Concepts

When we refer to the editor, we mean this page When we refer to the community page or creations page, we mean this page

Vizzy is a big program with a lot of features. We have many types of things that can be present in the editor. Here are some of them:

• Item - anything that produces an image
• Layer - a collection of items
• Effect - a post-processing node applied to layers or the composition
• Composition - an object holding all of the layers
• Object - everything you can interact with is an object
• Analyzer - an object providing other objects with audio data
• Automation - an object that can change other objects’ controller values

The hierarchy of the objects looks something like this:

• Composition
  • Layers
    • Items
      • Controllers
        • Automations
    • Layer Effects
    • Transform controls
  • Global effects

Hierarchy and behavior

Layers, Effects and Automations are hierarchical:

• Layers get covered by other layers on top of them in the composition
• Effects get covered by other effects that are lower in the effects list
• Automations are covered by other automations that are lower in the automations list, which means you can have a longer automation be interrupted by a shorter one if it is lower in the list

Did you know?

The Layer hierarchy used to be first-to-last, not last-to-first, but it did not match common video editing applications, so we changed it