The first configurable option for the In Effect is its duration, which appears in the General Parameters section of the interface as well as in the Time Manager; however, the two text fields are linked – one’s modification leads to the adjustment of the other’s. Adjacent to the Duration text field, there is a Boolean option labeled “Load Preset Duration”; if enabled, the effect will use the duration of the preset, discarding any changes done in the Time Manager or in the “General Parameters” section of the interface.
The In Effect tab - the general parameters section
The next thing to do is to select the “Effect category” where the effect resides. After selecting an effect pack, an effect has to be chosen from the adjacent drop-down list. An effect gallery presenting the available effects is available in the chapter entitled “Browsing through the available effects”.
After selecting the desired effect, you can configure its parameters in the Effect Parameters section of the interface, or browse the “Effect preset” drop-down list for a pre-designed configuration.
The In Effect tab - the Effect Parameters section
From the Block Type parameter, the size of the text blocks on which the effect will be applied can be set; the options are Letter, Word, Line, AllText and Custom. If the Custom option is employed, the Custom Block Editor becomes accessible by clicking on the Edit Custom Blocks button.
The first option in the Custom Block Editor window, if enabled, applies the block configuration to all the effect components – In, Wait and Out. The text block customization works in the following way: the mouse cursor is placed somewhere in the text and the Split Text At Cursor Position button is pressed; a symbol will appear in the Text Preview section to mark the text block. The separators can be removed by selecting the target text and using the Remove splits from selected text button. The changes are saved or discarded using the buttons in the down part of the window.
The Custom Block Editor window
The motion of the effect can be configured using the two parameters, “Motion type” and “Easing type”. The possible values for the first are Regular, Strong, Elastic, Back, Bounce and None, while for the second one the motion can be set as easeIn, easeOut, easeInOut or easeNone.
The effect configuration can be done manually and a save preset option is available for saving the valuable effect patterns.
In order to see how the effect looks at a certain point, the “Preview” option can be used; more information about that can be found in the “Previewing your work” chapter of the documentation.