Reference

This chapter is made from DriftEdit's own catalogue, so it always lists exactly what the studio has. The names are the ones you see in the panels.

Auto mode styles

Clean

Straight cuts on the bar with slow push-ins, the footage left free of effects, and a fade to black at the end.

Cinematic

Holds shots across several bars with slow push-ins, and slower playback in calm passages. Uses long dissolves, a film grade with grain, and fades from and to black.

Narrative

Follows the footage in order, jumping at least half a second at each cut, so the story keeps moving. Cuts on the beat, with few transitions.

Smooth

Cuts on the bar with long dissolves, zooms, blurs, slides and light leaks between shots, and a gentle bounce on the drop.

Hype

Cuts on every kick of the drop, with a bounce and a flash zoom or whip pan on the cuts. Adds punch-ins at new sections and a rewind into the drop.

Phonk

For phonk and montagem. Alternates flash zooms and shake flashes on every cut of the drop, with glitch flashes in the middle, negative flips, black and white passages, ghost landings and blinks on the beat. Opens fading in, freezes into the drop and at the end, with a dark grade and a fade to black.

Anime

For anime and character edits. Cuts on the kicks from the first bar, every cut a shake flash, flash zoom or zoom blur, with negative flips, black and white passages, ghost landings, blinks and negative boxes on the beat. Opens fading in and ends in black and white.

Velocity

Speed ramps slow the footage on each kick of the drop and speed it up between kicks. Uses slower playback in calm passages, with flash zooms into the drop, zoom transitions and a vivid grade.

Chaos

Cuts on every kick, with glitch flashes on the cuts and short bursts of glitch, RGB split and shake on the hits. Adds tape noise in the middle.

Reverse

Cuts on kicks, with reverse shots that zoom as they play and flash zooms on the cuts. Adds rewinds on the beat and into the drop.

Effects

Choose a group along the top of the Effects panel to see its effects. A variant of an effect is listed by its name under the effect it comes from.

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Colour

Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, temperature and tint.

Invert

Turns colours into their opposites.

Duotone

Shadows in one colour, highlights in another.

Cyber duotone

Silhouette

Sepia

Cyanotype

Neon duotone

Gold

Matrix

Levels

Adjust black and white points, midtones and shadow lift.

Colour by range

Adjust hue, saturation and lightness separately for reds, oranges, yellows, greens, aquas, blues, purples and magentas.

Colour wheels

Lift, gamma and gain: shadows, midtones and highlights pushed toward a colour and made lighter or darker.

Curves

Reshape brightness and each colour channel with curves.

LUT

Applies a look from a .cube LUT file, at a strength you choose.

Softer yellows

Hue shift

Opposite hues

Rainbow cycle

Psychedelic

Keep red

Keep blue

Keep green

Keep yellow

Threshold

Maps dark and light areas to two colours, separated by an adjustable threshold.

Ink wash

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Vivid

Faded

Moody

Warm

Less yellow

Cool

Bright

Punchy

Anime

Black and white

Converts to black and white with adjustable contrast.

Noir

Cinematic

Golden hour

Pastel

Muted

Night

Summer

Arctic

Rose

Matte

Crushed blacks

High key

Low key

Teal and orange

Vintage

Sunset

Moonlight

Forest

Bleach bypass

A silver tone with high contrast and muted colour.

Silver

Phonk

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Negative

The picture in negative inside a box (the whole frame unless set smaller), mirrored or not.

Mirrored negative

Negative eyes

Negative half

Ghost copy

The picture laid over itself bigger and see-through, as a shot lands.

Ghost glow

Posterise

Reduces the number of colour levels for a posterised image.

Outline

An outline and a glow around what the picture holds: a cut-out subject, a title, a sticker. It can glitter.

Outline glow

Sparkling outline

RGB split

Separates the red, green and blue channels.

Chromatic

Glitch

Glitch blocks that jump and split from frame to frame.

Heavy glitch

Pixelate

Big square pixels.

Mosaic

Halftone

Renders the image as halftone dots.

Newsprint

Neon dots

Comic

Sketch

Neon edges

Emboss

Oil paint

Flat brushstrokes with defined edges.

Painterly

Dither

A limited palette with an ordered dither pattern, like an old computer display.

One bit

Retro console

Text mode

Renders the image with text characters.

Text mode in colour

Hexagons

Pixels in a honeycomb.

Crystallise

Irregular facets with optional stained-glass outlines.

Stained glass

Eight bit

Vertical RGB split

Subtle glitch

Hit split

Hit glitch

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Eye blink

Eyelids closing over the picture from the top and the bottom, and opening again.

Mirror

Mirrors one half of the image onto the other, or creates a four-way reflection.

Four-way mirror

Cinema bars

Letterbox

Bars above and below the image, at the sides or all around, in any colour: a film's frame.

Pillarbox

Film frame

White bars

Soft bars

Flip sideways

Upside down

White border

Rounded corners

Black frame

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Blur

A soft Gaussian blur.

