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CreativEase Tips & Tricks Prior page of tips More tips… How to Apply Simple Keyframing Applying CreativEase Repeatedly to a Clip Using CreativEase to Condition Other Effects How to Uninstall CreativEase For More Help & Tips How to Apply Simple Keyframing (in all except the AE version) To set a CreativEase control to a new CONSTANT value, you do NOT need keyframes. Just drag the control's slider or enter a new value in its text box. To VARY a control's value LINEARLY during an effect, use the simple technique below: 1. Go to the clip's FIRST frame. Drag the CreativEase effect's preview scrub control all the way to the left, as shown below. Other easy ways to do this are clicking the First Frame button under the preview, or entering "0:00" in the Current Time box to the left of the preview buttons.  NOTE: In the Sony Vegas or Vegas Movie Studio version, instead of the above (which are not available since Vegas' real-time built-in preview window is used), click the gray Keyframes button to open the Keyframes window (shown below). Then drag the blue vertical frame marker all the way left to the clip's first frame, as shown below. This technique also works in all other versions of CreativEase.   2. Set a value for the effect's FIRST frame. In the example below, we have set the Pre-blur value of the PosterWise plug-in to 15 by dragging its slider.  3. Click the round keyframe button to the left of the control. This turns on keyframing for that control (as indicated by the button's light turning on) and sets a keyframe at the first frame to the value (in this example, 15). The effect will therefore start with that value.  4. Go to a different frame of the clip by dragging the preview scrub control, clicking a preview button under the preview, or entering a frame's relative timecode in the Current Time box to the left of the preview buttons. In the example below, we've moved to the clip's last frame. (NOTE: In the Sony Vegas or Vegas Movie Studio version, instead drag the blue vertical frame marker in the Keyframes window, as mentioned in Step 1 above.)  5. Change the keyframed control's value by dragging its slider or entering a new value in the control's text box. For example, say we've increased Pre-blur to 25 at the last frame of the effect. Between first and last frames, therefore, Pre-blur will smoothly increase linearly between 15 and 25. For example, the middle frame during the effect will automatically have a Pre-blur value of 20. To set different values for other frames during the effect, repeat Steps 4-5 for any other frames. That's all! The above process works for any control that is keyframable (has a round keyframe button to the left of the control). To learn advanced keyframing, such as using bezier curve acceleration/deceleration to smoothly ramp up or down a control, see the next page. Applying CreativEase Repeatedly to a Clip A very simple but cool tip: By applying a CreativEase effect to a clip more than once, even more is creatively possible. Each pass can be optimized to a particular aspect of the desired look. Or by using the spice files and/or Mixer to target the effect into certain clip areas, you can repeat that to cumulatively target the effect to a wider range of areas in the image. Experiment! Using CreativEase to Condition Other Effects CleanCrop and BlurPro are a very powerful duo for enhancing the look of your OTHER video effects (not just other CreativEase effects). Apply CleanCrop first to ensure that noise or other dark/stray pixels around a clip's frame edge will not muddy or magnify when applying ANY distortion and blur effects. Apply BlurPro first before other artistic or color effects to get purer effect results. Click the above links to see image examples. How to Uninstall CreativEase Choose Uninstall CreativEase in your Start menu's All Programs > Pixelan > CreativEase folder. Or, go into the Add or Remove Programs control panel in your Windows system. Then select CreativEase in the list of programs. Note that you do not need to manually uninstall the demo if you are purchasing CreativEase -- installing the purchased version will automatically remove the demo. For More Help and Tips CreativEase's terrific help system should answer most questions. If you still need help, however, please email us via our tech support page. We'll promptly answer questions or suggest a tip, whether you are an existing CreativEase user or just trying the demo. And yes, email is best instead of calling us. We devote lots of resources for 16+ hours/day to answer such emails promptly. Return to Top |
