Insert duplicate "Object"

raygo · Post by **raygo** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:03 pm

I have a lightning bolt [from library decorations/oblects] inserted in a video clip frame for less than a second in the overlay track.
I would like to insert a 2nd bolt [same] in the same frame at exactly the same timecode so that there is 1 in the top corner and 1 at the lower corner.

It won't let me insert into the same frame unless I position it next to the original bolt on the overlay track which would be the NEXT frame..?

Unless I am doing the 2nd one wrong, can this be done? copy/paste?
and,
where can I find more similar decorations/objects to import into the library.

thanks, Tony

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:07 pm

If you want it at the same exact time, you would have to render the clip with the first bolt, then add your second bolt to the newly rendered project.

Or wait for V10 that has 6 overlay tracks

raygo · Post by **raygo** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:15 pm

so no copy/paste or any other way to do it?
Render 2x not worth it I guess..

If I saved the project normally as avi video file then opened up again would that work?

bop · Post by **bop** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:31 pm

Yes

Do NOT render to .jpeg, render to the same clip properties. avi if that is what they are, or to save more time open another new project and just import the clip you want the lightening bolts in and render that then reimport the 'bolt' clip into the original project

thad · Post by **thad** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:13 pm

raygo wrote: Render 2x not worth it I guess..

Could you cut out a small piece (5-10 sec) of the video and render it with the lightening bolt. Then add that small clip back in and add the second lightning bolt?

Thad