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  • Speed change a clip that was imported with an alpha channel

    Posted by Ryan Kelly on April 11, 2005 at 2:02 pm

    Forgive me if my question drips with avid ignorance as I’m not an Avid editor – i just work with a bunch of Avids next door

    Is there a way to take an imported animated graphic that has an alpha channel and easily change the clip’s speed?

    Process:
    -Import quicktime file with alpha channel
    -edit clip in over footage.
    -realize it’s playing too fast so we want to slow it down.

    Is there a quick and easy solution for this?

    thanks,
    Ryan

    Michael Lindsay replied 21 years ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Ryan Kelly

    April 11, 2005 at 2:02 pm

    I should mention we’re using Media Composer v11

  • Mike Drew

    April 12, 2005 at 3:46 am

    No quick way, You will have to split the matte and fill then do your speed change to both seperately then do a matte key after that

    HTH

    Mike Drew

  • Ryan Kelly

    April 12, 2005 at 1:23 pm

    Oh how tedious. Thanks for the reply.

    you’d think that after all these years it wouldn’t be so difficult…

    thanks again,
    Ryan

  • Dave Traube

    April 12, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    You could run the clip through After Effects I suppose…

    The Accom Stratasphere has been able to do this for years, wish my MC could.

    DMT – Avid Editor

  • Ryan Kelly

    April 12, 2005 at 2:20 pm

    Yeah, we get a ton of animations created in Combustion and instead of rerendering for very minor speed changes we want to be able to do it in our Avids. Not a huge deal, really, but it would be nice.

    -ryan

  • Todd Beabout

    April 12, 2005 at 4:36 pm

    This is just ONE of the small things that avid could do to hold onto their “base”.
    If I had a dollar for every time I saw “Precomputes can’t be loaded…”

    -Todd Beabout
    Vazda Studios

  • Michael Lindsay

    April 15, 2005 at 1:14 am

    You probably know this but ‘subsys monpane debug’in the console would stop ‘Precomputes can’t be loaded..’ message. Can be usefull.
    regards

    Michael Lindsay

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