitions in the selection.

Selection box

5. Release the mouse button when you have lassoed all the transitions you want. Your Avid editing application highlights the transitions that you selected, and the

position indicator moves to the first transition.

6. If the transitions where you want to apply the effect are not contiguous, Shift+click any transition to deselect it.

7. In the Effect Palette, double-click the icon for the effect that you want to apply to the transitions.

The application applies the effect to the highlighted transitions in the Timeline.

If there is not enough incoming or outgoing media to apply the transition effect at its default length to one or more of the transitions, the Insufficient Source dialog box opens. For more information, see “Sizing Effects to Fit the Media” in the Help.

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

One of the most common transition effects is a dissolve. You can apply a Dissolve effect using any of the following methods:

• Select the Dissolve effect from the Effect Palette. For more information, see “Applying Effects from the Effect Palette” in the Help.

• Click the Quick Transition button. For more information, see “Using the Quick Transition Button” in the Help.

• .Type a duration in the Transition parameters in Trim mode. For more information, see “Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode” on page 43.

• Use the Head Fade button or the Tail Fade button. For more information, see “Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade

Buttons” on page 44.

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode

You can create a Dissolve effect in Trim mode using the Transition parameters displayed in the Effect Editor and in the Composer monitor.

To create a Dissolve effect using the Transition parameters:

1. Click a transition in the Timeline while in Trim mode.

2. In the Transition Effect Duration box in the Effect Editor or in the Composer monitor, type the dissolve’s duration.

Transition Effect Alignment button

Transition Effect Alignment pop-up menu

This adds the Dissolve effect at the transition and a Dissolve effect in the Timeline.

The Duration setting determines the duration format above the Composer monitor, for example, seconds:frames. For more information, see “Performing a Basic Trim” in the Help.

3. Click the Transition Effect Alignment button, and select the effect’s position relative to the cut point.

For an explanation of the Transition Effect Alignment button selections, see “Transition

Parameters” on page 425.

Transition Effect Duration box

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Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons

You can use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button to add a dissolve for selected audio and video tracks.

When you use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button this way, all the selected tracks, including layered tracks, receive the effect.

The Head Fade and Tail Fade buttons are available by default in the Timeline top toolbar. For information on displaying the Timeline top toolbar, see “Using the Timeline Top Toolbar” in the Help. You might need to resize the Timeline or hide the audio meters to see the Head Fade and Tail Fade buttons.

You can map the Head Fade button and the Tail Fade button from the Command palette to a key on your keyboard or to an existing button location such as the Tool palette. For more information, see “Mapping User-Selectable Buttons” in the Help.

When you use the Head Fade button and Tail Fade button with filler, your Avid application treats the filler like another video clip. You can use the Tail Fade button, for example, to fade from filler at the beginning of a sequence into the opening video clip.

To add a fade (dissolve):

1. Move the position indicator to a clip where you want the dissolve to end or begin. Your Avid editing application uses the location of the position indicator to begin or end

the dissolve. For example, if you move the position indicator ten frames after the beginning of the clip and then use the Head Fade button, the Avid editing application creates a ten-frame dissolve that lasts from the beginning of the clip to the location of the position indicator.

2. Select the tracks on which you want to create dissolves. If you select more than one track, the editing application creates dissolves of appropriate

lengths for each track, as shown in the following illustration.

Before After — Two dissolves of different

lengths are created on the two tracks.

3. Select Tools > Command Palette.

4. Click the FX tab, and then click Active Palette.

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5. Click the Head Fade button or the Tail Fade button. The dissolves appear in the Timeline. If a dissolve begins or ends at the edit point

between two clips, the dissolve crosses between the two clips. Otherwise the dissolve is a fade from or to black.

6. (Option) If, for any selected track, there is insufficient source media to create a dissolve of the length you specified with the position indicator, the Insufficient Source dialog box opens. Do one of the following:

t Click Size to Fit.

Your Avid editing application creates the longest dissolve possible. For more information on sizing effects to fit available media, see “Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media” in the Help.

t Click Skip Track.

Your Avid editing application does not create a dissolve on the track with insufficient source material but does create dissolves on any other selected tracks with sufficient source material.

t Click Cancel.

Your Avid editing application does not create any dissolves.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

You use the Quick Transition button to apply basic transition effects without using the Effect Palette or entering Effect mode.

You can apply a single transition effect using the Quick Transition button by following the procedure in “Using the Quick Transition Button” in the Help.This section includes instructions for applying effects to multiple transitions at one time using the Quick Transition button, as well as detailed information about the graphical controls in the Quick Transition dialog box.

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to Multiple Transitions

You can select multiple transitions by marking IN and OUT points. Then you can apply an effect from the Quick Transition dialog box in one of the following ways:

• Apply the effect to all transitions between the IN and OUT points.

• Apply the effect to only those transitions that do not already have an effect applied.

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To apply an effect to multiple transitions by using the Quick Transition button:

1. Mark IN and OUT points around the transitions to which you want to add the effect.

2. Make sure that the Record Track buttons in the Track Selector panel are selected for the tracks to which you want to add the effect.

3. (Option) If you want to see a particular transition in the graphical display of the Quick Transition dialog box, move the position indicator to that transition.

The graphical display in the Quick Transition dialog box always shows the transition closest to the position indicator. When you define an effect to apply to multiple transitions, the positioning details of any one transition might not be useful since you need to create an effect that will fit all the transitions. However, you might want to select one transition as a model. For example, you might use the transition with the least amount of handle as a model. If your effect fits that transition, it should fit all the others you have selected.

4. Click the Quick Transition button.

The Quick Transition button appears on the Tool palette, in the Timeline top toolbar, and on the Command palette. For more information, see the following topics in the Help: “Using the Tool Palette,” “Displaying the Timeline Top Toolbar,” and “Using the Command Palette: Basics.”

The Quick Transition dialog box opens.

5. Click the Add menu, and select a transition effect: For an explanation of individual effects shown in the menu, see “Blend Effects” on

page 309.

When you save a Dissolve effect template into a bin named Quick Transitions, the effect template appears in the Add menu. For more information, see “Using Effect Templates” on

page 76.

When you select a color transition with Quick Transition, the default color is black. You must enter Effect mode to select another color. For more information, see “Using the Effect

Editor” on page 62.

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

6. Select the transition duration by doing one of the following:

t Type the duration in frames in the Duration text box. t Click either the left edge or right edge of the Dissolve Effect icon and drag it to

change the duration. For more information, see “Understanding the Graphical Display in the

Quick Transition Dialog Box” on page 48.

The graphical display changes — the size of the effect icon increases or decreases, and the numbers in the Duration and Start text boxes change — to reflect the new duration.

7. Adjust the effect’s position relative to the cut point in one of the following ways: t Click the Position menu, and select an option to have the effect end at the cut point,

center on the cut point, or start at the cut point.

t Click the Position menu, select Custom, and then type a number in the Start text box

to specify how many frames before the cut point you want the effect to begin.

t Click the Dissolve Effect icon and drag it to position the effect with respect to the

cut point.

t Click one of the alignment buttons below the graphical display.

Alignment buttons

These buttons appear when you select Custom from the Position menu or click in the graphical display. For more information on the graphical display options, see

“Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box” on page 48.

Your Avid editing application positions the effect, updates the graphical display to show the new position of the effect, and updates the value in the Start text box.

If you select an alignment for which there is not enough media, the application comes as close as it can to the alignment you requested.

8. Click the Target Drive menu, and select a drive on which to store the effect if you choose to render it.

The Effect Source Drive is the drive where the media on the outgoing shot of a transition resides.

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9. Select Apply to All Transitions (IN -> OUT).

10. (Option) To apply the effects only to transitions that do not already have a transition effect applied, select Skip Existing Transition Effects.

11. Do one of the following:

t To add the effect without rendering it, click Add. t To add the effect and render it, click Add and Render.

Your Avid editing application adds the selected effect to all the transitions between the marked IN and OUT points on the selected tracks in the sequence.

