Rotation Effect Question in Magix Editor

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:38 am

Does anybody know how ...
if I crop the image to a rectangleish shape, How do I get it to rotate, but not turn the scene upside down? So the rectangle shape will be rotating, but the guy will not be upside down heheh know what i mean? im a bad explainer~

I know if I right click and click object curve effects, i can click rotate with a rythmic beat but it keeps turnin the scene upside down

Ive seen a video somewhere I remember who used magix and did this i cant remember atm

any ideas?

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:57 am

I haven't done this myself, but what you might try is making a mask of the shape you want with one of the preselected rotoscopable colors against the other as a background, like a green rectangle on a blue bg. Do a temporary track with this over the clip you want with transparency on green, apply the object curve effects to the mask, and render out (being careful not to introduce interlacing). You now have a clip with a moving rectangle selection from an image that can be dropped into your main project, which will hover over whatever you want if you've got the transparency setting right.

Colors in-clip may play havoc with this, but that's why there are four possible transparency settings in Magix; it's just more likely that you'll have pure white or pure black that you won't want to blow out. If you want more illustration I can probably have screens/demo images done by Monday.

hth,

--K

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:16 am

Kai Stromler wrote:I haven't done this myself, but what you might try is....

Better explained than what I could manage, but making the mask an alpha clip would deal with the colour problem. I'm not sure how Magix deals with the 'background colour' on shrunken clips, but I've gotten a rotating rectangle from letterboxed white screen created in MSPaint that seems to fit the OP's bill.

btw, what settings do you need to change to make sure there isn't any interlacing? I've had problems with this, and I can't find any more settings to change.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:25 am

Melanchthon wrote:btw, what settings do you need to change to make sure there isn't any interlacing? I've had problems with this, and I can't find any more settings to change.

The best approximation I've been able to get so far is to just change the properties of every individual clip to "full frames" and "no interlace processing", then exporting as uncompressed (I'm working in 2.0 deLuxe+, so this may be easier in more up-to-date versions). Of course, this goes right out the goddamned window if anything is accelerated or decelerated, so for those, I just make sure to run the final product through Smart Deinterlace and Smart Smoother in Virtual Dub on the way to finished encodes. This is just on my laptop [WinXP], though; I think I've got it behaving better on my W2K station, but I haven't edited anything on there in nearly a year.

--K

Melanchthon · Post by **Melanchthon** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:35 am

Kai Stromler wrote:The best approximation I've been able to get so far is to just change the properties of every individual clip to "full frames" and "no interlace processing", then exporting as uncompressed (I'm working in 2.0 deLuxe+, so this may be easier in more up-to-date versions). Of course, this goes right out the goddamned window if anything is accelerated or decelerated, so for those, I just make sure to run the final product through Smart Deinterlace and Smart Smoother in Virtual Dub on the way to finished encodes.

I'm running MEP2004 and that sounds familiar... except that right-clicking and altering the clip properties doesn't seem to do anything.

I posted about this on the MAGIX board and still haven't got any replies, so maybe no-one's quite figured it out yet. I wouldn't be so bothered if the interlacing didn't screw around with my fades.

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:09 pm

Kai Stromler wrote: Colors in-clip may play havoc with this, but that's why there are four possible transparency settings in Magix; it's just more likely that you'll have pure white or pure black that you won't want to blow out. If you want more illustration I can probably have screens/demo images done by Monday.

hth,

--K

Grr~ I thought I knew magix pretty well by now heh. What/Where are the 4 levels of transparency?

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:12 pm

mixFX right?

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:13 pm

Wow where is the edit button

I found it all lol .. thanks

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:30 pm

Kai Stromler wrote: If you want more illustration I can probably have screens/demo images done by Monday.

Okie, i've been tryin to do this, but maybe more illustration would be good

I would like to learn how to do this =)

NiluKy · Post by **NiluKy** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:55 pm

Wow.. okay first sorry for spamage of the forums...

but after a few hours of tryin to figure out stuff.. I finally got it. THank you very very much ~ it works =)