On Sunday 18 May 2003 21:46, Jason Wood wrote: > That's because I have not really got a plan at this stage :-) All I have is > a feature list of what I want to be possible : > > * It should be possible to perform a transition based upon three [...snip bright stuff..] > * Each clip involved in a transition may itself be a compound clip [...snip more bright stuff ...] > * The case of ... *EXTREMELY SIMPLE* :-) > 1. We have two separate tracks for clips, and a transition track between > them. Drag a clip to each track, slightly overlapping, and drag a > "transition clip" to the transition track. > > Advantages : Quite simple. > Disadvantages : Doesn't take into account transitions with more than two > clips.
>=3-track effects are a very interedting thing and I think we should keep them in mind, but I think a soluton thatworks with two tracks is difficult enough for the moment and will do till V1.0 ? > 2. We use a single track. Drag one clip on to it, drag another clip on and > place so that they slightly overlap. The overlapping area automatically > turns into a "transition area", which can then be selected to adjust it's > properties. > > Advantages : Simple and efficient. There is no need for a third operation > to create a transition, you simply need to overlap to clips on a track. > There is no confusion over which track is currently "live" as can happen in > AB editing (at least in Premier), since everything occurs on a single > track. > > Disadvantages : When two clips overlap completely, how do you allow > selection of the two clips again? We have compressed our timeline from two > tracks to one - is that a good thing, or more confusing? > > > There is a third solution which I am thinking of, sort of a cross between > the above two ideas, in which a transition would be 'drawn' across multiple > tracks (I envisage it as a translucent blue rectangle spanning multuiple > clips). This would have the advantage of allowing the transition to touch > multiple tracks, but might be complicated to use, I am not sure yet. I like this idea _very_ much. I think it would be pretty easy to use, and even more intuitive than the usual "effect-track". Just make sure, that the tracks and the shaded 'transition-overlay-rectangle' have nice mouse handles to select/drag/resize them. -- Cheers, Rolf *************************************************************** Rolf Dubitzky http://hep.phy.tu-dresden.de/~dubitzky e-mail: Rolf.Dubitzky at Physik dot TU-Dresden dot de ***************************************************************
