Thanks guys for the fast response. I guess I will do it as 2 effects one for
in and one for out. It would be great if it scaled but kept the span between
selected keyframes the same. Oh well V8 maybe???
Thanks again
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Maple" <bobm-ds(at)burner.com>
To: <DS(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: can't get crop curves to work
> > Help.
> > I have a bunch of tiff files as titles and I built a tree with alpha
> > fade in and out. The clip I built this on was 5 seconds long.
> > Now I want to copy that effect to all my other tiffs of varying
> > length keeping my 12 frame in and out effects. This is what
> > I tried... Saved effect with cropped curves checked, then
> > pasted on 10 second clip. Up is fine but it fades out at 5
> > second point.
>
> So it sounds like you have a single effect, with two sets of keyframes..
one
> set at the beginning doing the fade in, and one set at the tail doing the
> fade out. Right?
>
> In this case as a single effect, you can't make it automatically scale the
> keyframes to the new clip's duration, without it actually scaling the
> duration of your existing keyframes (IE if pasted on a longer clip, the
> fades themselves would also get longer). You sort of want your group of
> keyframes at the beginning to stick to the beginning, and your group of
> keyframes at the end to stick at the end. Unfortunately, with a single
> effect, this is not possible.
>
> Depending on how your tree is built, you might instead break it into 2
> separate effects and use a single-sided transition on each side of the
clip
> (one for the fadeup and one for the fadeout)... Then you can easily apply
> them to clips of varying lengths. The only time something like this won't
> work is if your fade up/fade down is not to/from 100%. In which case,
> you'll have to manually slide the keyframes down to match the proper
> durations (you can do this in the Animation Editor by group selecting the
> end keyframes, and then shifting them at once by typing "30+" into the
Frame
> box at the top of the editor, to shift down 30 frames, etc.)
>
> I'd actually put on my 'wish list' a way to GROUP keyframes, so that you
> could do things exactly like this. For instance, imagine being able to
> group clumps of keyframes within an effect; And when you stretch the
> effect, the relationship BETWEEN the groups of keyframes would change, but
> the relationship INSIDE the groups of keyframes would not. Right now when
> you scale an effect (with crop curves turned off) it scales the
relationship
> between all the keyframes evenly, slowing down or speeding up the entire
> effect). Would be real handy, but I don't know if it's anything we'll
ever
> see (although I have not seen such a feature in any other software..
someone
> should jump on this! :)
>
>
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