User guide

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Getting Started

3.2.7 Applying Effects to Clips in the Timeline

Adding effects to the timeline of the Edit Tool and playing it out in real

time is one strength of the DVS system. Every clip in the timeline pro-

vides timeline element properties the same way a transition does: You

simply have to double-click the clip on the timeline or invoke the con-

text menu of the clip and select the menu option Show properties.

Via the timeline element properties of a clip you can adjust zooming

and panning or set color/gamma corrections for the respective clip. All

settings can be transferred easily to other clips present in the timeline.

In this step to introduce the Edit Tool we want to apply a primary color

correction to clip A of our example project. For this perform the follow-

ing:

y Select the second clip in the timeline (clip A) with a click of the

mouse.

Because in the previous step we have altered the properties of a transi-

tion, the area of the timeline element properties should already be vis-

ible below the timeline. As soon as the clip is selected, it shows you

immediately its properties.

The effects operator ’Zoom + Pan’ is by default available and active for

all video clips in the timeline and thus is already available in the effects

list of the timeline element properties.

y Next, activate the tab Effects in the tool area of the Edit Tool.

Figure 3-13: Selection of an effects operator

The tool area displays all available effects operators on your system.

With a click of the mouse on the little plus or minus sign right in front

of an entry or by double-clicking an entry directly you can expand or

collapse the operators sorted under this folder.

y Select from the folder ’colorcorrection’ the operator for the primary

color correction (’1st Color Correction’) and drag and drop it to the

Effects list of the timeline element properties:

If the timeline element properties area is not visible perform a

double-click on the clip in the timeline or select the menu op-

tion Show properties of its context menu.