User Guide

Chapter 4: Video Clips 77
Emboss: This specialised effect emulates the look of
an embossed or bas-relief carving. Studio offers ten
steps of emboss.
Mosaic: This effect breaks an image into increasingly
large collared squares as you move the slider to the
right. The mosaic effect has 64 levels.
Posterize: This effect progressively reduces the
number of colours used to render an image, with the
effect that regions of similar colour are coalesced into
larger flat areas. Studio offers seven steps of
posterization.
The Vary playback speed tool
This tool allows you to set the speed of any video
clip from one-tenth to five times normal. Set the
slider to the speed you wish to apply to the clip. Notice
that the clip changes length in the Movie Window as
you vary its speed.
Conversely, you can change the playback speed by
sizing a clip to a specific duration in the Timeline view
of the Movie Window (as long as it is between one-
fifth and ten times the clip’s original duration). Just
select the clip while the Vary playback speed tool is
open: your cursor changes to the Speed change cursor
when you drag the right edge of your clip. The
trimming of the clip is not affected.
Slowing down your clip (increasing its duration) can
make motion look choppy. You can smooth the motion
by interpolating frames (that is, creating intermediate
frames). Check the Smooth motion between frames
checkbox to activate this feature.