If there is not enough incoming or outgoing media material to apply the effect to a transition, a dialog box opens. For more information, see “Sizing Effects to Fit the Media” in the Help.

Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

The graphical display of the transition effect that appears in the Quick Transition dialog box allows you to control the length and position of the effect with frame accuracy simply by dragging. You can also quickly reset the position of the effect by using the three alignment buttons.

Outgoing media

Frames of incoming media available for the effect

incoming media

Transition effect

Alignment buttonsHandle on

Incoming media

Handle on outgoing media

Frames of outgoing media available for the effect

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The graphical display shows the following:

• The outgoing (A) and incoming (B) media for the transition to which you are applying the effect.

The amount of handle available for each piece of media is indicated both as a darker area on the graphic itself and as a number of frames.

• The transition effect that you are applying. The display shows the effect icon and indicates the length and position of the effect in

relation to the media. You can adjust the effect by dragging this part of the display. For more information, see “Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick

Transition Dialog Box” on page 49.

• Three alignment buttons. These buttons appear when you select Custom from the Position menu or click in the

graphical display. The buttons allow you to quickly reposition the effect so that it either ends at the cut point, is centered on the cut point, or starts at the cut point. For more information, see “Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition

Alignment Buttons” on page 51.

Your Avid editing application draws and scales the graphical display so that it represents the relative size and position of the transition effect in relation to the media. For example, in the illustration above, the effect is 30 frames long while the incoming handle is 46 frames long. The effect is therefore shown about two-thirds the size of the incoming handle.

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

You can control the length or position of the transition effect by dragging in the graphical display.

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To adjust the length of the effect:

1. Do one of the following: t To adjust the length of the effect without changing its start point, move the pointer

over the right edge of the effect.

t To adjust the length of the effect without changing its end point, move the pointer

over the left edge of the effect.

The pointer changes to a resizing arrow.

ng arrow

2. Do one of the following:

t To lengthen the effect, drag away from the effect icon in the center. t To shorten the effect, drag toward the effect icon in the center.

The graphical display and the Duration text box update to reflect your adjustment. If you are dragging the left edge of the effect, the Start text box also updates to reflect the changed start point.

To adjust the position of the effect:

1. Move the pointer inside the effect. The pointer changes to a hand.

2. Drag the effect to adjust its position with respect to the cut point. The graphical display updates to show the new effect position, and the Start text box

updates to show the new number of frames before the cut point.

You cannot drag an effect beyond the ends of the handles on the media because you cannot create a transition unless both incoming and outgoing media are available for every frame of the transition. You also cannot drag an effect beyond the cut point.

Deleting Effects in a Sequence

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition Alignment Buttons

You can use the alignment buttons to quickly reposition the effect so that it either ends at the cut, is centered on the cut, or starts at the cut. The buttons have the same effect as the Ending at Cut, Centered on Cut, and Starting at Cut commands in the Position menu.

Centered on Cut Starting at CutEnding at Cut

To reposition the effect with an alignment button:

t Click one of the following buttons:

Button Description

Ending at Cut Aligns the effect so it ends at the cut point.

Centered on Cut Aligns the effect so it is centered on the cut point.

Starting at Cut Aligns the effect so it starts at the cut point.

Deleting Effects in a Sequence

You can delete transition effects from a sequence in the Timeline at any time. You can delete segment effects from a sequence in the Timeline at any time except when you are in Trim mode. Use the following procedures to either delete a single effect from a sequence or delete effects in multiple segments.

Deleting a Single Effect

To delete a single effect:

1. Move the position indicator to the Timeline segment containing the effect’s icon.

2. If multiple tracks contain effects at the same position in the Timeline, select only the track where the effect to be deleted resides.

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In this example, only track V3 is selected.

rack containing the effect is selected.

If you delete a segment effect and the segment contains a transition effect, the transition effect will be deleted as well, because the transition effect resides “on top of” the segment effect. If necessary, you will have to reapply the transition effect.

3. Delete the effect by doing one of the following: t If the Effect Editor is not active, click the Remove Effect button in the Tool palette.

For information on opening the Tool palette, see “Using the Tool Palette” in the Help.

t When the Effect Editor is active, select the effect and either press Delete or click the

Remove Effect button. To open the Effect Editor, select Tools > Effect Editor.

t In Trim mode (for transition effects only), either press the Delete key or click the

Remove Effect button. For information on entering Trim mode, see “Entering Trim Mode” in the Help.

When you delete an effect from a sequence, the Avid editing application does not delete the associated media file. To delete the effect’s media file, you must manually remove it from the drive. The application operates this way so that you will be able to undo the deletion of an effect or undo the change you made to an effect. To delete an effect’s media file, see

“Managing Effect Media Files” on page 139.

The effect is removed.

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects

To delete multiple transition effects:

1. Shift+click each transition effect you want to delete.

2. Do one of the following: t In the Tool palette, click the Remove Effect button.

For information on opening the Tool palette, see “Using the Tool Palette” in the Help.

t Click the Delete button.

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects

To delete multiple segment effects:

1. Click either of the Segment Mode buttons (Extract/Splice-in or Lift/Overwrite) below the Timeline.

2. Shift+click each segment that contains a segment effect you want to delete.

3. Do one of the following: t In the Tool palette, click the Remove Effect button.

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

For information on opening the Tool palette, see “Using the Tool Palette” in the Help.

t Click the Delete button.

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

You can adjust transitions directly in the Timeline while you are in Trim mode.

You can trim a transition effect by using the standard transition trim procedures. For more information, see “Working in Trim Mode: Basics” in the Help.

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Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

While in Effect mode, you can replace an existing effect.

To replace an effect:

1. If the application is not in Effect mode, enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing.

For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help.

2. In the Effect Palette, select an effect category.

3. Do one of the following to replace the effect: t Drag the new effect’s icon to the Timeline. To replace an existing effect, move the

new effect’s icon on top of the existing effect’s icon.

t Drag the new effect’s icon to the Effect Preview monitor. t Select the effect in the Timeline, and double-click the new effect’s icon in the Effect

Palette.

4. Set the applicable effect parameters in the Effect Editor.

Some effects cannot replace other effects. For example, some segment effects, such as the Mask effect, cannot replace transition effects. In addition, two-track effects, such as wipes, cannot replace three-track effects, such as matte keys.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

The Effect Preview monitor displays the selected effect in the sequence where the position indicator is located in the Timeline. The effect’s position bar, located directly below the Effect Preview monitor, represents only the selected effect, not the entire sequence.

For information on entering Effect mode and displaying the Effect Preview monitor, see Entering Effect Mode in the Help.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Effect Preview monitor

Pop-up slider for expanding the position bar

Effect Preview Monitor toolbar

Tracking information

Length of effect

Current position in effect

Effect’s position indicator (blue line)

Effect’s position bar

Keyframe

If the effect you expect does not appear in the Effect Preview monitor, make sure that you have selected the Record Track Monitor button in the Track Selector panel. If a black frame appears in the Effect Preview monitor, the position indicator might be at a location in the Timeline where an effect has not been applied to the sequence. The following illustration shows the Record Track Monitor buttons.

Record Track Monitor buttons

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar

The Effect Preview Monitor toolbar has buttons for controlling effect position and adjustment. The following table describes the buttons in the toolbar that you use to play and adjust the effect.

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Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar Buttons

Button Description

Rewind Places the position indicator at the first frame or field of the sequence.

Fast Forward Places the position indicator at the last frame or field of the sequence.

Add Keyframe Creates a keyframe at the current position of the position indicator in the effect’s

position bar. Alt+click (Windows) or Option+click (Macintosh) to delete the selected keyframe.

Step Backward One Frame

Step Forward One Frame

Play Plays the effect from the current position in the effect’s position bar. Click again

Play Preview Plays back a wire-frame preview of an unrendered effect.

Play Loop Plays back the current effect repeatedly in a loop. Click again or press the space

Dual Split Click to divide the Effect Preview monitor in half, showing the image with and

Reduce Reduces the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Enlarge Enlarges the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Moves the position indicator one frame backward.

