DPL Demo/Install Packages

Miscellaneous Stuff

Since I got Vista in early 2007, I have generated quite a few Transitions and Effects for Moviemaker V6.0. With the advent of Rehan's ShaderTFX Vista Moviemaker was allowed to sing. This is just a repository for most of my efforts, most requiring ShaderTFX. As you can tell, I am a great fan of ShaderTFX.

Most of these packages stand alone, but are also kits that can be personalized with the writing of a little more XML. By looking at the AppNotes or the XML file provided, you can see what parameters are exposed, and how to use/modify them.

Each package below has an image of many or all of the Icons that will be installed in your Moviemaker, a short description of the package and three buttons. Move your mouse cursor over the small Icons image to see a larger version of it and move out of the enlarged image to close it.

The three buttons are:
   • Show a Demonstration Video
   • Download the Installation Package
   • Go to the Associated Forum at Moviemaker.net

The miscellaneous HL Application Notes link will get you to a little more in depth discussion of the effects and transitions, including the appropriate XML parameters and syntax. Also info on creating any images types involved in the TFX.

The miscellaneous FX Application Notes link will get you to a little more in depth discussion of the HLSL coding techniques used in the ShaderTFX effects and transitions and for effects without using ShaderTFX.

These last two areas are sparse now, but I'll add to them as time and inclination permit.

11/29/2007 I made up a few more AniLogos. Some Holiday and some miscellaneous.
16 new Sprite Sheets and 24 effects. MM 6.0 only.

Click the Demo Video button for a video demo with most of them.

Click the Download button to get the installer. Then run the exe. It has an uninstaller.
Note: You must have previously installed Rehan's ShaderTFX and DPL AniLogo above.

For the adventurous, the Magic is in the XML file where the RectOverlay parameter can place, size and move the animated image. Open the xml file in notepad and take a look at it.

To Place, see these kind of parameters:

<Param name="RectOverlay" type="float4" value=" 0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.2"/>

puts upper left corner at 0.1 (10%) horizontally and 0.1 vertically.
it will be 0.2 (20%) wide and 0.2 tall.

<Param name="RectOverlay" evaluation="Linear" type="float4" > 
  <Point time="0.00 " value="0.75, 0.10, 0.2, 0.2"/> 
  <Point time="0.50 " value="0.70, 0.15, 0.3, 0.3"/> 
  <Point time="1.00 " value="0.75, 0.10, 0.2, 0.2"/> 
</Param> 

This gives a position and size at time 0.0, moving to a different position and size at time 0.5 then moving back to the starting position/size at time 1.0 where time 0.0 is the start of the video and time 1.0 is the end.

The FlipH (Mirror horizontally) and AlphaOverlay (Opaqueness, see the big ghost) are other of the more interesting parameters.

To make a new effect using an existing image, just copy and past it's xml section back into the xml file and modify the parameters to do what you want. viola' a additional, new effect.

For the really adventurous, you can make the sprite sheets from public domain animated GIF files. IrfanView can extract each frame to a separate bmp file, then use your favorite graphic editor to create a sheet of the proper size, and paste all the frames into it and save it as a PNG file with transparency where you want it. Write the XML and you have a new animated effect. There is a generic AniLogo icon at iconid="0".

And of course for those that aren't artistically challenged like I am, you can "draw" your own animation frames. Animated GIF editors are great for this for drawing and previewing.

AniLogo Application Notes

12/22/2007 Ok, I made up yet a few more AniLogos. Some Holiday and some miscellaneous.

25 new Sprite Sheets and 29 effects. MM 6.0 only.

Click the Demo Video button to see a demo with most of them.

Click Download to get the installer. Then run the exe. It has an uninstaller.
Note: You must have previously installed Rehan's ShaderTFX and DPL AniLogo above.

See Anilogo2 above for info about creating and customizing AniLogos

AniLogo Application Notes

9/29/2007 This package installs 50+ effects including the Danielle frames for XP modified for Vista, and a few narrow gauge frames that I made and like. Being effects, you can still add titles to the title line while applying these frames as effects to each image or video as desired. One rendering then does all.

Click Demo Video to see a video of some of them.

Click Download to get the installer and run the exe. It has an uninstaller.
Note: You must have previously installed Rehan's ShaderTFX and it must be unexpired or registered.

Also included are some shrink/expand effects. Of particular note is the DPL 100% (shrink?).

The native Frame Effects will all snuggle up to edges of the picture/video and pull away from the edges of the video window. Thus for 4:3 in a 16:9 project, vice versa, or just any random aspect ratio like portrait, the frame will be letterboxed in the video window. As your movie progresses then, the frame will be changing sizes if aspect ratios are intermixed. I like the frame to snuggle out to the video window edges.

Therefore, apply the DPL 100% effect first, then the frame effect. Now the images will be letterboxed inside of the frame cutout. You can crop, shrink, frame etc prior to the 100% effect for different appearances.

