Product Focus: The Crop Effect
Cropping in Blackbird is a great way of controlling what content your audience sees. It allows you to reduce the original size of your picture and zoom in on a specific part of the frame, making…
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Product Focus: Rubber Banding Control on Volume and Pan
Often in an edit session the Volume and Pan settings of your clips can be forgotten about and left as they are imported. However, by taking control of that information and using the automation capabilities of…
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Product focus: Bezier Curves
Managing the size, shape, position and motion of video effects can be a complex challenge for users when dealing with unpredictable movement of objects within a frame. Typically tracking objects in space requires precision. Even for simple…
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Product focus: Match Frame
The Match Frame function in Blackbird gives the user the ability to reveal the source file for any clip from either their edit timeline or a subclip created from a masterclip. By simply parking on a…
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Product focus: Time Stretching
Fast / slow motion time stretching is the ability to speed adjust clips within Blackbird. This is essentially the process of adjusting the duration of your clip to increase (Fastmo), or decrease (Slomo), the speed at…
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Product focus: Transitional Effects
Video transitions such as dissolves and wipes are frequently used in video editing processes. Transitional effects feed visual attraction to a production by presenting an element of motion to the graphics within sequences. In video editing,…
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Product focus: Colour Adjustments
Blackbird features a colour adjustment tool which enables users to set mood and colour modifications to their video content. When it comes to live and post-production workflows, users may find that the white (gain), black (setup) and…
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Product focus: Transform Effect
Blackbird features full transform effect control. This allows users to control the horizontal and vertical position, scale and animation of the clips that are being edited across multiple video layers simultaneously. The Blackbird effect mode allows the…
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Product focus: Branding
Branding video content is important for an organisation’s image, emotional connection with consumers and sponsorship revenue opportunities. With Blackbird, branding content is simple and customisable, both within the editor and also as a set of automated…
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Product focus: Twitter Amplify
Blackbird is used extensively by professional video production teams across multiple workflows for the delivery of media to social media platforms including Twitter. Our existing application integration includes the ability for customers to monetize their content…
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Blackbird is best-of-breed
Jon Hanford - Group CTO, Deltatre