Free Declic Video transitions Declic have largely been part of the success of the site. Continuously improved, supplemented, renewed and technically adapted to the different versions of Studio, they have greatly helped to publicize the site. As to technical developments, we had to adapt the integration procedures in Studio and currently there are three types of users that each have at their disposal a simple way to integrate our transitions.
Step 1 : General
You can preview our transitions in our Preview free HFX page before download them in our Free HFX page.
You can download either one by one or by packet by looking at the top of the HFX page :
- 001 to find the files HFX 001-->100
- 101 to find teh files HFX 101-->200
- etc...
Once downloaded, the transitions must be uncompressed (See our tutorials "Tuto-1 Files with .HFZ extension" and "My HFX transitions create problems for me...".
Once uncompressed the transitions apear in Hollywood FX (See our tutorial "Learn Hollywood FX (HFX)"). It remains to show them in Studio and based on your user category, you will choose one of the three procedures below to complete your task.
Step 2 : A few of history
The first users of our transitions have been the first to know the tricks to display manually the transitions in their Pinnacle Studio software. In order to simplify the manual operations, the DV-FX team has decided to computerize these tasks by making them done by a batch program. The batch program (or. Bat) is a small executable file that allows you to automate tasks. Unlike other file types (such as. Exe), it can be edited with notepad (right click -> Edit) to see what it contains. This allows you to see the operations that are scheduled, roughly, what will happen. Even if you think the code "complicated" at first, you will see that it's easy to understand what is running, allowing you to not worry about risky operations (if the file has been downloaded from our website ). With a batch file, we know exactly what sauce we ate! You can find its origin in the mythical tutorial "Tip-1 HFX effects do not appear in Studio".
To run a batch file, double click on its name. The execution of batch programs, however, must meet specific criteria to properly perform the work asked of them :
- You must be in an administrator session;
- In Vista, set "User Account Control" off to run the batch;
- In Seven, set "User Account Control" to zero to run the batch;
- Never run a batch file that has not been downloaded directly from this site;
- Save the file on your hard drive and run from your hard drive. Running from this website may prevent proper operation.
- Our batch files only work if Studio is installed on the C: drive and installed with default criterias.
Step 3 : Users that only own Pinnacle Studio 1-15
According to technical developments, changes in OS, version changes, several versions of batch files have been available for users of Pinnacle Studio 1-15.
Currently, only one universal batch file Repare-HFX-11-12-14-15.bat allows you to display in Pinnacle Studio 11, 12, 14 and 15 all the transitions present in Hollywood FX (The ancestor Repare-HFX-10.bat is still available and works with Studio 10). We explained this detailed creation in our news "Avid Studio, Pinnacle Studio and 00 - Declic-Video Transitions" on 09/25/2011.
Step 4: Users that own Pinnacle Studio 1-15 and a new Studio version installed on the same computer
During spring 2011, Avid Studio has been released. With its very special architecture that had nothing to do with the well known architecture of Pinnacle Studio version 1-15, it was necessary to challenge and create new tools.
For the record, Version 1 of the program was a batch transfer program of the former Pinnacle Studio 1-15 plugins still functional in Avid Studio. I quote for the record because it transferred in the same operation our transition from Pinnacle Studio 1-15 to Avid Studio. Version 2 of this program Transplug-HFX.bat relatively heavy, doing the same thing in all new Studio versions installed on the same computer. It is available and can be used only once after installing a new Studio version (See our news "A birth in the Transplug family").
A feature of a new Studio version is that it can not get by itself the transitions added or modified in Hollywood FX. So we must use Pinnacle Studio 1-15 as a relay. After applying step 3 above, the transitions are in the album of Pinnacle Studio 1-15. We then created a small batch program Trans-HFX-AVID.bat (Version 2) that will recover the transitions in Pinnacle Studio 1-15 to copy them in new Studio versions.
Step 5 : Users that only own Avid Studio or a new Studio version in their computer
So far, we could not do without Pinnacle Studio 1-15 to use transitions in a new Studio version as described in step 4 above.
To overcome the lack of Pinnacle Studio 1-15 on your computer, we provide you with a file : HFX-DVFX-STUDIO-xxx.zip which contains :
- The file 00 - Declic Video.bmp with all thumbnails 001 à xxx
- The xml files of all the transitions 001 to xxx
- An installation file INSTALL.BAT
For more details on this batch file, its content, its use and what you can do, please refer to our tutorial "Install our free transitions in Pinnacle Studio 16 (or AVID Studio)".
And if you do not understand everything, do not hesitate to ask questions...
{Thanks to saby who translated this tutorial from french to english and cross-checked it}