Takes Ermmmmmm???

badgerballs wrote on 6/10/2005, 12:15 PM

Can someone run these takes by me please as thge manual is as clear as mud.
When your movie is captured it creates a series of events (chapters). (If you don't select to do it without chapters)
Am I right in saying that an event is a movie clip and a take is a chapter?

I am confused because in the manual it say's "right click and drag files to timeline" (great no problem) then before your drop select placement option i.e. "Add as Takes" etc;. It says at this stage blah blah "The other events are listed as takes beneath the top-most event" CONFUSED.
I cannot see the other events only the top-most one.
Could someone explain this as I seem to be missing the point here.

regards

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jimmyz wrote on 6/11/2005, 1:42 AM

takes is if you have shot the same event over again
as in take 1, take 2 etc. It's so you can cycle through and select your favorite take. When you drag your clips to the timeline just put where you want them with top track taking precedence. Left click and drag.

Elmo27376 wrote on 6/11/2005, 7:45 AM

I cannot see the other events only the top-most one.
Could someone explain this as I seem to be missing the point here.

In reply to your last comment:
The top track (Video Overlay) has precidence over the Video track and has uses for, for instance, adding a title over the clip below it. You can demonstrate this by selecting Text and Backdrops then select Text. Now drag the Sample Text frame (the one on the gray squares) to the timeline Video Overlay track above where you have a video clip on the Video track. You will see the "Sample Text" superimposed over the video clip in the preview window. This gives you the idea of some of the use of the track.

Now, to make some use of the track: let's say you have a long clip of someone explaining a proceedure. You don't want to interupt the dialog but you do want to, briefly, show what the person in talking about. Add a clip of the thing the person is talking about to the Video Overlay track. When you play the scene the talker is first shown, the dialog continues and the thing they are talking about shows then the scene cuts back to the person.

Another example: If, for instance you want to overlay a graphic on a clip. Produce the graphic in a paint program, save it as a "transparent" .gif file. Then drag the graphic to the Video Overlay track above a video clip.The graphic will show on the clip below.

Last example: I wanted a still of some people to show as a ghost image over a clip. I cut the people out (I use Adobe PhotoShop Elements). Placed them on a transparent background and saved them as "Transparent" .gif. When I placed them on the timeline above a clip I made the people semi transparent to appear as ghosts. Once a clip is on the timeline you can change its transparancy by placing the mouse curson at the top of the frame and drag toward the bottom of the frame. You can see the result in the preview window.

I hope this helps

IanG wrote on 6/11/2005, 3:01 PM

To add takes you select the takes (clips) you want from the media pool and then right click and drag to the place you want them on the time line, as a single event. Right clicking on the event allows you to select which take you want to use.

Ian G.

gogiants wrote on 6/11/2005, 3:27 PM

All of the things mentioned by Elmo27376 would be accomplished using multiple tracks, not by using multiple takes.

Takes would be used if you were trying to decide between two different media files for use in the exact same span of time on the same track. I sometimes use it if I'm trying to decide between two different still shots for a given small segment. Only the "active" take is displayed, and only the "active" take is used when generating the movie.