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Animating Tiles and Advanced Layouts
One of the more powerful aspects of the Video Collage effect is the ability to quickly and easily create animated intros and outros for each tile. These effects can be fully automated over a customizable duration, or their duration can be manually keyframed. All animations can be automatically eased, and you can also enable motion blur for the Fly, Shrink, and Rotate animations.
When you use these controls in Create Background mode, the transparent holes through which other clips in the background show through are animated to “open or close” to reveal the contents. When used in Create Tile mode, the actual tile and its contents are animated to fly, shrink, rotate, and/or fade to appear or disappear.
Tile Animation controls let you create automatic Intro and/or Outro animations.
Additionally, you have the ability to keyframe the Mute, Start and End Column and Row parameters, Tile Styling and Drop Shadow parameters, and other aspects of tiles in Tiles mode, either individually or all together.
In particular, the Start and End Column and Row parameters let you create tiles that span multiple grid positions, and also move tiles from one grid position to another. Without keyframing, this lets you create more kinds of layouts with asymmetric arrangements of large and small tiles. With keyframing, you gain the ability to easily create sophisticated grid-based animations to move tiles from position to position, and to have tiles expand and contract to encompass neighboring tiles in the layout, all with a minimum of keyframing.