Soft focus

Sharpen

Crisper edges.

Zoom blur

Blur streaks radiating from a chosen point.

Speed rush

Motion blur

Directional blur that suggests fast movement.

Vertical motion blur

Spin blur

Circular blur, as if the camera were rotating.

Tilt-shift

Blurs above and below a sharp band for a miniature effect.

Miniature

Heavy blur

Crisp

Light sharpen

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Vignette

Darkens the corners, or lights them in a colour.

Dark corners

Glow

Bright parts bloom into their surroundings.

Dreamy glow

Soft glow

Light leak

Warm light drifting across the frame.

Cool leak

Flash

A flash at the start of the clip that fades out.

Black flash

Strobe

Flashes on and off at a steady rate.

Lens flare

A bright light with a flare streak and ghost reflections.

Sun flare

Prism

Rainbow-coloured ghost images spreading from the centre.

Rainbow ghost

Flicker

Brightness that wavers, like a failing bulb or old film.

Fast flicker

Golden leak

Pink leak

Neon glow

Colour strobe

Black strobe

Soft vignette

White edge

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VHS

Tape wobble, colour bleed and noise.

CRT

Scanlines and a soft curve, like an old screen.

Scan line

A bright band sweeps down or up the whole picture again and again, bending what it passes, over faint lines.

Glitch scan

Film grain

Moving grain, like film.

Heavy grain

Old film

Sepia, gate weave, flicker, scratches and dust.

Silent movie

Home movie

Melt

Makes the image drip down in columns.

Drip

Worn tape

Arcade

Fine grain

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Zoom punch

A punch-in that eases back and can repeat at a set interval.

Pulse on the beat

Shake

Camera shake with adjustable movement and rotation.

Hard shake

Soft shake

Handheld

Earthquake

Camera shake

A camera shake as editors build it: a hit that settles, a handheld drift, a quake, a whip or a bounce, with motion blur, colour split and a zoom kick.

Impact hit

Whip shake

Bass bounce

Rumble

Earthquake hit

Handheld camera

Twitch

RGB shake

Slow zoom in

Slow zoom out

Ken Burns

Split in two

Split in three

Four up

Nine up

Sixteen up

Double punch

Impact shake

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Green screen

Blue screen

Remove black

Remove white

Oval mask

Box mask

Cut-out

Split mask

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Wave

Ripples running through the picture.

Wobble

Heat haze

Underwater

Swirl

Twists the centre of the image.

Twister

Bulge

Bulges the centre of the image out or pinches it in.

Pinch

Fisheye

Lens distortion

Bends the whole picture as a wide lens does, the middle swelling towards you and the corners kept in the frame; below 0 it pinches in. Colour fringe splits the edges.

Wide lens

Ripple

Rings spreading from the centre, like water.

Water drop

Kaleidoscope

Mirrored slices round the centre.

Mandala

VFX

Drawn in 3D by DriftEngine on your clip, in the VFX tab of the Effects panel.

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Fire

Flames licking up from a point, with embers thrown off them.

Smoke

Soft smoke rising and spreading, carried by the wind.

Embers

Glowing embers rising and flickering out.

Sparks

Hot sparks thrown out of a point and falling.

Electric arcs

Crackling electricity jumping round a point.

Lightning strike

A bolt from the sky to a point, with its flash.

Coloured powder

A burst of bright powder blooming out and settling.

Confetti burst

Paper confetti shot up and fluttering down.

Snow

Flakes drifting down over the picture, near ones large and soft.

Rain

Streaks of rain falling, slanted by the wind.

Magic dust

Twinkling dust swirling round a point and trailing off.

Shockwave ring

A ring of light bursting out from a point.

Blue fire

Golden sparks

Purple arcs

Holi powder

Fairy dust

Red lightning

Transitions

Basic 4

Dissolve

One shot fades into the next.

Dip to black

Dip to white

Dip to red

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Flash

A white flash on the cut.

Film burn

The film burns through to white and into the next shot.

Light leak

Warm light washes over the cut.

Pink leak

Blue leak

Flash zoom

The shot rushes in towards the centre, a flash hits on the cut, and the next shot lands zoomed in and settles.

Punch zoom

Shake flash

A violent camera shake through the cut with a flash on it, blurred along the jolt, settling into the next shot.

Hard shake

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Zoom in

Zoom out

Spin

A turn and a zoom into the next shot.

Whip left

Whip right

Whip up

Whip down

Slide left

Slide right

Slide up

Slide down

Push left

Push right

Push up

Push down

Cross zoom

A zoom blur through the cut.

Hard cross zoom

Spin blur

A spinning blur into the next shot.

Stretch left

Stretch right

Stretch up

Stretch down

Flip

The shot turns over like a card, with the next on its back.

Flip over

Cube left

Cube right

Cube up

Cube down

Bounce left

Bounce right

Bounce up

Bounce down

Shake

A jolt on the cut.