In general, the DPL 100% effect letterboxes the image to the view window and can be useful prior to many of the other effects.

Report any problems (or successes) in the forum.

2/1/2008 I just can't quit playing with this thing (ShaderTFX). Here are some 2 dimensional deformations of rectangle to other shapes, inspired by a function in my old Paint Shop Pro.

First I tried to make a deform to circle, kinda like a fisheye, but in 2 dimensions. When I finally got the arithmetic worked out, I added some other simple shapes.

Click Demo Video for a DPL 2D Geometric Deformation Effects Demo.

Click the Download button to download an installer for these effects. Run the exe file to install it. You may have to be signed on as administrator as the installer installs a file in the c:/Program Files/Movie Maker/Shared/ directory. A proper uninstaller is provided. Rehan's ShaderTFX is required. See Rehan's ShaderTFX.

The shapes available in addition to Ellipse are Diamond, Hourglass, Bowtie, Pyramid, Cone, Arch and Cup. Most just straight line width = f(y) or height=f(x) except Arch and Cup which are catenary approximations width = f(y squared) (Like the St Louis Arch). Also the flat sides may be curved with the ellipse calculation.

After I got the deformations, I decided each needed a morph into and a morph out of. So each shape is provided as a triplet. Morph In from rectangle, Deformed Steady and Morph Out to rectangle. This can be utilized with 3 identical sequential photos(images) or by 3 splits in a video. See the beginning/end sections of the demo video. Also, of course these work with other effects. See the frames, animated logos etc. in the demo. Changing the order of the effects determines if the other effects will be introduced before or after the deformation effect.

For you XML experimenters, the background color (default black) may be changed in the XML with:

  <Param name="BackgroundColor" type="float4" value="0,0.0,0.0,1" /> or 

  <BackgroundColor type="color" value="black" /> 

Other interesting parameters are:

<TextureFile value="%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\
                                  DPL Deform Effects BG\BlueGold.PNG"/> 

Also, there is a progress parameter used to move from rectangle to the deformation.

  <Param name="Progress" type="float" value="1.00"/>

And then, there is X and Y aspect ratio which default to 1.0.

  <Param name="AspectX" type="float" value="2.666666" /> 
  <Param name="AspectY" type="float" value="2.0" /> 

These will shrink the specified axis by the value. e.g AspectX = 1.333333 makes an ellipse appear as a circle in 4:3 videos and AspectX = 1.777777 makes an ellipse appear as a circle in 16:9 videos. The above XY values make a smaller circle in a 4:3 production. Like the end of the demo.

Also provided are zip in from nothing and shrink out to nothing effects, one straight and one kinda like twilight zone ("we control your horizontal, we control your vertical").

Not sure how you all might use these effects, but I had fun building and now using them.

Download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.

10/12/2007 This version contains two ways to do the image wipe.

EZ Mode - Straight line transition at angle.
The Image is easier to create - just an image in the center of a transparent canvas

Fancy Mode - arbitrary transition geometry
-The image is placed on a large canvas, then transparent Black and White colors determine the transition points.

This is really a kit to allow you to create your ImageWipe transitions. Read the XML file for some more information. Also, some generic Icons (RULD) are at 16, 17, 18 and 19 in the DLL in case you don't want Beer Bottles, Red Trucks or Ceramic Cats as your Icon.

I found the fx file getting complex enough to expire if I put a few more instructions in it. My graphics card is fairly hot, so I don't know if there is a problem with lesser cards. Would like any feedback of problems (or successes).

Also included is a "100% effect". For videos/images with aspect ratios different from the project aspect ratio, just apply this effect to the A/B images, and the transition will be full screen even if the image isn't.

Download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.

You must have DPL ImageWipe (Look at DPL ImageWipe above) and Rehan's ShaderTFX installed and operating.

This set of 22 Image Wipes has no particular theme, just a bunch of public domain images I like and use. I got most of them from Google Images search engine.

You can make up your own. Just center an image on a 4:3 canvas, paint the parts you want transparent an odd color, then save the file as a PNG with the odd color designated transparent. Put the file in the DPL ImageWipes3C folder.

Then add an entry in the DPL Imagewipe3c.xml file looking like this:

<Transition name="DPL IW3EZC MyPicR" iconid="0" 
            guid="DPL IW3EZC MyPicR" ShaderModel="2"> 
  <Param name="ShaderFilename" value="DPL Imagewipe3EZ.fx"/> 
  <Param name="Technique" value="ImageWipeEZ"/> 
  <Param name="TextureFile" value="%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\
                                        DPL ImageWipes3C\MyPic.png"/> 
  <Semantics> 
    <Param name="Angle" type="float" value="0.0" /> 
    <Param name="FlipH" type="float" value="0" /> 
    <Param name="BorderWidth" type="float" value="0.1" /> 
  </Semantics> 
</Transition> 

Next time you start MM6 you will have a new transition named MyPicR.
FlipH can be 0 or 1.
Angle 0 is right, 90 up, -90 down and 180 or -180 is left, etc.
BorderWidth is the fraction of the video width (0.1 = 10%)
iconid 0 is a generic icon.

