I’m having issues getting fading and opacity to work.
Hereby a simplified example.mlt (14.7 KB) in which the blue represents a video file and the text layers represent either text or images for the behavior is the same.
I would like to have a title show up with easing or smoothing, as well as a watermark with 50% opacity on top of the entire video. There are some odd behaviors in that the title doesn’t fade at all and the watermark flickers or fades the other way around to above 50%.
I found a workaround by creating a completely different video track with a solid black color underneath, but something tells me having to create an entirely different track for it and having that take up workspace isn’t supposed to be the solution.
You can either use your workaround, or fill these gaps with opaque color clips.
Same problem. You’ve added the Text filter on the V1 clip. Using the Opacity filter to fade the title won’t work because there is nothing bellow.
You can either:
Create a separate track for your titles (text on transparent clips).
If you insist on adding the titles directly on the V1 clip, use the Text: Simple filter instead of the Text: Rich filter. You can use its Opacity parameter (with keyframes) to fade the text in &out.
Understood, thank you! Unfortunately just putting something in the gaps won’t work for the video (blue color) fading.
It’d be nice if the entire project could be given a default background it would fade to, rather than having to manually create and sacrifice an entire track for it.
