Selects random regions of the source image and zooms them up to fill the entire frame. The effect can transition from one random portion of the source media to the next using a number of built-in transitions.
The random regions selected by this plug-in have the same aspect ratio as the source, to ensure that the geometry in each “close-up” has the same characteristics as the source media.
Effect Parameters
Presets
Presets contain a snapshot of the plug-in parameters. The Presets control lets you choose among one of the presets built into the plug-in, save current parameter values to a preset file, or load an existing preset file from disk.
A preset file saved to disk via the "Save As" button can be loaded from another instance of the same plug-in by clicking the "Open" button. Presets generated in one host can also be loaded from the same plug-in when used in a different host.
Min / Max (% of frame)
These parameters define the range allowed for the crop. A range defined by a minimum 20% and a maximum of 80% means that the random dimensions of any region are going to be no less than 20% and no more than 80% of the original frame.
Animation Seed
The "seed" value used to select random regions in the source. The sequence of frames animated will be the same when using the same seed value.
Pause (secs)
The time a given region will be displayed for, before the effect transitions to the next region. This parameter is expressed in seconds.
Transition
Controls the current transition effect used to move from one random region to the next. Select “None” to animate from one region to the next without a transition.
Transition (secs)
The time it takes to transition from one region to the next, expressed in seconds. This parameter is available when a transition effect is selected in the “Transition” popup menu.
Interpolation
Controls the animation curve used by the transition effect.
Direction
Controls the direction of the animation. This parameter is available only for certain transition effects, such as “Cube” and “Cell Phone Browser”.
Transition: Exposure Shift
Peak Exposure
Controls the maximum exposure when the transition is half-way between two random regions.
Transition: Blur Dissolve
Angle
Controls the angle of the directional blur when the transition is half-way between two random regions.
Peak Directional Blur
Controls the maximum blur amount over the axis defined by the “Angle” parameter when the transition is half-way between two random regions.
Peak Exposure
Controls the maximum exposure when the transition is half-way between two random regions.
Peak Blur
Controls the maximum gaussian blur amount when the transition is half-way between two random regions. This blur is performed in addition to the directional blur.
Transition: Cell Phone Browser
Intermediate Scale
Controls the minimum scale factor reached by each random region when the transition is half-way between them.
Distance Between Frames
Controls the spacing between each random region.
Draw Gradient
Controls whether a linear gradient is displayed behind the frames.
Gradient Direction
Controls the direction, horizontal or vertical, of the background gradient.
Gradient Diffusion
Controls the diffusion coefficient for the background gradient.
Gradient Midpoint
Controls the location of the gradient mid-point, relative to the start and end colors.
Gradient Start / Middle / End
The three colors used to draw the background gradient
Drop Shadow
Controls whether the transition effect draws a drop shadow behind the scaled-down versions of the source and destination images as the transition animates between them.
Shadow Color / Opacity
The color and opacity used to draw the drop shadow.
Shadow Radius
The radius, in pixels, of the drop shadow.
Shadow Offset X / Y
The distance of the drop shadow from the source and destination images.
Color Space
This parameter allows you to choose a working color space for the effect. When the “Linear” option is selected, the plug-in will convert all color values to a non-gamma-corrected format. When the “Uncorrected” option is selected, the color values supplied by the host will be used directly, without conversion. It may help to choose “Uncorrected” when dealing with smooth gradients or vector-art backgrounds, or if you have already applied gamma correction to your source media in a previous step of your workflow.