Messages posted by Mamakin4

Yeah!! Thanks, Tony, and everybody else who babied me through this. You're right....the black backgrounds were blocking the vid so I guess they're not truly PE after all, eh? Unless you remove the background. Great instructions and screen shots to help me along.

Thank you as well for the links. PDTOOTS are my most favorite tutorials and I will definitely learn the screen shots etc.

Again, thanks for all the patience and help.

Grateful in Maine

Melissa and my Moon video

You guyz are great....it must have something to do with 4:3 and 16:9 settings (although neither will let my moon video appear IN the galaxy stars PE. Would send screen shots but dont know how. Basically, I have mirrored your setup and get different results.

I think this because when I change/stretch vid, then can't see anything (as if it were BELOW the PE)

EXCEPT, and I find this to be odd......I tried some other PE. Balloons float up quite nicely through my moon viceo....so too some other things that are mostly on transparency. But a "bubbles" PE with a black background, like the dark background of the stars PE, will not perform like the balloons.

Sorry for the trouble with this and I do appreciate your help. I've had my PE and vid in the 3 permutations you sent.....with vid in track one and PE below it, balloons do well but not black background bubbles (either see the bubbles, like the starz, in the extra black bars on either side (that ration thing) or, if I stretch vid out to fit 16:9 PE---can't see anything at all.

Feels like it's time to start fresh: delete what I've got from timelines and give it another go. If anything strikes you as "aha! That's what is going on," please let me know. Otherwise, I feel pretty silly taking up your time.

Again, thank you so much for your screen shots and the help from everybody.

Melissa from a crazy, wicked, record breaking hot Maine

Thanks for the reply....it makes more sense for effects to be lower, but received this reply on another thread:

When you put a video/ particle effect etc. in a higher number track the lower numbers wont show. Unless you either resize the item on the higher track or lower the opacity so it's partially see through. You can also use a mask.
All of these items are available in the PIP editor which you can acses by clicking on the clip then clicking modify.

I interpreted this to mean "move the PE to the first track which is not user intuitive but did so. And this is where it is when I can only see the PE on left and right side of the viewer.

When PE is in the track below the video, I can't see video at all! It's as if the PE is its own video.

Don't think I put mask on anything.......just assumed that after I dragged the lovely PE universe to the track, that it would add the effects to my rotating moon video. Instead, it covers it up.

Ideas? Thanks SOOO much. This has taken two days of trying to figure it out. Time certainly flies when you get into editing, eh?

Thanks again,
Melissa

Particle Effect in track 1, video in track 2: when playing, only see PE on right and left side of video, which shows up in a square in the middle. What happened to little roses just falling over the vid? Why does vid only show in middle and effects on either side of it?

Thanks to previous help, I now know that PE needs to be ABOVE the vid....it is. Same problem.

Ideas?

Thanks much

Melissa

Yes, did search in forums and tutorials and utube. Sorry 'bout the mixed questions. Should I repost JUST the basic PE question?

Thanks for quick reply. Bummer about not being able to lengthen inserted clip.

Moved main vid to track 2 and the downloaded universe/stars PE to track 1. Can see PE only on left and right edges while main vid (a moon that rotates and then leaves screen)appears in the square in the center. Experimented with little floating hearts, remembered in PD 8 they just float down over vid. Not now: only see the hearts on left/right edges of viewer. Ideas?

Thanks again

Lots 'o trouble getting hang of PD 9. Want to use particle effect (universe and twinkling stars) as background for first part of video.....but insert into vid track 2 and "it" becomes the only vid I can see. Understand that PE effect vids/pics above its track but can't figure out how to "see" vid in first track.

Also, I recall other versions allowing me to lengthen vid clip already in track by just dragging end.... and other vids after it just move over. Having trouble doing this except for moving it to another track, expanding it, dragging back to original track and choosing insert. Seems like a rather complicated workaround.

I've watched at least 50 tutorial on PD 9....many very, very helpful. Have also printed and read ENTIRE manual (eeks!) and searched/read forums. Hoping that with practice, the new features i.e. added key frame stuff, will become clearer.

I'm sure the answer is like that can of soup in the store that is right in front of you but you can't see it.

Can you tell me how to use a PE in track 2 and still be able to see the video behind it in track 1? And can I lengthen an already inserted vid just by dragging the end, with everything to the right of it just moving over?[i]

Thanks as always,

Melissa in Maine
PS: Didn't list out computer/graphic specs as new Toshiba laptop has had no trouble with PD 9 performance. Will if you want me too. Thanks again.