O.K. Eric, Just for you

[Lin Evans]

Lin

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Lin

Hi Lin

That one should have a health warning to epilepsy sufferers :o/> only kidding. I see you used a Kevin Macleod track. I think hell would have frozed over before I could get into that league. Thanks for the demo.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.

[Lin Evans]

Hi Eric,

LOL - that "drum beat" helps drive those flickering displays into one's brain to trigger seizures. There should be a law!! HA!

That was an extreme example, but the keyframing is pretty straight-forward, just a bit repetitious because of the number of displays. The first "secret" is the order you use to put each video into the layers. They are entered in the sequence which you wish to see in terms of the switching effect. All displays should be first set to start with zero opacity (in this case all but the first) and then on the first one a second keyframe also set to zero opacity holds that zero opacity for whatever time you wish. Then a third keyframe very close to the second one determines how quickly you want to illuminate the display. This keyframe is set to 100% for the opacity. Then with the cursor still on this selected keyframe at the 100% opacity, you go to the next display on the layers and the cursor will appear at this position on the timeline. You click on the "Plus" sign and a keyframe is automatically inserted at this position which will still have the zero opacity because you had first set all to zero opacity. So your second layer begins, de facto, where the first layer ended. You then press the "Plus" key again to insert the third keyframe for this layer, then manually enter the increment. In this case I used increments of 50. So, for example, if the last keyframe on the first layer was 5000 (five seconds), then I would enter 5050 as the value. I then leave the cursor with this value selected and go to the third layer which will have the "tick mark" or cursor position on the timeline where it "should" be to start the third layer. Just click the "Plus" key twice and enter the increment of the previous stop time for the previous layer plus the 50 and continue doing so for the remaining layers.

To achieve the same effect on a single distributed video (like the ship on the turbulent sea) you would simply create a dark rectangle, size it to fit the display screen on video one, set its opacity to 100%, then copy and paste it quickly over each video. Then you would proceed exactly as above except instead of regulating the opacity of the video itself, you would regulate the opacity of the black or dark grey rectangle. You "could" get fancy with the rectangle created or create and manipulate a jpg or png image in Photoshop, etc., by adding reflections or such to approximate the appearance of an inactive real display.

By the order in which you place each layer, you could do things such as write your name with the on sequence - LOL.

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin

That one should have a health warning to epilepsy sufferers /> only kidding. I see you used a Kevin Macleod track. I think hell would have frozed over before I could get into that league. Thanks for the demo.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.