Ahhh.....the NewBlue stuff

1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

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Dec 28, 2014 14:50

Surely I must have overlooked something ( a bit tired).
Not very fond of all kinds of effects, but right now I sort of have to use NB spotlight.
7-8 tracks where I would need it.
Keyframing, but hoping to use 1 or 2 keyframe sets twice.
Funny thing: I copy keyframe attributes.......but when pasting, the item (image) is moved to replace
another item! ( Which I by the way just had finished keyframing.)
Is this right? Can you not copy a NB keyframe set from one clip to another???

Can't be the case. A tip, please.....

Nina
Just something.
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Dec 28, 2014 16:20

Hi Nina -

Copy/paste keyframe attributes with NB Spotlight seems to be working correctly here... with images & video clips.

I set the basic parameters then keyframed position & size. Copy/paste keyframe attributes gave me the same result on each clip/image I applied it to.

Are your photos the same proportions? If not it can really mess things up when the KF attributes are pasted.

Cheers - Tony
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1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

Dec 28, 2014 16:43

Hi Tony,

I'm glad it works as I would (really!) expect it to down at yours.
Well no. Not the same proportions in respect of exact size. The originals are, but I have
rotated here and there. The pngs are all triangles, but - I resized and rotated.
Hopefully- that's what makes it odd, the copying and pasting.

Still.....a set of keyframes is a set of keyframes.....hm...

I have just finished keyframing 11 editions (on 11 tracks) of the same triangle - colored differently.
I'm going for the rectangles tomorrow (...I'm ok up here, don't worry : )
Let's see if PD will respond differently on a new day.

Nina

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Dec 28, 2014 18:14

Nina -

You possibly already do this when using copy/paste keyframes with images, so just ignore this if you do.

When I'm doing bulk things, I plant the multi-sized, multi-proportioned objects on a transparent base... that way the keyframes apply to the same sized/proportioned object.

Examples attached - Tony

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