Effect Settings Dialog Box
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The 'Effect Settings' dialog box is displayed when you first create an Effect. It can also be displayed by double-clicking on an Effect in the Timeline, or right-clicking on an Effect and choosing Properties from the context Menu. Below is part of the 'Effect Settings' dialog box, which is common to all Effects.

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You can save and reuse Effect Settings. See Saving Effects for more information.

Name

Specifies the name of the Effect. This name appears on the Timeline.

openeffect Load
Loads predefined Effect Settings from the corresponding Effect folder on disk.

saveeffect Save
Saves the current Effect Settings to the corresponding Effect folder on disk. See Saving Effects for more information.

explorer Organize
To Organize/Remove/Rename the saved Effect Settings. This option starts Windows Explorer and shows the contents of the folder where the current Effect is filed.

playeffectb Preview Effect
Previews the current Effect.

stopeffect Stop
Stops previewing the current Effect.

moreoptionslessoptionsMore/Less Options
Selecting this option lets you define whether to show the 'Start At', 'Motion' and 'Easing' tabs and the Reset components and Continue from previous effect options. By default Less Options is selected, meaning these tabs and options will not be shown.

Duration
Specifies the duration of the Effect as a number of Frames. For some Effects, the duration is either preset (e.g. the Remove Effect is always a single Frame), or calculated depending on the Effect Settings (e.g. the Typewriter Effect). In these cases, you cannot directly edit the duration.

Continue from previous effect
This option tells SWiSH to apply the Effect starting with the Object as it was at the end of the previous Effect. If you want to specify a different starting condition for the Effect (or want to reset the components of the Object to their initial positions), turn this option off. SWiSH will then add the Start At tab that lets you change the starting Transforms for the Effect.

Author
This option allows you to access the Effects Authoring options. These additional options allow you to build your own SWiSH Effects.
See Effects Authoring for more details.

There are a number of Effect sheet tabs that are common to two or more Effects. These are as follows:

·Motion  
·Easing  
·Start At  
·Cascade  
·Camera  
·Transforms.  

The other tabs are described in the corresponding Effects.