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Presets contain a snapshot of your effect configuration. 16 built-in presets are available.

When you save parameter configuration to a file on disk, this file can later be loaded to recreate the same effect configuration. Presets generated in one video application can be used by the same plug-in running in a different video application.

Determines at which point during the animation the clips is squeezed. If the animation is set to Slide In and this parameter is at 0%, the clip starts fully squeezed but immediately starts scaling up to its full width or height. When set to 100%, the clip starts already at its full width and height and remains so until the end of the animation.

If the Slide In parameter is off, the animation squeezes the clip as it vanishes to its final location. If Squeeze Start is set to 0%, the clip starts squeezing immediately, when the animation begins. At 100%, the clip vanishes to its final location without being squeezed.

Setting this parameter to 100% effectively disables any squeezing, whether the animation is set to Slide In or not.

This parameter controls the animation.

When the effect is set to Slide In/Out by trimming, the following parameters are displayed:

The Trim slider defines a range where the clip is neither sliding in or out (steady state). Any time outside this range is spent sliding the clip in or out. For example, if the Trim range is set between 20% and 80%, the clip slides in from the start of the clip up to 20% of its duration, and starts sliding out at 80% of the clip and until the end. If the clip were 5 seconds long, the build in and out animations last 1 second each.

The Slide In (Easing) and Slide Out (Easing) parameters let you choose the animation curve when animating by trimming the clip or by specifying a duration.

When this parameter is set to animate via duration, the following parameters are displayed:

The Slide In (secs) and Slide Out (secs) give you an exact way to specify how long each phase of the animation should last. Should your requested time periods exceed the duration of your clip, a warning will appear in the output. For example, if your clip lasts only 3 seconds, it would be impossible to have the slide in and out animations both last 2 seconds each (as the total would be 4 seconds, or one second greater than the clip itself).

When the effect is set to build in and out through Keyframes, a single parameter is displayed:

The Progress parameter gives complete control over the animation to you. You will need to keyframe the Progress parameter using features of the video app. Note that there are no easing options when manually animating via keyframes.

The following options are available:

• Inside over outside (default) — Pixels selected by the current mask, to which the effect is applied, are drawn above pixels that are outside the mask, to which the effect is not applied.
• Outside over inside — Pixels selected by the current mask, to which the effect is applied, are drawn below pixels that are outside the mask, to which the effect is not applied.
• Inside only — Only oixels selected by the current mask, to which the effect is applied, are visible in the output.

• Add inside and outside — Pixels selected by the current mask, to which the effect is applied, are composited with pixels that are outside the mask, to which the effect is not applied, using additive blend mode.

  This is the best option when using Face Detection, Person Contour or other masking options with a soft contour.

When a Source or Mask has been defined, this parameter controls the opacity of the image that falls outside the mask.

This parameter is not available when Drawing Order is set to Masked output only, since that option already implies that areas outside the mask aren’t drawn at all.

A number that controls random aspects of the effect.

Click the New button to assign a new seed value. When the seed value is changed, the effect uses a different random sequence to produce a different output.

Enables motion blur at different quality settings. The higher the quality, the more samples are used. Multiple samples are blended together to produce a single frame of output.

• Off — Output frames are rendered without motion blur. This is the fastest setting.
• Low — default
  Combine 4 samples to produce each output frame.
• Medium
  Combine 8 samples to produce each output frame.
• High
  Combine 16 samples to produce each output frame. This is the slowest, highest quality setting.

Multiple samples are combined to produce a single output frame with motion blur

The Shutter Angle slider controls the size (aperture) of the shutter used to simulate motion blur. The size of the shutter determines how long light is allowed to pass through the lens. The angle is set to 90° by default. A shutter angle of 360° means that samples are collected for the entire duration of the frame.
Setting a value of zero means that you want the shutter to collect light only once, which is equivalent to turning motion blur off.

The Shutter Offset slider controls the moment in time when the shutter opens and closes, relative to the duration of the frame. The offset is set to 0 by default. An offset of zero means the shutter is perfectly centered over the moment in time when the frame occurs. The shutter is therefore open an equal amount of time before and after the current frame occurs.

The Shutter Angle and Shutter Offset parameters are only available when motion blur is enabled.