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Transitions
Transitions control how your movie plays
from one object to another. Normally, a
"hard cut" is made between objects: The
first image of the following object appears
directly at the end of the previous object,
i.e. without any special fade effect.
Here you can find all fades from MAGIX
Video easy 5 HD, sorted into various
categories. Click on a category to see all
the fades in a list.
"In & Out" contains special intros and
outros for the first and last object in a
movie.
• First select a transition and click "Preview"
to preview it.
• If you want to use the transition, either drag it into the gap between two objects
or click
, if the first object is selected.
• Since the effects do not change the original material, you can easily undo any
transition. Select the object that uses the transition and click
to undo.
Scene recognition
Select the object that you would like to apply scene recognition to, and then open the
menu entry "Scene recognition" in the "Effects" menu.
Scene recognition analyzes the movie according to scene changes, i.e. jumps in
brightness and color distribution on screen. Automatically created "Time stamps"
from digital video devices - (which indicate the time when the device was turned
on/off) - are also detected as scenes.
If you select "Automatic scene recognition" then all of the scene changes that are
detected will be used to create a new scene automatically. If you select "Manual
scene recognition", then you may decide according to what you see for each
individual scene.
This option is helpful, for example, if a camera flash was captured in the source
footage. The flash from the camera would cause a sudden brightness modification
even though there was no actual scene change.