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  transitions effecting other layers

  Posted by Lori Miranda on December 31, 2009 at 5:31 pm

  Hello,

  I am trying to fade in a lower-third graphics with a title over a person speaking. I have done this a million times before but for some reason on this one it is dissolving the person talking as well as the title. Any ideas how to make the dissolve (or fade) only affect the title graphics and not the video underneath.

  Thanks so much,
  Lori

  Lori Miranda replied 16 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  Matt Mullen

  December 31, 2009 at 6:28 pm

  Hmm,

  Instead of using dissolves try the “fade effect”.
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  Lori Miranda

  December 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm

  I tried that and still the same thing. It seems that any transition I do affects the bottom layer. Any other suggestions?
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  Ed Cilley

  December 31, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  Lori,

  So let me see if I am following what is happening…

  V2 – Graphic Title (not nested)
  V1 – Video (interview)

  If you have a lower third on V2 and nest another title (title tool), it will look below to the bottom layer. Un-nest the effect if this is what is happening.

  Is the lower third a Matte Key, or are you adding effects to get the key?

  Ed

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  Lori Miranda

  December 31, 2009 at 8:15 pm

  Hi Ed,

  So my V1 is my video. V2 is a lower third matte key. V3 is a title that I made. Nothing is nested right now. No matter what transition I use it affects the video on V1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Lori
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  Randy Pfeiffer

  December 31, 2009 at 10:27 pm

  Hi Lori,

  I use the “Effect Editor” and add keyframes to adjust foreground (transparancy) from 0% to 100% to create the transitions (dissolves)… You can also use the crop, position, scaling, etc. to add to your transitions.

  Hope this helps,

  Cheers,
  Randy
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  Lori Miranda

  January 1, 2010 at 5:39 pm

  Hi Randy,

  Thanks for the help but when I adjust the foreground and such in the effect editor it affects my video on V1 as well. My problem is that I can’t seem to keep the title and lower-third matte separate from the video. Whatever transition I do on V2 and V3 affects V1 as well, which I don’t want.

  Any other suggestions?

  Thanks,
  Lori
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  Hans Sieber

  January 2, 2010 at 12:17 pm

  Hi Lori,
  what kind of lower third are you having on V2? Is a imported real time moving matte or did you get fill and alpha seperately and combined them in the timeline with the matte key effect? If you open the nest of your lower third the alpha should be in V2.3. On which layer is the fill? V2.2 or V 2.1? In my case putting the fill on the other layer V.2.2 rather than V2.1. made it work. Had the same problem as you do.
  Hope I could be of help.

  Yours
  Hans
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  Lori Miranda

  January 4, 2010 at 4:48 pm

  It’s a real time moving matte so I didn’t apply an alpha. It already had one.

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