Length of video effect

videoguy411 wrote on 6/12/2004, 12:04 AM
Hey,

I am using the demo version of screenblast movie studio to get a feel of the program. What my problem is is when I apply a video effect, it happens to the whole video file. I want to take a section of a video and add an effect, not have the effect applied to the whole clip. How can I go about doing this?

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IanG wrote on 6/12/2004, 12:22 AM
You can split the video so that it's in 3 sections - the first bit that doesn't have the effect(s), the second that does, and the last that doesn't.

Ian G.
videoguy411 wrote on 6/12/2004, 12:24 AM
See, that is what I don't want to do. That takes too much time.
IanG wrote on 6/12/2004, 5:37 AM
OK, but you'll have to set in and out points no matter how you do it - did you have anything in mind?
Chienworks wrote on 6/12/2004, 6:15 AM
Can you describe a process (make one up, don't limit your description to what may or may not exist in Movie Studio) that is simpler and faster than clicking the start point, pressing S, clicking the end point, pressing S, and then applying the effect to the middle section? That seems darned fast to me. I can't really think of any way to speed that up. Even with Vegas' keyframes you still have to location the start & end points and then add keyframes at those points. Seems about the same either way.
videoguy411 wrote on 6/12/2004, 8:39 AM
Ok, I guess I'm haveing trouble... I can not seem to set start and end points. When I devidied up my video it was very hard to line it up exactly to make it run as one. That is why I wanted to know if there is a way to take a section of ONE clip and apply an effect to a part of it. Say I have a clip of the sun rising. I want to add a glow to the sun. After a few seconds the camera cuts to an actors face. I want the effect to end before the camera cuts. Make sense?
JamesMessick wrote on 6/14/2004, 9:20 AM
Maybe you're not 'getting' it. Load the video clip, as one long video. Then click on the timeline where you'd like the effect to begin. Hit the 'S' key to split the video into two clips. When you play, they'll play continuously with no interruption, unless you move them. The click on the timeline where you want the effect to stop, and split this section into two clips. Now just apply the effect to the middle clip by dragging the effect onto the clip. Splitting the video takes almost no time at all, and is something you'll be doing very frequently anyway with video editing. Does this help?
videoguy411 wrote on 6/17/2004, 9:10 PM
Yes, that helped. thanks!