FX Express Editor Manual

This is the complete reference for the FX Express browser editor — the visual way to build dynamic movie templates. If you would rather build a template through an AI agent, start with the MCP quickstart; if you want the short guided version of the editor, start with the editor quickstart.

Chapters

Getting Started — Welcome to FX Express, a video template editor that works the way presentation software does — but the output is video, and every template can render thousands of personalised variations.
Working with Scenes — Scenes are the building blocks of your video template.
Adding and Editing Elements — Elements are the content pieces that make up your scenes.
Text Elements — Text elements are fundamental to video templates, conveying messages, titles, captions, and more.
Image Elements — Image elements bring visual content to your video templates.
Video Elements — Video elements bring motion and dynamic content to your templates.
Shape Elements — Shape elements provide geometric forms for backgrounds, highlights, decorations, and visual structure.
Tables and Lists — Tables and lists help organize and present structured data in your video templates.
Scene Sounds — Scene sounds add audio to individual scenes—background music, sound effects, voiceovers, and more.
Timeline Editor — The Timeline Editor controls when elements appear and disappear in your scenes.
Themes and Styling — Themes provide consistent visual styling across your video template.
Animations and Keyframes — Animations bring your video templates to life.
Variables — Variables enable dynamic, personalized content in your video templates.
Smart Objects — Smart Objects are user-programmable canvas graphics that let you create custom visual elements using JavaScript code.
Track Mattes — Track mattes allow you to use one element as a mask for another, creating cutout effects, reveals, and complex compositing.
Imported Scenes — An imported scene is a read-only snapshot of a scene taken from another template and dropped into your own as a layer.
Voiceover — The Voiceover Editor lets you add narration to your video and automatically sync scene timing to the audio.
Preview and Playback — The Preview Player lets you watch your video template in action before exporting.
Keyboard Shortcuts — Keyboard shortcuts help you work faster in FX Express.
Where Did My Templates Go? — Your templates now live in projects, and the console is where you browse and manage them.
Effects and Adjustment Layers — Effects are a stack of image filters carried by a layer.
Audio Layers — Scene sounds (Chapter 9) attach audio to a whole scene.
3D Layers and the Scene Camera — Layers are flat by default: they can rotate in the plane of the canvas and nothing more.
Motion Tracking — Motion tracking pins a layer to something that moves in your footage — a screen to a laptop, a logo to a passing van, a label to a face.
Conditions and Interactivity — A template does not have to render the same thing every time, and a published movie does not have to be something people only watch.
Publishing — Preview (Chapter 18) shows you the template inside the editor.
Importing and Exporting — Templates do not have to start blank, and they do not have to stay inside FX Express.