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Animates PDF documents by dynamically rendering the PDF content at the desired size in order to maintain the highest possible quality.

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.

Setup Mode
While this parameter is enabled, the PDF Animator plug-in allows you to set (and preview) the regions in the source media that you are animating. Regions are labeled "1" and "2" to help you associate them with corresponding effect parameters. Setup Mode is helpful to have a bird's eye view of what the effect will ultimately render. It is easier to adjust certain parameters while "Setup Mode" is on.
Disable the "Setup Mode" parameter when you are satisfied with your setup and are ready to render out the result.

PDF FIle Path
This file chooser parameter lets you pick a PDF file on disk to be used as the source. Files must end with the “.pdf” extension to be used by this plug-in. When moving your project to a different system, make sure that you copy over the PDF file referenced by this parameter, since it will not be managed automatically by the host.

Page Number
Select the page inside the PDF document to be rendered by this plug-in. If you select a page that does not exist, an error message will be rendered in the output frame.

Password (optional)
Enter a password to unlock the PDF document you have selected in the “PDF File Path” parameter if its contents are encrypted and can only be viewed by supplying the correct password.

Animation Style
This parameter lets you switch between "Manual" and "Automatic" animation modes:

• Manual (one region, use keyframes): When this option is selected, the effect will animate across your source media by following a single region of your choice. Accordingly, when “Setup Mode” is on, a single region is previewed in the canvas. To use the effect in "Manual" mode, add keyframes to control the location, size and angle of the region over time.
• Automatic (two regions): When this option is selected, the effect will animate across your PDF document by jumping from the first region to the second. Accordingly, when “Setup Mode” is on, you will see two regions previewed in the canvas. Choose the location, size and angle of each region and let the PDF Animator plug-in animate automatically between the two.

Position (1), Size (1) and Angle (1)
These parameters control the center location of the first region, its size (as a percentage of the entire frame) and its angle of rotation with respect to the viewer.

Position (2), Size (2) and Angle (2)
These parameters control the center location of the second region, its size (as a percentage of the entire frame) and its angle of rotation with respect to the viewer. These parameters are only available if the “Animation Style” parameter is set to “Automatic”.

Animation Time

This parameter lets you choose a method for timing the animation (its duration and progress):

• Duration of the clip - default option

  When this option is selected, the animation will progress in sync with the length of the clip to which the effect is applied.
  The animation begins and ends according to the current values of the Start At and End At parameters, specified as percentages of the total clip duration.

• Duration in seconds

  When this option is selected, the animation is driven by two parameters: Start Time and Duration. The parameters let you specify, in seconds, when to start the animation and how long it should last.

• Progress (animate with keyframes)

  When this option is selected, the overall progress of the animation is driven by a single Progress parameter. Add keyframes to this parameter to have the finest control over the animation's progress.

Animation Curve

This parameter controls the interpolation function used to drive the animation. The animation curve determines how fast (or slow) the animation will progress from its beginning to its end. The basic option, "Linear" translates to a uniform progression from the beginning to the end. All other options cover a wide range of common animation styles.

Linear	Quadratic In	Quadratic Out	Quadratic In-Out
	Cubic In	Cubic Out	Cubic In-Out
	Exponential In	Exponential Out	Exponential In-Out
	Sinusoidal In	Sinusoidal Out	Sinusoidal In-Out

This parameter is only available if the Animation Time parameter is set to "Duration of the clip" or "Duration in seconds". An animation curve can be derived only when the plug-in knows the exact duration of the animation. When the "Progress (animate with keyframes)" option is selected, you have complete control over the animation and are thus responsible for creating your own interpolation curves between each keyframe

Start At (% of clip) and End At (% of clip)

These parameters, available when the Animation Style parameter is set to “Duration of the clip”, let you pick a start time and end time of the effect specified as a percentage of the duration of the entire clip. A value of 0.2 for the Start At parameter means that the animation will begin 20% into the clip (for a clip that lasts 10 seconds, the animation would start 2 seconds into the clip.)
Using relative measurements rather than time units may guarantee some additional flexibility to your timeline, should you decide to resize the length of the clip. If you prefer to use actual time units, please set the Animation Time parameter to “Duration in seconds” instead.

Start Time (secs) and Duration (secs)

These parameters, available when the Animation Style parameter is set to "Duration in seconds", let you pick a start time and duration of the effect.

Progress

This keyframeable parameter, available only when the Animation Style parameter is set to "Progress", lets you control the overall progress of the animation

The animation timing parameters are only available if the “Animation Style” parameter is set to "Automatic".

Draw Background and Background Color
These parameters let you decide whether the background to the animation will be color filled, or transparent. Disabling background drawing allows you to composite the PDF image over any underlying tracks.

Motion Blur

Quality

Enables motion blur at different quality settings. The higher the quality, the more samples are used to render the final scene.

• Off - the scene is rendered without motion blur.
• Low - render a few samples per frame.
• Medium
• High - render with the highest number of samples (slowest setting, highest quality)

Figure: motion blur with four samples per frame, a shutter angle
of 180 degrees and a shutter offset of 0.

Shutter Angle

When motion blur is enabled, this parameter controls the size of the shutter used to simulate motion blur. The size of the shutter determines how frequently light is allowed to pass through the lens. A shutter angle of 360 degrees means that samples are collected for the entire duration of one frame. Setting a shutter value of zero means that you want to collect light only once, which is equivalent to turning motion blur off.

Shutter Offset

When motion blur is enabled, this parameter determines the time when the shutter will open and close, relative to the current frame time.
An offset of zero means the shutter is open an equal amount of time before and after the current frame time.