The FlipII transition in PD17 appears to be the same as PD14 with no way to modify its thickness. I did not see any other standard similar flip transitions that one could modify the brick effect.

Jeff

Quote The FlipII transition in PD17 appears to be the same as PD14 with no way to modify its thickness. I did not see any other standard similar flip transitions that one could modify the brick effect.

Jeff

Thanks for that Jeff.

Here is the Superman clip showing the thin rectangle flipping through space.
Go to the last 30 seconds or so to see the effect.
Hollywood could do this in 1978.
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G'day Phil -

I haven't checked out the suggestions Barry made about NBFX, but I do have a couple of thoughts...

The simplest thing would be to use a 3D-Like title template, where you just type one character to make a letter, then use an image as the texture. That's the drawback - it only works for image - not video.

For the attached packed project example, I typed Alt+220 (with Num Lock on) to make the rectangle. In each case I set the extrusion value to 1, so it's not chunky like the FlipII transition.

If it had to be a video, rather than an image, it could be keyframed using free-form to get that spinning-off-into-the-distance effect... but it'd take a bit of work!

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Quote G'day Phil -

I haven't checked out the suggestions Barry made about NBFX, but I do have a couple of thoughts...

The simplest thing would be to use a 3D-Like title template, where you just type one character to make a letter, then use an image as the texture. That's the drawback - it only works for image - not video.

For the attached packed project example, I typed Alt+220 (with Num Lock on) to make the rectangle. In each case I set the extrusion value to 1, so it's not chunky like the FlipII transition.

If it had to be a video, rather than an image, it could be keyframed using free-form to get that spinning-off-into-the-distance effect... but it'd take a bit of work!

Cheers - Tony

Thanks Tony, but after downloading it it would not play saying it was made on a newer version than I have.

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Whoops! Neglected to read you opening statement (& signature).

Try the one attached, made in PDR14.

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Quote Whoops! Neglected to read you opening statement (& signature).

Try the one attached, made in PDR14.

Cheers - Tony

Thanks Tony, yes that works for me!

The thing about the movement of the FlipII transition is that it transforms the full-screen video onto the smaller rectange as it flips across the screen against a black background and then takes up the whole screen again.
You can use it as a transition between two clips or just as a quite spectacular addition to a clip. ie the video just continues on the spinning/flipping rectangle and then fills the screen with that same clip.

Either way the effect of the movement is seen as a continuation of the video from left to right as it were.

Thanks again,

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