Chris Buttacoli
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If the slideshow is cuts only, [but I don’t know who does a cuts only slideshow though], you could nest the photo sequence into a new sequence that contains the music track, and then time stretch the photo clip to match.
But of course this won’t really work with transitions in your slideshow because the timestretch will mess up their motion smoothness.
So my workflow remains as yours, resizing each pic to fit the music track.
Luckily it isn’t normally too laborious when using the ripple edit tool. -
No – I mean select them all at the same time and move them all together in one move. I guess if you have double digit tracks this can still be somewhat time consuming. But not as much as moving individual clips one at a time!
Otherwise I think your nesting option is the only way to go.
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Combining all three projects into one just requires importing the pproj files all into another new project.
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Why not select all the clips on the track and move them down together? (You may need to zoom in after making the selection to be sure your move from track to track doesn’t slip a few frames)
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When you say jitter, I think of the image jumping around slightly during moves. Is that what you mean, or are you talking about interlace flicker, where the fine detils of the image move in and out of the scan lines?
I know adding a slight directional blur of one pixel or so can help flicker, I wonder if it can do the same with jitter?
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Some editiors I know use stuff from the Editors Toolkit by Digital Juice. Perhaps they have some discreet transition packages?
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So your saying a clip on video track 2 with a garbage matte on it doesn’t see through to a clip placed underneath in track 1?
[I am using CS3. The bug I was refering to is the inability to move the handles of the garbage matte in the program view correctly.]
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Yes you are correct. This will not make the complicated effect you are looking for. I can see making just the boxes part, but not the boxes moving around part.
As stinky as it sounds, I think Boris is the only way to go. Maybe they have a more subtle section of transitions in their bundles somewhere? But no one seems to make these things anymore.
There is a company called Adorage that sells these things, but they are dripping with cheese! 🙂
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In the effects control window, where it lists all the effects you have applied to your clip, you expand the garbage matte effect and it will display values defining the positions of all the points making up that matte. You can click and drag on one of those values and it moves the corrosponding point in real time in the program window. (That is called scrubbing – clicking and dragging through values) If you hold the shift key while scrubbing the values move in greater increments. If you scrub while holding the ctrl key, the values move in tiny little increments.
I have not found any easier way to do this. What is your work around?
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I have created a few custom wipes for PPro. Funny, in CS3 there is no diagonal soft wipe or soft iris wipe. I used photoshop to make grey-scale maps that the gradient-wipe transition could use. I suppose you could make a bunch of weird fx maps using the same principle. Isn’t there an image map transition, or something like that, buried deep in the fx bin somewhere? I know i’ve seen it, but I never knew how to use it. I bet that this technique is what it is for. I’ll give it a try and post back later.