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Contents

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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