hey all.

have a question that is one of the easiest tricks on earth and I cant get it to work.  I have a black and white clip thats basically a box pattern that wipes to full screen.  I would like to use this clip as the transition between 2 pieces of video.  How the the hell do I set this up?  anyone?

v1 is your background layer, v2 is the fill layer, put your B/W Hole cutter on V3 and apply a matte Key effect.

Depending on your B/W orientation, you may have to invert the key in the effect editor.

Since DS doesn't have the same matte key effect as MC you would not set this up the same way. You need this setup.

V1 - Clip you're transitioning to.

V2 - Clip you're transitioning from

v3 - Black and white matte used for alpha.

1. Select clip on V3 and cut to clipboard.

2. Select clip on V2 and create a composite container.

3. In composite container you will have 1 video track(Right monitor) and 1 corresponding layer(Left monitor). Right click on timeline ribbon and create new video track.

4. Paste black and white matte clip on new track and place at the end of the timeline to match the end of the other clip on track 1

5. On the layer for track 1(left monitor) there are two squares, one is the rgb(fill) for the clip, the other is the alpha(currently fully white). Drag the track jewel for track 2 to the alpha square on the layer for track 1.

6. Step out of the container and your container on v2 will wipe to reveal V1.

It sounds much more complicated than it is. Once you do it a couple of times it is pretty quick to create.

Michael

Wow, I completely missed the fact that I was posting this in the DS forum.

Hey bro,

     First off, thanks for the help.  I'm for the most part self taught on the Nitris suite here and hit a real wall with this task.  I had a question for you and maybe I'm just not using the same term.  What is the clipboard as referred to on the first step?  Cut to clipboard?  Everything else is familiar to me except that step.  Any help would be great, and thanks again!!

Aaron

Aaron, it's Control-X on your keyboard.

Michael