Is there an easy way to animate an entire video wall? I currently have all of the videos as tracks in a track group. I'm thinking maybe just animating the whole wall slowly up or something. It would be a pain to have to timeline every clip. Can I put a track above the group and make the group a child of the track or something?
Thanks..
JJ
Yes, just create a master (= "Parent") track above by turning the other tracks below into child tracks. Then animate the master via "Parent-Motion".
Yes, just create a master (= "Parent") track above by turning the other tracks below into child tracks. Then animate the master via "Parent-Motion".
It wasn't obvious, to me, but parent/child is referencing Compositing Parent and Compositing Child.
It also took me a bit to figure out that I had to select all the tracks I wanted to be child and then assign child.
I did the first child, and it went as expected.
When I went to do the second child, it made it a child of a different track (track above the one I wanted to be the parent).
But, it is working appropriately.
JJ
As a secondary, yet topically-related point...
I was thinking about making random videos "pop out", by making them a little bigger and "above" the others. I'm talking about the z axis. Different clips would go from normal to bigger and back to normal.
Conceptually, I could duplicate all the clips to a new top track and keyframe that. That seems like a lot of work, though. Is there a way to automate the z axis or track order?
JJ
"I was thinking about making random videos "pop out", by making them a little bigger and "above" the others."
That is similar to what I'm talking about although not as dramatic. The question is, how? Is my concept the only way or is there a more efficient method?
JJ
I work for free so efficiency is not a consideration.
I used a combination of Pan/Crop in a nested project for each picture (or video) and Track Motion in the main project to move the picture (or video) from its position on the background to full screen. Maybe you'll get some ideas from this...
I work for free so efficiency is not a consideration.
I'm the same way, that's why I didn't buy a video wall thing. I don't make any money on the stuff that I do. I just like to keep my chops sharp.
JJ
I used a combination of Pan/Crop in a nested project for each picture (or video) and Track Motion in the main project to move the picture (or video) from its position on the background to full screen. Maybe you'll get some ideas from this...
Ok, so I see that you have your nested projects staggered so that each item is "on top", but how do you have them all displayed at the same time?
Do you have another track (not visible in the video) that has all of them and stretched to the full length of your staggered tracks?
If that's the case, it's basically like I initially thought.
JJ
In this case, the bottom track is a made up of successive screenshots of all the photos. While a photo is moving into the foreground, its location in the background is blacked out. (Easy enough to do in Photoshop.)
It could all be running video, but as you’ve learned, it would tax any machine.
In this case, the bottom track is a made up of successive screenshots of all the photos. While a photo is moving into the foreground, its location in the background is blacked out. (Easy enough to do in Photoshop.)
It could all be running video, but as you’ve learned, it would tax any machine.
Ok, so it is similar in concept to what I was thinking.
Thanks for the videos
JJ