Menu Command: Effect | Effect Toolbar
The Effect Toolbar is a tabbed toolbar located just below the main toolbar. It lists all of the effects available in VideoMeld. To add an effect to a section, simply drag-and-drop an effect to the section. For video effects, hovering the mouse pointer over the effect shows an animated example of the kind of processing the effect can do.
Effects usually are applied to the entire section and are constant (not animated). Use Effect | Add Or Modify to adjust effect settings or the time range over which the effect is applied. When dragging-and-dropping transistions, the transition is applied to the beginning or ending of the section depending on where you drop it. If two video sections overlap in time in adjacent tracks and the mouse point is in the upper half of the lower section, the range of the transition effect is adjusted to the length of the overlapped time of the section in the upper track. Transition are animated by default.
The left edge of the Effect Bar contains three image buttons for changing all video effect preview icons. The first button shows an opaque foreground colour image and the VideoMeld logo in the background. The second button shows a colour image with transparent areas and a checkered background. The last button shows different real photographic images in the foreground and background.