Question: Instance files

[GreatDay]

Can someone please tell me how to preserve the transparent overlay quality of instance files. I am using a title template and attempting to create an instance file to use over a variety of video clips. Each time I create a sub project and then an instance file, the original transparent area that should reveal video is black and the overlay box is disabled. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[KiloWatkins]

Once I make a title, drag it back down into a folder I made in Titles. I've several client or project folders. Then I put it back on the timeline. I'll test the subproject to see if I can get the same as you.

[GreatDay]

thanks

[billmi]

Subprojects do not support transparency.

I also do just as Kilo suggested. Make an instance of the title itself. Just eliminate the step of making it into a subproject, and you're fine.

[GreatDay]

Well, it's still not working. This particular instance file is multilayered with music, a title template, two other title pages and three jpgs. I highlighted, named it in selected clip properties and then tried to drag all the highlighted area into a folder and all I got was each individual element, not what I guess is supposed to be an instance file. Where am I wrong here. BTW, I really appreciate your help on this folks.

[ScorpioProd]

No, he means you need to create a separate instance of EACH of the title pages.

There is no way to directly do what you want. Subprojects do NOT support alpha channel and you can't create an instance of a group of clips without them being in a subproject. You must create the element instances separately.

This is just a limitation of what subprojects can do.

[billmi]

So it's multiple instances you want.

You can still do that as, though it's not as elegant as if subrpojects had transparency.

Wrap up the elements you are going to copy into a subproject, and save an instance of that subproject as you did before.

Then bring that instance into the timeline and position it where you are going to use it - it will not allow transparency, but get it positioned anyhow.

Right click on the subproject and select "expand subproject." This will un-wrap the individual media items (sound clips, CG pages, etc.) from the subproject. Once they aren't in a subproject anymore, the transparency problem isn't an issue anymore.

[GreatDay]

Yes, Indeed. Thanks so much. Works great now. I experimented billmi with the process you instructed but drilled into subproject instead of expanding. I love expanding!!
Thanks again.

[Quiet1onTheSet]

... I experimented billmi with the process you instructed but drilled into subproject instead of expanding. I love expanding!!
Thanks again.
OK. glad you got taken care of, GreatDay.

Now my curiosity is piqued again!
I got what "Open Subproject" means, but "Drill Into Subproject? What is it, and what is its advantage over "open..."?

This one, Billmi, escapes me, as did Cip Properties Panel's "OFFSET" earlier!

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[GreatDay]

According to the manual, when one drills into a subproject, "you limit the story board to show only the scenes contained in the subproject". Also, "drilling is the same as moving around a file directory: think of each subproject as a folder within a folder".
Anyway, expanding got me where I wanted to be.

[Quiet1onTheSet]

According to the manual, when one drills into a subproject, "you limit the story board to show only the scenes contained in the subproject". Also, "drilling is the same as moving around a file directory...Alrighty then! Thanks for that, GreatDay.

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[billmi]

Yep, that's exactly it.

If you think of the subproject as a folder, drilling in is looking and being able to make changes inside the folder, while expanding is taking the items out of the folder and throwing the folder away.

[Dufusyte]

Expanding eliminates the "Subproject" wrapper and just leaves you with the clips themselves.

Drilling in allows you to work with the clips inside a Subproject while not eliminating the Subproject wrapper.

[Quiet1onTheSet]

Ah, GreatDay, Billmi and Dufusyte -- thanks for clearing that up for me.

Now, if I were so gifted to communicate in such deliberate, descriptive and yet easy-to-grasp terms...

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:rolleyes:

[ScorpioProd]

Now if only subprojects could support alpha channel, imagine how much easier it would be... :hey:

[Quiet1onTheSet]

Now if only subprojects could support alpha channel, imagine how much easier it would be... :hey:'Twould be next best thing to having a "Clips Grouping" option!

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[billmi]

Not just alpha. I'd like to see full control-tree capability and a waveform display.

[SBowie]

I'm with Bill on this (and have been since I first saw SE 1.0). ;)

[KiloWatkins]

You could do a select title > Control Tree > then try the keyer. Your use of instance file, well maybe you should explain what type of instance file. Bugg? www.address? There maybe a way to just drag the saved file and use Inherit, just not clear after all the info already given, why you needed to post again. Titels are the last thing I do when I edit, fwiw. Mostly doing Titles in Oasis while capturing on another PC.

GoodLuck

[joseburgos]

I'm with Bill on this (and have been since I first saw SE 1.0). ;)

Ditto :agree:

Take care,

[ScorpioProd]

Ditto, we've all been behind these features since way before SpeedEDIT, in fact.

Let me add a conformed audio waveform of the subproject, if one really wants to use a subproject instead of grouping.

[KiloWatkins]

Titels are the last thing I do when I edit, fwiw. Mostly doing Titles in Oasis while capturing on another PC.

Sorry, the thread popped up backwards somehow when I replied.