MSP8: Applying transitions to titles etc.

[Devil]

One remark that has been mentioned in a few forums is that it's a pity that transitions can't be applied to titles or other stand-alone tracks.

They can.

Here's how:
1. I'll assume your background video is in V1 and your title (or whatever) is in V2.
2. Put a black colour clip in V3, the same length as your title
3. Apply a black luma overlay to your colour clip to render it transparent
4. Drag it down from V3 to V2: if you have automatic transitions checked, it will form a transition that can be changed from your default to whichever one you want.
5. By adding keyframes and playing with the transition degree slider in Effects Manager, the possible transition effects are almost endless, perhaps some more than others.

I've tried this with a number of transitions, including Turn Page and other page curls, which seem to be popular ones.

[-Raptor-]

Sorry Brian but it's not the same effect..

See Matrox Rtx.100 tutorial:
http://www.matrox.com/video/support/rtx ... e/home.cfm

And see the screenshot obtained using your workaround..

Screenshot



As you can see MSP 8 will use the background track on V1 in the the transition
It's a strange (and a bit not logical..) behaviour.. At the beginning I'd think it was a bug..

Another workaround with better result.. but far from Rtx.100 style:

- Background Video on V1 in the main timeline
- Create a new timeline: insert in V1 the title and in V2 a black color clip. Use the same method described by Brian
- Insert the nested timeline on the main timeline as Virtual clip (Virtual Clip and Nested timeline are AMAZING )
- Apply Overlay -> Luma Channel and play with the Opacity Slider..


I hope that.. someone like Stefan Burger (Burgertransition creator) will develope a video filter similar to the Rtx.100 one..

Another solution.. (but you have to pay for it..) is Canopus Xlpode that works as plugin for MSP and have this capabilities..

[Terry Stetler]

As both an RT.X100 and MSPro user I agree with Raptor, it's not the same as the RT.X100 transition-as-video-filter effect.

I'll go futher and state that Ulead should strongly consider this for inclusion in a service pack. It really is that useful.

[Devil]

OK, thanks. I've never seen the Matrox RT.Xn effect, so I had no metre stick by which to measure it. However, Raptor's method of using a 2nd timeline is also interesting. At the least, these methods widen the scope of effects for titles by using transitions as pseudo-filters, even if they do not simulate those produced by other manufacturers.

I agree that it would be nice to be able to use the transitions directly on titles: maybe in the future?

[Terry Stetler]

I didn't bother to delace it first, but here's an example of an RT.X100 transition-as-filter;



This can also be done with curls, builds, DVE's etc. etc. Very handy.

Can you even imagine if Matrox had taken up Uleads inquiry about producing an MSPro RT.X100 driver set years ago?