Alex Bond
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Wow, cool.
Ok, I’m new to Avid so bear with me if I miss out details. I’m using Avid Media Composer running on a PC with a Mojo. The Avid has Sapphire effects as a plug in (seems to be capable of some really cool stuff – I’m used to Borix FX and After Effects).
On screen I’ve got 3 pictures. One on the left hand side goes top to bottom, the right hand side is then split into two more pics top and bottom. Each one has been built as a separate layer, titled up on the left of the sequence so I can keep track of things and each one’s scale/position has been duplicated by dragging the effect onto each clip. The picture on the left was masked and each shot moved around so it made sense (seeing as it’s a tall thin pic), the pics on the rhs were just scaled and repositioned.
Each track has cuts and dissolves all along it and I was looking at putting a Sapphire Dissolve Glow on some of the transitions. However whenever I put a ‘glow on, it affects ALL tracks below the current one so I end up with the shot I want transitioning (if that’s a word) but the effect is applied to all pictures on screen.
For eg, I put a glow on the top right picture (which happens to be the top layer of video), and at that point all 3 pics have the glow on, even though only one (the top right) is changing from one pic to the next.
So basically, I’m trying to isolate the effect so it ONLY affects one picture, in fact one track, at a time.
Hope that makes sense!
Thanks in advance
Alex.
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hmmm…I’ve tried this and it’s still affecting all layers. I’m trying to just apply the dissolve to one of my Picture in Picture pictures which just happens to be on the top layer, so the effect is filtering down to all the layers below and flashing all three pictures.
I guess I could move the layer to the bottom but i’m not sure that’s a good solution for the future. Alt dragging the effect just seems to apply the effect without altering any settings.
Any thoughts?
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cool, thanks 🙂
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Thanks for the reply,
I’ve tried this I’m afraid and it doesn’t seem to work. I can see that if you step in and put half the effect on each clip either side of the transition but frankly that seems longwinded and will not allow me much flexibility for tweaking.
Any other ideas?
Alex.
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Hi,
Wonder if you have any advice seeing as I’m going through the same trauma as yourself!
After 8 years of using Media 100 I now have to learn to use Avid, it seems terribly over complicated but I’ve got no choice in the matter!
Did you have any more useful advice in addition to the posts replying to your note on Creative Cow?
Any help would be gratefully received – even if it’s just to say you got over it!!
Kind regards
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Thanks for this, though I’m working in PAL some of the settings will probably need tweaking.
Thanks for taking the time
Alex.
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Cool, thanks Floh
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Thanks Mark,
Out of habit I do this too! There’s a function in the scripts to do it for you, it’ll ramp all audio clips on an edl but of course if you’ve got featured sound you’ve already mixed, you don’t necessarily want M100 to fiddle.
The popping sound I’ve encountered isn’t caused by not ramping since I always do it but it is exactly the same noise, interestingly.
Alex.
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We’ll have a look at it.
Thanks for your help.
Alex.
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SDI 1 isn’t plugged in, though I’ve just looked at the panel and that’s the HD output, you’ve got me wondering now if when the guys mastered the last HD series if they used SDI 1… I’ll check with them.
We did discover a problem with the Master to Tape using the Record option in that you can’t – we have to stripe tapes first with some timecode and do an Assemble edit otherwise we had some framing issues (I forget exactly what they were now). Now you mention it, there WERE also issues with frames on the vision inserts (though we overcame these by a process of trial and error – but the audio problem persists).
Are there big differences with V11.5.x? Is it a straightforward software upgrade or hardware too?
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