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Pros of Storylines instead of Compound Clips
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Thx for that! Yes, I see BUT, that makes the Blend Mode null and void!?! (when transition is added). And if you try and undo the added transitions, the whole composition goes nuts (well, seems to me so) and u have to start all over again, from the beginning. This can’t be right…someone please beat me with a hammer….cheers!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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[Jiggy Gaton] “Yes, I see BUT, that makes the Blend Mode null and void!?! (when transition is added)”
The issue is that secondary storyline acts exactly like a primary storyline in that it expects to be at the bottom of the stack as it were (it won’t pass through any blending information), so it’s not much use as a compositing tool.
Simon Ubsdell
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Ouch. I’ve been doing that forever – stacking up images and video in “tracks” to make a comp right on the timeline. Perhaps I’ve been a bad boy all these years, but that sure was fast. So what to do now? Do it in Motion instead and then what? “Can it” and bring that in as an effect, or as movie clip with an alpha channel? Huh.
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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[Jiggy Gaton] “stacking up images and video in “tracks” to make a comp right on the timeline”
It’ll still work, as I described before, you just can’t use secondary storylines to achieve it.
Simon Ubsdell
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I feel like I’ve fallen into an escher maze. If that’s true, then are you limited to using just opacity to “fade in, fade out” the beginning and end of each of the secondary storylines, right? If I want more, I have to go to Motion yes? Ok…
thx for the help!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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[Jiggy Gaton] “you limited to using just opacity to “fade in, fade out” the beginning and end of each of the secondary storylines, right?”
Whoa! Take a deep breath. It’ll all be OK 😉
Don’t go near secondary storylines for compositing as you’re not going to be able to “see through” to what underneath, except in the sense that you can fade them in and out over a primary storyline.
If you want to composite, use the Connect edit system I described to you earlier to make overlay clips that will “blend” correctly with what’s underneath. Yes, you will have to use the opacity sliders to get your fades working rather than using transitions, but that’s hardly the end of the world, is it?
BTW I thought everyone in Nepal was supposed to be super-calm?! 😉
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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Ha! Nepalese are the calmest souls on the planet (unless drunk or mad, as in wife). But I’m American, and so act like an ass most of the time. My family here likes it though, it’s like watching TV for them I suppose. No need for 2 1/2 Men.
Anyway, I missed the “Connect edit system” so will try that. I am getting a feel for this…finding the Command Editor is helping alot, so thx for prodding me there to use keystrokes…I’d never be able to find all that stuff in the new interface. Thanks again!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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