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Panning cross dissolves
Hi Folks, bought KoolMoves 10 days ago and really delighted! Produced a neat banner and successfully uploaded to site in 2 days. As a former TV commercial director, I've been trying to produce an effect I call a panning cross-dissolve or a dissolve between two moving images.
ByWeb has produced a really kool site and the opening shows exactly what I want to do: http://www.calahorrainmuebles.com/
I have read the manual front to back, every tutorial I can find and searched this forum but can't figure out how to do it. I tried everything and am stuck. I thought I could do it by making image 'A' a movie, fade out by copying last frame and deleting image to achieve the fade and add 'stop movie' and running image 'B' as a separate clip." When' I do this the movie becomes discombobulated (is that a word?).
MY QUESTION IS: Is the effect achievable without knowing action script? I am not a coder, don't want to learn code (that's why I bought KoolMoves). If anyone knows a tutorial that would give me a clue how to do it, I would greatly appreciate it. Cheers
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It appears to my eye that the images are moving and fading in and maybe out.
No action scripting is required to get this to work.
The images need to be larger than the canvas. Import the first image. Using the points selection tool (top, right tools toolbar), select the top left, top right, bottom right corner points to the rectangle defining the shape that is filled with the image. You may need to change the zoom to 1/2. Move the points in so the rectangle is smaller than the image and the same size as the movie frame. To get the image moving effect, in one frame the image fill relative to the rectangle shape is in position 1 and in another frame (a copy of the first frame), the image fill is shifted relative to the rectangle using Transforms > Shift Image Fill.
The fade ins and outs can be achieved using the simple Fade/size effects under Effects menu.
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Hi Bob, thanx for your quick reply. i had done what you suggested with the images and have no problem there. Its the transition i'm having problem with (from movie image A to clip image B). The 'clip' must be already moving as the movie fades out, achieving this overlap/transition is where things run amok. I hadn't used 'transforms' so I'll try that. also I had tried the 'fade' under effects unscuccessfully so was using a transparent copy of the previous frame to achieve the fade out of the movie. I will play with it as per your suggestions and see how I do. Thanx for your help. Zen
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Fade out of image 1 should overlap slightly with fade in of image 2.
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I think this might be what you want...
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YES! Thanx Makulaf! (and Bob).
That's the effect. I'm not quite clear yet how you did it, but I see you're using 2 clips, I'll analyize it when I get a chance, I'm sure you've given me all the info I need to work it out. Thanx so much for your time and expertise. ZEN