2D Transform Menu Settings

Timeline FX Quick Menu Settings

To see the full 2D Transform menu, click the Editor button.

2D Transform Tab selector
Select the tab settings you want to modify.

General Settings

Transform Type box
Select Perspective to modify all available settings, or Pan & Scan to modify only Position and Scale. In Pan & Scan mode, some Axis and Camera Shake settings are unavailable.
Camera Shake button
Enable to simulate camera shake in the image.
Show Icons button
Enable to display the vertex editing tool in the image window.
Scan Mode box
Select the scan mode of rendered clips.

Axis Settings

Position X field
Displays the X-axis offset applied to the clip. Editable.
Position Y field
Displays the Y-axis offset applied to the clip. Editable.
Position Z field
Displays the depth offset of the clip. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Rotation X field
Displays the degree of rotation on the X axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Rotation Y field
Displays the degree of rotation on the Y axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Rotation Z field
Displays the degree of rotation along the Z axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Scale X field
Displays the X-axis scaling offsets applied to the clip. Editable.
Scale Y field
Displays the Y-axis scaling offsets applied to the clip. Editable.
Scale Z field
Displays the Z-axis scaling offset. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Proportional button
Enable to affect the Scale fields proportionally.
Shear X field
Displays the offset value for the horizontal edges of the clip. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Shear Y field
Displays the offset value for the vertical edges of the clip. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Shear Z field
Displays the depth value of the horizontal edges of the clip. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Centre X field
Displays the centre point value of the clip along the horizontal axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Centre Y field
Displays the centre point value of the clip along the vertical axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Centre Z field
Displays the centre point value of the clip along the Z axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.

Matte Offset Settings

Position X field
Displays the X-axis offset applied to the matte. Editable.
Position Y field
Displays the Y-axis offset applied to the matte. Editable.
Rotation Z field
Displays the degree of rotation along the Z axis. Editable.
Scale X field
Displays the X-axis scaling offset applied to the matte. Editable.
Scale Y field
Displays the Y-axis scaling offset applied to the matte. Editable.
Proportional button
Enable to affect the Scale fields proportionally.

Camera Shake Settings

Translate X Amount field
Displays the amount of horizontal movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Translate Y Amount field
Displays the amount of vertical movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Rotation Z Amount field
Displays the degree of rotation on the Z axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective.Editable.
Scale Amount field
Displays the amount of scaling applied to the clip. Editable.
Translate X Frequency field
Displays the frequency of horizontal movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Translate Y Frequency field
Displays the frequency of vertical movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Scale Frequency field
Displays the frequency of scaling applied to the clip. Editable.
Rotation Z Frequency field
Displays the frequency of rotation on the Z axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective.Editable.
Translate X Phase field
Displays the phase of horizontal movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Translate Y Phase field
Displays the phase of vertical movement applied to the clip. Editable.
Rotation Z Phase field
Displays the phase of rotation on the Z axis. Editable.
Scale Phase field
Displays the phase of scaling applied to the clip. Editable.
X Centre field
Displays the centre point value of the clip along the horizontal axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Y Centre field
Displays the centre point value of the clip along the vertical axis. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective.Editable.

Stabilization Settings

Enter Stabilizer button
Enable to enter the Stabilizer editor.
Invert Stabilization button
Enable to apply an inverse of the stabilization data to recreate the original camera shake.
Framing Mode box
Select a method to fill or remove the area where the image has been shifted after stabilization.
Position X button
Enable to include the X-axis position in the stabilization.
Position X field
Displays the amount of stabilization data found in the animation channel for the X position.
Position Y button
Enable to include the Y-axis position in the stabilization.
Position Y field
Displays the amount of stabilization data found in the animation channel for the Y position.
Scaling button
Enable to include scaling in the stabilization.
Scaling field
Displays the amount of stabilization data found in the animation channel for scaling.
Rotation button
Enable to include the rotation in the stabilization.
Rotation field
Displays the amount of stabilization data found in the animation channel for rotation.
Set Frame button
Enable to set the current frame as a reference frame that has no transformation data.
Reference Frame field
Displays the frame number of the reference frame that has no transformation data. Non-editable.

Perspective and Random Seed Settings

Perspective field
Displays the field of view. Available when Transform Type is set to Perspective. Editable.
Random Seed field
Displays the random seed value of the camera shake. Editable.

Texture Settings

Filter box
Displays available filters to control the quality of resize operations. The list of filters changes when you switch between Perspective and Pan & Scan Transform Types.
Precision field
Displays the frequency cut-off point used during resize. Editable only when doing a pan and scan with Shannon or Lanczos filters.
Crisp/Soft field
Displays the amount of blurring used during resize. Editable only when doing a pan and scan with Mitchell, Shannon or Lanczos filters.
Repeat Mode box
Select an option to fill the empty portions of the frame.
Select: To:
Repeat Last Repeats last pixel color.
Tile Repeat Wrap the image around to fill the area.
Mirror Repeat Repeats the source pixels both vertically and horizontally.
Repeat Off Use a colour to fill the area. Use the adjacent colour pot to pick the colour. You will lose texture and will fill the rest of the image with a black border.

Anti-Aliasing Settings

Anti-Aliasing button
Enable to activate sampling and softness.
Sampling box
Select the number of samples to use in the anti-aliasing process.
Softness field
Displays the level of softness of the samples. Editable.

Motion Blur Settings

Motion Blur button
Enable to apply a motion blur to a selected clip.
Samples field
Displays the number of frames to sample when creating the blur. The samples include the current frame, and an equal distribution of past and future frames. Editable.
Phase field
Displays the level of softness of the samples. Editable.
Shutter field
Displays the number of frames for which the shutter stays open. For example, when the shutter value is set to 3, every third frame is a sample. Editable.
Lock Transform button
Enable to lock the transformation of the motion blur effect.

Result Output Settings

Result Output box
Select an output option. Select Premultiplied to output alpha values in the colour channels of the result.

Canvas Resolution Settings

Resize Fit Mode box
Select whether to resize the clip with width and height values.
Same As Input The output resolution remains the same as the input resolution.
User Defined You define the output resolution.
Auto Scale The output resolution changes dynamically, which insures that any transformation applied will not crop the image across the whole length of the clip.
Width field
Displays the width of the image. Editable.
Height field
Displays the height of the image. Editable.