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Stupid question about Timeline transparency
Hey, Coming from After Effects and trying to understand Davinci, but I keep hitting the wall with this stupid problem.
Create new timeline01-> drop in background video->drop in title -> result i can see both my background video and title overlaid on top of it.
Now remove the video and leave only the title in that first timeline01
Then create new timeline02 -> drop in background video -> drop in the first timeline01 on top of it and I can only see the title over black background. Can’t see the background video. (see the attached screen cast recording to better understand.)
Looks like for some reason the first timeline has no transparent background by default. How can I change that? Can’t seam to find any settings and google only returns results about blending modes or color keying, but none of that seams a correct fit for my problem.
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Other than using blending mode or keying, I don’t think you can define the alpha for a timeline or compound clip. I agree it would be a nice feature.
I believe your other option is to work in Fusion for whatever compositing you’d like to do… but as you certainly already know, it is a node based approach compared to After Effects… different strengths…
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You can always just copy the text layers from timeline one to timeline two. What is the advantage of compounding the text layer either as a single clip or timeline? I do wish there was a simple way to adjust alpha on a compound clip but I’m not sure I see the reason on a timeline.
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Compounding approach is for building template projects for clients. That way all placeholder comps can be in a separate folder, then they can be processed, reused in multiple comps to achieve final result.
But I sort of fixed this problem. Or at least found the cause.
Turns out it’s Davinci 17 BETA issue. When I reinstalled the last stable 16.2.7 version everything worked as intended. So you’re right – there are no magic setting that I was missing. It’s just temporary bug.
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