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8.
Click Add Image Layer Event (page 3–337)
and choose Cross Fade Transition from the list
of compositors and transitions.
ClickOKtoclosetheAddImageLayerEvent
dialog. Notice how the Image Layer Event
becomestheparentofthetwoImageInput
Events.
9. Click Zoom Extents to view the entire set
of tracks.
10. On the Queue track bar, click and drag the
right-hand end of the r ange-bar to fra me 20.
This adjusts all the t racks.
11. Select the Cross Fade Tr ansition event and drag
the left-hand end of the range-bar to fra me
5 and then drag the right-hand end of the
range-bar to frame 15.
This sets the period in time when the cross fade
occurs.
12. SelectthetrackforthefirstImageInputEvent
and the right-hand end of t he range-bar to
frame 8.
By setting the end to frame 8 instead of 5, you’ll
have three f rames during which the first image
will fade to black.
13. Select the track for the second Image Input
Event and the left-hand end of the range-b ar
to frame 12.
Similarly, sett ing this end to f r ame 12 ensures
that the second image will fade in over three
frames and display in f u ll color for the last five
frame of the transition.
14. Click the Execute Sequence button (page
3–325).
15. Click Render on the Execute Video Post dialog.
Ex ample: R esi ze a ser ies of ima ges:
Perhaps you’ve rendered a series of still images but
it turns out they were at the wrong resol ution. You
might normally think you have to re-render the
entire scene a gain which will tie up all the systems
to do the same work they just completed. Video
Post c an be used to resize the images without
havingtouseallthesystems.
1. Use the IFL Manager Ut ility (page 3–619) to
create an IFL file containing the sequentially
number image files you want to resize.
2. Choose Rendering > Video Post.
3. Click Add Image Input Event (page 3–332)
and then click Files.
Choose the IFL file you created at step 1 and
then click Open to close the selec tion dialog .
4. Click OK to close the Add Input Image Event
dialog.
5. Click Add Image Output Event (page
3–339) and then click Files.
6. Set the output file format for the new set of
still images to TGA and enter a filename like
MyResize.
ClickSavewhenyou’vesetthenameandformat
7. Click OK to accept the default sett ing on the
Targa I m age C o ntro l dialog.
ThenclickOKtoclosetheAddImageOutput
Event dialog.
8. Click t he Execute Sequence button (page
3–325).