Andy Crow
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The way I have done it in the past Nat is to do an audio mixdown of tracks A1-A16 and edit that into track A17 and mute A1-A16. The advantage of doing this is that audio mixdowns are wicked quick, and laying the mixdown on a new track and muting the old means you don’t make any destructive edits. If you don’t like the mixdown you just unmute A1-A16, tweak it and replace the mixdown on A17.
This effectively gives you another 15 tracks to play with before you have to do another mixdown.
cheers,
AC
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You may need to make sure that you have “Render on-the-fly” turned on. This is under the “special” pull-down menu at the top of the frame. That and remembering to reverse alphas on import are usually the 1st two gotchas.
ac
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This can be done, but it must be done manually. Get your Spectramatte key the way you want it and then select “Show Alpha”. Alt-apply your BCC Drop Shadow effect as normal and select “Apply to Title-Matte and Invert Matte”. Then, step into the BCC Drop Shadow effect and on the layer underneath the Spectramatte key edit in your original source footage. There will be three layers underneath the effect. The top is the Alpha, the middle the source, and the bottom the background. Then step back out of the nested effect as normal.
It also important to remember for this effect to work you’ll need to have an empty layer between your nested effect and your background layer.
ac