Transitions & FX affect letterbox bars?

ghost072 wrote on 8/25/2004, 8:00 AM

Is there a way to stop transitions (like Flash) and FX from affecting the letterbox bars of a project? The only way I have found is to use a mask on a separate video track, but it seems strange that the bars would be affected by these operations. Isn't that screen real estate supposed to be "off limits?"

Comments

stormstereo wrote on 8/25/2004, 8:54 AM

It depends on how you've produced the letterbox bars. Are they a still picture on the top track? Need more info.
Best/Tommy

ghost072 wrote on 8/25/2004, 10:55 AM

Sorry, that would help, wouldn't it? I usually just use Pan/Crop, but this allows the FX/transitions to affect the bars. If I place a mask on a separate track, the bars stay unaffected, but that seems like an ackward workflow.

Former user wrote on 8/25/2004, 10:58 AM

If you are not doing tru 16 x9, but instead are just cropping the picture, then the whole 4 x 3 area is active video.

Use a mask on the top layer of video only (create a video track just for a mask, no video) and then all effects will be treated the same as the video.

Dave T2