Help with new 2.0 feature

[Theoutsider]

Larry,

I don’t believe all effects work with Transparent Video. I know lens flare does, but I don’t recall the others.

[Steven L. gotz]

It is not an adjustment layer. It is a transparent layer. There is a difference.

Steven
http://www.stevengotz.com

[David Oulashian]

Steven,

Can you explain what a transparent layer is? I am familiar with adjustment layers in AE and similar functions in Avid. How does a transparent layer differ from an adjustment layer?

Thanks,

David Oulashian

[Steven L. gotz]

Well, I am not an expert on the subject of how to use one, but I can tell you what it is not. It is not a layer you would blur and then all of the layers below would be equally blurred. No, that would be too cool.

This transparent layer can take a lens flare because it does not matter that it is transparent. The release notes will tell you that it comes in handy as a placeholder in the timeline.

Steven
http://www.stevengotz.com

[Zac Lam]

Transparent Video is a synthetic clip just like Black Video, Bars and Tone, Color Matte, etc. It comes in handy when you want to apply an effect that generates it’s own image and preserves transparency, such as the new Timecode effect, Write-on (installed when you have After Effects too), 3rd party plug-ins like the Heroglyph titler, etc. Just put a Transparent Video clip on the highest layer, stretch it out as far as you want, and apply the effect.

Of course you don’t always want to apply the Timecode effect to a transparent clip, because the timecode effect can only read valid timecode for the clip it is applied to.

[Ken Adolph]

do all effects work or just a selective list?

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
https://www.mg.ca

[Aanarav Sareen]

[ken adolph] “do all effects work or just a selective list?”

All effects DO NOT work with transparent video, only a few selected ones. From my expereince, most of the effects that work are ‘generate’ ones, like the timecode effect.

[Jason J rodriguez]

Dang, that is too bad . . . I was really looking forward to such a feature from my experiences with Avid.

Oh well . . . maybe a future release.

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Zac Lam]

All effects can be applied, but just like applying effects to a Black Matte, many will not have a noticable effect. Think of Transparent Video as “Clear Matte”.

[Adrian Tecson]

Yeah, I so really wanted the trasnparency layer to work like the Avid’s universal effect appication. Yeah, maybe in the next release:)