Moves the position indicator one frame forward.

or press the space bar to stop play. Rendered effects play at full speed, and real-time unrendered effects play at full

speed in most circumstances. For information, on effect playback, see “Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

bar to stop play. Rendered effects play at full speed, and real-time unrendered effects play at full

speed in most circumstances. For information, on effect playback, see “Playback of Video Effects” in the Help.

without the effect applied. Click again to remove.

You can also Ctrl+click (Windows) or Command+click (Macintosh) in

the Effect Preview monitor to enlarge the image.

The Effect Editor also contains controls that you use to adjust and preview effects. For more information, see “Effect Editor Controls” on page 64.

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode

You can customize the buttons that are available in Effect mode by mapping user-selectable buttons directly from the Command palette to the Tool palette or to the area below the Effect Preview monitor.

To remap user-selectable buttons, enter Effect mode and use the procedure in “Mapping User-Selectable Buttons” in the Help.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

When you customize the display of buttons in Effect mode, the new configuration appears in Effect mode only. The default editing mode buttons reappear when you exit Effect mode.

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information

The two boxes above the Effect Preview monitor display the length of the effect in seconds and frames and the current position in the effect’s position bar.

If you are working with two-field media, the current position display indicates the field that appears in the monitor. The current position display ends with .1 for the first field of a frame and with .2 for the second field. These boxes replace the name of the sequence that normally appears in this position.

If the position information boxes do not appear above the Effect Preview monitor, increase the size of the window.

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors

Many effects can utilize the outer edges of the viewing screen area. If you are editing material that will be viewed on screens with more limited viewing areas, such as standard televisions, you can use the Safe Title and Safe Action options to provide visual guidelines in the Effect Preview monitor that replicate the actual viewable area on a standard television screen.

For example, you can use the Safe Title option as a template for the area in which you want the effect to operate. In this way, you can avoid the appearance of the effect floating off into a nonviewable area of a standard television screen.

You can also display safe title and safe action guidelines in other monitor types and in the Title tool. For information on displaying guidelines in the Title tool, see “Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in the Title Tool” in the Help.

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To display the Safe Title and Safe Action guidelines in the Effect Preview monitor:

t Click the Grid button in the Effect Editor.

You can customize the type of grid displayed by the Grid button. For more information, see

“Working with the Effect Grid” on page 58.

Two outlined boxes appear in the Effect Preview monitor. The inner box is the safe title area. All text and objects should remain within the inner box. The outer box is the safe action area for video display

Safe title area

Safe action area

To display the safe title and safe action areas in a Source pop-up monitor:

1. Verify that the Effect Editor is closed.

2. In the Tool palette of the Source pop-up monitor, click the Grid button.

To display the safe title and safe action areas in the Source/Record monitor:

1. Verify that the Effect Editor is closed.

2. Click in either the Source or Record monitor and choose the Grid button from the Tool palette.

Working with the Effect Grid

The Effect Grid provides a variety of ways for you to position effects with accuracy and previsualize them in the Effect Preview monitor. The grid coordinates can be expressed in traditional fields or X–Y pixels in any resolution.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

The following illustration shows a 12-field grid displayed in a video project.

Axis with tick marks

Safe title area

Grid points

You can use the Effect Grid to:

• Display the aspect ratios for film categories such as standard film, Academy, Super 35 mm, and Anamorphic, as well as the 4:3 safety area for the 16:9 aspect ratio.

• Show coordinate information to track the exact location of an effect in the frame.

• Use the snap-to-grid feature to easily position effects.

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode

As with the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines, you use the Grid button in the Effect Editor to display the Effect Grid.

To display the Effect Grid rather than the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Press the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh), and click the Grid button.

To switch between the Effect Grid and the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Press the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh), and click the Grid button until

the appropriate grid is displayed.

To remove the display of either the Effect Grid or the Safe Title/Safe Action guidelines:

t Click the Grid button without pressing the Alt key (Windows) or Option key

(Macintosh).

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Displaying Position Coordinates

Your Avid editing application uses compass coordinates and X, Y coordinates to describe the position of an effect.

For compass coordinates, the point (0, 0) is the center of the axes. For X, Y coordinates, the point (0, 0) is the upper left corner of the monitor. X values increase to the right, and Y values increase as you move down.

The compass coordinates describe the effect’s position in terms of film optical house standards. Each compass coordinate begins with a direction (N, S, E, or W, the abbreviations for North, South, East, or West) followed by a numerical value. This numerical component reflects the Fields and Sub Fields parameters you select in the Grid Settings dialog box or the Grid parameter group.

The X, Y coordinates describe position in terms of the Source Scan Size parameters you select in the Grid Settings dialog box or the Grid parameter group.

To enable display of position coordinates:

1. In the Settings tab of the Project window, double-click Grid. The Grid Settings dialog box opens.

2. Select Show Position Info, and then click OK.

3. Enable the Effect Grid as described in “Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode” on

page 59.

To display position coordinates in Effect mode:

1. Deselect all tools in the Effect Editor (including the Outline/Path button and the Selection tool for Intraframe effects).

2. Press and hold the mouse button, and drag the pointer in the Effect Preview monitor.

To display position coordinates in Source/Record mode:

t Move the pointer to the Record monitor, press and hold the mouse button, and move the

mouse.

Using Local Grid Parameters

The Grid parameter category in the Effect Editor allows you to customize the grid display for an individual effect. Grid parameters set in the Effect Editor apply only to that effect and temporarily override the current settings in the Grid Settings dialog box. For more information on the parameters available with the Grid parameter category, see “Grid” on

page 422.

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor

You can use the Enlarge and Reduce buttons in the Effect Editor or the Effect Preview Monitor toolbar to zoom in or out on an image in the Effect Preview monitor.

This allows you to view parts of an image in detail or to view parts of effects and effect controls that extend beyond the limits of the standard-size image. For more information, see

“Effect Editor Controls” on page 64 and “Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar” on page 55.

When you use the Enlarge button to increase the size of the image in the Effect Preview monitor, you cannot view the entire frame all at once. When you are creating an effect that requires great detail, you can reposition the enlarged frame in the monitor to view the sections that need your attention.

This feature applies only to an enlarged image in the Effect Preview monitor, not to a standard-size or reduced image.

To move an enlarged image within the Effect Preview monitor:

1. Click within the boundaries of the Effect Preview monitor.

2. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or k+Option (Macintosh). The pointer changes to a hand.

Zoom ratio

Pointer

3. Drag the hand in any direction to reposition the image within the Effect Preview monitor.

Similarly, you can enlarge the frame in the Source monitor and move the frame around by pressing and holding Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or k+Option (Macintosh). To access the Enlarge and Reduce buttons when you are not in Effect mode, you must use the Command palette, or

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map the buttons to your keyboard or to the user-selectable palettes. You can also use Ctrl+L (Windows) or k+L (Macintosh) to enlarge the frame and Ctrl+K (Windows) or k+K (Macintosh) to reduce the frame.

Using the Effect Editor

Use the Effect Editor to adjust the parameters for an effect. The following topics provide procedures and information for working with the Effect Editor.

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor

You display the Effect Editor by entering Effect Mode. The Effect Editor shows effect parameters for the effect currently selected in the Timeline.

To display an effect’s parameters in the Effect Editor:

1. Move the position indicator to the effect’s icon in the Timeline.

2. Make sure that the Record Track button for the track that contains the effect is selected in the Track Selector panel.

3. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing.

For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. The Effect Editor opens. The name of the effect and its icon appear at the top of the

Effect Editor and the parameters that pertain to the effect appear in the Effect Editor.

Using the Effect Editor

Other Options button

Effect name

Parameter category

Triangular opener

If the Effect Editor is already open and active, select the segment or transition effect to display the effect’s parameters in the Effect Editor.

