Effects panel: Thumbnail view and the new folder names

Applies to 0.11Updated 6 Nov 20262 min read

See every video effect and transition as a picture tile that plays when you hover it. Folders have clearer names, and VLFilm has sub-groups.

Open Window › Effects. Two buttons beside the search field switch the view: List view (the tree, as before) and Thumbnail view.

Thumbnail view

• Each video effect is drawn on a built-in sample picture: a sunset scene made by the app.
• Each video transition goes from picture A to picture B.
• Shadows, bevels, 3D and crops are shown on a slightly smaller picture so their edges show. Blur Fill is shown on a vertical 9:16 frame.
• Hover a tile to play it: an effect over two seconds of its clip, a transition from start to end.
• Preview from Source (a checkbox): the tiles show the selected timeline clip at the playhead instead of the sample, or the clip's middle when the frame at the playhead is nearly black.
• Audio effects, audio transitions and presets show their icon. Audio has no sound preview.

Everything else works in both views: Favorites, Presets and preset packs, double-click or Return to apply, drag onto a clip, the right-click menu, PRO badges, the "Default" label, the arrow keys, search and Install….

The new folder names

• Adjust → Brightness & Exposure
• Channel → Channels & Compositing
• Perspective → 3D & Shadows
• Transition (inside Video Effects) → Wipes on a Clip
• Video and Utility → Broadcast & Info
• Special and Modulation (audio) → Modulation & Distortion
• Audio Units and VST3 → Plug-ins
• Page Peel → 3D Motion
• Text → Text Animation

VLFilm sub-groups

VLFilm is one folder with sub-groups, and the names inside no longer repeat "VLFilm". Searching "VLFilm" still finds all of them.

• Effects: Picture in Picture, Light & Glow, Film & Texture, Blur & Focus, Camera & Motion and Frame.
• Transitions: Move, Light, Distort and Wipe & Reveal.

Caption looks

• "Vlads Preset 9:16 Yellow" is now Yellow Karaoke — Vertical 9:16.
• "Vlads Preset 16:9 Yellow" is now Yellow Karaoke Bold — 16:9.
• "Vlads Preset 16:9" is now Teal Karaoke in a Box — 16:9.

Only the panel's names changed. Saved projects, presets, Premiere import and Shorts Clipper projects that saved an old caption look name keep working.

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