[Jason Brown]

Do you have the extend feature in Xpress? I don’t have that button in my command pallete? I have Xpress DV.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Sorry, I am still fairly new at using Media Composer…I think my question is, how do I know if my MC has a “timecode out” feature? How do I access it/turn it on?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Hey Paul…

You’re a freakin’ genious…job was done a long time ago, but I couldn’t stop trying to figure it out! I hate when I can’t do something that I know I SHOULD be able to do.

Thanks for the info…your idea did work, starting with a title full screen, doing a 3D warp placement on it, then doing paint on the fill track. Then just changing the word…changing placement and paint follows word. Awesome!

Love this forum!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I was able to do everything you suggested, the title keyed correctly, moved without affecting the video…BUT my problem is with the highlight.

Here’s my problem. I create the word in the upper left corner…move the highlight from left to right across the word. Works fine. BUT when I want that same highlight move (even on the same word — just to simplify) the highlight is referenced to the frame…not to the word. So if I move the word to the bottom left, the highlight doesn’t even come to that part of the frame.

Any ideas?

[Jason Brown]

OK…

I appreciate all the help, I’ll try to explain it as best as I can.

I have a title…the word “Loyalty” that I have created in the title Key. I promoted the title to 3D and did a highlight effect on it, the highlight effect is keyframed to change over time. I now want to do the exact same highlight effect on a different word in a different location.

(the second word comes over different video…not on the screen at the same time)

This is my desired effect. Thanks in advance for the help!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Neither of these suggestions worked…I already had to promote the title to 3D to get the highlight effect capability. Then to duplicate that effect, I had to save the effect (ctl + drag = without source) the clip to a bin. So now I have the desired effect without source. I tried stepping in and applying it to the fill layer, and it did nothing…if I monitor just that layer, it says “wrong format”. I can’t seem to duplicate the highlight effect on a matte key any other place on the screen than I originally did it.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

You guys are awesome…I tried both methods…the easiest I found, was alt dragging the effect clip, it gave me the effect parameters: “(without src)” so I was able to drag that effect clip onto another matte key.

I love creative cow!! Everyone in my office thinks I’m a genius!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Thank you…that helps tremendously, I will miss extend though!

[Jason Brown]

That is exactly what I am talking about…and your suggestion worked perfectly…in MC, you don’t have to enter a trim mode to do that “slip” function…but apparently in Xpress DV you do. I have tested and it works like a charm…gives me inside rollers and slips the clip. THANK YOU!! It was driving me crazy!

Any idea on the extend function? My friend has Xpress Pro and that button is on the “other” tab in his command palette…so I am assuming that is a function of Pro and not DV. *which sucks!*

[Jason Brown]

I have checked my keyboard settings, and it is not mapped to any keys…and when I go into my command palette to map it to a key, it is unavailable…the manual says it is on the “other” tab.