Effect icon

Slider used to adjust parameter

Transition parameters

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor

Effect parameters are values that define the appearance of an effect. For example, you can set parameters that control the size and position of a Picture-in-Picture effect.

Parameter controls are grouped in parameter categories within the Effect Editor. For example, the Border parameter category includes all the controls that you can use to define the color and appearance of an effect border.

A number of parameters are common to many effects, such as parameters affecting size, position, or foreground level (transparency). You can adjust these parameters once for the entire effect, or you can use the Effect Editor along with keyframes to change the effect parameter over time. Other parameters can be adjusted only once for the entire effect, regardless of keyframe selection.

Not all effect parameters apply to all effects. Parameters that do not apply to an effect do not appear in the Effect Editor for that effect.

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If the position indicator is not on an effect’s icon in the Timeline, or if the track that contains the effect is not selected, the Effect Editor is blank.

For reference information on all of the available effect parameters (including which effect parameters apply to each effect), see “2D Effects Reference” on page 307 and “3D Effects

Reference” on page 501.

Effect Editor Controls

This topic describes the controls in the Effect Editor. Not all controls apply to each effect. If a control is not applicable, it does not appear in the Effect Editor for that effect.

The following illustration shows the location of controls and buttons within the Effect Editor.

Effect Editor Controls and Parameters

Triangular opener

Effect name

er Options button

Effect icon

Parameter category

Slider used to adjust parameters

Parameter name

Outline/Path button

Render Effect button

Transition Effect Alignment button

Transition Effect Duration box

Reduce button Enlarge button Dual Split button Play Loop button Play button

Highest Quality Render button

Grid button

3D Promote button

Promote to Advanced Keyframes button

The following table describes in detail the buttons that all effects have in common. Additional buttons appear in the Effect Editor, depending on the effect used. For example, if you are working with a 3D effect, a set of 3D-specific buttons appears along the right side of the Effect Editor. For more information on 3D-specific Effect Editor buttons, see “Working

with 3D Effects” on page 227.

When you are working with advanced keyframes, additional buttons appear in the bottom toolbar of the Effect Editor. For more information, see “Effect Editor Controls for Advanced

Keyframes” on page 118.

The Effect Preview Monitor toolbar also contains buttons that you use to adjust and preview effects. For more information, see “Using the Effect Preview Monitor” on page 54.

Effect Editor Controls

Button or Control

Using the Effect Editor

Location in Effect Editor Description

Triangular opener

Other Options Inside some

Reduce

Enlarge Right side Enlarges the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Dual Split Right side Splits the Effect Preview monitor in half to show the image with

Play Loop Right side Plays back a transition or segment effect in a loop.

Play Right side Plays the effect from the current position in the effect’s position

Left side Opens or closes the parameter group. A downward-pointing

triangle displays the parameter group; a right-pointing triangle displays the parameter name.

Triangular openers also appear to the left of keyframe

graphs when you use advanced keyframes. For more information, see “Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs”

on page 84.

Opens additional parameters for some effects, including the parameter categories

Right side Reduces the image in the Effect Preview monitor.

Macintosh Colors panel or the Windows Color dialog box for

color selection. see “Accessing Additional Parameters for an

Effect” on page 69.

and without effects applied to it.

bar for most 2D and 3D effects.

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Effect Editor Controls (Continued)

Location in

Button or Control

HQ Right side Appears when the effect has an HQ (Highest Quality) rendering

Grid Right side Displays Safe Action/Safe Title guidelines or the Effect Grid.

Render Effect Bottom Renders the current effect.

Outline/Path Bottom Displays a wire-frame path to illustrate the movement of an

Effect Editor Description

option. Click to select the HQ implementation or the standard implementation with which to render the effect. The button is green when the HQ implementation is selected. For more information, see “Rendering HQ (Highest Quality) Effects” on

page 137.

For more information, see “Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect

Mode” on page 59.

effect from the first keyframe through the last keyframe.

Transition Effect Alignment

Transition Effect Duration box

Promote to Advanced Keyframes

3D Promote Bottom right

Bottom Opens a menu from which you select the alignment of a

Bottom Sets a duration for the transition effect other than the duration

Bottom Available only for effects that support advanced keyframes.

corner

transition effect relative to the cut point. The appearance of the button changes depending on which alignment option you have selected from the menu. For a detailed explanation of the Transition Effect Alignment menu and the Transition Effect Duration box, see “Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode” on

page 43.

The Transition Effect Alignment button shows the

alignment of the transition effect applied at the cut point. If the cut point does not have a transition effect, the Transition Effect Alignment button appears as a vertical bar. If the cut point has an existing transition effect, the button indicates the alignment of the transition effect.

displayed.

Promotes the effect to advanced keyframes. See “Understanding

Advanced Keyframes” on page 82.

Available for some effects, including titles, Picture-in-Picture, and imported matte keys. Promotes the effect to a 3D effect.

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu

Some effects have parameters that you select from a Fast menu. For example, border types for 3D effects are in the same Fast menu.

To select a parameter from a Fast menu:

t Click the Fast Menu button, and then select a parameter.

Fast Menu button

Menu showing other parameters

Changing a Parameter with a Slider

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Many parameters have sliders for controlling parameters with a range of possible values.

Slider Thumbwheel

Activated slider Parameter’s numeric valueActivated thumbwheel

Parameter’s numeric value

The thumbwheel is a specialized slider that provides a window on a wide range of values and allows precise control over increments.

When you edit an effect that has advanced keyframes, you can choose to display parameters with either sliders or thumbwheels. See “Effect Editor Controls for Advanced Keyframes”

on page 118.

To activate a parameter that has a slider:

t Click the parameter’s slider.

The slider changes to pink.

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To change the value of a parameter that has a slider, use any of the following methods:

t Move the slider with the mouse. t Use the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key to change the value by –1 or +1. t Press the Ctrl key and use the mouse scroll wheel to change the value by increments of

–1 or +1.

t Press the Shift key, and use the Left Arrow key or Right Arrow key to change the value

by –10 or +10.

t Press the Ctrl and Shift keys, or the Ctrl and Alt keys, and use the mouse scroll wheel to

change the value by increments of -10 or +10.

t Use the numeric keypad to type a new value, and, if you entered fewer than three digits,

press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh). The parameter’s numeric value (to the right of the slider) changes as you move the

slider.

To move from one slider to the next slider:

t Press the Tab key.

To move from one slider to the previous slider:

t Press Shift+Tab.

Using Parameter Enable Buttons

You control some parameters using parameter Enable buttons. These parameters can either be active or inactive but cannot be adjusted over a range of values. For example, the Fixed Aspect parameter Enable button controls whether the aspect ratio of an image is maintained when you adjust one of its dimensions.

To turn a parameter on or off using a parameter Enable button:

t Click the Enable button.

Parameter Enable button

Parameter Enable buttons are pink when the parameter is active and gray when the parameter is inactive.

Off On

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect

Some effects have additional parameters that control their operation. For example, the Grid effect has additional parameters in which you set the number of columns and rows in the wipe.

When an effect has additional parameters, the Other Options button appears next to the effect name or in a parameter group.

To access an effect’s additional parameters:

t Next to the effect name or in a parameter group, click the Other Options button.

A dialog box opens in which you set the additional parameters.

Using the Effect Editor

You also use the Other Options button to access the parameters for third-party plug-in effects and for the Windows Color dialog box or Macintosh Colors panel in effects that allow you to change color parameters.

Adjusting a Color Parameter

In addition to using the Hue, Sat (saturation), and Lum (luminance) sliders, you can change a color parameter or select a key color with the following methods:

• Select a color with the eyedropper.

• Specify a color in the Windows Color dialog box or Macintosh Colors panel.

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color

To select a color using the eyedropper:

1. Position the pointer over the Color Preview window to activate the eyedropper.

2. Press and hold the mouse button, then drag the eyedropper to the Effect Preview monitor, and release the mouse button on the color you want to select from the video image.

Eyedropper Color Preview window

Your Avid editing application updates the parameter’s numeric values, and the selected color appears in the Color Preview window.

