If you save your 'shutter' effect as a project you can combine this project to/in other projects.

For example: (This guide is found in: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15091.page)

1. Open your project #1
2. Highlight the entire project using the orange triangle markers on the blue scrubber bar. (see tutorial for details)
3. Select COPY......the copy button will appear above the timeline once you highlight it.
4. Now open Project #2...select YES when prompted to merge the media libray with the new project.
5. Move the Blue Scrubber bar to where you want the contents inserted in Project #2 and click PASTE.
6. The entire contents of Project #1 is pasted into project #2.

Of course it will be easier if you could save money, 'shutter' effect as a PiP - there was a description of how it could be done a while ago.
Unfortunately I have not bookmarked it ... I think it was ynotfish, Tony, who explained how to do that (not easy - for me, at least) PDR 14.0.4207.0 / Windows 10 64-bit / Asus / Intel i7-4790 3.60 GHz / 16GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / DirectX 12

Thanks Anja! Tony came up with a shutter effect also and shared the clip with me. I figured out how to finally post a video clip in these threads and shared with him what I came up with.

He and I used the SAME video clip off the web! lol And we both got it to 'work' to our satisfaction.

Thanks for the information. Maybe Tony will comment on this thread - hopefully.

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And I see that it is important to have the Shutter effect in a video track - like 2 or 3 or 4...etc.... that it should be in the track that is available in the new project.

When I copy it - it pastes into the SAME video numbered track! So I want to make sure that is empty in the target (new ) project.

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Haha CS -

I guess a PiP "macro" would be a template. That's what I was trying to do in the other thread... turn it into a template that could be applied in any project.

As well as Anja's copy & paste suggestion, a couiple of other ideas come to mind:

1. Simply use the original alpha channel video, which could be added to your Sample Clips folder for easy access. You can speed it up without losing the alpha channel.


2. Add the individual .png files to the Sample Clips folder then insert them & set the duration. Thereafter, just copy & paste that group where you wish.

When you copy and paste within a project, place the timeline marker then click on the track where you want to paste.

Cheers - Tony
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The Copy & Paste idea requires me to construct the 30 images into the current project each time. I was hoping to not have to do that in EACH project.

Under your number 1. suggestion - I need to google 'alpha channel video' to try to learn what that means. Does it mean if I made (produced) a short video clip of just the 30 images - closing sequence and then opening sequence of images - produce THAT into a video - Tony - you are saying I could save this in a "Sample Clips" folder - and copy THAT into a new project every time I wanted to use it?

I've searched the PD folders where the program resides in my computer and I do not see any folders named "Sample Clips" Would the saved video clip HAVE TO BE in that folder or could I just put in another folder and go there when I wanted to copy it into a new project? --- I just may try this once I figure out what an alpha channel video is.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

CS



p.s.

I've been 'producing' video clips in several of the choices that we have to produce with - the MPEG2 - WindowsMedia - AVI - and the H264. THen dragging that produced clip into the timeline and using the chroma key on that clip to get the PIP masking effect.

THere is a problem though - I am getting pixelation... is this the right term - I'm getting some distortion and pixels are showing up that aren't masked properly. Please see the png screen shot.

I've tried some of the different productions choices and Mpeg 2 simply does not function - meaning I can produce to MPEG2 but when I import it and try to use it in the timeline - nothing appears when previewed. I can use WindowsMedia but this is where I am seeing the pixelation. Can't use H264 as the clip is less than a second long(so states an error message).

It seems like any choice I make as far as producing the shutter 'clip' - it will not operate in 60fps too. The clip seems to always turen out in 30fps.

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I consider this issue closed as I've gotten satisfactory results with the following notes:

While I don't have the shutter 'transition'/effect saved like a PD transition - that is, I can't call it up within any project for use - I CAN COPY and PASTE it - copying it from a original PD project that has JUST the shutter images and the sound (after I do the copy I close that project) - and I CAN PASTE IT INTO a newly open project.

Whe I tried to do this initially, a few days ago, it didn't seem to work, thus I kept obsessing about trying ot come up with something. I tried the copy and paste this mroning though, and got what I wanted - it pasted into the new project perfectly and I do NOT AHVE TO CONSTRUCT the 30 images each time I want to use the 'effect' in any new project.

THUS I changes the subject title to Closed - etc..etc...etc...

Thanks all for your responses.

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