Flash
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Flash is a Stylise effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Puts a burst of colour over the picture and clears it again. Can be automated based on beat markers.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Dropdown | Manual · Trigger · Strobe | Manual | - |
| Trigger | Slider | 0 to 1 | 0 | - |
| Duration | Slider | 0 to 12; higher | 2 | Frames |
| Shape | Dropdown | Hard · Fade | Hard | - |
| Every Nth beat | Slider | 1 to 8; higher | 1 | - |
| Phase offset | Slider | -8 to 8; any value by typing | 0 | Frames |
| Intensity | Slider | 0 to 100; up to 400 | 100 | Per cent |
| Colour | Colour | Each channel 0 to 4, scene-linear | 1, 1, 1, 1 | - |
| Decay | Slider | 10 to 1000; down to 0 and up to 10000 | 120 | - |
| Mix | Slider | 0 to 100 | 100 | Per cent |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
| Matte | Layer | Any layer in the composition | None | - |
| Invert | Checkbox | On or off | Off | - |
| Channel | Dropdown | Luminance · Alpha · Red · Green · Blue | Luminance | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Matte is an input to an effect, scaling the strength. Invert inverts the mattes for calculating strength.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- Mode: Manual for keyframed hits, Trigger for one flash per beat marker, Strobe for one every so many beats.
- Trigger: Manual mode’s hits.
- Duration: how long a beat-driven flash lasts.
- Shape: change how the flash should or shouldn’t fade.
- Every Nth beat: in Strobe mode, how many beats to skip between flashes.
- Phase offset: shifts beat-driven flashes earlier or later.
- Intensity: scales the intensity of the flash.
- Colour: what colour the flash is.
- Decay: how quickly a Manual hit fades.
- Mix: how much of the result replaces the original.
- Matte and Invert drive the strength of the effect from another layer’s brightness; see Effects.