Toolbar

The toolbar is found at the top of the editor:

Use the toolbar to add the following elements to your canvas:

Elements

Lock and unlock elements

Locking an element prevents the element from being moved, resized or rotated on the canvas.

To lock an element:

1. Select the element on the scene.
2. Once selected, right-click the element and select Lock from the menu drop down.

To unlock an element:

1. Select a locked element on the scene.
2. Once selected, right-click the element and select Unlock from the menu drop down.

Selecting elements

• To select a single element, click on it.
• To select multiple elements, hold down the Shift key click on each element you'd like to select.
• To select all elements, click anywhere on the canvas and press ⌘ + a (Mac) / Ctrl + a (PC).
• To select a specific element when multiple elements overlap:
  1. Right-click anywhere on the canvas.
  2. Click on the Select option at the top of the menu.
  3. Hover any element from the list of elements displayed to highlight it on the scene.
  4. Click on an element from the list to select it.

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Note:

The elements in the list will be displayed in the order that they are layered in the canvas. The first list will be the top-most element in the foreground, and the last item will be the element that's the furthest in the background.

Animations and effects

Apply animations and effects to avatars and text, media, and shape elements.

Animations

Depending on the animation selected, some of the following settings can be adjusted:

• Direction: The direction of the canvas that the element should enter or exit from.
• Velocity: The velocity to give to the element, to choose between bounce, smooth, and linear.
• Duration: Time taken for the animation to complete in seconds.
• Delay: Time to wait between the trigger and the beginning of the animation in seconds.

Entrance animations

Entrance animations can be applied to any media, text, shapes, and avatars.

• Instant: Instantly displays the element(s).
• Fade in: Gradually brings the element(s) into view.
• Slide in: Slides the element(s) in from the left/right/top/bottom.
• Zoom in: Gradually zooms in the element(s) while fading in.
• Scale in: Gradually scales the element(s) to its final size.

Exit animations

Exit animations can be applied to any media, text, shapes, and avatars.

• Instant: Instantly removes the element(s).
• Fade out: Gradually removes the element(s) from the view.
• Slide out: Slides the element(s) out from the left/right/top/bottom.
• Zoom out: Gradually zooms out the element(s) while fading out.
• Scale out: Gradually scales down the element(s).

Effects

Emphasis effects

Emphasis effects are available for all canvas elements. These effects help draw the viewer's attention to any visual element on the canvas when a particular word is said in the script.

• Blink: The element disappears and reappears a set number of times.
  • Available settings: number of blinks and blinking speed.
• Shake: The element shakes from left to right several times.
  • Available settings: intensity and speed of shaking.
• Pop: Enlarges the element to a set size, then scales the element back down to its original size.
  • Available settings: speed and size to enlarge to (from 101 - 200%).

Image effects

Camera Zoom:

Zoom into and out of specific areas of an image, or pan to a different area of an image.

• Adjust zoom level, position, and speed of zoom.
• When using a zoom effect, you can specify a zoom out point to return to the original zoom level by selecting Add Zoom Out. Multiple zoom in/out effects can be chained together.

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Note:

Image effects cannot be applied to an image that has been set as the background of a scene. Detach the image from the background to apply effects to it.

Video effects

Zoom/Pan:

Zoom into and out of specific areas of a video, or pan to a different area of a video.

• Configure zoom level, position, and speed of zoom.
• Use the scrubbing tool to choose a frame.
• When using a zoom effect, you can specify a zoom out point to return to the original zoom level by selecting Add Zoom Out. Multiple zoom in/out effects can be chained together.

Play/Pause:

Define which video frame appears at specific words in your script, and whether the video should play or pause at that moment.

• Use the scrubbing tool to choose a frame.
• Videos will remain paused until reaching a trigger for the Play Effect.

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Note:

• Video effects cannot be applied to a video that has been set as the background of a scene. Detach the video from the background to apply effects to it.
• Video effects cannot be applied to a video if the video's playback mode is set to Play once. To add a video effect to a video, the playback mode must be set to either Stretch or Loop/Cut.

Triggers

Triggers allow you to trigger when an animation or effect should start. After selecting an element and setting an animation or effect for it, use the little blue icon in the script to move the trigger to the right word.

Alternatively if you have a long script, select a word for the trigger from the inspector panel. All words with an existing trigger attached are displayed, if you want to add a new one, click on + New trigger, then click on the corresponding word in your script.

See How do I use Animation Triggers? in order to see this feature in action.