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tools for storytellers™
Avid Xpress
™
for the Windows NT
®
Operating System
Effects Guide
Release 2.0
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Avid Xpress Effects Guide• Part 0130-01366-01 Rev. A• August 1998
Contents
Preface
Who Should Use This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Included in This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Chapter 1 Preparing to Work with Effects
Effect Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Effects Creation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
About Real-Time and Downstream Key Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
About Downstream Key Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
About Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Playing Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Additional Procedures for Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Speed Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Combined Rendering of Real-Time and Non-Real-Time Effects
1-6
Displaying Effects On-the-Fly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Using the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Displaying the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Resizing the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Understanding the Color Coding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
vi
Displaying Effect Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Installing AVX Plug-in Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
Troubleshooting AVX Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Blank Effect Icons in the Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
Missing Effect Categories in the Effect Palette. . . . . . . . . . 1-15
The Avid Xpress System Cannot Render the Plug-In. . . . 1-15
Chapter 2 Basics of Effects Editing
Deconstructing Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Applying Effects to a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Applying an Effect to a Single Transition or Segment. . . . . . . . 2-4
Applying an Effect to Multiple Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Applying an Effect to Multiple Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Deleting Effects in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Deleting a Single Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Deleting Multiple Segment Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Using the Fade Effect Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Working with Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Types of Transition Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Applying a Dissolve Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Using the Effect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Using the Transition Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Using the Quick Dissolve Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Sizing the Effect to Fit the Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Trimming a Transition Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Creating Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Creating a Freeze Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Creating a Rolling Clip That Freezes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Creating a Variable Speed Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Creating a Strobe Motion Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24
Chapter 3 Customizing Effects with the Effect Editor
Opening the Effect Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
vii
Customizing the Effect Mode Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Understanding the Effect Preview Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Changing the Tracking Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Displaying the Safe Title and Safe Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . 3-4
Changing Position in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Using the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Effect Editor Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Moving an Enlarged Image in Effect Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Selecting a Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Changing a Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Accessing an Effect’s Additional Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Adjusting a Color Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Using the Eyedropper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Using the Color dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Replacing an Effect with the Effect Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Using Key Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Adding a Key Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
Selecting a Key Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Moving a Key Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Changing a Key Frame’s Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Copying and Pasting Key-Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Deleting a Key Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
Defining a Motion Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
Moving the Image Directly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
Using an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-25
Saving an Effect Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26
Applying an Effect Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27
Playing an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28
Basic Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-28
Playing an Effect in a Continuous Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
Playing a Preview of an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
Rendering Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
Rendering a Single Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
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Rendering Multiple Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32
Managing Your Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Locating and Deleting Effect Media Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Chapter 4 Creating Layered and
Nested Effects
Creating Key Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Using the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
About the Chroma Key Effect and the RGB Keyer . . . . . . . 4-2
Creating a Chroma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using Post-Key Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Creating a Luma Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Creating a Matte Key Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Using the Color Effect to Prepare a High-Contrast Image . . . . 4-8
Working with Imported Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Editing with Imported Matte Key Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Editing with Imported Master Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Nesting Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Stepping Into and Out of Nested Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Expanding Nested Effects in the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Creating a Simple Nested Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Nesting a Matte Key Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Submaster Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18
Applying the Submaster to Multilayered Sequence. . . . . . . . . 4-19
Using Submaster with a Series of Short Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Collapsing Layers into One Submaster Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Performing a Video Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Chapter 5 Working with 3D Effects
About the 3D Effects Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off at Startup . . . . 5-2
Turning the 3D Effects Option On and Off from the Console. .
