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Create PIP (Picture in Picture) with Movement

Create PIP (Picture in Picture) with Movement By Déclic Vidéo FX - Last updated on Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Created on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:27 PM

Learning to Create PIP(Picture in Picture) with Movement. With this tutorial, you will be able to do whatever you like with HFX.

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Using the HFX effect 306-economy

Using the HFX effect 306-economy By Le Papy - Last updated on Friday, November 27, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Created on Monday, November 02, 2009 9:09 PM

With this special effect, created solely to save the existing tracks of Studio, you can insert a logo in your entire editing, insert titles, still titles, rolling or crowling titles, overlay images ... To perform all these operations, together or separately, this effect uses only one track : Studio video track. It lets available the title and overlay track.
Finally, it can troubleshoot some users who are not blessed with a version of Studio to insert rolling or crowling titles.
It is designed to be fully configured by the user and this tutorial is designed to give you all the tricks possible to achieve.

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A customized transition for a move

A customized transition for a move By Le Papy - Last updated on Thursday, November 26, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Created on Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:45 PM

If you must move out and take with you some memories video, you can take advantage of this new transition created specially for such an event. With a single effect, you can easily make the transition from your former residence and your new home. But, it is not forbidden to show originality and use this transition according to your idea...

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A dedicated transition to the audio track

A dedicated transition to the audio track By Le Papy - Last updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Created on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:59 PM

We are often interested in transitions between images, but rarely to the transitions between sounds. Years ago, I had made something special with a transition from HFX I use regularly.I thought it might interest some beginners. Then, let the old Studio users forgive me ...

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HFX object convert to text

HFX object convert to text By Loosecannon - Last updated on Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Sunday, November 01, 2009
Created on Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:47 PM

Sometimes you will see a transition in Hollywood FX that you really like but you would like to change the text.

Only HFX won’t let you change the text.
The reason for that is that the “text” is not really text after all. It is in fact an object that looks like text and therefore the individual letters cannot be changed. It would be the same, for example, as having a picture of a coffee cup and saying you want to change it to the words “Coffee Cup”.
This tutorial will explain the steps needed to remove the object(s) and replace it with text that is editable.

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Tutorial HFX Cinema

Tutorial HFX Cinema By gg - Last updated on Sunday, October 18, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, October 12, 2009
Created on Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:11 AM

Seventh Century art is a source of inspiration. Here is a transition that will bring back several memories.

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Creating a PIP (Picture In Picture) with fade in/out

Creating a PIP (Picture In Picture) with fade in/out By Déclic Vidéo FX - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, May 25, 2009
Created on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:28 PM

How to make a PIP effect with fade in and out. The envelope concept is discussed and detailed in this tutorial

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Make a 3D Title Play Hide and Seek

Make a 3D Title Play Hide and Seek By Le Papy - Last updated on Sunday, August 09, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Created on Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:08 PM

Recently, I saw a video clip that had a 3D title moving between several tall buildings. I'll admit that it didn't look easy ... so I wondered if I could manage to have the title move between two catamarans tossed about by the sea and pushed by a gentle breeze, which would make it an even more difficult challenge.

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Reproduce the intro from "The Persuaders" ® Series

Reproduce the intro from "The Persuaders" ® Series By gg - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Created on Monday, January 05, 2009 11:09 AM

This tutorial will show you how you can try to reproduce the introduction to the famous series "The Persuaders" ®. The assembly is based on 4 new HFX transitions...

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Customizing the 064-news Transition

Customizing the 064-news Transition By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Created on Monday, December 15, 2008 9:21 PM

If you are using the 064-news transition that is in our free HFX, then thank André JOUBERT who created it and the guide which accompanies it. The success of this transition has gone beyond the limits of the European continent, because an English speaking friend has asked us to make some improvements. They have spawned two adaptations of this transition: 064-news2 and 064-news3.

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HFX and the Montage Themes

HFX and the Montage Themes By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, December 29, 2008
Created on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:55 PM

I was inspired by the Montage Themes and this will allow me to show you, once again, the things that you can accomplish by using these two complimentary programs.

Moreover, as one can not directly import HD clips into the Easy FX Editor, this trick might also enable me use HD video while using the HFX Effect and Easy FX Editor from Studio 12.

