In this video, we're going to be looking at the is the mistakes we make when we put VFX into our timelines
and also some tips of how to do it better in the future so that we don't make the mistakes in the first
place.
So as you can see on my screen right now, I've got quite a boring movie of an airplane flying through
the clouds.
It's not so important what the clip is.
So if I stop this video right now, go to my VFX is click on the plus side and let's grab some text,
which is going to be a normal title.
And I'm throwing it all the way on top of my V1, my video, one track there.
Let's just resize some stuff so that we can see what's going on.
You can see that the sample takes of that.
I'm just going to say this is the sky, so it doesn't look so boring.
We're going to.
Right.
Click over here and unfold so that we can see the text VFX all the way across the whole of that clip
of video.
And here comes one of the most asked questions.
How do I not have a VFX take up the entire length of the clip?
Well, there's a couple of ways of doing it.
If you've already put the VFX in and you want to fix it and I'll show you how to do that right now,
will disable the audio, disable the video, will move our play head to where it should be pressed,
see on our keyboard to press on our keyboard to cut.
I'm going to throw away the bits at the start.
In the end.
We'll go back re-enable our tracks like that, and you can then see that we have our VFX or our titles
will only be where we want them to now.
What if there was a better way of doing that so that we didn't have to put a title in and then cut while
disabling tracks?
Because that can be quite annoying to have to do again and again.
So let's just get rid of the title so we've got no VFX is anymore.
A better way of putting a VFX into your track would be to move the play head to where you think the
VFX should go.
So in this case, again, I'm going to put in a title and I'll say around 10 seconds is where I want
the title to go.
I'm going to present in.
And then I think to myself, well, I think it should be on the screen for about 10 seconds or so,
at about 20 seconds, I'm going to put an out.
If I now go to my titles, I can now put a title inside that in and out that I made.
So the title itself will only be that 10 seconds that I chose.
And if I get rid of that just for a second so that you can see what the alternatives are, if I put
it in the middle, it will only take up to ten seconds.
I gave it.
If I go outside of that, it again defaults to being the whole clip.
So it's worth knowing that Light Works really respects your ins and outs.
So you'll only put it inside the in and out if you choose to.
Now, this has the other advantage of being able to move your ins and outs like this.
You can move them and you don't have to get rid of them.
And you can throw in a second title, for example, that makes life really, really interesting for
us so we can have multiple titles.
And, you know, I made a video before of overlapping text, so we talked about it there.
So this would be the correct way of getting your VFX is only where you want them to be in your clip.
Now, let's get rid of these two.
Let's get rid of the ins and outs and let's go old school and put in a title like this will unfold.
It will again make it interesting like this.
So there's our title and we follow my instructions.
So we disable the audio.
The video we see on the keyboard like this, we get rid of the stuff we don't want, re-enable the tracks
and we have our titles exactly the way we want them to be.
Now, a question that I'm asked more than any other, both in real life and online, is how do you stop
the screen from going blank when you move a VFX?
I'll show you what I'm talking about.
If we were to disable the audio and the video, move our title to a little bit closer to the start,
you can see that immediately our video goes black in the background.
Now, there is no real fix for this by moving the timeline around.
There is a fix and we'll go into that in a few seconds.
But just know if I undo this now to where it was.
When you're moving VFX is around, don't disable anything.
They will move quite happily.
In fact, you can have two or three VFX and you can move them around how you want to.
And nothing will happen.
As soon as you disable something, the screen will go blank.
So what happens if?
You move a VFX, you switch a video track back on and you've got a black screen, and remember that
black screen will appear in your timeline as well.
So that kind of ruins your movie.
Well, not quite.
Let's go to VFX.
And we talked about the graphs in previous videos, but we've never talked about routine.
Let's actually click on that.
And what you can see is that the rooting tab actually has all the VFX and all the video clips we've
got.
And what we're allowed to do here, which is quite cool, is we're allowed to apply effects to different
clips, how we want them to.
Now, in this case, you can see that the video clip is playing, that there is a text on top of it,
but the text and the video are not connected.
Their connection is broken.
So let's click their.
Move it down to there and you can see now that the titles, the one is now connected physically to V
one, which is our airplane clip, and you can see rather than black, our taxes on top.
Now, really interesting would be if I showed you what happens when we move things.
So if I was to move this text around, you can see that the link is still there.
It's not broken.
As soon as I disabled the video and moved the titles, you can see that the link is broken.
It's almost like you're switching off the video track and then telling like works.
Well, I don't want you to actually connect these two anymore.
I'm physically breaking the connection.
So in this case, again, a really simple fix would just be to go and connect the two again and we'll
have videos in the future talking about this routine, because it's really, really cool.
But for now, this is a really simple way of fixing the black screen VFX problem that so many people
complain about.