Moving blocks effect

bkersh1 · Post by **bkersh1** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:10 am

I must have followed the tutorial on "Moving Blocks" 3-4 times, step-by-step and for whatever reason it doesn't seem to work properly. In VS 11, is anyone else running into this problem as well?

Post by **jparnold** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:03 pm

Which tutorial are you talking about? The one named Moving a clip around the screen?

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:22 pm

If your referring to takeoneflix.com's tutorial, he omitted one very important step. You must add transparency, to each clip in the overlay tracks.

1. Click on the Attribute tab.
2. Click on Mask & Chroma Key
3. Check Apply Overlay options
4. For Type, choose Chroma Key
5. Similarity (color) choose Black, and 0.

Now it should work. I don't know why he has not corrected this. I brought it to his attention some time ago..

bkersh1 · Post by **bkersh1** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:37 pm

Ron - Thank you very much for the help. I am using takeoneflix and there have been a couple of things i think he has left out. Your advice which i appreciate seems to correct part of my problem. I still must be doing something wrong. When the blocks come together they dont form in the center of the screen and its a very small block. Any suggestions? Thanks

Bruce

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:11 pm

The moving blocks tutorial, uses the video clips on the overlay tracks. For that type of an effect, the clips are not resized to fit the screen. This is so the clips appear to be small blocks, moving onto and off the screen.

However if you choose, you certainly can resize all the clips to Fit to Screen, or however large or small you would like. If you right-click on a clip in the overlay track, and select Fit to Screen, and apply the steps in the tutorial, it would appear as if you have 4 pieces of your video coming together. When they meet, you have the appearance of a single clip.

If they are not forming in the center, you must have moved them. The default for a clip is anchored to the center. However to correct this, with your clip selected, right-click on it in the preview window and from the menu choose Anchor at Center>Center.

Does that help achieve what you're wanting?

Edited

After reading what I had posted, I decided to recreate it, resizing the clips to Fit to Screen. When viewing that, I realized that what that does is create the transition effect Cross-Wipe, that VS has already provided as a preset.