Steve Pankow
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Might check the Key settings dropdown and see if it’s set to No Alpha or something. Should be on Premultiplied White.
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I’m running under the assumption your imported graphic already had an alpha. You could take it into Photoshop, make an alpha there and either import into Avid to be manipulated by the stock DVE effect or reference it (import) in the AvidFX timeline. You can also take the original non-alpha image mess around with the key and matte choker filers in AvidFX.
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After watching the demo, it appears to be nothing but a graphic moving across the screen concealing the shape wipe underneath it. You could import a full screen graphic and still do this using stock Avid DVE and wipe effects. This is also doable in AvidFX but I’m not sure there’s a “supawipe” preset in there.
One way to set it up:
On the Avid timeline put outgoing video on V1 and incoming video on V2 at the point you want the transition to begin. Put an Add Edit on V2 where you want the effect to end (perhaps 1 second after the V2 clip begins).
Apply a 2 input AvidFX plug to V2. Activate the plug. You should see both video tracks on the Boris (AvidFX) timeline. You can then go to the Library Browser>Transitions>DVE Transitions>Wipes and apply perhaps Soft L to R Wipe. I’m assuming you’ve already generated the thumbnail animations for the Keyframe Library so you can see them all. Probably have to go into the Crop adjustment on V1 Outgoing to either increase or decrease the Softness of the wipe’s edge depending on personal preference.
Import whatever still image you’re going to use as your object to push across the screen. Adjust Scale and X-axis to taste for both start and end keyframes, making sure the object stays over the center of the wipe. You can add a text track and do the same thing to the X-axis. An alternative is to place both the image and text tracks into a Container first and use its X-axis controls to move both object simultaneously.
From there you can save this new transition effect to the Keyframe Library and call it up for future use.
Easy as Supawipe? No, but you save yourself $99 and have something more customizable and ultimately more powerful at your disposal.
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Wouldn’t you put your line of extruded text on the fact track of a cylinder and adjust the wrap so it appears to go around the edges of your sphere? Then you push the text across the face of the cylinder (the face media is turned off obviously) using the x-axis slider of the text track?
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Thanks. It works as you described. It’s just that having the completion value set to 50 seems counter-intuitive.
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Couldn’t you apply the Velocity Remap filter to your tracks and keyframe it so that it holds?
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There are a number of simple Avid shape wipes available in the effects palette without even having to get into Avid FX.
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Or BorisFX could just buy out Imagineer Systems 😉
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If you have fresh drives to move media onto, won’t the Media Tool do exactly what you want?
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I’ve done all of those things in your demo clip with Red. Except that last one with the guy moving around. That was pretty trick!