Thanks. The location is https://www.magix.com/us/photo-graphic/photostory/tutorials

How I got to it: Magix.com home page, click on Photo & Design, click on Photostory Deluxe, click the ... next to Specifications, click on Tutorials. Select Effects in full screen mode.

@Eric-Erickson

Hi

The full screen FX animation works OK for me - see the clip below.

Note: Emboss has a very odd behavior where the image goes grey at specific settings -you cannot for example emboss an image and set it to go to normal over a period of time specified by the keyframes - it will go to grey then jump to the full colour image.

HTH

John EB

Thanks John, you are not having my issue. When I click on the beginning or end key frame to adjust, it jumps to the previous or following slide. It is not doing that in your example. One thing I have noticed is on looking at the history (little pencil in the key frame) for whatever reason, Photostory packs in a bunch of extraneous key frames, leading to jumpy effects. I'll continue to fiddle.

@Eric-Erickson

Hi

Personally I would not use the full screen method for keyframing/animation. I prefer the more accurate method using the effects dialog - this does mean working in Timeline mode, which if you are not, also gives better control over editing.

Below is an example using the Emboss effect - it also demonstrates the odd behaviour of this effect.

In the clip you will see me set a key frame at the beginning of the clip - I find this is a good idea for all keyframing as it locks in the initial setting. You will also see I use 2 different methods of setting the values - using the slider, and entering the actual value followed by pressing the Enter key.

HTH

John EB