OPACiTY FADE

[Mike Velte]

Create a track matte in Photoshop, same size as your project…divided vertically, left half pure white, right half pure black with a fat feathered edge in the middle.
Put this V3 over your video clips. Apply the Track Matte effect to V2. In the Effects Controls for the Track Matte effect, choose Luma as the type and V3 as the location of the matte. Choose Reverse if things are backwards.

[Tommie Green]

That worked, but it’s black and white….

[Mike Velte]

What is black and white?

[Tim Kolb]

Hmmm…

Tommie-

How would you say this effect is different, visually from a straight ole’ dissolve?

(…trying to get a handle on what you’re seeing.)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tommie Green]

https://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i88/jaieillest/mobeatz.jpg

In that picture, I would like the DJ’s laptop DJing program to be to the left and fade off into a video of him DJing on the right. The suggestion that I was previously told in this thread helped me to pull this image off, but the only thing is, as you can see, the laptop image on the left is in black and white… I would like it in color.

[Mike Velte]

Describe what is in each track at that point. There is color on the left side of the screen.

[Tommie Green]

The color on the left side of the screen is the color of the image behind it. Here are the layers:

4(top)-The image in the letterbox
3-The title ‘Sounds By DJ Mo Beatz’
2-The picture of the black and white laptop
1-The picture of the DJ

I WANT layer 2 to fade in opacity being 100% on the left and 0% on the right and for layer 1, I want the opposite.

[Mike Velte]

Where is your track matte? Read about track mattes in the Help files.

[Tommie Green]

Oh, I’m sorry. My track Matte is on a layer in between the footage of the DJ and the footage of his laptop, on layer two. I didn’t think to count it, sorry.