I am not about to tell you that my little tinkering can replace the Montage Themes. So quit dreaming but enjoy yourself anyway ..

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Tip 10 - Changing the map for effect HFX 191

Tip 10 - Changing the map for effect HFX 191 By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Created on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:27 PM

In "Tip-6 Alter the text and position of text in the transition 191-france", you learned how to change the name of a city and its geographical position. So, if you lived in France, you could adapt the transition to your needs. But not everyone lives in France! So, in this tutorial, we will expand the effect to include all countries as we learn to change the map at the bottom of the transition.

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Tip-9 Use and Modify the "222-compteur2" Effect

Tip-9 Use and Modify the "222-compteur2" Effect By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Thursday, November 20, 2008
Created on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:53 AM

This tips and tricks shows you how to use the "222-compteur2" transition to display the clock from a well-known television series. This transition will actually be applied as a plugin effect and not as a transition between two clips.

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Tip-8 use and modify the effect #217-compteur

Tip-8 use and modify the effect #217-compteur By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, October 27, 2008
Created on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:16 PM

This tip and trick tells you how to take advantage of one of the transitions "217-compteur" to display the power of a well-known television series ("24 Twenty-Four"). This transition will actually be applied as a plugin effect and not as a transition between two clips.

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Tutorial-14 Change the Size of an Object

Tutorial-14 Change the Size of an Object By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, October 06, 2008
Created on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:47 AM

The transition at your disposal requires some minor adjustments... Don't hesitate to make the modifications, it isn't difficult! If you have Easy FX Editor (V5 or V6) with the HFX Mega, Plus or Pro version, follow this short tutorial and the size of the selected object will be updated in just a few steps!

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Tuto-9 Change the position of an object in a HFX

Tuto-9 Change the position of an object in a HFX By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Created on Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:03 PM

So you downloaded the transition 201-pip-inverse and now you would like to modify it.  It is very easy and in this tutorial, we'll show you how!

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Tip-7 Installing Hollywood FX Pro V5.1 into Adobe Premiere Pro

Tip-7 Installing Hollywood FX Pro V5.1 into Adobe Premiere Pro By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, September 01, 2008
Created on Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:54 PM

In this tutorial we will see how we can install and use Hollywood FX V5.1 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. It should work with all Adobe Premiere Pro versions.

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Tip-6 Alter the text and position of text in the transition 191-france

Tip-6 Alter the text and position of text in the transition 191-france By Le Papy - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Created on Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:06 AM

You already know how to modify the text included in some transitions "Tip-3 Modify "Texthere" for HFX 169". You also know how to modify the envelope parameters "Tuto-5 Creating effects". But in the transition 191-france, if you change the name of a city, it is no longer in the right place on the map of France. So it will be necessary to learn how to change the city's name and move it to the correct place on the map.

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Tuto-8 Making PIP (Picture In Picture)

Tuto-8 Making PIP (Picture In Picture) By Déclic Vidéo FX - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Thursday, August 21, 2008
Created on Friday, August 01, 2008 6:48 AM

Having  two different scenes in one video is possible, by making a PIP (picture in picture). Just follow our tutorial and you will discover that this is an opportunity to showcase your editing in a different way ... Take note that most recent Pinnacle Studio version already include a PIP tool. Nevertheless, it does not include all flexibility allowed by HFX (parametersdes modification, tilting view, key framing, ...). For example, you can add multiple PIP window with this HFX technic....

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Tuto-7 Warps, Filters and 3D Text

Tuto-7 Warps, Filters and 3D Text By Jan Molenaar - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Sunday, April 20, 2008
Created on Monday, August 27, 2007 8:17 AM

In the previous three parts of this series you have seen how you can create effects in Hollywood FX and how you can change their appearance. In this last part we look at advanced additions, like warps and filters. And we will also be checking the possibilities with 3D-text, with which we can make titles that are bouncing of your screen.

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Tip-5 Using transition #201

Tip-5 Using transition #201 By Le Papy - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Created on Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:39 PM

This Tips & Tricks shows one way to use the "Transition" 201-PIP_Inverse.
It allows you to simulate a shoot made with two cameras and so it give's the illusion that you are operating hi-tech equipment.

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Tuto-6 Advanced possibilities with HFX

Tuto-6 Advanced possibilities with HFX By Jan Molenaar - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Saturday, January 26, 2008
Created on Monday, August 27, 2007 7:45 AM

In previous tutorials for Hollywood FX, the user interface of the program has been explained. That was necessary to be able to create a simple effect. In this part of the tutorial we go further into the program and look at some advanced functions of Hollywood FX.

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Tuto-5 Creating effects

Tuto-5 Creating effects By Jan Molenaar - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Friday, January 04, 2008
Created on Friday, August 24, 2007 12:13 PM

Creating your own effect. In the "Tuto-2 General Tutorial", we have looked at the user interface. This overview was necessary in order to find most of the essential functions. It will become very clear when you are using the program. And what better way than to create an effect yourself. In this part we will investigate this possibility.

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Tuto-4 Organise your HFX effects

Tuto-4 Organise your HFX effects By Loosecannon - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Created on Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:58 PM
Now that you know how to create, edit and save FX effects (see the previous tutorials), let's learn how to organize them!
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Tip-4 Closing Credits (#182)

Tip-4 Closing Credits (#182) By Kiwi - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Sunday, November 11, 2007
Created on Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:35 PM

This "tip and trick" explains how to benefit of one of the #182 transition to make a simple rolling closing credit.

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Tuto-3 Prepare the saving of HFX effects

Tuto-3 Prepare the saving of HFX effects By Markk655 - Last updated on Friday, February 12, 2010
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Sunday, October 28, 2007
Created on Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:12 PM

When working with a default Hollywood FX special effect, you will need to save it before modifying for your own personal video use. Here's how.

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Tuto-2 General tutorial / Easy FX Editor

Tuto-2 General tutorial / Easy FX Editor By Jan Molenaar - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Created on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:54 AM

The user-interface of Hollywood FX version 5.X / 6.x (Easy FX Editor) is quite different than that of the earlier versions 4.x. Users of Liquid Edition will recognize the style of this editing program.
It is a case of ‘’getting used to it’’, but soon you will find out, that it is not a cosmetic adaptation, but that there are also improvements, so that working with Hollywood FX is easier than before.
The parts of the user interface version 5.X / 6.x which are changed the most will be explained.

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Tip-3 Modify "Texthere" for HFX 169

Tip-3 Modify "Texthere" for HFX 169 By Loosecannon - Last updated on Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Saturday, September 01, 2007
Created on Sunday, August 26, 2007 4:59 PM

Here is the procedure to be applied to modify the text in special effect #169-flyofftext.

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Tip-2 My HFX thumbnails in Studio are black

Tip-2 My HFX thumbnails in Studio are black By Loosecannon - Last updated on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Saturday, August 11, 2007
Created on Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:27 PM

After having created a special HFX effect or installed a free HFX, you discover that your transitions thumbnails in Studio are black. The following procedure will help you to restore everything.

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Tuto-12 How to use a multi screen transition ?

Tuto-12 How to use a multi screen transition ? By Kiwi - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Created on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:53 PM

Effects such as "160-Multi7" or "091-Filmstrip" are called multi-screen transitions. These effects are capable of displaying multiple video clips simultaneously (animated or not). This tutorial will guide you through the setup process, step by step, to include this transition into your own production. A preview of this effect can be viewed by clicking on this link.

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Tip-1 HFX effects do not appear in Studio

Tip-1 HFX effects do not appear in Studio By Loosecannon - Last updated on Thursday, February 11, 2010
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Category: Tips & Tricks Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Monday, April 23, 2007
Created on Sunday, April 01, 2007 4:11 AM

After having created an HFX effect or installed a free HFX, you discover that you cannot see your HFX effects listed in Pinnacle Studio (transition list). The following procedure will help you to restore everything.

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Tuto-1 Files with .HFZ extension

Tuto-1 Files with .HFZ extension By Loosecannon - Last updated on Monday, August 03, 2009
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Category: Tutorial Hollywood FX special effects
Published on Sunday, April 22, 2007
Created on Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:18 AM

Lesson 1- Files with .HFZ extension
What to do with these files ?

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