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newbie/nomenclature and basic question
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ok, mike… I am on to my second video ( a series of 3)… I have exactly the same issue as this thread dealt with, only now the tracks are not merged into the multi-track takes yet..
the question is:
is there an advantage to somehow applying the background gausian blur to the single 640×480 track before merging it all into a single video track with multi-takes?
If there is.. how to I work to combine the two tracks (640×480 front and background) first into one track before merging it into the multi-track video takes track..
thanks
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Kim, if you wanted to do that, you’d have to render it (640×480 + blurred image) to a new file, potentially reducing your quality.
How much is lost depends entirely on the quality of your source footage and what format you render it to.
Try it and see if it’s acceptable to you as you’re the only one who can make that decision. -
ok… all is well with the video…
now another question on the same project.. so knowing the history of what was done with the video (4 video tracks combined into a multicamera edit)… I have all my takes done and the video is working fine…
but now that I have 4 tracks of audio sitting there, I want to do similar thing with the audio (decide which tracks to use when for audio)… I have one master audio track (recorded separately) that is for the main section, but I want to use portions of the other tracks of audio for the intro and such… how do I select portions of the audio without it impacting my video selections?
Kim
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Kim, you have two options here.
#1 is to click the desired audio track to highlight it, split it using the ‘s’ key at the desired points and deleted the unwanted portion.
#2 is to put Volume Envelopes (shortcut key is ‘v’) on all tracks, add points by double-clicking the line at the desired locations and drag the unwanted portions down to the desired level.
Either way, it’s going to take some time 🙁 -
Perfect! worked excellent…
OK.. so now 🙂 (you knew another question was coming)…
I have my video set up..1 multi-camera video track, plus 1 single camera background (for the Gaussian blur from before).. two video tracks on the timeline… Audio is all good now.
Now I can’t figure out how to assign effect to a start/stop point on a video (so far the Gaussian blur, for example goes for the entire track). I am trying to do this with my timeline..
1. start with a bunch of useless video I want to ignore
2. fade in from black
3. fade in to black and white effect and stay B&W for 30 seconds
4. go to regular color for most of video.
5. go to B&W again as video is ending (last 30 seconds)
6. fade out to black.My issues are:
A. when I try to select a region of the video track and apply something, I can’t figure out how to not apply an effect to the entire video track…
B. I am also not sure where I should get a B&W effect from..
C. How do I apply such an effect to multiple video tracks (so for example the Gaussian blur background isn’t color while the rest of the video is B&W)Again, if this is all obvious on a vid in Sony/ youtube, please just point me to it… I looked at a few videos but they kept doing something called a Sin City effect.. I just want regular black and white for a couple portions of my vid..
Kim
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“Perfect! worked excellent…”
Glad to hear that!!
“OK.. so now 🙂 (you knew another question was coming)…”
Not a problem 🙂
” I am trying to do this with my timeline..”
Download the attached veg file.
It was done in Pro 9 with Generated Media so it’ll load up just fine.
Feel free to study it and see how I did things.“My issues are:”
A. FX can be applied at three different locations, Event, Track and Output.
In this case, apply it art the Event FX level or the Track FX level and use keyframes to turn it on and/or off.
B. It’s the Video FX tab as shown above.
C. You have to apply the Track FX on each track separately.
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