Using the Audio and Video Effects palettes

All effects are stored in the Audio or Video Effects palette, which you can customize to best suit your working style. Effects are grouped by type; for example, all video effects that create a blur are listed in a Blurs folder in the Video Effects palette. You can hide effects that you don't use and create new folders containing special groups of commonly used effects or rarely used effects.

To open an effects palette:

Do one of the following:

To create a new folder in the Video or Audio Effects palette:

1 Open the palette and do one of the following:

2 Type a name for the folder and click OK.

To delete a folder:

Select the folder and do one of the following:

Note: If you delete a default folder, the folder and all its effects are hidden and moved to the bottom of the palette. If you delete a custom folder (one you created), the folder is deleted and all its effects are restored to their original folders and hidden.

To hide folders or effects:

1 Select the folder or the effects. Shift-click to select multiple contiguous effects or Command-click (Mac OS) or Control-click (Windows) click to select multiple noncontiguous effects.

2 Choose Hide Selected from the Effects palette menu. All selected effects and folder names are dimmed and, if Show Hidden in the Effects palette menu is deselected, the names are hidden.

3 To hide the dimmed names, if they were not hidden in the above step, choose Show Hidden from the Effects palette menu to deselect it.

To view hidden folders or effects:

1 Choose Show Hidden from the Effects palette menu. All folders and effects that were hidden now appear dimmed.

2 Select the dimmed folders or effects that you want to make active and choose Show Selected from the Effects palette menu.

To move effects from one folder to another:

1 Drag the effect name to the desired location.

2 Release the mouse when the desired location is highlighted.

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