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Move—Moves selected points in any direction.
Click and hold the Move button to display the
flyout where you can select a button to move in any
direction, move only in the horizontal direction,
or mov e only in the vertical direction. The Move
function remains active until you click another
button. The button is yellow while it is active.
Scale Point—Vert ically scales a point up or down.
Click once to enable Scale Point. The Scale Point
function remains active until you click another
button. The button is yellow while it is active.
Add Point—Allows you to add points anywhere
along the Radial Size curve. Click and hold the
Add Point button to displa y the flyout where you
can select a button to add either a Corner Point
or a Bezier Point. Click once to enable Add Point.
The Add Point function remains act ive until you
click another button. The button is yellow while
it is active.
Delete Point—Deletes selected points.
Hori zontal Position—Allows you to manually enter
a horizontal position value for a selected point.
Vertical Position—Allows you to manually enter a
vertical position value for a selected point.
Pan—Allows you to click and drag the Radial Size
graphtomoveitleftandrightorupanddown.
Click once to enable p anning. Pan remains active
until you click another button. The button is
yellow while it is active.
Zoom Ext e n ts—Fits the curve within the dialog
window both vertically and horizontally so that
theentirecurveisvisible.
Zoom H o ri zon tal E xtents—Fits the curve
horizontal ly within the dialog window so that the
full length of the curve is visible.
Zoom Vertica l Ext e nts —Fits the curve vertically
w ithin t he Radia l Size graph so that the full height
of the curve is visible.
Zoom Horizontally—Scales the width of the R adial
Size graph.
Zoom Ver tica lly—Scales the length of the Radial
Size graph.
Zoom—Zooms in and out of the entire Radial Size
graph.
Zoom Reg ion —Allows you to drag a region in the
Radial Size graph and scale that region to fill the
window.
Blur Rendering Effect
Rendering menu > Effects > Environment and Effects
dialog>Effectspanel>Add>AddEffectdialog>Blur
TheBlureffectallowsyoutobluryourimagein
three different methods: Uniform, Directional,
and Radial. Blur works on individual pixels
accordingtoselectionsmadeinthePixel
Selections panel. You can blur an entire image,
non-background scene elements, by luminance
value, or by using a map mask. Blur can g ive your
animation added realism by rendering the illusion
of object or camera mo vement.