Adjacent keyframes?

LouN

Newbie Joined: Feb 08, 2011 23:11 Messages: 1 Offline

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Feb 09, 2011 02:03

In the timeline view select a point in time inside a clip to be an in point. Select the clip itself so it turns blue. Push the "keyframe" button above the timeline. In the keyframe settings, click the triangle next to "Opacity". In the dialog that appears, click the little diamond to make a keyframe.

At the lowest left corner of the timeline, drag the little button all the way to the big clock at the right so you can see individual frame ticks on the timeline.

In the preview window, verify that "clip" is highlighted. Press the "one frame back" button.

Back to the keyframe settings, click the little diamond again to make another keyframe, which will be set to 0% opacity, so the clip pops in at the in point.

When I do this, I do not get another keyframe on the timeline... until, of course, I am verifying this post. Then it works... sometimes.

I'll add more if I can figure out a pattern.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

PD9.0.0.2504

PatC

Senior Member Location: Suffolk UK Joined: Nov 17, 2009 14:00 Messages: 156 Offline

Feb 09, 2011 05:07

Hi LouN

Yes there is something a little strange there.
On my system it seems that an opacity change of Zero to 100% likes to be
given 2 frames to complete, with 50% opacity at frame 1 mid change.
At one pont I had 2 keyframes 1 frame apart in the expanded keyframe window
but shown as 2 frames apart in the expanded timeline view.

Playing with Fix / Enhance settings and turning the split preview on and off is a bit hit and miss too.
I am not sure if it is program lag or the program ignoring my request.....

Patrick

Shiromage

Newbie Location: United States Joined: Jan 05, 2011 17:30 Messages: 7 Offline

Apr 01, 2011 17:30

PD9 Ultra Win7 32-bit
460 GTX graphics card
2.1 GHz duo processor with hyperthreading

I'm having a strange problem with Opacity as well. Sometimes random invisible keyframes will be put throughout the clip, as well as this descriptive senario:

I want a clip that starts at 100 opacity, then rapidly go from 100 opacity to 0, then gradually go back to 100. Four keyframes total. The two that are super close to each other have a knack for being the same as each other. (Keyframes 2 and 3, the rapid 100 to 0.) If I set 2 to 100, the other will be 100. When I set 3 to 0, keyframe 2 will set to zero. Sometimes even setting 2 will affect keyframe 1.

It's already very frustrating that I can't put keyframes close to each other, especially for cropping, but having keyframes change their values without us clicking on them is pushing it.

Is this a known issue? Can it be fixed? Thanks!

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