10/12/2007 Here are a few more miscellaneous transitions using ShaderTFX. Push, Slide and Composite transitions.

Download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

These are just tweaks to Rehan's PIP transition and Blaine's Transparencies and Composite A add B transitions HLSL code. The tweak to PIP is just to allow Slide In transitions. To Blaine's transitions I added a quarter second fade to the head and tail to curtail abrupt entries and exits. Also, composite is in some weaker strengths in case the composite over saturates the video.

It's nice to stand on the shoulders of giants.

To use the composites, just split your video (or put two identical images) in the timeline view, then put the composite video in the slot. Mostly overlap the composite video with the prior part, and overlap the succeeding video completely to the first transition. Then put the Composite transition in the first transition section and the ShowB transition in the 2nd transition section. This makes the transition seamless (I think Blaine invented this. It's because you can't overlap videos totally, but you can butt transitions together). You may have to clip the composite video (and/or stretch/shrink the pictures) to get the correct timing lengths.

As always, you can compose your own XML to vary some of the parameters. Look at the XML file.

PushSlideComp Application Notes

9/29/2007 I wanted background color/image for Shader TFX PIP transitions. I see that Rehan included most of the code in his release package, but didn't expose it for now. Being impatient, I finished the code and added background images for my personal use.

You can change the size and position of the 2 images with the RectA and RectB parameters.

Download, Unzip and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

1/11/2008 This set of four transitions is similar to Rehan's Cube Rotation Transitions but with the addition of a bit of 3D perspective.

Download, Unzip and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

2/29/2008 This set of 10 transitions is a slight improvement to my earlier cube rotate transitions. The improvements are:
--A perfectly straight edge on the perspective edges of the cube
--Ability to size X and Y dimensions of the cube (3/4 "small" size included)
--Able to have a background image or a background color
--Progress is a "Square" function. Starts out slow then accelerates and then kind of "clicks" into place

Right, Up, Left and Down "rotating" transitions are included in the full size transitions. Works nicely with photos and videos.

With the 3/4 (small) size transitions, things are a little different. Two additional transitions include a "size in" and a "size out" to start and end the sequence. Also, the transitions must totally overlap and butt up against each other so that the size doesn't bounce out to full size. Mostly (only?) useful with photos, not videos. See the demo video.

The "size in" and "size out" transitions should be twice the length of the rotate transitions, because they each contain a size AND a rotate section.

You can change the background color with the

  <BackgroundColor type="color" value="darkblue"/> 

   <TextureFile value="%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\
                         DPL 3D CubeRotateB BG\HappyFrame.jpg"/> 

   <Perspective type="float" value="0.50"/>

Download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
This package can coexist with the previous, but I don't think you need the previous.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

9/26/2007 These effects for Vista MM use gradient files to direct changing a clip or image from grayscale to color and the reverse. Also allows a colored border at the transition point. Requires Rehan's Shader TFX be installed.

Download, Unzip and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

Report any problems (or successes) in the forum. It is labor intensive for your graphic card, so perhaps preview in a small MM window if it is jerky. The rendered movie file will be just fine.

16 sample effects are included.
Read the XML file to see how to modify and/or add to the effects.

9/27/2007 These 7 effects demonstrate using the Overlay capabilities of Rehan's Shader TFX. The overlay fx file is a slightly tweaked version of rehanfx_overlay.fx allowing colored borders.

Download, Unzip and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

The demo shows moving logos with varying transparency so watermarking is available. Also the Saucerman shows the logos can be moved off-screen and varied in size.

Read the XML file to see the parameters available and examples of using them.

Report any problems (or successes) in the forum.

11/23/2007 Download, Unzip and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

re: view post Forum Link. I couldn't get the referenced spatial transform approach to work, so I used Rehan's ShaderTFX to implement Rehan's graphical design of these 3D Flybys with just a little geometric distortion to kinda simulate 3D as he accomplished with PIP++ in XP.

There is a Flyby Effect which can be applied to each photo where it flies in, pauses, then flies out.

The Flyby Bump Transitions have 3 transitions. One for the first photo to fly in, one for all of the middle photos to bump each other out, and one for the last photo to fly out.

The frames, mouse, and flags in the demo are from some other DPL ShaderTFX packages and just for fun.

3/15/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these effects and transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

HiLite Effects - These effects are shaped by a mask (overlay) and the size and position of the high lighting is controlled with rectangle parameters. Two concurrent high lighted areas are allowed, with each having separate control of the position and size, but using the same shaped mask. Borders may be separately colored or can take the image provided in the mask for its boundaries.

Shaped PIP Transitions - These transitions ae shaped by a mask also and the size and position of the PIPs are separately controlled with rectangle parameters. Here too, the border may be colored or an image taken from the mask.

