Q: Clips in Views disappearing?
I'm experimenting with making a multi-screen project which is comprised of four anamorphic 720x480 clips that right now for a test are each 99 frames long. The length at this point is arbitrary, I'm just trying to figure out how to do this.
After much struggling since I'm a newbie to Shake I created four Viewer windows each being 720x480 in size. Then I imported four different clips for each Viewer.
At this point I wanted to try to transform each clip to some extent using transform nodes such as Scale, flip, but there are things happening that I don't understand even though I'm sure that there's a simple solution.
I want each Viewer to have their own clip no duplicates, but I'm having trouble getting the clips to stay the same because if I select a node with a clip then the Viewer that's selected will change to that node. It's hard to explain, but I'm wondering how to best select the Viewers individually and apply the appropriate nodes from the node view?
Another thing that's happening is sometimes the clip within a Viewer will vanish and then I have to make a new Viewer and re-import the clip for that Viewer.
I hope this isn't too confusing. I'm trying to read how best to use multiple Viewers and haven't found solutions for these questions.
After much struggling since I'm a newbie to Shake I created four Viewer windows each being 720x480 in size. Then I imported four different clips for each Viewer.
At this point I wanted to try to transform each clip to some extent using transform nodes such as Scale, flip, but there are things happening that I don't understand even though I'm sure that there's a simple solution.
I want each Viewer to have their own clip no duplicates, but I'm having trouble getting the clips to stay the same because if I select a node with a clip then the Viewer that's selected will change to that node. It's hard to explain, but I'm wondering how to best select the Viewers individually and apply the appropriate nodes from the node view?
Another thing that's happening is sometimes the clip within a Viewer will vanish and then I have to make a new Viewer and re-import the clip for that Viewer.
I hope this isn't too confusing. I'm trying to read how best to use multiple Viewers and haven't found solutions for these questions.
I Mac G5, Intel 24" IMac, 3.0 gigahertz, Mac OS X (10.5.6), own FC Studio
Posted on May 3, 2010 9:08 PM