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Using the Windows Color Dialog Box

The Windows Color dialog box is part of the Windows XP operating system.

To open the Windows Color dialog box:

t Click the Other Options button next to a color parameter.

The Windows Color dialog box opens.

Color matrix

Current color

Default choices

Custom colors palette

Color|Solid box

Color slider

Color selection text boxes

To use the Windows Color dialog box:

1. To select a color from the Basic colors palette, click the color you want.

2. To specify a custom color, do one of the following: t Click in the color matrix to select a color, and then drag the color slider to adjust the

amount of white and black in the color. t Type numeric values for each color component in the color selection text boxes. The new color is displayed in the left side of the Color|Solid box.

3. When you are satisfied with the color, click Add to Custom Colors to add it to the Custom Colors palette.

4. To select a custom color from the Windows Color dialog box, click the color you want.

5. Click OK. The Windows Color dialog box closes, and your Avid editing application applies the

color to the parameter in the Effect Editor.

Using the Macintosh Colors Panel

The Macintosh Colors panel is part of the Macintosh operating system. You can access the Macintosh Colors panel through the Other Options button.

To open the Macintosh Colors panel:

t Click the Other Options button next to a color parameter.

The Macintosh Colors panel opens.

Using the Effect Editor

The Macintosh Colors panel provides several methods for specifying colors. Select the appropriate icon at the top of the Colors panel to display the method you want. You can select from many options, including RGB sliders, a crayon box, an HSV (hue, saturation, luminance) color wheel, a Web-safe color picker (Name), or CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) sliders. For a complete description of how to use the Macintosh Colors panel, see the documentation that ships with your Macintosh.

To select a color with the sliders options, do one of the following:

t Drag the sliders to increase or decrease the color component. t Type values in the percentage text boxes on the right side of the dialog box.

The color in the New color window updates as you change values.

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Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

In addition to defining effects using parameter controls, you can make some adjustments to effects by manipulating them directly in the Effect Preview monitor. These adjustments use handles and wire-frame outlines that you can display in the monitor.

You can create a motion path that defines how the foreground image moves across the background video. You can also resize a foreground image, as in a picture-in-picture effect.

Defining a Motion Path

You can define how the foreground image of a multilayer effect moves across the background video by building a motion path, or string of keyframes. You can define a motion path on multilayer video effects such as Picture-in-Picture effects. Use the wire-frame preview feature when you want to see the path an image takes on the screen.

When you are creating a motion path that moves beyond the viewing screen, you can use the Reduce button to view an outline of the image at a reduced scale. The reduced scale view shows the area outside the background image and allows you to extend the motion path into that area. The Enlarge button returns the screen to full view.

To define a motion path for the foreground image, do one of the following:

t Move the image directly and automatically add keyframes.

For more information, see “Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path” on

page 72.

t Add keyframes and adjust the parameter sliders.

For more information, see “Working with Keyframes” in the Help.

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path

You can use the wire-frame feature and keyframes to add a motion path to a multilayer effect. The Outline/Path button on the Effect Editor window places a wire frame around the foreground image in the Effect Preview monitor. You can then drag the wire frame to new locations and add keyframes at each location to add movement to the effect.

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

To add a motion path to the foreground image by using the wire frame and keyframes:

1. Create a sequence with two video layers (foreground video on track V2, background video on track V1).

For information about editing a sequence, see “First Edits: Basics” in the Help.

2. Apply a multilayer effect to the foreground segment on track V2.

3. Select the foreground effect segment on track V2.

4. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. By default, the wire frame is active. The foreground image is outlined, and both the

starting and ending keyframe indicators are highlighted (pink) in the effect’s position bar.

Wire frame outlining foreground image on track V2

Background image on track V1

Effect’s position bar

Starting keyframe indicator Ending keyframe indicatorPosition indicator

5. (Option) If the wire frame is not displayed, click the Outline/Path button in the Effect Editor to activate the wire frame.

6. Drag the wire frame to the start point of the motion path you are creating. The starting keyframe indicator represents the start point.

7. Click the ending keyframe indicator to select it. Make sure the ending keyframe indicator is the only indicator selected (pink).

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8. Drag the wire frame to the end point of the motion path. A path line from the center of the starting position to the center of the ending position

appears.

9. Drag the position indicator in the effect’s position bar to a new location. The wire frame moves with the position indicator; the path line does not change.

10. Click inside the wire frame, and drag or stretch the wire frame to add a keyframe at the new location.

A handle appears in the center of the wire frame, indicating the path position of the new keyframe.

11. Drag the wire frame to change the effect’s path.

Path line

Selected keyframe

12. Repeat steps 9 to 11 to add more variation to the path.

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles

You can resize the foreground image in a multilayer effect by clicking the wire-frame handles in the Effect Preview monitor and dragging them to a new location. The top center handle adjusts the image’s height and the right center handle adjusts the image’s width. You can use the top right corner handle to change the image’s height and width proportionally, retaining the image’s existing aspect ratio.

Center handle

Wire frame

Effect’s position bar

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

To resize the foreground image by dragging wire-frame handles:

1. Create a sequence with two video layers (foreground video on track V2, background video on track V1).

For information about editing a sequence, see “First Edits: Basics” in the Help.

2. Apply a multilayer effect to the foreground segment on track V2.

3. Select the foreground effect segment on track V2.

4. Enter Effect mode, for example, by selecting Toolset > Effects Editing. For more information, see “Entering Effect Mode” in the Help. By default, the wire frame is active in the Effect Preview monitor.

Wire-frame resize handles

5. (Option) If the wire frame is not displayed, click the Outline/Path button in the Effect Editor to activate the wire frame.

6. Drag one of the handles to resize the image:

t Drag the top center handle to adjust the image’s height. t Drag the right center handle to adjust the image’s width. t Drag the top right corner handle to equally change the image’s height and width.

This option maintains the aspect ratio while resizing the image.

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Using Effect Templates

The complete set of parameter values for an effect is called the effect template. You can reuse an effect template in multiple places in a sequence by saving the template in a bin and later applying the template to other effects or video clips in the sequence.

Saving an Effect Template

You can save the parameters from an effect in the Effect Editor and reuse them for another effect. You can also save a segment effect with its source media, which is useful when you want to save an imported PICT file or Matte Key clip for future editing into a sequence.

To save the parameters from an effect as an effect template:

1. Drag the effect icon from the Effect Editor to a bin.

Effect icon

This creates a new effect template in the bin, containing the parameter setting information for the effect. The new effect template is identified in the bin by its effect icon.

2. To rename the template, click the template name and type a new name.

Using Effect Templates

To save a segment effect with its source media:

1. Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh), and then drag the effect icon from the Effect Editor to a bin.

2. To rename the template, click the template name and type a new name.

Your Avid editing application saves title effects with source by default. If you press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh) while dragging the icon, you will get a keyframe-only template. This template retains the movement of the title without the source.

Displaying Effect Templates in the Effect Palette

Effect templates in open bins display in the Effect Palette. Each open bin that contains effect templates appears by name at the bottom of the effect category list.

To display effect templates saved to a bin in the Effect Palette:

1. Open the bin containing the effect templates.

2. If the Effect Palette is not already open, in the Project window, click the Effects tab.

Effect category list

Bin name containing effect templates

3. Click the bin name below the effect category list to view the effect templates in the bin.

Effect templates

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Applying an Effect Template

You can take an effect template that has been saved in a bin and apply the template and its parameters to other transitions or segments in your sequence. Effect templates saved in open bins appear in the Effect Palette as well as in the bin itself.

You can also apply specific parameters from the template.

Do not drag an effect template through the Timeline because this deselects the effect.

To apply an effect template with all its parameters directly to a segment or transition:

t Drag the effect template icon from the bin or from the Effect Palette, and drop it on the

segment or transition in the Timeline.

Effect template example: In this example, a 3D PIP Effect template was saved and then applied repeatedly to a series of segments to achieve the same cropping and positioning of foreground footage.

