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These controls appear in Tiles mode. They let you add and customize a drop shadow, either to all tiles or just to the currently active tile. These parameters are animatable.
— Apply to All Tiles: When checked, this applies any changes made in the Drop Shadow parameters to all tiles in the Video Collage, regardless of which tile is currently active.
— Strength: This slider controls drop shadow transparency. The possible ranges are 0.000 (fully transparent) to 1.000 (fully opaque).
— Color: Allows you to choose the color of the Drop Shadow.
— Drop Angle: Lets you set the angle that the shadow is cast from. The slider represents 360 degrees of movement from -180.0 to 180.0.
— Drop Distance: Allows you to set the distance that the shadow appears from its source tile. The possible values are from 0.000 to 0.200.
— Expand: This slider controls how far the shadow expands from its origin. The possible values are from 0.900 to 1.250.
— Blur: Allows you to control the amount of diffusion of the Drop Shadow. The possible ranges are
0.000 (no blur) to 1.000.
Tile Animation
These controls appear in Tiles mode. They make it easy to create simple intro/outro animations to bring all or some tiles onscreen, and to push all or some tiles offscreen, in different ways. The Animate drop-down menu determines whether this animation will be automatic or manually created using keyframes.
— Apply to All Tiles: When enabled, any animation that’s set up will be applied to all tiles in the layout simultaneously.
— Animate: This drop-down menu lets you choose between Manually Keyframing intro or outdo animations or automatically creating animations to introduce or conclude a tile. The options are:
— Manually Keyframe: In this mode, you must manually keyframe the four progress sliders below to create animated Intro and Outro animations.
— Intro Only: Animation is automatically created to bring each tile onscreen according to the types of animation you choose from four checkboxes below. Options include: Fly, Shrink, Rotate, and Fade, in any combination. A Duration slider appears that lets you choose how long the Intro will be.
— Outro Only: Animation is automatically created to send each tile offscreen according to the types of animation you choose from four checkboxes below. Options include: Fly, Shrink, Rotate, and Fade, in any combination. A Duration slider appears that lets you choose how long the Outro will be.
— Intro & Outro: Animation is automatically created to bring each tile onscreen and then send each tile offscreen, according to the types of animation you choose from four checkboxes below. Options include: Fly, Shrink, Rotate, and Fade, in any combination. A Duration slider appears that lets you choose how long the Intro and Outro will be.
— Fly Animation: Lets you choose a direction for tiles to fly in from and fly out to.
— Shrink Animation: Lets you choose a method of shrinking out or in when the Fly Progress slider is animated.