help with snapping video

pdog123 wrote on 12/6/2007, 4:45 PM

whenever i put a media generator onto the timeline, i try to make it it longer and a weird dip is made... its like its starting the title over or sumthin... is ther a way i can jus get a smooth long title without these dips.. i think their called fade handles?

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Eugenia wrote on 12/6/2007, 4:54 PM

Place the mouse cursor on the left and right upper edges of the clip in the timeline and drag.

Chienworks wrote on 12/6/2007, 5:17 PM

Nope, not fade handles. Those little marks do indeed show where the clip starts over again. If your title is static and unchanging then it doesn't matter in the slightest. If you have keyframes to make your title change over time then you have a couple of options. First the easy one ...

Hold the Ctrl key down while you drag out the right edge of the event. This will stretch it instead of just lengthening it. You can make it run up to 4 times longer, 1/4 the speed this way.

The slightly more difficult, but more capable method is to change the event length field in the center top of the media generator window. set that length to however long you want the event to last. If you've already set keyframes you'll have to move them as well. Now that little white dip thingie will occur at that point. You'll still have to drag (not Ctrl-drag) the end of the event out to match, but the duration before the event repeats will be whatever length you specified.

MSmart wrote on 12/6/2007, 6:26 PM

change the event length field in the center top of the media generator window. set that length to however long you want the event to last.

I think that's what pdog was looking for.