This is a kit. The provided effects and transitions probably will not satisfy your needs. You can get a lot of mileage just by recoding the rectangle parameters in the XML file. A generic Button Icon is provided at iconid="0".

Also, masks are fairly easy to generate. 640x480 is a good canvas size to work with.

In the Bordered Effects, black where you want the image darker and transparent where you want the high light. Any color in between will be used to place the border color or image. Check out the samples in the DPL HiLite Masks folder in the AddOnTFX folder.

In the Soft Effects, the mask should be black for dark background, and white for full intensity and levels of gray in between to provide the softness. I just make a black and white image, then apply a Gaussian blur of about 20 pixels to the image. The boundaries then soften up with a gray gradient and provide the soft boundaries.

In the Shaped PIPs the same mask as used for the bordered effects works just fine.

HiLiter Application Notes

3/22/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

HiLite Filtered Effects - These effects are shaped by a mask and the size and position of the high lighting is controlled with rectangle parameters. The highlighted area is then filtered with one of:
- Pixelate
- Negative (X-Ray)
- Color Shade (any color may be specified)
- Emboss
Borders may be separately colored or can take the image provided in the mask for its boundaries or be turned off.

This is a kit. The provided effects probably will not satisfy your needs. You can get a lot of mileage just by recoding the rectangle parameters in the XML file. A generic Button Icon is provided at iconid="0".

Also, masks are fairly easy to generate. 640x480 is a good canvas size to work with.

In the HiLite Effects masks, put black where you want the original image and transparent where you want the high light (the InvertFilterArea parameter reverses this). Any color in between will be used to place the border color or image. Check out the samples in the DPL HiLite Filter Masks folder in the AddOnTFX folder.

HiLiter Filtered Application Notes

3/24/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects & Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

In Movie Maker forums, I have seen some requests for various kinds of flashing effects and transitions. This package can accommodate some of those requests. The basis is introduction of a real-time clock to control the flashing. It's time period and duty cycle may be specified.

ColorFlash Transitions - This one just morphs to a single color in the first half of the transition based on the brightness of the first image. Then in the second half of the transition, it morphs from the color to the second image, based on the brightness of the second image. Similar to Rehan's Electrics where the duration of the morphing is controlled by the amount of overlapping of the two images, like all transitions.

ImageFlash Transitions - This one superimposes an overlay image on a fade from the first image to the second image. It may be flashing with the real-time clock or on solid, and it's transparency may be specified. Also the size and position of the overlay image may be specified.

ColorFlash Effects - This one just alternates between a color and the image at the real-time clock's controlled rate and duty cycle. The color may have it's transparency specified.

ImageFlash Effects - This one superimposes a flashing or solid overlay image on the original image. The overlay image transparency and the size and position of the image may be specified as well as its flash rate.

This is a kit. The provided effects and transitions probably will not satisfy your needs. You can get a lot of mileage just by recoding the rectangle parameters, the color parameter and the cycletime/dutycycle parameters in the XML file. Check out the DPL Flashing TFX.xml file in the AddOnTFX folder for templates and seeing which parameters are exposed. A generic Button Icon is provided at iconid="0".

Also, images are fairly easy to generate. 640x480 is one good canvas size to work with, but most anything will work and the aspect ration may be controlled with the Rectangle parameter.

In the overlay images, make the image transparent where you want to see the background. Check out the sample skull image in the DPL Flashing TFX Images folder in the AddOnTFX folder.

The real-time clock's cycle time probably should be a multiple of the frame time (1/30 sec for NTSC and 1/25 sec for PAL) to get rid of any strobe type effects.

FlashingTFX Application Notes

4/12/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

Spotlight mask images are fairly easy to generate. 640x480 is one good canvas size to work with, but most anything will work and the size, position and aspect ratio may be controlled with the Rectangle parameter (x, y, xsize, ysize).

In the masks, put black where you want the BackGroundIntensity and white where you want the ForeGroundIntensity. A gradient at the transition will be honored in the effect. I just make a black and white image, then applay a gaussian blur of 10 or 15 pixels. Check out the samples in the DPL Spotlight Masks folder in the AddOnTFX folder.

This is a kit. The provided effects probably will not satisfy your needs. You can get a lot of mileage just by recoding the rectangle parameters (x, y, xsize, ysize) in the XML file . Check out the DPL Spotlight Effects.xml file in the AddOnTFX folder for templates and seeing how to use the parameters. A generic Button Icon is provided at iconid="0".

The nLights parameter can specify 1, 2 or 3 lights which will be controlled with the ImageRectangleA, ImageRectangleB and ImageRectangleC parameters. The BackGroundIntensity and ForeGroundIntensity parameters set the intensity of the non-lit and fully lit areas. The lit areas are the geometric mean of the lights so when more than 1 light shows on a pixel, it is a little brighter.

