Two things. Opacity and Gaps

[Scott Witthaus]

[James Ewart] “Opacity. Surely there is a way to get straight to it that I have not found yet?”

Besides the Video Animation or in the Inspector? Not sure what is taking up your time here.

[James Ewart] “Does anybody else have trouble selecting the inside edge of a gap to make it smaller.?”

Haven’t run into this, but I tend to keep the clip size large. And isn’t there a keyboard command, using the left and right brackets (next to the P key) that can make that selection easier?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[James Ewart]

… In Legacy the opacity line was sitting right there in the timeline. Much less fuss. I don’t understand why we could not still have this feature. And you cannot select opacity of text or generators in the Inspector. You have to go to Video Animation – expand Opacity and then adjust. Fiddly and a bit tedious when you have seven of them in a stack (CORRECTION … I’M BEING RIDICULOUS OF COURSE YOU CAN)

Yes left bracket and right bracket next to the ‘P’ key to elect the correct “edge”

Still seems to have a preference for preceding slip even when I force select the edge I want to move. May well be something I do clumsily but I was just wondering if anybody else ever had the problem.

Thanks

[James Ewart]

I have corrected previous post. I was being stupid. Thanks.

[Bill Davis]

Uh, Opacity IS in the inspector.

It’s the last choice down below Transform, et al.

Under The heading Compositiing – there’s a big old keyframable slider for Opacity along with a drop down menu for setting the compositing mode. .

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