Stills + PanCrop+1st keyframe = Previous still in preview

RichMacDonald wrote on 11/9/2003, 9:10 PM
Try this experiment:

1) Enable all snapping preferences as per usual.
2) Drop a still on a timeline.
3) Drop a 2nd still on the same timeline, and nudge it up against the 1st so there are no gaps and no overlaps. (Obviously, enable snapping helps.)
4) Select the 2nd still and open its pan/crop editor.
5) Click on the "First Keyframe" button.

What do you see in the preview window? I see the picture change from the 2nd still to the 1st still.

Try it again with video clips. This time the 2nd clip remains on the preview. IOW, the opposite behavior.

Now some might call this a bug, some might say that at the first keyframe of the 2nd still, its the 1st clip that is still visible. Whatever. I just say that it is a huge annoyance to have to develop a slide show video this way.

Can someone please confirm this issue for me? IOW, its not just me. TIA. And if you can confirm it, would you agree that the preferable behavior is for the "active" still to remain in the preview window when someone scrolls to that still's first keyframe.

Comments

jetdv wrote on 11/9/2003, 9:30 PM
Are you sure they are not overlapped?

Is the lock to timeline option turned on? (the lock next to the next/previous keyframe buttons)

You see the frame AFTER the cursor so if you were at the end of #1 and beginning of #2 you see #2 (when half the time I really want to see #1 so I have to back up a frame)

However, if there was a 1 frame overlap, you would still see #1 because the opacity of #2 would be zero at that point.
philfort wrote on 11/9/2003, 9:31 PM
Assuming the second still follows the first one, I see the 2nd one remain in the preview. So I don't see the same behaviour that you are.
RichMacDonald wrote on 11/9/2003, 10:26 PM
From philfort:

>So I don't see the same behaviour that you are.

Fantastic. Better than me being right on this one :-)

From jetdv:

>Are you sure they are not overlapped?

How can I be sure? I zoom into a frame by frame view and see no overlap.

>Is the lock to timeline option turned on? (the lock next to the next/previous keyframe buttons)

Yes it is.

>You see the frame AFTER the cursor

Good to know that.

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Bingo. "Quantize to frames" was turned off. I turned it back on and everything worked as it should.

Thanks guys.