Effects in Alight Motion are numerous, and their controls are so complicated that they are hard to understand. That is why you have found this video, by the end of which you will learn essential facts that will allow you to do professional-level editing. Welcome to the third episode of the Editing Mastery series on mobile. By the end of this editing series, I will transform you from a novice to a master in editing, completely for free. If you are hearing about Alight Motion for the first time, make sure to watch the remaining episodes. I have extracted about eighteen effects, and to keep you from getting confused, I have divided these eighteen effects into three parts: Basic, Advanced, and Conqueror. This is so you won’t be confused when learning to edit in future episodes if you understand these effects first. The remaining effects will be covered in upcoming episodes, so no worries. It is possible that some effects might not be available in your Alight Motion, so make sure to download a better version of Alight Motion from my Telegram channel, where you will also find many other useful things.
Let’s hop into Alight Motion, where I have first created a new project and imported the Alight Motion logo. Now, by selecting the layer, going into its effects tab, and clicking on “Add Effect”, you can see all the effects. Let’s move to our first basic effect, which is Solid Color. Don’t run away hearing the word “Basic,” because I won’t explain this again in future advanced masters, so watch closely. To find this effect simply, you can search for it directly, or go to “Color & Light” and the Solid Color option is given below; apply it with standard settings. With this, you can simply change the color of your image. You might say this is very basic and could be done with Color & Fill, but if you use Color & Fill, it will fill the entire ratio of the image, whereas sometimes we only want to color our PNG. You are also given Alpha here, which means how much opacity you want to keep.
Let’s move to the next effect, which is Saturation & Vibrance. I will search for it directly, and let me clarify that all effects should be applied with standard settings. You probably already understand what saturation means; if you take it into the negative, it turns black and white, and if you turn vibrance up to full, its colors will be enhanced. Simple! If you want to delete this effect, just slide it over and it will be deleted.
Now, move on to the third effect, which isn’t just one thing—Blur, which has several types, though Alight Motion features three specific types: Inner Blur, Box Blur, and Gaussian Blur. First, look at Inner Blur; it blurs, but the blur stays on the inside and doesn’t bleed outward. Second is Box Blur, which blurs both inside and outside, but doesn’t blur too intensely. Third is Gaussian Blur—this one is the best, as you can see for yourself.
Let’s move to the next effect, which is Gradient. You can choose any gradient; one option has three colors, and another has four colors. I will choose the four-color one. Now, look at this—it shows a rainbow like an Alight Motion scale, but you can change its colors. I have changed all four colors and set them like this. If you want, you can also change the X and Y positions of each color. Below, you are given Alpha and Brightness. You already know what brightness is; to put it simply, Alpha plays a role like opacity in Alight Motion. Very beautiful backgrounds are made using this effect, and you can create them too.
Now, the next effect is Wipe. For this, I will take a rectangle shape, go to “Edit Shape”, and increase its X value so it turns into a long strip. You can add a gradient to it if you like. I will go to its effects and add the Wipe effect. If you tweak any values here, your rectangle will start to wipe away. For instance, if I set the start value to a hundred, our rectangle disappears. Then, I will add a keyframe, move forward, and bring its value back to where it was. Now look at how nicely it appears. You can change its angle and apply a feather effect.
Let’s speed things up a bit. For the next effect, take a circle, go to Color & Fill, press this button to remove its color, go to Border & Shadow, give it a stroke, and apply the Drawing Progress effect. This effect works on the outline of any shape and any vector drawing. For example, if I set the end value to zero, your circle disappears. Now, we will add a keyframe, move forward, and make its value normal again. Look at what is created! If you place the start keyframe right after the first keyframe and turn it to full at the end, it creates an “in and out” effect. If you want to make it infinite, select this layer, group it from the top, select the layer again, and go to “Edit Group”. Now, click on settings at the top, click on Retiming, select “Loop”, and go back. If you extend its length now, it will play in loop mode like this.
Here is a bonus for anyone who hasn’t left the video yet. I have made a small animation, and I will add an effect to it called Motion Blur. What this will do is add a type of blur when it moves, which is used in every professional video.
Now let’s move on to Advanced. The first effect here is Smooth Bevel. After adding it, look at how great it makes things look. In this, you get a radius to control its size, a diffuse angle to control the shadows of the effect, and a specular angle to control the white highlights. You can also use keyframing on it, and you get color-changing options below. The rest of the buttons are not useful for us. Let’s move to the next effect, Light Sweep. You can create a shine effect with this. First of all, turn off Auto Progress, then increase the amount value below, and you can decrease the sharpness according to your preference. You can adjust its size with scale, and rotate will obviously rotate it. Alpha will reduce the opacity, as you already know. The rest are not useful to us, so we will go up and reduce the progress value so that it moves outside of our logo. After that, place a keyframe, move forward, increase its value, and move it to the other side. Now, this is our Light Sweep effect.
Let’s move to our next effect, which is Squeeze. It’s right in front of us. If you reduce its strength value completely, it will look like a piece of candy—you can eat it if you want. If you increase it completely, it becomes flattened. You might have seen that I used it here; as an example, I created a bubble effect in a recent video, which was made using the keyframes of this effect.
Let’s move to the next effect, which is Break Transition. If you change the background color to green, the amount decides how many pieces you want to break it into, so set it according to your preference. Then go to progress, set it completely, and place a keyframe. Now move forward and break it completely—meaning push it all the way out. If you scroll down, scale, rotate, offset, stretch, and alpha options are given. Also, don’t forget to apply a keyframe in this break effect, like this. Then you might ask, how did I remove this green screen? Let’s move to the next effect for that, which is Chroma Key. There is also an Advanced Chroma Key with which you can remove more than one color. As soon as it’s added, it removes it instantly. The threshold here means that if some parts remain while doing the green screen, you can increase it to remove those parts as well. With invert, you can invert it, meaning the Alight Motion logo will disappear but the green screen will remain.
