7.1 Introduction

      7.1.1 Terminology

    7.2 Primitive effects

      7.2.1 Effect name

      7.2.2 Input pattern

      7.2.3 Parameter specification

      7.2.4 Types of values

      7.2.5 File and directory values

      7.2.6 Fixed parameters

      7.2.7 Explicit animation curves

      7.2.8 Computed animation curves

    7.3 Combining effects

      7.3.1 effect-stack

      7.3.2 transition-stack

      7.3.3 layers

      7.3.4 remap-time

    7.4 Variable effects

      7.4.1 Using computed parameter values

      7.4.2 Using sequences

      7.4.3 Using effect-selector

      7.4.4 Responding to music descriptors

      7.4.5 Using special conditionals

      7.4.6 Controlling effects with style parameters

    7.5 Music triggered effects

      7.5.1 triggered-effect

    7.6 Transitions

    7.7 Segment information functions

    7.8 Source information functions

    7.9 Render information

    7.10 Unit helper functions

    7.11 Getting into deep waters

      7.11.1 What is an effect?

      7.11.2 Rolling your own effects

      7.11.3 The effect primitivity restriction

      7.11.4 Rolling your own effect combinators

    7.12 A note on Image Operators

    7.13 Applications of effects

      7.13.1 The segment effect

      7.13.2 The global effect

      7.13.3 The transition

      7.13.4 Title to Body and Body to Credits transitions