Spotlight Effects Application Notes

4/18/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

These are a few of my favorite AniLogos used in DPL AniLogo Effects converted to Transitions.

The Animated Logo Image is moved across the screen horizontally left or right with a rectangle parameter. Then a V shaped trail is left where the transition occurs with a fade from imageA to imageB. A width of the fading of about 5% is a nice value.

The Trailing V follows the AniLogo image and can be offset a bit with respect to the AniLogo. Also, it's point is blunted to make the V better fit the particular AniLogo used and the angle of the upper and lower portions of the V can be specified for movements slightly off of horizontal.

You can see some information about composing AniLogo Sprite Sheets at AniLogo Sprites. They are the same as the Sprite Sheets for the DPL AniLogo Effects.

AniLogo Transition Application Notes

4/22/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller. Six sample ColorShift effects will be installed.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

In its simplest form, the color mask (overlay) can be just a solid color. Then this effect just takes the original video, converts it to grayscale and then applies the solid color such as sepia, red, purple etc. as a hue of the video. It gets more interesting to make the mask different colors in different areas giving different highlights. Also, if the mask is a PNG file, any transparent area will just let the original video show through. Since the color biasing sometime darkens the video, there is an Intensity parameter to brighten it up again.

It gets more fun to cycle the colors through the hues of the rainbow with the HueCycleTime parameter.

And even more fun to create the Color Mask with color gradients. See the samples in the DPL Color Masks folder.

I use PaintShop Pro to generate the gradients with the gradient editor. I imagine Photoshop, Paint.net, Gimp etc. can do the same, or better.

Enjoy.

ColorShift Effects Application Notes

4/26/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Six PhotoStack transitions will be installed. Two for odd/even transitions and four to start and stop the sequence.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

This set of transitions is a port of the fine design by dlk in MM XP land which uses PIP+. See dlk MM Forum Post.

A way to use this set is:

• In Tools->Options set Picture Duration to twice what you like (I use 8 sec)
• Drag all the photos you want to the timeline
• Order them the way you want and apply any effects you want
• Starting at the left, overlap photo2 with photo1 half way (4 sec?)
• Progress to the right, overlapping each photo to the left as far as you can. Butt them up.
• Now, drag the PhotoStack1(odd) transition to the first transition, PhotoStack2(even) to the second transition and continue alternating them to the end.
• Now, add a copy of the first photo to the beginning and of the last photo to the end.
• Overlap the first 2 photos and the last 2 photos and apply Start1(Odd) the the first transition and Stop1 or Stop2 to the last, matching the last of the transitions (Odd or Even).
• That's it. If you add a photo or delete a photo you have to go back and make sure the transitions are in the correct Odd-Even sequence. Probably best done in the Storyboard view.

Another way to start and stop the stack is described in dlk's post. It uses an Inverted Title Overlay to fade into and out of the PhotoStack. I think I like that approach even better.

There are some more nice application notes at dlk's MM Forum Post above.

Enjoy.

DPL PhotoStack Application Notes

5/13/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.

Six Overlay Sample Effects will be installed. Fade In, Hold, Fade Out, Fade In/Out, Moving Fade In/Out and Fade In/Out Transparent (Watermark). Fade In/Hold/out can be used with a long sequence of images (photos) while fade In/Out works OK for a video.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

These effects are similiar to the Moving Logo effects above, but with the added ability to specify a fade in and fade out in time units (seconds). This is a kit for your use with your overlays. The overlay in the samples is one of my favorites from PapaJohns title overlay examples.

Also, overall Transparency can be specified so this effect can provide watermarking.

Overlay Effects have some advantages and disadvantages compared to Overlay Titles.

• Disadvantage - Can't have arbitrary start times and lengths (teffects are synced to an image or video) - This can be alleviated with multiple copies of images and splits in a video.
• Advantage - Can have up to six effects in a given image or video and its easy to set transparency and motion and size. And this one can specify a fade in and out in time units (seconds instead of a percentage of progress).

Enjoy.

DPL OverlayT Application Notes

5/17/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Four AniBorder effects will be installed and one AniLogo Effect just to show that this code works for AniLogos too.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

AniBorders are the same basic concept as the AniLogos above, just using larger images with appropriate resolution to be a border, and conceptually you may have pure animations like the Flames Border or one or more animations mixed with a fixed background like the Halloween one. Also, there is an extra rectangle parameter for the underlying image to shrink it into an opening in a border (frame). This is a kit to show some possibilities, and for you to be able to construct your own Animated Borders.

The Border Sprite sheets are a bit large and take some time to load in Movie Maker previewing so you may see some pauses, however the final rendering will be just fine.

Enjoy.

DPL AniBorder Application Notes

5/21/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eleven Curtain effects will be installed. Variations on curtains opening, holding and closing.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

If you are applying these effects to a video, just split a small ~2 sec section off of each end, then apply an opening effect to the first section, a open effect to the middle and a closing effect to the last section. There is also a closed effect if you want a leader or trailer. With photos you need just apply the opening and closing to the first and last photo and the open effect to all the photos in between. If you are mixing aspect ratios you need to apply the 100% zoom effect before the curtain effect. This will letterbox the image in the window.

