User`s guide

Chapter 1 Desktop

To add an effect:

1. Click the name of any folder in the Available Categories window.

Thumbnails of each effect in that folder appear in the Available Effects area.

2. The first time that you open a folder, click the Generate Thumbnails button.

3. Press Animate Thumbnail Preview to animate the thumbnail in the Preview window.

4. Click any thumbnail to select the effect.

A red box appears around the selected thumbnail.

5. Do one of the following:

t Click the Insert button to place the selected effect into your current Avid editor

project.

t Click the Open Project button to insert the effect into a new Avid FX project.

Template Mode

When using Avid FX as a plugin, you can opt to have only the Library Browser window

appear in the Avid FX user interface, providing a quick way to insert text effects or when

repeatedly applying the same preset. When in this Template mode, any selected effect is

applied automatically to the current sequence(s) in the Avid editor.

Selected effect

Click a Category

folder to preview

the contents on the

right.

Preview window

Link to Boris FX

website

Comments

Quality, Preview,

and Effect buttons

Source Folder menu

Template-mode

controls