Color effects

Fade in/out

Individual scenes can be slowly faded in or out. This is assigned as a percentage to the total length of the scene.

Use the “Fade In / Out” slide control to slowly fade in or out of the scene. The slide control shows the relative percent value of the effect length within the scene. Move the “Fade In” to 10%. Now during the first 10% of a scene the laser image will slowly be displayed starting at very dark to very bright. Fade Out works the same way round.

Strobe

Here you can define various different flash effects for every scene. The on and off times of the scene will be defined in 1/25s and can be changed by start and end values even linearly within a scene.

Add a flash by entering the desired on/off time at “Flash” to the 25th of a second exact. Values like 25/25 mean one second laser on, one second laser off. Select “to” to dynamically adjust the flashing speed. Values like 0/25 and 25/0 mean that the scene starts invisibly, then slowly starts to flash and continues to flash faster until it’s completely on.

Layer invisible

Individual layer from the editor can be switched off actively. All layers are visible by default.

Color change

By selecting a starting range that recolors itself to an ending range you can i.e. color an area from red to orange to green, while blue isn’t a color displayed. White and Black will not be recolored. The color change can be repeated.

With the “Color Morpher” tool you can select a color spectrum, which will be morphed into another color spectrum. The settings shown in the image above do select the whole spectrum (the second color wheel has been rotated once for 360°) in order to go through all colors on the color wheel (both lower color wheels have been turned one and two times for 360°).

Note: You can choose these settings (complete morph) from the local menu (right mouse key on the color wheels). Here you can reset the values of each wheel back to 0. If you hold SHIFT key while spinning the left wheel, the right wheel will move simultaneously.

Recolor

The recoloring is done before the color changing. This way you can i.e. recolor a rainbow effect with color changes.

None: The frame will be taken as drawn.
Selection: After selecting this feature you can select a color with the color picker at the editor window for the whole frame
Rainbow: The whole frame will be recolored with a gradient.

Hint: An ongoing rainbow effect is done by powerful color tools very easily. To do so you color the scene with “Recolor: Rainbow”, click with right mouse key on “Change Color” color boxes and chose “Complete Morph”. Now all RGB colors will run through the image.

Drawing in/out

With “Drawing” you can slowly fade in / fade out a frame within a scene. By selecting “Backwards”, the drawing direction will be inverted. Drawing can be repeated.

Use “Draw in/out” to slowly build a scene point by point. If you use this feature with texts, the text will be displayed like somebody is currently writing it in real time.