EFFECTS AND TWEENS

Tweens are time-based value changes attached to cues that bring your content to life with animation, transitions, and dynamic visual effects. Every visual property of a cue - position, scale, opacity, color, crop, rotation, and more - can be animated over time using tweens. WATCHOUT supports 48 tween types across categories ranging from simple fades to complex corner-pin distortion and expression-driven automation.

Start Here

Understand how tweens work before diving into specific effect types.

  • Understanding Tweens - tween structure (type, keyframe points, interpolation curves, limits), how to add and edit tweens, and the categories of supported tween types
  • Opacity and Fades - the most common tween: custom transparency animation plus the dedicated Fade In, Fade Out, and Cross Fade helpers

Transform Effects

Animate position, size, and rotation for motion graphics and spatial composition.

  • Position and Movement - animating cue placement on Stage for slide-ins, tracking moves, and camera-like pan effects
  • Scale and Size - X/Y scale tweens with maintain-proportions control, pixel value display, and zoom effects
  • Rotation Effects - rotation across three axes: Z (2D spin), Y (horizontal 3D turn), X (vertical 3D tilt)

Visual Effects

Shape, color-correct, and blend your content.

  • Cropping - animating visible bounds (top, bottom, left, right) for reveals, wipes, safe-area adjustments, and dynamic framing
  • Color Adjustments - brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, invert, and per-channel gain/offset tweens for mood transitions and color matching
  • Blur Effects - Gaussian blur for softening and defocus effects
  • Blend Modes - the seven per-pixel compositing modes (Normal, Add, Multiply, Screen, Lighten, Darken, Linear Burn)

Audio

  • Audio Volume - volume tweens for music fades, voice-over ducking, and ambience balancing

Advanced Effects

Specialized tools for distortion, compositing, and data-driven animation.

  • Corner Pinning - per-cue perspective distortion via independent corner repositioning
  • Linear Wipe - directional reveal/hide transitions with angle, location, feather, and completion controls
  • Frame Blending - temporal interpolation between adjacent video frames to smooth mismatched frame rates
  • Chroma Key - per-cue green/blue screen compositing with wide-gamut color matching
  • Key and Fill - layer-level compositing where one layer generates a transparency mask for another
  • Tween Expressions - driving any tween property with mathematical expressions for interactive, variable-driven, and externally controllable animations