Instant Boris Effects

Chapter 8

3D Containers

Once you begin creating multitrack effects, you may find you need a simple way to adjust parameters for many tracks at once. For example, say you have five layers of text that you want to start out small and transparent and become large and opaque over a period of time. Instead of setting keyframes on each of the five tracks, you could put the five text tracks into the container and adjust the parameters of the container. This section covers how to create and use containers, the advantages of using containers, and how containers work with both 2D and 3D objects.

For example, let’s look at a two-track timeline with a spline primitive rectangle on track 2 and a spline star on track 1. Both of the spline primitives have been ...