Boris Needs Hold Last Frame Option

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi,

Well perhaps this is something that we can add as an option in a future version of RED (and thanks for mentioning that) but in the meantime you can easily achieve this by adding the Velocity Remap filter to the clip, then setting a “hold” keyframe for the Velocity parameter with a value of 100 at the start of the clip and go to where you want to hold the last frame of the clip and add a second keyframe for the Velocity parameter again setting it to “hold” but set the value to 0.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Peter.

[Glass Onion]

Hi, thanks a lot for the help.

Seems odd that Boris wouldn’t have it since video elements are so common.

The following post shows that Boris had it and it was removed. What a bad choice. Today’s compositors use short animate video elements all the time. Velocity remap destroys the speed of the editor’s workflow making Boris less valuable.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/15/857592

It reads:

Hi all,

In earlier versions of Boris Fx if a movie’s length wasn’t as long as the timeline’s duration it would play as normal then freeze on the last frame and hold this till the end. This was very handy and I got used to this automatic feature.Upgraded to BFX6 and of course I can’t figure out how to do this.

Any ideas??

I don’t want to “loop” the movie, just freeze the last frame and increase the length that way. Hope someone out there knows what I’m talking about !! 🙂

Cheers,
Evan

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Re: Movie length
by Anne Renehan on Nov 15, 2001 at 10:34:10 am

You are correct that this feature is no longer in FX. A lot of people found it confusing and preferred that the movie simply. I will add it to our feature request list for the next FX release; maybe we could add it to the Preferences window. In the meantime, you can export the last frame as a Still Image and then import it. Sorry about that.
Anne