
Text animation has also been improved, enabling you to animate a whole block of text, a line, a word, or just individual letters, as you see fit. Improved text features allow you to edit and manipulate your text box directly on the preview window (Image credit: Corel) There are many to choose from, and they’re actually not bad, and make for a refreshing change to the venerable cross dissolve. Select one, like Transitions for instance, and the Library is replaced by thumbnails for each of them.

There are a lot of options in each category. Basically, everything you need to customise and make your project unique. These give you access to special effects, transitions, titles (including easy to use 3D titles), royalty free audio files, split screen effects, themes, etc. To the left of the Library is a series of icons. It was also good to notice that you can edit and navigate using traditional keyboard shortcuts, such as I and O to set In and Out points, or the JKL keys to go backwards, stop and forwards respectively, to name a few. What’s really good to see it that all parameters are keyframable, meaning they can be animated over time to create an unlimited array of effects. The Library doubles up as an Editor where you can fine tune a clip’s parameters, or gain access to tools such as colour correction. The interface is divided into three main parts, with the libraries on the left hand side, the preview window on the right and the timeline at the bottom. The Edit section is where you’ll be spending most of your time. The editing section feels mostly unchanged from the last time we looked at this software package (Image credit: Corel) Editing
