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  • How to end an effect

    Posted by Ryan Castle on November 7, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    I want to use Hue/Saturation to give a certain part of my video an orange tone, but I only want it for a certain amount of thime, and not fot the rest of the video. How do I make a start and end point for this effect?

    Kevin Reiner replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    November 7, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    You can either keyframe the effect or apply to an adjustment layer and trim that layer to the length you need the effect to be up for.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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  • Walter Soyka

    November 7, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    If you use an adjustment layer as Ted suggests, you can keyframe its opacity to fade the effects in and out.

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  • Kevin Reiner

    November 7, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    And some effects have a “mix with original” setting, for which you can set keyframes.

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