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GaryKleiner wrote on 2/7/2004, 9:21 PM
Yes, turn on shadow in Track Motion.

Gary
fixler wrote on 2/8/2004, 1:50 AM
Thanks alot, it worked perfectly. Exactly what i wanted. Just one question. Is there a way of just applying this effect to a single media than the whole track.

Thanks alot,

Nathan
MarkFoley wrote on 2/8/2004, 1:53 AM
Create a new track for the mediia piece you want the effect for....
Grazie wrote on 2/8/2004, 1:56 AM
Managing what you want and where you want it can be achieved in many ways. I'd go with putting "the" event on its own discreet track. In this way if you want to "apply" the same effect to another event, just do it to the "Shadow Track" Of course, I think, you could always just do the COpy and Paste Attributes option just to that event . . I think you can do this . .maybe not .. give it a try . .

Grazie
farss wrote on 2/8/2004, 6:30 AM
I just finished a very short piece where I had to create the illusion of cards coming from out of a splayed deck and then to the front.
Wasn't actually cards but a set of DVD covers. Anyways I thought this would be a piece of cake, the graphics guy made me shots of each one with transparent backgrounds.
Problem that stumped me for a moment was I had each object on the appropriate track so each one was covering the one below but when the came to the front they had to be in front of the other objects.

Solution was once I had all the objects moving as I wanted to duplicate the tracks onto a higher track and trim those to just contain the footage when the object was in front. Worked a treat, just when I thought I had a reason to buy Combustion!

Probably with a full 3D app I'd get it to look very convincing but then I'd have to create the objects as 3D elements.