To apply a specific parameter from an effect template:

1. Select an effect transition or segment in the Timeline.

2. Select Tools > Effect Editor.

3. Open the parameter category you want to change. For example, the following illustration shows the Position parameter category.

Using Effect Templates

4. Click the effect template icon in the bin or in the Effect Palette, and drag it to the specific parameter category in the Effect Editor.

The effect template is applied only to the effect parameter category you selected.

New position parameters

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Chapter 3

Working with Advanced Keyframes

This chapter describes how to use advanced keyframes to change the behavior of an effect over time. Advanced keyframes allow you to animate each keyframeable parameter in an effect independently, giving you a great deal of flexibility and control for effects adjustments.

You can also use standard keyframes in your Avid editing applications. Standard keyframes apply to every parameter in an effect. While they provide less precise control over effect adjustments, they are simpler to use and might be the best choice for your more straightforward effects adjustments. For information on using standard keyframes, see ”Working with Keyframes” in the Help.

This chapter contains the following main topics:

• Understanding Advanced Keyframes

• Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

• Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

• Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

• Controls and Options for Advanced Keyframes

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Understanding Advanced Keyframes

You can maximize your control of effect parameters for many effects using advanced keyframes. When an effect uses advanced keyframes, each keyframeable effect parameter

has a separate keyframe track that opens to display a keyframe graph — where you set and customize keyframes. Keyframe tracks are also available for each parameter group, and for the entire effect.

You can modify the keyframes for any single parameter independently from the keyframes for any other parameters. You can also modify the keyframes for various groups or combinations of parameters independently from the keyframes for any other parameters.

You can still select standard keyframes, in which each keyframe affects all parameters. You can also use advanced keyframes as if they were standard keyframes.

The following illustration shows part of the Effect Editor display for a Center Box effect that uses advanced keyframes. The illustration shows the three types of keyframe tracks and an open keyframe graph.

Effect track Parameter group tracks

Parameter tracks

Keyframe graph

Parameter group track

Parameter tracks

Parameter group track

The following table describes the three keyframe track types in the Effect Editor.

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

Advanced Keyframe Track Types

Track Type Description

Effect track The keyframes in this track correspond to the keyframes in the Effect Preview monitor.

When you select a keyframe in the effect track, the system automatically selects all of the keyframes at that point in time in the effect (all the keyframes directly under that keyframe in the Effect Editor). This makes it easy to move, delete, or perform other operations on many keyframes at the same time.

Parameter group track This track shows all the keyframes in the specific parameter group. When you select a

keyframe in the parameter group track, the system automatically selects all the corresponding parameter keyframes in the group. Parameter groups can have subgroups. For example, in the previous illustration, Color and Blend Color are subgroups of Border.

Parameter track This track shows the keyframes for the individual parameter. Parameter tracks are lighter

in color than the parameter group tracks. You can open individual parameter tracks to fine-tune the parameter values in a keyframe graph.

Advanced keyframe functions are available even when a keyframe graph is closed

to show only the keyframe parameter track.

By allowing you to manipulate multiple keyframes at the same time, effect tracks and parameter group tracks provide similar functionality to the meta curve region available in Avid DS systems.

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

Many effects support advanced keyframes. If you can promote an effect to advanced keyframes, a Promote to Advanced Keyframes button appears in the Effect Editor.

To promote an effect to advanced keyframes:

t In the Effect Editor, click the Promote to Advanced Keyframes button.

The Effect Editor displays the effect with keyframe tracks.

Once you promote an effect to advanced keyframes, the Acceleration parameter category no longer appears. You manipulate acceleration (ease-in and ease-out) using the spline or Bézier interpolation options, which give you more control than the standard Acceleration parameter category. For more information, see “Controlling Parameter Changes at

Keyframes” on page 109.

Using advanced keyframes, you can change the order of nested effects by manipulating the Nesting Priority icons that appear in the Effect Editor. For more information, see “Changing

the Order of Nested Effects” on page 186.

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Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can open a keyframe graph for any effect parameter that is keyframeable. Once a keyframe graph is open, you can customize your view of the graph in a variety of ways.

Parameters that are not keyframeable, such as the Fixed Aspect parameter, have tracks that do not show the parameter’s name, default keyframes, or time marks. You can drag the effect’s position indicator in these tracks, but you cannot add keyframes to them.

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You open a keyframe graph by using the triangular opener that appears to the left of the parameter track.

You do not have to open a keyframe graph to set and manipulate advanced keyframes. You can add and delete keyframes, customize keyframe interpolation options, and use the standard controls for each parameter to set the values for its keyframes while a keyframe graph is closed.

To open a keyframe graph:

t Click the triangular opener.

The keyframe parameter track opens to display a keyframe graph.

Triangular openers for keyframe graphs

Parameter tracks (graphs closed)

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs

In keyframe graphs, the horizontal axis represents the length of the effect and the vertical axis represents the range of parameter values. The graph area itself is very dark grey.

In the default view, a keyframe graph shows the full length of the effect on the horizontal axis and the full range of parameter values on the vertical axis, as shown in the following illustration.

Keyframe graph (open)

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Beginning of effect’s length

Vertical axis (represents range of parameter values)

End of effect’s length

Maximum parameter value

Minimum parameter value

Horizontal axis (represents length of effect)

You can scale and scroll a keyframe graph both horizontally and vertically, for example to concentrate on one part of the effect’s length or one part of its parameter value range. When you do this, the boundaries of the keyframe graph might not be visible. For more information, see “Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display” on page 86.

The active keyframe graph is highlighted using a darker background. This allows you to see which keyframe graph is active when multiple keyframe graphs are open. When you make another graph active, for example, by clicking a keyframe indicator in that graph, the background for that graph changes to the darker grey color.

In this example, the Radius keyframe graph is active and is highlighted with a darker grey background.

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Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display

You can adjust the keyframe graph display in the following ways:

• Resize the display area for a keyframe graph by manipulating the size of the Effect Editor and by expanding or contracting the vertical size of the keyframe graph.

• Zoom the horizontal view of the keyframe graphs using the horizontal scale bar at the bottom of the Effect Editor.

• Zoom the vertical view of a keyframe graph using the graph’s vertical scale bar.

• Use the Zoom to Curve Height feature to quickly focus on part of a keyframe graph.

• Scroll the view in a keyframe graph by using the scroll thumbwheel at the bottom of the Effect Editor or by dragging in the view.

• Reset the view of a keyframe graph so that all keyframes are visible.

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can widen a keyframe graph or create space for expanding a keyframe graph vertically by resizing the entire Effect Editor window. You can expand or contract a keyframe graph vertically by dragging on the keyframe graph’s bottom border.

To resize the Effect Editor window:

t Click a corner of the Effect Editor, and drag it to resize the window.

If you make the Effect Editor window wider, the keyframe track area and any open keyframe graphs also become wider. If you make the Effect Editor window taller, you create extra space within which you can expand keyframe graphs vertically.

To change the height of a keyframe graph:

1. Position the pointer over the bottom border of the keyframe graph that you want to change.

The pointer changes to a vertical resizing pointer.

2. Click the edge of the graph, and drag it up or down. The height of the keyframe graph gets smaller or larger.

Before vertical resizing After vertical resizing

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Horizontally

You can zoom (or scale) keyframe graphs horizontally using the horizontal scale bar at the bottom of the Effect Editor.

Horizontal scale bar

The horizontal scale bar expands or contracts the view in the keyframe graphs centered around the position indicator. This allows you to either zoom in to focus on a specific area of your keyframe graph or zoom out to display the entire keyframe graph.

To zoom in or out horizontally on a keyframe graph:

t Drag the horizontal scale bar to the right (to zoom in) or to the left (to zoom out).

The view in the keyframe graph expands or contracts horizontally to show more or less detail.

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Keyframe graph zoomed out horizontally (graph shows full length of effect)

Keyframe graph zoomed in horizontally (graph shows detail of the middle of the effect’s length; start and end keyframes are not visible)

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Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Vertically

You can zoom (or scale) any individual keyframe graph vertically using the graph’s vertical scale bar, located to the left of the graph.

