Three for One Disaster Special

wcoxe1 wrote on 12/11/2002, 8:40 PM

I am certain that I must have actually caused this myself, but for the life of me, I can't even figure out how to do it deliberately, much less accidentally. Has anyone else had this problem?

I came back in this morning to do some editing and on first looking at my video everything looked washed out. EVERYTHING.

On inspection, I found that EVERY SINGLE CLIP ON the main video track had THREE identical LEVELS entries changing Gamma. The sum result was washing out the color.

I deleted at least two of them from every clip. Most often all three. (Some clips benefitted from them, and some were put in several days ago while editing the first part of the track.)

I had put in a few level adjustments before closing down the other day, but not in EVERY clip, and certainly not three in every clip.

Any idea how this could happen?

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 12/11/2002, 10:11 PM

The most likely cause is by accident you dropped the filter over the wrong event and didn't notice. Since you brought it up, I can confirm I've seen the same thing every so often and also when I know I dropped a filter on some event for some reason the FX square goes gray... from green, however the filter effect remains. Glad someone else has seen the multiple filters, I thought I must be drinking too much coffee or something. Anyone else see this kind of thing?

TorS wrote on 12/12/2002, 2:49 AM

I've made small disasters happen because I had several tracks, and/or events selected when I thought I was working on only one. I've also had great confusion over events that remain hidden underneath other events that were dragged over them. How can you get them to appear without pulling the top event away?

Tor

Thomas wrote on 12/12/2002, 3:11 AM

TorS: How about 'Expand track layers'? This makes hidden events visible and indicates the obscured state of the event by diagonal black lines.
Thomas