Resources / Tips & Tricks / How Do I Use an Animated Display

12 Inch Design’s Power Blox Unit 01 comes with 20 Animated Displays.  These displays can be used as backgrounds for text, lower thirds, and other video elements. Each Display has a built-in alpha channel which allows you to easily place them on top of your background video.  In most non-linear editing systems, you need only to drag the display clip on to a video track above your current background video. You can then use your editing software’s transform tools to re-position and resize the display in the desired way. All of the displays come onto the screen, hold for a few seconds, and then exit the screen.  Some of the displays feature animation that continues even through the holding period of the animation. You may want to adjust the length of your display animation.  To make a display animation shorter, you have two options.  If the display does not feature animation during the holding period, you can drag two copies of the display onto your time line and trim back the end of one clip and the beginning of the other clip until the combined hold lengths of both clips is what you want.  You can now simply place the two clips together for a seamless effect.   You’ve essentially removed a chunk of time from the hold period. If the display does feature animation during the hold period, you do exactly what you did for the first option, except instead of placing the two clips together, you’ll need to do a cross dissolve between them.  This will hide the fact that you’ve cut out a chunk of the hold period animation. To make a display animation longer, you again have two options. If the display does not feature animation during the holding period, you can drag three copies of the display onto your timeline and trim off the end of one clip, trim off the beginning and the end of the second clip (so you’re only left with the hold period) and trim the beginning of the third clip until the combined hold lengths of all the clips is what you want.  You can now simply place the three clips together for a seamless effect.   You’ve essentially added a chunk of time to the hold period. If the display does feature animation during the hold period, you do exactly what you did for the first option, except instead of placing the three clips together, you’ll need to do a cross dissolve between them.  This will hide the fact that you’ve added a chunk of the hold period animation.

 

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