Some video segments suddenly darker??

YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

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Dec 08, 2014 19:34

I've edited with PD 9-10-11-12 and now 13. For the first time I've done something to effect the darkness of about half my video clips. I was just sorting the order of clips of high school football footage. If I remove from timeline and bring back they are ok. Trouble is each one has been trimmed so if I remove and bring back, must trim again.

Any ideas of what I could have done??

YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

Dec 08, 2014 19:38

GOT IT. Somehow I must have selected a number of clips and grabbed the 'output' bar and pulled them down, thereby darkening the entire clip. Whew, glad it was easy in the end.

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Dec 08, 2014 20:53

what 'output bar'?

YNLExposure

Member Location: Nevada Joined: Sep 25, 2011 18:14 Messages: 65 Offline

Dec 08, 2014 21:36

At the very top of the video portion of a clip, while on timeline, there is a horizontal line. If you left click and pull down it reduces or fades the scene to the BLACK.

Somehow I must have done this when I grabbed several clips to place on a different timeline. My mouse has developed some issues with the right button, sticking, releasing early, etc

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Dec 08, 2014 22:40

Thank you for the explanation. That horizontal line near the top of each clip is set to 100% opacity. Dragging that line down reduces the opacity. It is a clip attribute that can be adjusted. There is no documentation in the user manual on it.

Dafydd B

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Dec 09, 2014 04:07

Interesting

Dafydd

Richmond Dan

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Dec 09, 2014 15:39

"Thank you for the explanation. That horizontal line near the top of each clip is set to 100% opacity. Dragging that line down reduces the opacity. It is a clip attribute that can be adjusted. There is no documentation in the user manual on it."

Cool...who knew (and it works in PD12 also)!

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borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Dec 09, 2014 20:59

Set an opacity keyframe for a clip, via MODIFY|FADE IN, for example, and the white line will appear in that clip on the timeline.

Clicking anywhere directly on the line sets a green dot (a keyframe). Thus opacity can be modified right on the timeline by dragging the keyframe dot/s up or down.

Audio volume can be adjusted on the timeline in a like manner.