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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. Page 43