This is a kit to show some possibilities, and for you to be able to construct your own Curtains. It would also be reasonable to construct window and sliding gate groups of effects.

The image used in this example is from Saaria Product's webpage. A little cut and past gives an image with two parts - the valence and side curtains and then the curtain itself. You can see the image here. And purchase it for your big screen from Saaria.

Here are a couple of different colored curtains. Red Curtains and Blue Curtains

clasycassie from the MovieMaker Forums got it all figured out a while back in time for a birthday video, and here are two more curtain images blue and red sans gold piping. Thanks Cassie.

Enjoy.

DPL Curtain Effects Application Notes

6/17/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects and Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Three Wavy Transitions and three Wavy effects will be installed. The waves are Horizontal(X), Vertical(Y) and both (XY).
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

These TFXs are just the application of a sine wave to the horizontal and vertical. The edges stay in place with a small buffer zone. The TFXs start and stop in 0.25 seconds and sustain in the middle. The cycle time is 1 second and keeps repeating. The times are based on a real-time clock so they don't change with different length transitions or effects.

See the app notes for a few parameters you can tweak. Strength and CycleTime are interesting ones.

Enjoy.

DPL WavyTFX Application Notes

8/7/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Six Color Temperature effects will be installed, three cooler and three warmer.

ShaderTFX is not required.

These Effects are a KISS approximation of color temperature where cooler is just boosting the blue content of the image and warmer is boosting the yellow (red & green) content of the image. See Wikipedia for more info. This implementation emperically (eyballing) is pretty close to what the HP PhotoSmart image editor does.

See the app notes for the one parameter you can tweak. Intensity in percent, + for warmer and - for cooler. Since these are effects, they can be stacked but are not symetrical between warmer and cooler.

Enjoy.

DPL ColorTemp Application Notes

8/21/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Four Color Glow effects will be installed, Red, Green, Blue and Yellow.

ShaderTFX is not required.

These Effects are KISS glow effects where first the image is blurred in the XY directions, then at each blurred sample if the color is in range of the specified color, it's intensity is increased, otherwise the original unblurred sample is returned.

The effects are stackable and can be used in combination with other effects. They apply some nice subtle glow effects on some images and are totally ineffective on other images. Depends on the content and the colors involved.

This is a combination of techniques taken from Blaine's Bloom effects and Rehan's ColorPass effects.

See the app notes for all the parameters you can tweak. The most interesting are Color, Range and Intensity.

Enjoy.

DPL ColorGlow Application Notes

9/25/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions and Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Sixteen Rotate effects and seven transitions will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

This package is mostly samples and a kit waiting for creative image makers and XML writers to expand it with their talents.

The Rotation function just rotates an image around its center or rocks it +=angle, and of course can be no rotation (angle=0). The rotation/rocking can be angle, number of cycles or cycletime controlled.

The transitions included are:
1. Fade from A to B while rotating or rocking both.
2. PIP showing an image or video on a background video or image. The PIP size and position is controlled with a rectangle parameter and rotated or rocked or static and can be transparent.

The effects included are:
1. Overlay Logo/Watermark images positioned and sized with rectangles having transparency that can spin or rock.
2. Overlay Animated Images which can use any of the sprite sheets used in the DPL Anilogo packages plus spin/rock.
3. Just spin/rock/resize the underlying video/image.

This is actually a nice general purpose Overlay Effect package which includes sizing, placement, timed fade in/out, transparency, rotation/rocking and sprite animation.

Also, in case the underlying image/video on the timeline does not match the aspect ratio of the project, a letterbox effect is supplied to put on the image first, then the other effects will be placed where you expect.

Enjoy.

DPL RotateTFX Application Notes

10/6/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eight AcompBclip transitions will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

A composite B add is great for superimposing Neo's Clip Archive video clips over a video or picture. I have noticed that many of the clips end up very saturated and it fades out some of the original colors.

This package attempts to give a more true representaion of the original B clip by displaying it if the overall brightness of the B clip is above a certain level. Most overlay clips have a black background and a clip level of 25% saturated gives a pretty good effect. That level can be changed in the XML, and a 100% level is supplied which is equivalent to the original AcompB transitions.

Also, since the transition overlap can't be 100%, there is a little tail where only the 'B' image is seen. To combat this, an In and an Out transition is supplied. The way to use this is to split a video (or supply 2 images), put the overlay clip in the middle and then overlap both ends till they butt up together. Then make the first transition the IN and the second transition the OUT.

Another feature is that the IN fades in with a 1/4 sec time and the OUT with a 1/4 sec time so that things don't just click in and out. Modifieable in the XML.

A rectangle parameter lets you change the position and size of the clip overlay, and it can be transparent, both with XML tweaks.

