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Brett Patterson

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Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostSun Mar 29, 2015 3:33 am

I have an mp4 that is about 1 hour long imported into "Loader2" of my fusion project. It's run through some 3D adjustments, 3D Rendered and then passed to the saver. The saver only spans a certain length (the length of an intro animation I made). I cannot get it to expand to also cover the extra time from the video in "Loader2".

You can see that I'm holding the last frame of "Loader1" through the end of "Loader2"; however, the saver doesn't follow suit.

I'm really new to the Fusion program, but have used Premier Pro a while ago to do basic video editing. Anyone that can shed light on how to get these two videos to render down into one with "Loader2" starting after "Loader1" ends, that would be helpful. Do I need to use two savers to the same output file?

I'm using the free version of Fusion 7 in case that matters.
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Re: Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostMon Mar 30, 2015 6:26 pm

I forgot to attach my screenshot, so here it is.

saver_expand.png
Saver doesn't encompass length of Loader
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Re: Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostMon Mar 30, 2015 9:07 pm

I'm not sure, but from the screenshot it might be that your global frame range is too short. The saver (and all the other tools) will extend if you change the global out value next to the time ruler to the end of Loader2.
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Re: Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostTue Mar 31, 2015 7:08 pm

Drag and drop the Loader onto your Timeruler (bottom) while holding SHIFT.
This will extend the global range automatically to the length of the clip.
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Re: Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostTue Mar 31, 2015 9:51 pm

Thank you Stefan that info. I figured out where I was going wrong. I set the setting to use time codes and I keep interpreting the "frame" as seconds instead of frames (e.g. 1:30 is not 1 minute 30 seconds, it's 1 second 30th frame).

Expanding the global time to include "00" as the frame properly adjusted everything.

Thank you for the alternate way to expand this as well Blazej!
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Re: Saver Time Not Accounting For Imported mp4 Length

PostSun Apr 12, 2015 7:40 pm

Blazej Floch wrote:Drag and drop the Loader onto your Timeruler (bottom) while holding SHIFT.
This will extend the global range automatically to the length of the clip.


That's an amazing tip!

I think the end frame is off by 1 though. At least when I do this on a quicktime file that has been trim in and out values. The range is 1 frame longer than the clip (dragging without shift to set the render range works correctly).
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