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Tip – Make Effects stop where you want
I’m sure I’m late to the party about this, but in case someone here besides me didn’t know, I needed to make it possible to terminate an effect in progress (without its build-out or build-in) but not have to modify its template.
I needed to stop or start an effect in its middle. Although the effect has a mandatory build-in and mandatory build-out, I needed to stop it just after its build-in or before its build-out. Simply making the effect shorter makes the build-in/out happen sooner and, make no mistake, I love that feature.
But, in one case, I wanted the effect not to build-out and I wanted to avoid making a copy of that effect to do what I wanted. I found that if I placed the effect into a Compound Clip (just right-click on the effect and choose to make it a Compound Clip), then I can shorten or blade the compound clip without affecting the length of the effect within the Compound Clip. In shorter words, I can now have control over when and how the effect begins or terminates without modifying the template.
In my case, I needed to change the timing of a text effect. Rather than go into the template to try to modify without hearing the sound for sync, I just stretched the effect further. That made the text sync in a heartbeat but left me with too much effect down downstream. I needed to cut that effect short and dissolve out of it. The above is how I accomplished that.
Thinking further, I think it could be easier (though I haven’t tried it yet.. just now thinking out loud) it should be easy to make a text effect where words appear fully and disappear fully without worrying about timing. Then make that effect a Compound Clip, copy the CC for the number of bullet points, trim each to its own bullet point and place them into the storyline and dissolve out if needed with the benefit of hearing the audio to know where to place. Hhhmmm… wonder if I can retime the CC to avoid after-the-fact dissolve? The possibilities are endless.
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Make a bullet list with longer-than needed time between each bullet appearing and just isolate each section just before a new bullet appears and place it closer to sync with audio.
That’s the ticket. I’ll create two templates; the first will be a series of animated words that appear and disappear on their own to be chopped up as needed, and a second template with, say, ten bullet points each spaced longer-than-anticipated down the timeline. Then use my Compound Clip idea to modify within the Storyline so that I can easily conform them to sync with audio. But, I’m sure I’m living in a dream world. Sounds too easy to be feasible.
“My mind is a raging torrent. Flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.” – Blazing Saddles
Don Smith
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