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Visual Properties (Animations)
The options in the Visual Properties tab allow you to create animations using content on the timeline. Other
options in the Visual Properties tab allow you to add color, shadow, and opacity effects to most visual media
on the timeline like video, callouts, and images.
Animations might include:
A talking head video that smoothly transitions or trades places with a screen recording video.
A spinning image that enters the video from the left, pauses, then flies off to the right.
Several videos that play simultaneously on the canvas while moving in a pattern you create.
Callouts that animate on the canvas to draw attention to an area in the video.
Visual properties animations are instructions you add to the timeline to tell the image or video on the canvas
how to behave.
For most effects, add the animation then perform the desired action on the canvas. Editor records the
action and adds it to the media on the timeline.
Animations can be added to a single media clip or a group.
Animations typically work in pairs: the first to start the effect, the second to change or end the effect.
Watch a video on creating animations! Click the Online Tutorial icon above the Preview
Window.
When working with the animations, make sure the media clip or group is selected before you begin.
Animations can be further customized with fade, color, and opacity effects.
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