[Graham Bernard]

Sure, making a render, or here an interim combined Media is another way. But I was under the impression that you wanted to have control of the issue you were having?

You haven’t tried my approach or have you not understood my post? My approach wouldn’t require you to render any further than your final render. It would also lead you into understanding the difference between Levels and Fade-Throughs.

G

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[Graham Bernard]

[Brian Tallant] “If I was fading one picture out and the other one in, I would expect, obviously, to see the two pictures bleeding together. But I don’t understand why you would get that bleeding if both pictures are fading in, and at the same rate.”

And right there is your answer.

What we see when you move the “Offset”, that is exactly what you are doing here, it is a reduction in Levels over time. It is as if you were to reduce the Levels using the Track Header Level. Adjusting the Track Header Levels Slider is a reduction in the Levels. Do that and you WILL see a lower Tracks levels coming through. It is just that we can use the Levels Offset “Fade” to make small incremental Level adjustments at the Start or End of an Event. You do the Levels adjustment you/we will see the Lower Track’s Events show through. A Level adjustment is not a Fade to anything, although it would appear to be, and certainly not a fade to another colour, here that would be the reverse of White, being Black. Black is NOT a Levels adjustment. It is an “absence” of White. It has a number. It exists. When we adjust-down the Levels : Offset or Track Header : we are removing the existence of ALL that is in the Event or the whole Track. If this done over time, your Level Offset, I’m not surprised you are seeing what you are. As the Levels are reducing ANYTHING that has a value, even if you are Offset Fading something below, will “show” through, and that includes ANYTHING in a Lower Track, it is just that the Upper is having its “values” removed faster, than the Lower Events Levels or “values” and they are showing through.

The use of the word “Fade”, and Fade offset, I feel, is being misleading, in as much as the Fade, that is here, is a Fade or a reduction in Levels. Being pedantic, it is a “Fade-To(or through)-Black”, which is what you are after.

So, getting this under our belts, what I would suggest are these options:

1/- Instead of that straight Offset Fade (Levels reduction) use a Fade Thru-Black Transition at the End of the Event

. . or . . .

2/- Place a Solid Black on the Upper Track and “push” that into the Upper Track Event. You may well still see a “ghost”, it will depend if the Levels in that Lower Track are High enough to appear through.

. . or . . .

3/- On a new, additional Track above ALL the other Tracks place a Solid Black, and Fade that In.

So to recap:

i) The Offset Fade is not a Fade to Black. It is a reduction in Levels. A Levels adjustment will allow the appearance of a lower Track, so it isn’t a Fade to Black.

ii) We would need to force a value of Black to completely remove any other Levels present. And here, (and presently I can’t think of anything else?), that would be one of the Options I’ve given above.

HTH

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Huh . . .

I’ve gone back to the Win7 Autoplay and mopped-up my iPhone Media to a Win7 PC folder, and be done.

I got this from Dale Dietrich:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2463851?start=15&tstart=0

I really really can’t be futzing about with iTunes this much.

What would happen AFTER you disconnect your iPhone? You’d have to import a usable Win7 Folder anyway?

My opinion? Get your stuff into the pC and take your iPhone away. That’s what I am doing from now on. Also the Autoplay gives you the simple option to erase AFTER import. How novel is that!? Try and do that through iTunes?

No, I adore my iPhone, and the 158 apps I’ve got on it, makes my mobility around my World in London totally spiffing! But sometimes, just sometimes you’ve just gotta take the line of least resistance and be pragmatic.

Cheers

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Kelly , there was something in your opening post that made me want to add this:

1/- Once a VP10 Project has been opened in VP12 and SAVED, you can not then reopen that VP12 Saved project back in VP10.

2/- A previously made VP12 or freshly made VP12 Project will NOT open in VP10.

3/- You WILL need a 64bit OS to have VP12 work at all.

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

“Shouted” and was “heard” – Nice chat Roger. Great to put a “moving” face to the name.

Toodles

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

[Roger Bansemer] “Are you ever on Skype?”

Oh yes . . . Wanna chat?

G

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[Graham Bernard]

What TEXT Generator are you using? I had this but not in NewBlue Titler PRO2.

I had 27 Fonts missing and sent SCS a list, but now on B486 that list has come down to about 6 or 7.

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Y’know Roger, there are people who CAN’T get rid of it! It’s happening when we Ctr+Z for UNDO or hitting the UNDO Icon.

Now, you saying you can’t get it to “pop-up”, it has to be related to the same issue.

Try this, yeah I know it’s a long-winded keystroke, but I just tested it and it works:

Ctrl+Alt+SHIFT+R

This is a nasty UNDO bug . . .

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

Agree with Colin. Getting it “right” optically, at the get-go will enhance any postprod you can use to adjust for a further “pop”.

I use a combo of NDs and a Polarizer to tame the optics. If you are to use Grads be very, very careful with that horizon making an unfortunate artificial horizontal line through your work. I might also make a plea for a Black Mist filter for those confused Tree/Forest contrasts.

I love my optical filters, and use them at every opportunity I can to learn and explore their optical value.

Grazie

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[Graham Bernard]

AH, Roger, you need to Insert the “Answer Envelope”!

Could be the servers catching-up?

Cheers

Grazie

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