#Video Post
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Had a question about the transitions Fade In and Fade Out in Video
Post.
The Fade In and Fade Out transitions don't seem to be linear. I
noticed this when trying to fade one FLC into another (which can
create a looping animation when the fade lasts for the entire span of
frames). –But the resulting animation gets brighter at the ends.
Tested this by fading solid gray into solid gray (100,100,100):
Video Post:
Solid Color FadeO o—————————-o
Solid Color FadeI o—————————-o
The resulting animation should be a steady solid grey, right? –Ends
up the color gets brighter towards the first and last few frames.
Which tells me that Fade In and Fade Out don't compliment each other
exactly. So when playing the animation in a loop, it seems to
pulsate.
Any way to have this happen in a linear way to get an exact fade? -Jeff
You're trying to do a fade-out over a fade-in. That's not going to be
a linear fade. To do a linear fade, just fade one layer in over
another, without fading the bottom layer out.
I tried doing a Fade In only of the second layer, and got the same result. The
source flics absolutely do not have shifting brightness to begin with.
The source flics have identical backgrounds. When fading it in over the top of
the
other, the background (and the rest) becomes slightly brighter toward the
beginning and the end of the resulting animation.
I tried doing the same thing in Animator Pro using
FLIC -> COMPOSITE -> CROSS-FADE. Didn't get the brightness shift, but the
whole thing looks too jittery because of the dithering that it's doing.
Any way to switch off the dithering in that option? Any solution to
the additive brightness problem when using Fade In in Video Post?
Thanks in advance, – Jeff
If you'd like to have someone look at the file for you, you'll have to put an
archive of the project together for Jonas or Brian to look at next week. Re
switching dithering off, you can do that with the 8-bit and 24-bit dithering
switches in the Render Options dialog.
– G