CyberLink PowerDirector Help
Click the 
button and then the Style Effect tag to open the Effect Room and access over 100 video style effects you can add to your media clips, including mosaic, blur, and converting video to black and white. Each effect has unique attributes that you can customize to help achieve the look you want in your video production.
Note: CyberLink PowerDirector includes the video style effects lens flare, tilt shift, water reflection, and magnifier. You can find these effects by clicking on the Style Effect > Special tag in the explorer view. |
Video style effects can be added for the entire duration of a clip by dragging and dropping them onto a media clip on the timeline, or to just a portion of it on the effect track.
Note: you can add up to seven different style effects onto a single media clip. |
Adding Video Style Effect to Entire Clip
To add a video style effect to an entire media clip, PiP object, or title effect template in the timeline, do this:
•in the Effect Room click the Style Effect tag, select the video style effect you want to add, drag it to a video track, and then drop it on top of the media clip, PiP object, or title effect template you want to apply it to. The video effect is applied to the entire duration of the clip.
Note: to modify the settings of a video style effect applied to the entire clip, select the clip on the timeline and then click the Effect button. See Modifying a Video Effect for more information. |
Adding Video Style Effect to Portion of a Clip
To add a video style effect to a portion of a clip in the timeline, do one of the following:
Note: the effect track is auto added to the bottom of the timeline when you select or click a button to add a video style effect. It will be applied to all the video tracks that are positioned above it in the timeline. You can reorder the tracks or apply the style effect directly on the clip if you don't want it to affect all the clips above it in the timeline. |
•in the Effect Room click the Style Effect tag, select the video style effect you want to add, and then click 
to add it to the effect track at the current position of the timeline slider.
•in the Effect Room click the Style Effect tag, right-click on the video style effect you want to add, and then select Add to Timeline to add it to the current position of the timeline slider.
•in the Effect Room click the Style Effect tag, click 
, and then select Apply Random Video Effect to add a random video effect at the current position of the timeline slider.
•in the Effect Room click the Style Effect tag and then drag an effect from the Effect Room into the effect track directly beneath the clips on the tracks that you want to apply it to.
Note: the effect track is not enabled by default, so you may have to enable the effect track in the track manager first if you want to drag and drop video style effects to it. |
When adding a video style effect to the timeline (inserting or dragging and dropping), if the timeline slider is over an existing effect, or you drop it on an existing effect, you are prompted to do one of the following:
•Overwrite: select to overwrite the existing video style effect with the newly added effect.
•Insert: select to split the video style effect and insert the new effect between the two portions. CyberLink PowerDirector also only moves the effects on the same track to the right.
•Insert and Move All Clips: select to split the video style effect and insert the new effect between the two portions. CyberLink PowerDirector also moves all of the media clips on the timeline that lie to the right of the inserted effect, right.
Note: once a video style effect is added to the effect track, select it and then click the Modify button to edit the effect's settings. See Modifying a Video Style Effect for more information. |
