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Adding Effects
Adding Effects
Chapter 9:
You can add many different kinds of special effects to your video production,
including special effects that you apply to a portion or the entire media clip. Use
Magic Motion to apply a motion effect to images in your video production, or the
Magic Style and Freeze Frame features to auto create some effects for you.
Adding Video Effects
Select the button to open the Effect Room and access over 100 special effects
you can add to your images and video clips. Each special effect has unique
attributes that you can customize to help achieve the impression you want in your
video production.
CyberLink PowerDirector now includes many special video effects from NewBlue*.
To view these effects, select the NewBlue filters from the drop-down in the effects
library. To view extra help and information about these effects, add them to your
production, select them, and then click the Modify button. In the Effect Settings
panel, select the Help and Information buttons for more detailed information.
Note: * optional feature in CyberLink PowerDirector. Check the version table on
our web site for detailed versioning information.
To insert a video effect to a portion of a clip in the timeline, do one of the
following:
select an effect in the Effect Room and then click to add it
to the effect track at the current position of the timeline slider.
Note: videos effects in the effect track are applied to all the video tracks that are
positioned above it in the timeline.
drag an effect from the Effects Room into the effect track directly beneath the
clips on the tracks that you want to apply it to.
right-click on an effect and select Add to Timeline to add it to the current
position of the timeline slider.
click and then select Apply Random Video Effect to add a random video
effect at the current position of the timeline slider.