Well, after reading what I wrote below about "bitter experience telling me that programs don't just go nuts," I decided that, having more or less eliminated the impossible, whatever was left must be the truth: and so I dug into the effects control and timeline and by golly, there it was: a key frame. Right at the point where the effect "went nuts."
Now that I've discovered my self-made problem :-) I might as well try to analyze it and learn something out of it. I'm wondering: I thought I had disabled keyframes. But somehow I hadn't. So am I wrong in thinking that keyframes, even if they're there, can be disabled? Also, the mystery remains for me at least: I thought key frames created a gradual effect. But at exactly that point, the PIP flips instantly. Finally, an interesting point about how this came about in the first place: Since the rendering of the PIP effect on my computer takes over 24 hours, I wanted to make sure I had it right before launching it. So I put 4 photos on 4 tracks to test it out first. When I had confirmed that it was correct, I used Copy / Paste Attributes to transfer the effect. And this is what happened: suppose the photo clip lasted 5 seconds, and the destination clip lasted longer. When I pasted the attributes, a key frame would appear at 5 seconds in the longer clip. Whereas I would have expected it to transfer the entire effect to the entire clip. And so what happened was clearly that this key frame stayed in there without me noticing it. So now I'm wondering, was/is it possible to transfer the entire effect from one to another, avoiding this keyframe insertion phenomenon? In any case, I hope this discussion of my little problem might help somebody else sometime. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Favaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adobe Premiere List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:54 AM Subject: PIP changes > I'm using Premiere 6.5. > > I taped a theater piece with 4 cameras. Then, in order to set up for > editing, I did a straightforward PIP using the transform effect - > following pretty much exactly the instructions of the Wrigley tutorial. (I > used this before with 3 cameras and it worked perfectly.) > > So the four pictures are in the 4 quadrants. Then I took a look. > Everything is fine until about 57 minutes into the video. Then suddenly, > the picture in the upper left hand quadrant "invades" the lower left hand > quadrant, so that the whole left hand side is taken by what was the upper > left hand quadrant before. This continues until that particular camera > finishes, and then the lower left hand quadrant reappears, with black > space in the upper left hand quadrant, like it should be. > > So I'm trying to figure out what happened. The first thing that comes to > mind, of course, is that somehow I accidentally put in key frames. Well, > I'm pretty sure that I have them turned off -- and even if I *did* have > them accidentally on, I don't think it would behave that way: I think the > switch would be gradual, and this is quite sudden. It seems to be > happening only on that camera, because as I said, when that camera > finishes, the lower left one "shines through" again and is correct. > > This appears to me that Premiere suddenly "went nuts" at that point and > calculated wrong. But of course experience tells me that programs don't > just "go nuts" that often, so it's worth trying to think about what might > have happened other than Premiere simply "going nuts". > > Anybody ever seen anything like this before? > > Thanks, > > John > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