You can also use the Zoom to Curve Height feature to quickly scale a graph so that its keyframe curve fills the available viewing area for the graph. For more information, see

“Using Zoom to Curve Height” on page 89.

Vertical scale bar

Zoom to Curve Height button

The vertical scale bar expands or contracts the view in a keyframe graph. This allows you to either zoom in to focus on a specific area of your keyframe graph or zoom out to display the entire keyframe graph. You can zoom out beyond the limits of the parameter value range.

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To zoom in or out vertically on a keyframe graph:

t Drag the vertical scale bar down (to zoom in) or up (to zoom out).

The view in the keyframe graph expands or contracts to show a smaller or larger range of parameter values.

Keyframe graph at default vertical zoom (graph shows full range of parameter values)

Keyframe graph zoomed in vertically (graph shows a reduced range of parameter values)

Using Zoom to Curve Height

The Zoom to Curve Height feature provides a quick way to focus on part of the keyframe graph.

Zoom to Curve Height centers the keyframe graph and scales the graph vertically so that the keyframe curve fills the available viewing area.

Keyframe graph zoomed out vertically (graph shows an extended range of parameter values)

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Before: Keyframe graph is zoomed out and hard to read and manipulate

After: Keyframe graph is scaled so the keyframe curve fills the available viewing areaa

If the curve passing through a selected keyframe uses the Bézier interpolation option, the scaling ensures that the Bézier handles for the keyframe are also visible in the viewing area.

Zoom to Curve Height also takes account of the horizontal zoom setting of the graph. If a graph is zoomed in horizontally on a small time range in an effect, for example, Zoom to Curve Height scales the curve vertically while maintaining the horizontal zoom. By combining horizontal zooming and the Zoom to Curve feature, you can quickly make a keyframe graph easier to work with, even when keyframes are very close together and their parameter values are similar.

Before: Multiple keyframes are very hard to see or manipulate in this zoomed out keyframe graph.

After horizontal zooming and scrolling: The keyframes are better separated, but the curve remains flat and hard to read.

After using Zoom to Curve Height: The curve for the zoomed in part of the graph is easy to see and interpret, and keyframes are easy to adjust.

To zoom on a keyframe graph so the keyframe curve fills the available viewing area, do one of the following:

t Click the Zoom to Curve Height button. t Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+Shift+click (Macintosh) the keyframe graph and select

Zoom to Curve Height.

Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs

You can scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally by using the scroll thumbwheel at the bottom of the Effect Editor. You can scroll the view in a keyframe graph both horizontally and vertically by dragging directly in the keyframe graph.

To scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally:

t Drag the scroll thumbwheel to the left or to the right.

The view in the keyframe graph scrolls so that part of the view disappears on one side and more comes into view on the other side.

To scroll the view in a keyframe graph horizontally or vertically:

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Scroll thumbwheel

1. Alt+click (Windows) or Option+click (Macintosh) the keyframe graph. The pointer changes to a hand.

2. Drag the hand to reposition the view within the keyframe graph.

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views

If you move the view in a keyframe graph so that you can no longer see the keyframes, you can use the shortcut menu to recenter the keyframes in the keyframe graph.

To reset the view in a keyframe graph:

t Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+Shift+click (Macintosh) the keyframe graph, and select

Reset All Graph Views. The keyframes appear centered in the keyframe graph.

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Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

You can manipulate advanced keyframes in a wide variety of ways. You can:

• Add or delete keyframes

• Select or deselect keyframes

• Move keyframes

• Determine whether or not multiple keyframes move relative to one another

• Copy and paste keyframe parameters

• Control how effect parameters change at keyframes

• Reverse the order in which keyframes are applied over time in an effect

• Control how keyframes adjust when you trim effects

• Control how effect parameters change at bracketing (start and end) keyframes

You can also determine whether your keyframe manipulations apply to a single effect parameter or to multiple parameters.

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Display

When you add a keyframe to a parameter, corresponding keyframe indicators appear in the effect track, in the parameter group track, and in the Effect Preview monitor. The following illustration shows the result after keyframes are added to the Position parameters H Pos and V Pos.

rame in the

effect track

New keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor

Keyframe in the parameter group track

New keyframes added to parameters in Position group

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You should be aware of the following aspects of advanced keyframe display:

• Keyframe indicators in the Effect Editor’s effect track or parameter group tracks are darker than those in individual parameter tracks, making it easier for you to distinguish between them.

• Keyframe indicators in parameter group tracks and in the effect track are linked to any keyframes that are beneath them in the parameter hierarchy. You can think of the keyframe indicators that appear in parameter group tracks and in the effect track as parent indicators, and the individual parameter keyframes beneath them as their children.

When you select a keyframe indicator in a parameter group track, any keyframes at that point in time for any individual parameters in that group are also selected and can be manipulated together. When you select a keyframe indicator in the effect track, all keyframes at that point in time throughout the effect are also selected and can be manipulated together.

Remember that a keyframe indicator in a parameter group track or in the effect track does not necessarily indicate that a keyframe exists at that point in time for every parameter in the group or in the effect. The keyframe indicator in the parameter group track or in the effect track might be the parent of one keyframe, or of several, or of a keyframe for every keyframeable parameter in the group or in the effect.

• Keyframe indicators in the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar behave in the same way as keyframe indicators in the effect track of the Effect Editor. When you select a keyframe indicator in the Effect Preview monitor, the corresponding keyframe indicator in the effect track and all keyframes at that point in time in the effect are also selected.

By allowing you to manipulate multiple keyframes at the same time, effect tracks and parameter group tracks provide similar functionality to the meta curve region available in Avid DS systems.

In earlier versions of Avid editing applications, the system highlighted the keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor if you selected any keyframe in the associated column. Now the system highlights the keyframe in the Effect Preview monitor only if all the keyframes in the column are highlighted.

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Adding Advanced Keyframes

You can add keyframes to any keyframeable parameters by using the following commands and buttons:

• The Add Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor

Depending on which method you use and how the Effect Editor is configured, you can add a keyframe to a single parameter, all the parameters in a group, every parameter in an effect, or any other custom combination of parameters.

You can use the Effect Editor shortcut menu to set a default Add Keyframe command that controls where keyframes are added when you use the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu for the

Effect Editor” on page 121.

You cannot add keyframes to parameters that are not keyframeable (for example, the Fixed Aspect parameter). The graph area for these parameters does not display time marks, default keyframes, or the parameter name.

To add a keyframe by using the shortcut menu for the keyframe track:

1. Move the position indicator to the point in the effect’s duration where you want to add a keyframe.

2. Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+Shift+click (Macintosh) one of the following: t The keyframe graph or the parameter track for an individual parameter, to add a

keyframe to that parameter only.

t A parameter group track, to add a keyframe to every keyframeable parameter in that

group. The track displays the text “Apply to Group.”

t The effect track, to add a keyframe to every keyframeable parameter in the effect.

The track displays the text “Apply to All.”

3. Select Add Keyframe Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For

more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

To add a keyframe by using the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor:

1. Move the position indicator to the point where you want to add a keyframe.

2. In the Effect Editor, click the Add Keyframe button. The Add Keyframe Mode menu opens.

If the Add Keyframe Mode menu does not appear, Show Add Keyframe Mode Menu is deselected on the Effect Editor shortcut menu. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu

for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

3. Do one of the following: t Click the Add Keyframe button a second time to select the command that has a

check mark next to it. This is the default command for adding keyframes that you can set by using the

Effect Editor settings or the Effect Editor shortcut menu. For more information, see

“Shortcut Menu for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

t Select another command from the Add Keyframe Mode menu.

For more information on the command selections, see “Keyframe Mode

Menu Commands” on page 98.

Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

The command you select becomes the default command for adding keyframes and its Delete Keyframe equivalent becomes the default command for deleting keyframes. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

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To add a keyframe by using the Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor:

1. Move the position indicator to the point where you want to add a keyframe.

2. In the Effect Preview monitor, click the Add Keyframe button. Your Avid editing application adds one or more keyframes as determined by the current

default command for adding keyframes in the Effect Editor shortcut menu. For more information on this default and how to change it, see “Shortcut Menu for the Effect

Editor” on page 121.

Active keyframe indicators appear at the position indicator in all appropriate tracks. For more information on where keyframe indicators appear, see “Understanding Advanced

Keyframe Display” on page 92.

Deleting Advanced Keyframes

You can delete advanced keyframes by selecting the keyframes you want to delete and then using one of the following:

•The Delete key

• The Delete Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Editor

• The Add Keyframe button in the Effect Preview monitor

To delete advanced keyframes by using the Delete key or the Delete Keyframe command in the shortcut menu for the keyframe track:

1. Click a keyframe indicator to activate it.

2. (Option) Ctrl+click additional keyframes in the same graph or in other graphs.

3. Do one of the following:

t Press the Delete key. t Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+Shift+click (Macintosh) the keyframe graph or

keyframe track, and select Delete Keyframe.

Your Avid editing application deletes the selected keyframes.

Manipulating Advanced Keyframes

To delete advanced keyframes by using the Add Keyframe buttons:

1. Click a keyframe indicator to activate it.

2. (Option) Ctrl+click additional keyframes in the same graph or in other graphs.

3. Do one of the following: t In the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor, press and hold the Alt key

(Windows) or the Option key (Macintosh), and then click the Add Keyframe button. Your Avid editing application deletes any selected keyframes that are affected by

the current default Delete Keyframe Mode menu command. For example, if Delete From Open Graphs is the current default, the application deletes any selected keyframes in open keyframe graphs.

t In the Effect Editor, press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key

(Macintosh), click the Add Keyframe button while still holding the Alt or Option key and pressing the mouse button, and then select a command from the Delete Keyframe Mode menu.

For more information on the Delete Keyframe Mode menu commands, see

“Keyframe Mode Menu Commands” on page 98.

The command you select becomes the default command for deleting keyframes and its Add Keyframe equivalent becomes the default command for adding keyframes. For more information, see “Shortcut Menu for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

If the Delete Keyframe Mode menu does not appear, Show Add Keyframe Mode Menu is deselected on the Effect Editor shortcut menu.

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Keyframe Mode Menu Commands

The Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode menus provide commands that control how parameters are added or deleted when you use the Add Keyframe buttons in the Effect Editor or in the Effect Preview monitor. The same set of commands also appears in the Effect Editor shortcut menu.

When you select a command in one of these menus it becomes the default command when you add or delete keyframes using the Add Keyframe buttons. For more information, see

“Shortcut Menu for the Effect Editor” on page 121.

The Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode menus mirror one another. When you change one, a corresponding change happens in the other.

The following table describes the effect of each of the menu commands.

Several of the menu command names include the word “group.” In these names, “group” refers to a parameter category.

The default command for adding and deleting keyframes applies to the keyframes in the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar just as it does to keyframes in the Effect Editor. For example, if “Add Keyframes to Open Groups” is the default command but no groups are open in the Effect Editor, you cannot add any keyframes to the Effect Preview monitor’s position bar. In this case, open a group in the Effect Editor before you add keyframes or change the command for adding and deleting keyframes.

Add Keyframe Mode and Delete Keyframe Mode Menu Commands

Command Description

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Add to Active Parameter (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Active Parameter (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Active Parameter (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Active parameter (pink)

Add to Active Group (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Active Group (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Active Group (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Adds a keyframe to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter track or keyframe graph for the active parameter only.

The active parameter is the parameter that is currently selected, for example, a slider that you clicked is pink.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the relevant parameter group track and the effect track.

Added keyframes when Add to Active Parameter command is used

Adds keyframes to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter tracks or keyframe graphs of all parameters that are in the same parameter category as the active parameter. If the category containing the active parameter is a subcategory of a larger category (for example, Color is a subcategory of Border), keyframes appear only in the subcategory and not in the larger category.

The active parameter is the parameter that is currently selected, for example, a slider that you clicked is pink.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the parameter group track and the effect track.

Active group (contains active parameter)

Active parameter (pink)

Added keyframes when Add to Active Group command is used. In this case, the Hue, Sat, and Lum parameters each have a new keyframe.

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Command Description

Add to Open Groups (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Open Groups (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Open Groups (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

Adds keyframes to or removes selected keyframes from the parameter tracks or keyframe graphs of all parameters in groups that are currently open, whether or not the group is enabled.

Corresponding keyframes appear in or are removed from the relevant parameter group tracks and the effect track.

Added keyframes when Add to Open Groups command is used. New keyframes are added to all parameters in open groups, even if the keyframe tracks are closed.

Open group and subgroups (Border)

Closed group (Foreground)

Open group (Scaling)

Add to Enabled Groups (Add Keyframe Mode menu)

Delete From Enabled Groups (Delete Keyframe Mode menu)

Add Keyframes to Enabled Groups (Effect Editor shortcut menu)

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Because your Avid application treats all parameter groups as enabled at all times, this command has the same effect as the All Parameters command. It adds keyframes to or deletes selected keyframes from the keyframe tracks or keyframe graphs for every keyframeable parameter in the effect.

Corresponding keyframes appear in all parameter group tracks and the effect track.

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Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

Effects Concepts and Settings

Effects Creation Tools

Deconstructing Effects

Understanding Effect Icon Color Coding

Effects Settings Adjustments

Effect Aperture

Understanding Effect Aperture

Changing the Effect Aperture

Setting Effect Grid Options

Working with Effects in HD and in Progressive Frame Projects

Applying and Customizing Effects

Applying Effects to Multiple Transitions

Additional Methods for Applying Dissolve Effects

Creating a Dissolve in Trim Mode

Adding Dissolves with the Head Fade and Tail Fade Buttons

Additional Information for the Quick Transition Button

Using the Quick Transition Button to Apply Effects to Multiple Transitions

Understanding the Graphical Display in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

Adjusting a Transition Effect by Dragging in the Quick Transition Dialog Box

Deleting Effects in a Sequence

Repositioning the Dissolve Effect with the Quick Transition Alignment Buttons

Deleting a Single Effect

Deleting Multiple Transition Effects

Deleting Multiple Segment Effects

Adjusting Transitions in the Timeline

Replacing an Effect in Effect Mode

Using the Effect Preview Monitor

Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor Toolbar

Mapping User-Selectable Buttons in Effect Mode

Understanding Effect Preview Monitor Tracking Information

Displaying Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines in Monitors

Working with the Effect Grid

Displaying the Effect Grid in Effect Mode

Displaying Position Coordinates

Using Local Grid Parameters

Moving an Enlarged Image in the Effect Preview Monitor

Using the Effect Editor

Displaying an Effect’s Parameters in the Effect Editor

Understanding Parameters in the Effect Editor

Effect Editor Controls

Selecting a Parameter from a Fast Menu

Changing a Parameter with a Slider

Using Parameter Enable Buttons

Accessing Additional Parameters for an Effect

Adjusting a Color Parameter

Using the Eyedropper to Select a Color

Using the Windows Color Dialog Box

Using the Macintosh Colors Panel

Manipulating Effects Directly in the Effect Preview Monitor

Defining a Motion Path

Moving the Image Directly to Add a Motion Path

Resizing a Foreground Image by Dragging Handles

Using Effect Templates

Saving an Effect Template

Displaying Effect Templates in the Effect Palette

Applying an Effect Template

Working with Advanced Keyframes

Understanding Advanced Keyframes

Promoting Effects to Advanced Keyframes

Viewing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Opening Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Understanding Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Adjusting Advanced Keyframe Graph Display

Resizing Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Horizontally

Zooming Advanced Keyframe Graphs Vertically

Using Zoom to Curve Height

Scrolling Advanced Keyframe Graphs

Resetting Advanced Keyframe Graph Views