A video effect determines how a video clip, picture, or title displays in your project and final movie. Video effects let you add special effects to your movie. For example, you might have video that you captured that you want to age, so it has a classic, old-time movie look. You can add one of the Film Age video effects to a video clip or picture. A video effect is applied for the entire duration that the video clip, picture, or title displays in your movie. You can add any of the video effects that appear in the Video Effects folder in the Collections pane.
Video effects are maintained when you split, cut, copy, or move a video clip or picture. For example, if you add the Grayscale video effect, and then split the clip, the Grayscale video effect is applied to both clips. However, if you combine two video clips, the video effects that were associated with the first clip are applied to the new combined clip, and the video effects that were associated with the second clip are removed.
The following illustration shows a project on the timeline with an added video effect. An icon appears on the video clip or picture that you applied the effect to on the Video track.
The following illustration shows a project on the storyboard with an added video effect. An icon, highlighted in the square, appears in the video effects cell to indicate that a video effect is applied.
To add a video effect
- On the storyboard/timeline, select the video clip or picture to which you want to add the video effect.
- On the Tools menu, click Video Effects or In the Movie Tasks pane, under Edit Movie, click View video effects.
- In the Contents pane, click the video effect you want to add.
- On the Clip menu, click Add to Timeline or Add to Storyboard.
To remove a video effect
- Select the video clip or picture in the storyboard/timeline that you want to remove a video effect from.
- On the Clip menu, point to Video, and then click Video effects.
- In the Displayed effects area, click the effect you want to remove, and then click Remove.
Changing video effects
This dialog box provides settings for adding and removing video effects for the selected digital media clip on the Video track of the timeline or on the selected video clip, picture, or title on the storyboard.
The following options are available in this dialog box.
Available effects - Lists the video effects you can add to the selected video, picture, or title.
Add - Click to add the video effect to the currently selected video, picture, or title.
Displayed effects - Lists the video effects that are added to the currently selected video, picture, or title. These video effects are displayed when the picture, title, or video plays in your final movie.
Move Up - Click to move the video effect up in the list. For example, if you applied the Fade In, From Black video effect and then applied the Fade In, From White video effect and wanted the Fade In, From White to play first, you could click the Fade In, From White effect and click the Move Up button, so it plays first.
Move Down - Click to move the video effect down in the list. For example, if you applied the Fade In, From Black video effect and then applied the Fade In, From White video effect and wanted the Fade In, From White to play last, you could click the Fade In, From White effect and click the Move Down button, so it plays last.
Remove - Click to remove the selected video effect in the Displayed effects box, so the video effect is not displayed in the project and final movie.
To add or remove video effects
- On the Video track of the timeline or on the storyboard, click the video clip, picture, or titles that you want to add a video effect to or remove a video effect from.
- On the Clip menu, point to Video, and then click Video Effects.
- Do one the following:
To remove a video effect, in the Displayed effects area, click the effect, and then click Remove. Repeat as necessary.To add a video effect, in the Available effects area, click the effect you want to add, and then click Add. Repeat as necessary.
