New Sony Rays FX

megabit wrote on 6/29/2009, 4:18 AM

Not only is this V9's FX using an "alien" UI and Help; what it lacks is the "Reset to None" preset.....

So, when time-keying it, I need the rays to disappear - leaving the untouched source - I'm trying all the sliders to move where my intuition guides me, but have been unsuccessful so far.

I'd like to know all those sliders and options settings positions to give me the absolutely "None" effect, and save it as my own "Reset to None" preset !

Anyone?

Comments

Rory Cooper wrote on 6/29/2009, 7:39 AM

100 percent on threshold and 100 on amount does it

megabit wrote on 6/29/2009, 9:14 AM

No it doesn't (unless I'm missing something) :)

Jøran Toresen wrote on 6/29/2009, 9:34 AM

I think you must set the Amount to 0.

Jøran

Chienworks wrote on 6/29/2009, 10:01 AM

When you first add the effect is it 'neutralized'? If so, set the last keyframe first, before changing anything else. I do that with a lot of effects that i want to have gradually fade to nothing.

megabit wrote on 6/29/2009, 11:00 AM

The problem is when I drop the FX on an event for the first time, even before I touch the controls the rays appear - so the default settings are not those for "No effect".

Jay Gladwell wrote on 6/29/2009, 11:53 AM

You should be able to slide the "Threshold" slider all the way to the right and the "Amount" slider all the way to the left to get "No effect."

Works for me.

Jøran Toresen wrote on 6/29/2009, 12:50 PM

Yes, I tried to tell him this before: amaunt = 0, treshold = 100.

Jøran

megabit wrote on 6/29/2009, 1:26 PM

Thanks gyus; amount = 0 & treshold = 100 resets the effect.

SuperG wrote on 6/29/2009, 1:28 PM

I thought I was the only one who noticed the 'alien' controls in the New FX. Not too happy with that, although I'll use them. It reminds me too much of ProType - and the thirty minute delay between clicking on a control and the screen actually updating it. This is one of the areas I hope Sony is giving some hard thought to.

MS got spanked over Vista's performance issues and so now they're trying to make nicey nice with Windows 7. Never go with something just because MS is pushing it - better to wait and see - remember Silverlight - not that long ago, and it's like a dead cat now. The road is littered with MS technological dead cats.

farss wrote on 6/29/2009, 2:46 PM

"remember Silverlight - not that long ago, and it's like a dead cat now"

You think?

It's been a bit of a sleeper for certain but just lately the number of people talking about it is growing substantially. We've been working with a large French telco who are putting a lot of R&D into Silverlight. They pretty regularly fly a crew from France down here to feed live events through their networks to millions of viewers globally. Silverlight could have the potential to pose a serious challenge to OTA broadcasting in the future.

Bob.

SuperG wrote on 6/29/2009, 9:43 PM

"Silverlight could have the potential to pose a serious challenge to OTA broadcasting in the future."

I think it's mainly an issue of compatibility. In a web context - Silverlight isn't going to do anything Flash doesn't already, at least w/o breaking neutraility and doing something proprietary or windows only. And that'll cost them adoption in that sphere. From a windows-only standpoint though, they'll be able to do some neat stuff.