Frustrated in the Timeline

NCjim · Post by **NCjim** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:07 pm

VS 10+

After many hours/days of reading and looking at some excellent tutorials and playing in the timeline, I've ended up with exactly 0 seconds of useable material. The workings of my engineer brain apparently does not sync with the software developers. Maybe it's that left/right brain thing again.

Here's what I want to do and seems so simple and intuitive that I'm amazed I can't get things where I want.

I don't necessarily have all these effects transistions but I want to make the example worse case. (I still don't understand why you can ONLY lay a transition on the main video track?)

I have a master music video V1
I have 3 images I1,I2,I3
I have a video clip V2

I want to leadin with the base V1 track
5 seconds in I fade V1 to I1
5 seconds later I fade I1 to I2
5 seconds later I fade I2 to V2
5 seconds later I fade V2 to I3
5 seconds later I fade I3 back to the base V1

I know I could probably string and cut this all on one track but I would
much prefer to have the flexibility to slide/drag left/right each of the overlaying segments of I1,I2,I3,V2 and set the transistion points to different or changing beats/images of the base V1 track. I prefer to leave the base V1 track completely unmolested.

For the life of me I can't set up this seemingly simple layup. Can anybody give a hint onwhat I'm doing wrong?

Lastly is there a way to show the transistions on a seperate track in the timeline that allows me to just drag its front/trailing edges?

joosuna · Post by **joosuna** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:25 pm

NCjim..so far just about every thing you have described is possible. To answer the last bottom question first. The transitions are only in the main video track. The transitions can be lengthened or shorten and other attributes changed.

You lay the V1 video on the main track. All the other inserts of music and images can be manipulated by inserting them in their respective tracks.
For instance the images can be insert at the appropriate location in the second video track. You can manipulate the images to fade in and out and as to their size. The music inserts can go into the music or voice tracks at the point you want them to start. The music inserts can be faded in and out.

It takes a bit of studying your manual to know about how to manipulate the different attributes of the stuff you put in the tracks.

Have fun with the editing process. It is tedious at times, but worth it.
regards
Joe

NCjim · Post by **NCjim** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:33 pm

"inserts can be faded in and out. "

Ahhh... The unknown piece of info.

Didn't know that tab existed. Did more in the last 10 mins then in the last 10 or so hours.

No manual. Bought on web. Probably a big mistake. Didn't know that it had a nice manual. Apparently I paid the same price for a download as one with a nice manual.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:42 pm

You can download the manual from here: http://www.ulead.com/vs/documents.htm It isn't included in the download version for space reasons.