Matthew Bradshaw
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Hi there both, many thanks. I know I should RTFM but… how do I decompose without making the clips offline? That doesn’t seem to be an option.
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You can of course pan one clip, copy and then paste that attribute to all the other clips on the track.
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Arnie, did you read the whole thread?
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Here is an old description of what to do which may be helpful.
Regards, Matt.
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I expect you have checked but white screens in the viewer or canvas are often because they are set to display the alpha channel rather than rgb. You select this by clicking on one of the icons at the top of the screen. You may be able to get back your days work by exploring the autosave vault. Good luck. Matt.
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I can give it a go. Email me via the contact page on my site beermattonline.co.uk
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If I understand you correctly, your promos are 4:3 letterbox. That is they have wide black bars top and bottom. I think what you need to do is stretch the image vertically so that it fills the (4:3) frame and then lay off to tape. If your letterboxed promos were letterboxed to look 16:9 then that will be all you need to do (apart from putting some 16:9 clocks on the tape). If they were letterboxed to look some other ratio then you may have to stretch them more or less. If more you can either put up with losing a bit of the image top and bottom or shrink the image and put up with black bars left and right, if less you can either leave them with black bars top and bottom or enlarge the image and lose some of the image left and right. To check, in a 4:3 timeline put a circle on one of your promos that looks round when viewed 4:3. Then stretch both the promo and the circle so that the promo fills the frame and there are no bars top and bottom and the circle looks like an egg. Lay off to tape and watch it back off tape with your monitor switched to 16:9. Does the circle look round?
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To answer your question, you can track in Motion. The Motion help manual that I have doesn’t include the tracking tutorial but it is available or look on You tube. There are other options such as Mocha as Shane says but they will all cost you and you may not need them.
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I think that it may be because I was using the keyframer and not the full version. It seems to work fine on my full version. Thanks for your response though.
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I have not found masking in marquee. I have found however that if you leave a video layer empty above the the title in the avid timeline and then apply an animatte to the layer above that you can mask titles. I am not sure why this works.
Hope this helps. Matt.