transitions effecting other layers

[Matt Mullen]

Hmm,

Instead of using dissolves try the “fade effect”.

[Lori Miranda]

I tried that and still the same thing. It seems that any transition I do affects the bottom layer. Any other suggestions?

[Ed Cilley]

Lori,

So let me see if I am following what is happening…

V2 – Graphic Title (not nested)
V1 – Video (interview)

If you have a lower third on V2 and nest another title (title tool), it will look below to the bottom layer. Un-nest the effect if this is what is happening.

Is the lower third a Matte Key, or are you adding effects to get the key?

Ed

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[Lori Miranda]

Hi Ed,

So my V1 is my video. V2 is a lower third matte key. V3 is a title that I made. Nothing is nested right now. No matter what transition I use it affects the video on V1. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lori

[Randy Pfeiffer]

Hi Lori,

I use the “Effect Editor” and add keyframes to adjust foreground (transparancy) from 0% to 100% to create the transitions (dissolves)… You can also use the crop, position, scaling, etc. to add to your transitions.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Randy

[Lori Miranda]

Hi Randy,

Thanks for the help but when I adjust the foreground and such in the effect editor it affects my video on V1 as well. My problem is that I can’t seem to keep the title and lower-third matte separate from the video. Whatever transition I do on V2 and V3 affects V1 as well, which I don’t want.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Lori

[Hans Sieber]

Hi Lori,
what kind of lower third are you having on V2? Is a imported real time moving matte or did you get fill and alpha seperately and combined them in the timeline with the matte key effect? If you open the nest of your lower third the alpha should be in V2.3. On which layer is the fill? V2.2 or V 2.1? In my case putting the fill on the other layer V.2.2 rather than V2.1. made it work. Had the same problem as you do.
Hope I could be of help.

Yours
Hans

[Lori Miranda]

It’s a real time moving matte so I didn’t apply an alpha. It already had one.