Enjoy.

DPL AcompBclip TX Application Notes

10/30/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Three PourIn transitions will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

These transitions just kind of pour in the next image in a narrow stream from the top, filling up the bottom.

A rectangle parameter lets you change the width of the input stream with XML tweaks.

Enjoy.

DPL PourIn TX Application Notes

11/02/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Fourteen RoughPaint effects will be installed.

You do not need ShaderTFX.

These effects flatten the colors, then add a bit of a shadow (from emboss calcs) to give a slight bas relief (3D) effect.

A rectangle parameter lets you set where the effect applies and a color parameter lets you shade the image with XML tweaks.

Enjoy.

DPL RoughPaint Effects Application Notes

11/20/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eight CartoonEdges effects will be installed.

You do not need ShaderTFX.

These effects flatten the colors, then add a bit of color to the color edges.

Enjoy.

DPL CartoonEdges Effects Application Notes

12/4/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Three PIP2 effects and 26 PIP2 transitions will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

This is a family of PIP transitions in four different categories.

1. There are 16 PIP transitions that can be used between any vid/pic sequence. They always start with a full size A image and end with a full size B image. They include various combinations of zoom, shrink, move, fade in/out, slide in/out, solid colored border, black is transparent, background color and background image. Best used as 1-2 sec transitions. You can write your own XML to create other combinations of these parameters.

2. Three Picture Sequence transitions. These are designed to show a large present image and a small preview of the next image. There are Start, Middle and End transitions. To utilize these, the transitions must totally overlap the images. Butt them up together. Make the duration of the images twice the time you want them to display as theey will be half length when you finish overlapping them. XML coding can change the preview and large image size and position. These transitions also have a real-time (not a percentage) entry and exit time (nominally 1 sec) so the movement time is constant no matter the duration of the image. A nice Neo fractal image is used as the background image and you can change it to your own.

3. Another version of a preview and main image transitions. These come in 2 versions, an equal size PIP pair and a small/large image pair. These can be used without butting the transitions up together. With and without black_is_transparent and background. These can be used nicely with 2 long videos. The images switch size and position half way through the transition.

4. Two Video Inset transitions, a timed fade in and a timed fade out. The inset is small and in the lower right corner, kinda like an announcer face small and a game in the background. The way to use these is to take the main video and split it. Then insert the inset video at the split and totally overlay the inset at either end with a transition. Then make the 2 transitions VidInset FadeIn and VidInset FadeOut.

There also are three PIP2 effect included.

• A PIP2 100% Letterbox - This needs to be applied to a vid/pic if it's aspect ratio is different from the project aspect ratio to make the backgrounds and effects appropriately sized.
• Two overlays (OvalBlue and OvalWood) which create a transparent area outside of the oval and provide a transparent area inside the oval to let the image show through. Nice effects to apply to a video inset and even any image used on the timeline using this transition set. XML writers can create more of these "frames".

This set of transitions defines exactly black (rgba = 0,0,0,1) as transparent. If this caused unwanted transparency, the <BlackIsTransparent type="bool" value="true" /> statement can be changed to "false".

The transparency works nicely with PNG images and GIF animations including transparency. Here is a Transparency Demo Video.

Enjoy and make us some new ones. Lots of variations possible with just XML coding.

DPL PIP2 Transitions Application Notes

12/7/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eleven ColorKey effects will be installed. Six with major colors RGBCMY (same as supplied elsewhere), and some multi color include/exclude examples.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

This is just a kit. You will have to tailor some XML to match your images. See the XML file for the examples.

These effects change the image to grayscale except for pass colors. These effects allow up to 4 colors to pass and 2 colors to exclude. The excluded colors will be grayscale.

The colors are specified in a RGBT (Red, Green, Blue, Tolerance) format. Also for real fine tuning a B/W mask can be used where white says do pass/exclude filtering and black says either always grayscale or always original color depending on a MaskMode parameter (1=grayscale, 2=original).

Enjoy.

DPL ColorKeyMulti Effects Application Notes

12/20/2008 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eight Doors Transitions will be installed.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

These transitions just bring the next image in with a bit of geometric distortion simulating door(s) closing or removing the old image with door(s) opening.

Enjoy.

DPL Doors Transitions Application Notes

1/5/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eleven Overlay Effect examples will be installed.
You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

This new Overlay Kit is a combining of many of the variations that I have constructed in the past. Samples are included for most of it options. It's capabilities include:

• Sizing, placing and moving Logos (Overlays)
• Using transparency with overlays (watermarking)
• Frames with underlying image sizing to match the cutout
• Flashing Logos
• Animated Logos, Frames and Borders using sprite sheets
• Timed fade in/out of the overlay (and video optionally)

The package also includes the ever needed Letterbox effect for odd aspect ratio video track images.

Enjoy.

DPL Overlay Effects Application Notes

1/5/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Twenty One Animated Overlay Effect examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered. AniLogo1 does NOT have to be installed as did some of my previous AniLogos.

