Animating effects:

Before I start animating effects, I still talk about the different buttons and their function in the keyframes pane.
Next to each option, under each applied effect is a left and right pointing arrow.
When you click on them you can navigate on the timeline between the keyframes.
Between these arrows, we have a button in the shape of a rhombus.
Clicking this button will add a keyframe when that point has no keyframe in the timeline, and will remove the main frame, if it is there.
This is just to keep you informed.

Coming to the animating effects.
This is precisely the same principle that is used while animating clips.
In this example I’m going to use the “Lens Flare” effect to move from left to right, and the brightness of the sun to adjust its position.
Select the effect, and then open the main frame pane.
When the effect is selected, a circle with a cross in it is displayed, which is the center of the sun, i.e, the center of the “Lens Flare” effect.
I drag it to the left of the monitor (1).
Then click the button “Toggle the effect on or off” (2). This places a keyframe in the first frame
Then I place the time indicator in the last frame (3), and move the center of the sun by clicking and dragging it, all on the right side of the monitor (4).
A keyframe is automatically added to the “Center Sun” (5).
The “Center Sun” also has two parameters, one for the vertical position of the center of the screen (a), the second for the horizontal position of the center of the screen (b).

As you can see in the picture below, we also talking about two levers (6) that we can use to edit the motion.

What I do now is change the brightness of the sun, and the type of lens.
First I place this indicator in the correct frame, eg frame 10, and click the “Add Main Frame” button next to the “Flare Brightness” option.
On this I have not changed the keyframe, because otherwise it begins to adjust the brightness from frame 1 to frame 10, and I do not want this.
I want to adjust the brightness from frame 10.

So I place a new keyframe in frame 13 for example, and here I change the brightness of the sun to 164% for eg. At noon the sun always shines a little harder, which is true.
In frame 18 I place a new keyframe, and also on this main frame I don’t change anything.
In frame 21 which is the last place I have a frame in which the brightness of the sun is present, I bring it back to 100%.

Alternatively you can select the “Lens Type” option to change this in different keyframes.

When we watch the movie by pressing the Enter key on our keyboards, we will see that the sun rises in the East, appears very bright in the South, and go to sleep in the West.

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