MattMacar wrote:
This is the most frustratingly over complicated and inevitably unusable plug-in ive ever come across. The fact that this isn't plug and play is insane.
I agree, that's not a very useful plug-in.
MattMacar wrote:Actually, the fact that we're not able to do exactly what OP was suggesting is absolutely bananas. Final Cut was able to do this in like V2. Allow us to nest clips to create new "timelines" that maintain their resolutino AND have effing alpha. How the F is this not like number 1 on your list of changes to make. IT makes this software ineligible as a proper finishing editor. I have to go to AFter effects to do the most basic layer-based compositing crap that I don't want to learn the whole bowl of spaghetti that is Fusion for.
SOS.
Read my post, above. It is weird, if you're not used to it, that when you "nest" (a Premiere term) an unusual, let's say "square" shaped Timeline into a 16 x 9 Timeline, the "nested" Timeline's dimensions are ignored.
But, you can get around this by creating a square (or whatever, of your choosing) matte, place that under the "nest," set its Composite setting to Luma / Alpha (or inverted) matte, put your "nested" Timeline above it, and change its Composite mode to Foreground. Then, it should look more like what you get in Premiere.
Also, if you want to do some pan and scanning on any video track in a "nest," you have to repeat the same procedure with another "nested" Timeline.
As you probably know, Premiere's Track Matte effect is a huge joke, because any transform you do on the matted layer transforms the matte with it. That's a behavior few people want, and Adobe has let that go unfixed for longer than Resolve has been an NLE. My main gripe with doing PIPs and split screens in Resolve is the silly way keyframes on Transforms in the Edit page is implemented - how you can only edit keyframes for one parameter at a time, and how Scale and Position have separate controls for X & Y, when Premiere has them combined, which makes a lot more sense, IMO.
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