Digital Workshop

I am currently tearing out what little hair I have left.
We are working on an intro page comprising of a 30 image slide show with an irregular border, each shown for 2 secs with a dissolve between each image plus a 2 minute mpeg again with an irregular border and set to render in the video properties and some additional fade up fade down text -

Having fallen foul of the multi object activity PC slow down issue before -
Particularly on slower playback machines, we have decided to output the page to video for final working in after effects.

So far so good.....

Using screen capture - the slide show and fadeup down objects are fine -but the mpeg stutters.

Using the Opus Video type or Opus DVD type - the published mpeg video is nice and smooth but the slide show is doing a cut between images
i.e. when every image is shown - it fades up from 100% transparency and then disappears prior to the next image fading up from 100% transparency.

I have tried all manner of options
I am also having a problem - although not directly relevant here and probably due to not understanding Opus interpretation of Chromakey,
If I use a video with an irregular border - I can only get it to be viewed by using the render option in the video properties.

Any help with either issue would be greatly appreciated

Pete

H E L P

Pete,

We are looking into the first part of the question re DVD and I will post as soon as I get an answer back from development.

The second part is the way Opus works - if you want fancy borders you need to use the rendered mode. This is because chromakey does not support alpha channels, as it is a single colour.


Regards

Brenden Knifton

Brenden

Many thanks for part 2 - clears that up for me
Look forward to hearing about part one soon

Regards

Pete