Double doors fade effect

terrypin wrote on 6/28/2013, 6:21 AM

One of the fades I used many years ago in another program, Memories On TV (MoTV), is the 'double doors effect' illustrated in this extract:

(The other effect in the same extract was also useful, the 'circle fade' discussed in the thread
http://www.magix.info/uk/cannot-find-circluar-fade-out-in-in-movie-edit.knowledge.997851.html
although the OP apparently lost interest in his own question.)

At first sight it looks like that might be hard work to emulate in MEP, but does anyone have any bright ideas please?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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terrypin wrote on 6/28/2013, 10:00 AM

Here's my best shot so far:

That should be largely self explanatory, apart from the two images DoubleDoorsLH-Revised.jpg and DoubleDoorsRH-Revised.jpg. Those are made in an external image editor as follows:

1. Start with the full size image, i.e. showing the opening screen. Here the size is 1920 x 1080.

2. Split it into two halves, each 960 x 1080.

3. This key step is based on a technique ourlined in my post on 31/12/2012
http://www.magix.info/uk/rotation-highly-flexible-method-from-wabu.forum.898181.html

In summary you double the width of each of these LH and RH images, filling half of the extended image with black. For the LH image the extension will be on the left and for the RH it will be on the right. The underlying idea is to allow rotation of each of these around a vertical axis other than the middle.

But a long way from the no-brainer couple of clicks it needed in MoTV!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Scenestealer wrote on 6/29/2013, 6:49 AM

Hi Terry

Nice work...... but it would be much easier to just copy and paste the "Door" effect from the MEP17 "Fades > Standard" folder, You will find the double doors in the "settings" - third option down.

I feel sure that circle fade was in a previous version too.

Peter

terrypin wrote on 6/30/2013, 10:42 AM

Hi Peter,

Great, many thanks! There are quite a few fades in 17 that don't appear in 2013 and I've copied them across. (All Plugins, yes?)

But I still haven't found a circular zoom out from/to black like that discussed. 'Circle' and 'Round' (are they identical?) are quite effective, but not the effect requested by the OP.

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Have you used File > Export movie > Export as transition... ? It doesn't seem to work in MEP 2013 here. I must have used it once in MEP17, to give me this extra entry PageTurn2s in the menu:

In MEP 17 that resulted in this file being created:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_17_Plus\Plugins\TransitionPresets\PageTurn2s.TRP

Copying that across to MEP 2013 gets the entry into the menu (that's where i took the screenshot) but it doesn't apply the fade effect.

And if I try to use the export feature in MEP 2013 it either crashes entirely or appears to work but fails to deliver the new fade entry. In this example of the former I was trying to customise Door to give me a double doors effect with a duration of 2 secs.

Or for better quality: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP-ExportAsTransition-2.jpg

And contradicting the message in the status bar, it doesn't create a file in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\Plugins\TransitionPresets but instead (on the rare occasions when it works at all) it seems to save an MXV file like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\Plugins\GPU_Standard\2013-06-30.mxv (ignoring the name I attempted to give it).

Also, to complete this buggy impression, sometimes I cannot get any response when clicking Settings (for effects that do allow them).

Any insights please?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK