Opacity Effect

Overview

The Opacity Effect () sets the video Opacity (transparency level). Opacity animation allows you to fade the video image in and/or out. Opacity begins at the From value and continues to the To value (see Figure 2.). Check the Apply a From Value checkbox to use the From value. If a From is not applied, Opacity will begin at the current value.

Give the effect a short Name that will identify its purpose or values.

See the Timing section for details on timing the animation of the effect.

See the Motion Behavior section for details on modifying the default behavior of the effect.

Target Values

• Valid Range  0.0 to 1.0
• Special Values  - Value of 0 is no opacity (fully transparent). Value of 1 is full opacity (no transparency).

In Figure 1, Opacity levels are shown for values of 0, 0.5 and 1.

Favorite Values

As a productivity aid, you can save the entire effect (all values on all tabs) as a Favorite with the Save as Favorite Values button. Then you can set all values of an effect from the Favorite values using the Set from Favorite Values button. Separate favorites are saved for each type of effect (Opacity, rotation, etc).

Opacity Example

In the sample Screen below , we set the Screen Background Image to the Robot Head (PNG file) and specify Image Layout to Stretch (Figure 5). The Video File is set to Robotic_Welding.MPG (Figure 4). And the Screen Opacity is set to 0.5 (50%). Notice how the Background Image comes through the video (Figure 3) when played.