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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

How to Order Documentation

To order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States, call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843). If you are placing an order from outside the United States, contact your local Avid representative.

Using This Guide

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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