Show one grid video full size, then back to the grid

Applies to 0.11Updated 6 Nov 20262 min read

Grow one video of a grid to the whole frame with its own sound, then send it back into its cell while the grid plays on. A Pro feature.

Start from a grid (see Create a video grid). Select one of its videos: in Effect Controls a button shows above Motion. It shows for any picture smaller than the frame.

• Show Full Size: from the playhead, that video grows out of its cell to the whole frame in 0.4 s, on top of everything, with its own sound. The other videos keep playing underneath, with their sound lowered by 30 dB.
• Back to Grid: move the playhead to where the grid should return and press the button again. The video shrinks back into its cell in 0.4 s and the grid's sound comes back.

Both commands are also on the timeline clip's right-click menu.

What it makes

• Each full-size stretch is a clip of its own, on a track named Full Size above the grid. Move, trim or delete it like any clip. The grid's own tracks are never changed.
• The lowered sound is written as volume keyframes on the other videos' sound clips.
• Do it again with another video at another time, as often as you like.
• It starts from the whole picture fitted inside its cell, so even a tile that is cropped to fill its cell grows smoothly with no jump.

The video grid itself is in every plan.

Included in Pro and in the 3-day free trial. On Creator it carries the PRO badge.