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Adding Effects

Chapter 9:

You can add many different kinds of effects to your video production, including

video 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 effects you can

add to your images and video clips. Each effect has unique attributes that you can

customize to help achieve the impression you want in your video production.

Note: CyberLink PowerDirector includes the video effects lens flare, tilt

shift, water reflection, and magnifier. You can find these effects by clicking

on the Special tag in the explorer view.

CyberLink PowerDirector includes many video effects from NewBlue*. To view

these effects, select the NewBlue Art Effects filter 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 Effect Room into the effect track directly beneath the

clips on the tracks that you want to apply it to.