( Barry, if you need a cig after this, I have some menthols in the freezer, I believe)

Yesterday I started the work of exploring what the 100 tracks can do.
I never quite understood what we should need 100 tracks for and why it's a big deal.
Anybody used more than 10 - 20? Because you needed to, and not just for the fun of it?

I have been making the conclusion that offering all those tracks must mean that the
possibilities of- and in - PIPs would be significant broadened. From the promotionvideo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIU8krax8xw you are getting an impression of
how PIPs can be brought in/out in "walls", parallellograms, trapezes, have reflections - in short
it tells you that a lot of what you would wish to do editing video- you can do in PD9!

Ah, but you can't....

My first attempt in making a video-wall, was to bring in and work with 4-6 wmv's + some stills,
text and audio. I did not pre-render bits and pieces. If you have 100 tracks you should be able to
edit 8-10 in one chew (?).
Of course, if you want to do anything other than have 6 videoes playing alongside, straight ahead from
beginning to end, you just plaster them in the tracks, place them according to the gridlines and are done.
It's when I started "modifying" it really got interesting.
Apart from the frequent freeze of the modify-window, I could not really make many modifications.
When I thought I had made one or two, back in timelines I would see - not what I thought I had done,
but other timelines affected. Motion I could not modify at all.
(Modify-window displayed the little change I could achive, timeline/movie something different)

Keyframes! Yes!
When you click the keyframes-tab, you can fix, enhance and work with opacity. Not motion.
Magic motion applies to stills, - so that leaves modify. When 3-4 videos show up in that window,
even the one I carefully highlighted before going in, had a really bad response ( if one at all) to the
keyframes.

I guess I'll find my ways and "workarounds" to achive some of the things I want to happen in a video.
But see, that's what I (and many) always have done.
Bits and pieces at a time, building a video like a puzzle.

Unless my first try-out with video-wall lacked a lot of knowledge on my part and I will see things
completely different in a day or two, can you/anyone pinpoint why 100 tracks are needed and
such a big deal?
And/or enlighten me regarding working with video-walls.




Just something.
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