These Animated Overlays are constructed from the DPL Overlay Effects Kit. I just stack up interesting public domain Animated GIFs till I get 15-20 and then extract the frames, paste to sprite sheets and write the XML. The sprite sheets look like this Spinning Earth.

The package also includes the ever needed Letterbox effect for odd aspect ratio video track images.

Enjoy.

DPL Overlay Effects Application Notes

2/19/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eleven Mirror/Duplicate Effect examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

See the XML and the App Notes for ideas of how to construct XML to suit your needs.

Enjoy.

DPL MirDup Effects Application Notes

3/7/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these Effects

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Six NewsPic Effect examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

There are effects that install dots brighter or darker and effects for halftone, all in either grayscale or color.

See the XML and the App Notes for ideas of how to construct XML to suit your needs.

Enjoy.

DPL NewsPic Effects Application Notes

3/11/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Eight Whoosh Transition examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

There are 4 transitions where the next image kind of pours (whooshes) in and 4 where the first image kind of pours (whooshes) out. Up, down, left and right.

There is just one parameter to adjust (defaults to 0.25 (25%)).

<TransitionPoint type="float" value="0.25" />

Enjoy.

3/29/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Nine Gray Transition examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating unexpired or registered.

These transitions have separate control for the A and B images. The controls are Grayness, Rectangle size and placement, and B transparency. Also the A and B image graynesses can be controlled by Rectangle or a Mask image or a Gradient image.

DPL Gray Transitions Application Notes

Enjoy.

4/2/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Three Whirl/Pinch Effects and three Whirl/Pinch Transition examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating.

The whirl effects distort like a whirlpool and the pinch/punch effects are like a shrink or a bulge, all at the centerpoint of the image. The transition analogs do the distortions while fading to the next image.

DPL Whirl/Pinch TFX Application Notes

Enjoy.

4/30/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Three HeartBeat Effects examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating. Expired trial OK.

These effects just give a dynamic magnify bump of the video/image and are modeled after Rehan's original HeartBeat effect for PIP+.

ShaderTFX allows real-time control, so these new effects just keep on rhythmically pumping no matter the length of the video/image.

The effect starts and ends at 1.0 magnification and allows 4 different magnifications at 4 different time points in a cycle. And the cycle rate can be set in Beats per Minute. 75 BPM is a normal female heart beat rate.

Also, there is a parameter to set the maximum number of beats. Any partial beat at the end of the image duration is cut off so the image always ends at magnification of 1.0.

The control parameters are:

1. TimePoint - default = {0.20, 0.25, 0.30, 0.50}; // Normalized to 1.0
2. MagPoint - default = {1.00, 1.20, 1.24, 1.00}; // Normalized to 1.0
3. BeatsPerMinute - default = 75.0; // Heart Rate
4. MaxCycles - default = 99999; // Limit cycles
5. BackGroundColor - default = {0,0,0,1}; // Black

Enjoy.

5/14/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Seven AspectMix Effect and two AspectMix Title examples will be installed.

Most do not need ShaderTFX but you must have ShaderTFX installed and operating for the 2 overlay effects.

Broadcast HD Television folks have come up with an interesting way to mix 4:3 content with 16.9 content. Just a pair of sidebars with a blurred/shaded replica of the nearby image. Here are effects to add to a 4:3 to simulate that idea.

To use the effects, you must first add the DPL AspectMix Letterbox effect (included), then the AspectMix of choice. The 2 Titles are just added over the image/video.

The FX code allows mixing of 16x9 content into a 4x3 project. Just write the XML modifying the ImageRect parameter.

ShaderTFX allows image overlays, so sidebars of arbitrary content may be constructed and used. Greek columns might look nice ;-)

DPL AspectMix FX Application Notes

Enjoy.

5/17/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these effects.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Nine TransFrame Effect examples will be installed.

These do not need ShaderTFX but your graphics card must support Shader Model 3.0. Google GPUZ for a utility to check your shader level capability. Windows Vista Aero requires shader level 2.0, so Aero activation does not guarantee level 3.0.

These effects just blur and then shade the frame (or censor) area with options for graying and/or pixelation.

If the aspect ratio of your pic/vid is different than the project aspect ratio, you may have to first add the DPL TransFrame Letterbox effect (included), then the TransFrame of choice.

I couldn't implement this design in Shader Model 2.0. My apologies.

DPL TransFrame FX Application Notes

Enjoy.

5/30/2009 Click the Demo Video button for a video sample of these transitions.

If you like what you see, download and run the installer exe. You may need administrator privilege. It has a proper uninstaller.
Four CheckerBoard Transition examples will be installed.

You must have ShaderTFX installed and operating. Expired trial OK.

These transitions operate on a NxM matrix shrinking the A image to zero size or zooming the B image from zero size.

DPL CBoard TX Application Notes

Enjoy.