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5-3
Accessing 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Promoting 2D Effects to 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Using Matte Keys with 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Understanding the 3D Effects Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Moving in 3D Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
The 3D Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Rotation Axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
About 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Accessing 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Manipulating 3D Effects Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Using the Default Key-Frame Parameter Values . . . . . . . . 5-11
Resetting Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Using Effect Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Zooming In or Out on the Effect Preview Monitor. . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Manipulating 3D Effects Directly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Manipulating 3D Effect Handles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Using the Motion Path Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Applying 3D Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Some Tips for Creating 3D Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
Creating a Page Curl Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Creating a Cropped Foreground Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Xpress Effects and Symphony or Media Composer Effects . . . . . . 5-19
Chapter 6 Creating Titles and
Graphic Objects
Overview: Creating and Editing Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Downstream Keying of Titles and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Opening the Title Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Understanding the Title Tool Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Understanding the Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Using the Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Setting Up the Drawing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
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Installing Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Previewing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Using Title and Action Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Using Safe Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Selecting a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Using a Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Updating the Video Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Creating a Color Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Displaying a Grid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Snapping to a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Bringing the Title Tool Window to the Foreground. . . . . . . . . 6-12
Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Creating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Resizing Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Repositioning Text Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Editing a Text String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Formatting the Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Setting the Default Text Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Selecting a Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Changing the Point Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17
Making Text Bold or Italic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
Justifying the Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
Kerning the Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
Adjusting Leading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21
Creating Graphic Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
Drawing a Square or Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
Drawing a Circle or Oval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
Drawing a Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
Selecting Line Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
Rounding Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
Selecting a Line or Border Width. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
Adding Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-26
Changing Arrowhead Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-26
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Creating Rolling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27
Page Count Limits for Rolling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-27
Using Auto Size Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
Setting Up Text Formatting for Rolling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
Typing the Rolling Title Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-29
Resizing the Width of a Rolling Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30
Scrolling Through a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30
Going to a Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-31
Adding Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-31
Deleting Additional Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32
Formatting Rolling Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32
Selecting Colors and Setting Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32
Adjusting the Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33
Blending Two Colors in an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-35
Adjusting the Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-36
Blending Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
Working with Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-38
Applying Shadows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
Adjusting Shadow Color and Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
Manipulating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
Viewing Titles Full Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
Basic Manipulation Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40
Layering Text and Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
Grouping and Ungrouping Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
Locking and Unlocking Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-42
Aligning Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-44
Distributing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-45
Saving Titles and Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-46
Matching Resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-47
Saving a Title and Exiting the Title Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-48
Saving Multiple Titles in a Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-49
Using the Fast Save Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-50
Saving a Title with Fast Save. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-50
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Viewing Fast-Saved Titles in a Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
Rendering Fast Saved Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
Revising a Title in a Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-52
Saving Title Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
Recalling a Title Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-54
Applying Title Styles to Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
Managing Title Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
Exporting a Title as a Graphics File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-56
Chapter 7 Editing with Titles
Overview: Editing with Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Downstream Keying of Titles and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Restrictions of Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Converting Downstream Key Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Restrictions of Non-Downstream Key Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Playback Capabilities of Title Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
About Title Effect Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Displaying Title Frames in the Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Editing a Title into a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
About Setting Marks in Rolling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
Applying a Title Without Setting Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Applying a Title Effect with Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Trimming the Duration of Rolling Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Removing Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Replacing Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Fading a Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Adjusting Title Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Revising a Title in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
Replacing Fill Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
Rendering Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
Re-creating Title Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
Promoting a 2D Title to 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
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Troubleshooting Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
Downstream Key Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
Wrong Title Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22
Chapter 8 2D Effects Reference
2D Effects Parameters Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Global and Keyframeable Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Acceleration Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Background Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
Border Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
Color Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
Luma Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
Chroma Adjust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Color Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
Color Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Crop Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
Foreground Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12
Key Control Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
Key (Chroma Key and Luma Key Effects). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
Secondary Key (Chroma Key Effect Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15
Spill Suppression (Chroma Key Effect Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15
Key Color (RGB Keyer Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16
Chroma Key (RGB Keyer Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16
Matte Control (RGB Keyer Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17
Color Correction (RGB Keyer Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18
Matrix Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
Motion Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20
Freeze Frame Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20
Variable Speed and Strobe Motion Parameters . . . . . . . . . 8-22
Position Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-23
Scroll Position V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
Scaling Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25
Downstream Key Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25
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Transition Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-26
Transition Effect Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-26
Transition Effect Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
Plug-in Effect Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
2D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28
Blend Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28
Dip to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29
Dissolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Fade from Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Fade to Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
Picture-in-Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Superimpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Box Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Bottom Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34
Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-35
Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-35
Left Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36
Right Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37
Top Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37
Top Left to Lower Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38
Top Right to Lower Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39
Conceal Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39
Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40
Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41
Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41
Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42
Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-43
Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-43
Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44
Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45
Edge Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45
Horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46
Horizontal Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46
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Lower Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47
Lower Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
Upper Left Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-48
Upper Right Diagonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-49
Vertical Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-49
Vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
Image Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50
Color Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-51
Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-52
Flip-Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-52
Flop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-53
Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-53
Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-54
Submaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-55
Key Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-55
Chroma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-56
Luma Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-57
Matte Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-58
RGB Keyer (AVX Plug-in Effect) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-59
L-Conceal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-60
Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-61
Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-61
Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-62
Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-63
Matrix Wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-63
Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-64
One-Way Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-64
Speckle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-65
Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-66
Zig-Zag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-66
Motion Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-67
Freeze Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-67
Variable Speed and Strobe Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-68
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Peel Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-68
Bottom Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-69
Bottom Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-69
Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-70
Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-70
Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-71
Top Left Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-72
Top Right Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-72
Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-73
Push Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-73
Bottom Left to Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-74
Bottom Right to Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-75
Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-75
Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-76
Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-76
Top Left to Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-77
Top Right to Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-78
Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-78
Sawtooth Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-79
Horizontal Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-79
Horizontal Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-80
Vertical Open Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-81
Vertical Sawtooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-81
Shape Wipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-82
Center Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-83
Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-83
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-84
Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-85
Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-85
Four Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-86
Horizontal Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-87
Horizontal Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-87
Vertical Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-88
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Spin Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-88
X Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-89
Y Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-90
Squeeze Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-90
Bottom Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-91
Bottom Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-92
Bottom Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-93
Bottom to Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-93
Centered Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-94
Horizontal Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-95
Left Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-95
Left to Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-96
Right Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-97
Right to Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-97
Top Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-98
Top Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-98
Top Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-99
Top to Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-100
Vertical Centered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-100
Title Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-101
Comparison of Similar Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-103
Chapter 9 3D Effects Reference
3D Effects Parameters Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Global Versus Keyframeable Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
The Hierarchy of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Acceleration Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Axis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Background Color Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Border Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7
Crop Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
Foreground Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
Full Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
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Luma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Chroma Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12
Using the Chroma Key Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Position Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Rotation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Scaling Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16
Shadow Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17
Shape Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Spline Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Target Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
Trail Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-21
3D Effects Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-22
Page Turns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-23
Page Turn Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-23
Page Curl Angle Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-25
Radial Shape Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-25
Multiwave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26
3D Ball Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-27
Offset Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-29
Offset Shape Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-29
3D Slats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-30
3D Arrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-31
3D Center Burst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-31
3D Sine Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32
3D Bumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32
Table of Effects in Avid Xpress
Preface
This guide is your introduction to the wealth of effects and design
options available for use in your projects. Along with the standard
editing features included with this latest release of Avid® Xpress, you
have at your fingertips all the sophisticated effect capabilities of a
high-end post-production suite, combined with the versatility of a dig-
ital nonlinear system.
You can use the tools and techniques described in this guide to create
and incorporate into your sequence titles and effects with a wide vari-
ety of attributes. This guide also describes how to apply third-party
plug-in effect filters for stunning effects formerly available only on
high-end graphics workstations.
Who Should Use This Manual
This guide is intended for users of Avid Xpress software who are
familiar with the basic nonlinear editing techniques. You should com-
plete the tutorial in the Avid Xpress Getting Started Guide to become
familiar with the basic nonlinear editing techniques.
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Preface
About This Manual
This guide leads you through even the most complex procedures with
vivid, task-oriented instructions. The information provided here
builds on editing procedures described in the Avid Xpress online help,
while adding a complete explanation of all the tools and techniques
required to create, apply, and adjust various effects and graphics,
including useful tips, shortcuts, and custom options.
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Consider keeping the Avid Xpress Quick Reference on hand during each ses-
sion.
Included in This Manual
The Table of Contents that precedes this Preface lists all topics
included in the book. They cover the following general areas:
• Effects editing: The first four chapters of this book describe various
beginning and advanced techniques for incorporating literally
hundreds of digital video effects (DVEs), third-party effect filters,
keys, and layering options.
• Working with 3D effects: This chapter provides examples of effects
you can recreate to become familiar with the 3D parameters and
shapes.
• Creating and editing titles and graphic objects: Chapters 6 and 7 cover
real-time titling and use of the tools to create and control the
attributes of on-screen text, backgrounds, lines, boxes, ovals, and
other graphics objects. You can create multiple titles without exit-
ing the Title Tool, and apply shadows, color, transparency, layers,
and alignment to both objects and text.
• 2D effects reference: This chapter provides quick access to specific
information on the Avid Xpress system’s 2D effects and parame-
ters.
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