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An object can be faded in or out using the handles to the left and right upper corners of the
ing of
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reground video in a cut-out of a background
video. To do this, both videos have to be placed above each other in the arranger.
• Place one video above the other in the tracks.
• Position the foreground video on the track beneath the background video.
object. Crossfades between different objects can be created by overlapped position
objects that are fading in and out. The length of the crossfade can be adjusted with the
handles
Using the brightness/volume handle located centrally at the top of the object, adjusts the
volume of audio or MIDI objects, or the brightness of video and image objects. Even if
several objects are playing simultaneously, the volume or brightness of individual objects
can still be altered.
Shrink or interlace videos
Videos can be made smaller, e.g. to show a fo
Note: Make sure that the mixing effect "Stamp" is active under "Video effects -> Chroma
key".
• Select the foreground video, and in the Media pool under "Effects -> Movement effects",
select the entry "Position/Size" or "Crop/Zoom".
• You can change the image area/size by holding down the mouse button and dragging
the edges of the video in the program monitor. This is also useful for placing the selected
video at the desired position in the program monitor.
For more detailed information, see the section entitled "Movement effects in Media Pool" in
the chapter "
Effects and titles (view page 107)". Nearly all preset effects may be automated
or animated. To animate effects or produce movements, please read the "Animating
objects
(view page 147)" chapter.
appears in the arranger on two tracks as two objects (an audio
bjects separately
You can easily save the object from the Arranger as separate files. Objects contain a
and out point, fade and effects including
effect curves that can be used in MAGIX Video Pro X2.
Extract sound from videos
Video with sound material
object and a video object). The two objects automatically form a group.
To edit the video and audio material separately from one another, the objects can be
separated with the
Ungroup (view page 222) function in the "Edit" menu or button in the
arranger. Now you can replace the audio or the video track, or process each file separately.
Rejoin/regroup the tracks with the ”Export arrangement” function.
Save o
reference to any multimedia file or a special objects (video, sound, visual, etc.) with all
additional properties that an object can have like in