AV News 194 - November 2013
Some important improvements in Objects and Animation are :· Blur can be applied for keyframes of any objects.
· Color adjustment for keyframes of objects (grayscale, sepia, custom)
· Crop tool
· Mask container can be inserted into another mask container.
· Video masks.
· Optimized performance of Masks objects.
· Adjustable speed of video clips.
· Chroma Key.
· Support of video clips with alpha channel
(requires video clips in RGBA format).
· Transparent background of slides for custom transition effects.
Blur can be applied in the Objects & Animation/Animation tab, to keyframes
for both still images and
video. If you apply a
negative amount of blur
(from zero to -20) this
sharpens the image.
Useful if you don’t have
time to go into image
editing
software
to
sharpen each image.
Blur can be useful to
give
a
diffuse
background on which to
overlay other images,
such as vertical pictures
or
several
smaller
images.
Blurring by keyframe,
gives
a
smooth
transition from the sharp
image to the blurred
image.
This
saves
having to create a
separate blurred image
in a photo editing
program
and
also
reduces the overal .exe
file size as only one
image is needed.
If a parent object has
child objects, this group
of objects will be blurred
together.
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