Creating a Parent-Child Relationship

Jim H wrote on 1/13/2008, 9:37 PM
I have several tracks that I want to keep aligned. If I use pan/crop to move them I need to make changes to each event. I tried inserting a blank track and made each track a child to it but the track moves I make on the parent have no effect on the children (like my kids).

I had the same problem with global effects but figured out that I needed to hit the little pre-post toggle arrow to make them work. I can't find a similar trick for tracking...

This must be an easy one...any help please? Thanks.

Comments

farss wrote on 1/13/2008, 10:56 PM
Event pan/crop cannot be adopted. Track motion can. Get a hold of the 3D cube.veg, probably the best example around. Should have a copy of it on your V8 disk.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 1/13/2008, 11:46 PM
Bring back Project into a NEW veg as a nested Media/Project and then use Pan/Crop from there. This will then affect ALL that Nest. This is IF you specifically require Pan/Crop functions on a multi track.

Grazie
TeetimeNC wrote on 1/14/2008, 4:08 AM
Jim, you can creat an empty track as the parent of the tracks you want to keep aligned. Then use track motion on the parent to control pan/crop for the set of child tracks.

Jerry
Jim H wrote on 1/14/2008, 6:31 AM
Jerry, I tried the emply track parent with track motion but the children do not move... as though they are not connected.

The embedded veg will not be good due to the workflow issues.
bStro wrote on 1/14/2008, 7:58 AM
When you create a parent child relationship, the parent has two track motion controls. It's own track motion and a new icon for parent motion over on the far left of the track header. The former controls just that track while the latter controls the whole "family." Make sure you're clicking the parent motion icon.

If that's what you're already doing, then something is seriously fubar. ;-)

Rob