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Blur

Blurs out of one shot and into the next.

Glitch

Broken blocks on the cut.

RGB split

Separates the colour channels as one shot changes to the next.

Pixelate

Breaks the image into large pixels, then resolves into the next shot.

Big pixels

Ripple

Rings run through the cut, like water.

Swirl

A whirlpool through the cut.

Warp

One shot pulls through the other from the side.

Dream

A wavy, glowing dissolve.

Glitch flash

The picture tears into shifted bands and split colour around a flash, stuttering from one shot into the next.

Hard glitch

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Luma wipe

The next shot burns through soft shapes.

Circle

The next shot opens from the centre in a circle.

Wipe left

Wipe right

Wipe up

Wipe down

Clock wipe

Reveals the next shot with a sweep like a clock hand.

Clock wipe, anticlockwise

Barn doors open

Barn doors close

Barn doors open up

Barn doors close down

Blinds

Reveals the next shot through narrow slats.

Venetian blinds

Checkerboard

Reveals the next shot through alternating squares in a checkerboard pattern.

Circle close

Diamond

Square

Heart

Star

Tiles

Squares turn over at random.

Tiny tiles

Ink

Reveals the next shot as ink spreads from the centre.

White ink

Split

The shot splits down the middle and parts to show the next.

Split across

Wind

Ragged streaks blow the next shot in.

Wind from the right

Slices

Strips slide in from alternate sides.

Thin slices

Text styles

CleanClean darkLightCapsWide capsSoftItalicMinimalMono labelThin capsBoldBold yellowImpactImpact yellowCondensedPosterHeavyBold redThumbnailBlock lettersShoutBold capsHollowClassic outlineYellow outlineThick outlineHollow yellowPoster outlinePink outlineBlue outlineImpact outlineComicSoft shadowHard shadowLong shadowPop shadowRetro 3DLiftedDramaCyan shadowNeon pinkNeon blueNeon greenNeon purpleNeon orangeNeon redNeon tubeNeon signCyberNeon outlineSunsetOceanFireCandyGoldChromeMintAuroraVapourLavaBlack boxWhite boxYellow boxRed boxBlue boxPink boxGreen boxFrostedPillBlockLabelBreakingEightiesArcadeTerminalTypewriterSeventiesStencilDinerTapePixelSaloonMarkerYellow markerNoteSticky noteScriptRetro scriptChalkSignatureSerifEditorialDisplay serifDisplay italicFat faceGildedQuoteTitlingComic shoutBubbleSweetsStickerToySoft popZineGame show

Caption styles

SubtitleSubtitle, spoken wordFilmCinemaBroadcastPlayerDocumentaryShortsShorts, yellow wordShorts, green wordShorts, word popsImpactImpact, red wordPosterPurple box wordGreen box wordRed box wordThumbnailComicBold italicWhite cardBlack cardYellow cardPillFrostedBlockLabelLower thirdNeon pinkNeon blueNeon greenNeon markKaraokeKaraoke blueKaraoke pinkKaraoke fillWord by wordWord by word, boldOne word at a timeSerifSerif italicTypewriterHandwrittenMarkerSunsetOceanGoldTerminalArcadeEightiesComic boxMinimalMinimal dark

Text animations

Under In are the ways a title comes in and goes out (Out); under Loop, the ones that repeat while it is on.

FadeRiseDropSlide in from the rightSlide in from the leftPopZoom inGrowFocusTypewriterWipeBounceSpinFlipStretchGlitchFlickerElasticSwingCascadeWord popRoll upTiltSlamShake inLetters fadeWords riseLines slidePulseFloatWaveJitterBlinkRockJellyBreatheHopTurnGlitch loopSway

Overlays

Warm leakCool leakPink leakGolden leakRainbow leakFilm burnBlue burnFlare sweepGolden flareBokehBlue bokehSparklesEmbersDust and scratchesHeavy dustFilm grainHeavy grainVHSFogMorning mistSnowBlizzardRainStormConfettiHeartsSunset gradientOcean gradientColour blobsStarfieldRetro grid

Sounds

In the Library, under Sounds: made in code, free to use in anything you export.

WhooshLong whooshSwooshLow whooshReverse whooshFly byRiserShort riserNoise riserDownlifterSwellTone riserBoomCinematic hitSub dropPunchSlamThudGlitchStutterBitcrushDataStaticClickTickPopBubbleCamera shutterSwitchDingChimeNotificationErrorSuccessCoinKickSnareClapHi-hatOpen hi-hatTomCrashCowbell808Record scratchTape stopHeartbeatLaserZap

Beats

In the Library, under Beats: loops for edits, and songs for auto mode.

House

124 BPM

Boom bap

90 BPM

Trap

140 BPM

Lo-fi

84 BPM

Breakbeat

128 BPM

Drift phonk

130 BPM

Rock

110 BPM

Dembow

96 BPM