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Thanks Todd,
good links!

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John,

Thanks for the consistent and good advice. My video card is indeed old, but I wasn’t aware of how many generations it was back. From your response, and specifically relating to the 512 being minimum spec from Sony, I’ll just stick to my simple system for now until I can upgrade to a whole new machine (my workstation is quite old too).

Much thanks again,

-t.

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p.s. I did read this:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/958201

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John,

thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!

-t.

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Graham,

I have the layering like that to keep the layer priority.. I’ve been opening new video channels and stacking them up, and if I move certain things up higher I run the risk of putting things on different channels with different color effects etc. As you can see I’m not very good at this yet. My project is quite cluttered.

Thanks again for your help through. I tried bringing one clip up to the layer immediately below, and unfortunately, no dice still 🙁

The workaround I found was to just engage / disengage the top channel via an off / on envelope when the blend effect is needed (off when there is no top mask layer to avoid the blackout). That’s fine except there is no fade in from the other channel, only fade from black at edit points..

Thanks again,
-t.

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Have you tried multiple / new projects and it’s consistently the same? Is it possible your project file has gone bad?

I’ve read here on the board of certain projects getting glitchy, and people having luck with copying all timeline data and pasting into a new fresh project.

Sorry if that doesn’t help..

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Graham,

thanks for your continued support. I’m not sure if it’s a glitch or if I’m missing something here.

I’m attaching four images.

1. is the black out problem when off the top (multiply) layer

2. is my desired effect when the cursor is on the top (multiply layer)

3. is the lower layers visible, when the track below the multiply track is set to child (as I’m aiming for)

4. is the problem with this solution, as now the blend (multiply) layer doesn’t show up at all (notice where cursor is)

Can you think of any solutions I might be missing? I’ve been trying to experiment with all lower layers as a child to the multiply layer, I’ve also tried to experiment with each layer being a successive child of the one above. Nothing seems to be working for me.

Do you know what the standard setting for composting should be? Is it the 3D Alpha at the top of the list? Maybe there’s a way to turn composting off for the lower layers?

I’m loving this lion blend effect, but it’s just posing a huge challenge to use it!

-t.

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Hey Graham,

I’ve been trying what you recommended, but still not quite getting it.

If I click ‘make composting child’ on the video track immediately below the top video track, there is no black out any more, but there is also no blend of the two tracks any more. The top track no longer shows at all, blending or otherwise.

Any ideas on why this might be?

-t.

p.s. these two images are just of the original problem, not this second one..

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Graham,

thank you very much.. I appreciate it greatly.

-t.

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Thanks Aleksey!