Help with Fusion Composition DR17b7

Hi All;

I'm a fairly new DR user, and am having an issue with a Fusion composition on the timeline after reopening a Project.

I was working on a Fusion Composition with a couple of PNG media files, some Text+ nodes, with a few Merge, Resize,Transform nodes. It is about 19 seconds.

When I reopened the project, the Fusion Composition goes black 120 frames in. Fumbling around trying to figure out why, I discovered the 'MediaOut1' node is 'split' at frame 120 and the remainder is red when I look at the Keyframe editor. Trying to resize does not work.

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Any thoughts?

Regards,
--Doug

Well, I've been trying to dig into what was wrong with my Fusion Composition and kept monkeying around with things until I've found my own solution.

I can't really believe that what I discovered would be the 'expected' behavior but who knows.

What I believe had happened was somehow several nodes got 'locked' at a shorter duration than the Fusion Composition.
After spending some time in the DR16 manual in the Fusion section and looking at my screenshot, I should have been able to 'resize' the events in the Keyframe editor. And some of the other objects in my comp I could resize, but not all.

And the tail of the 'MediaOut1' was red because I think Fusion was saying "But you told me the duration for output was supposed to be this long". (Try looking at a 'Blank' Fusion Comp with only a 'MediaOut1' node in the Keyframe editor.)

In my node tree, the 'Merge2' node was connected to the 'MediaOut1'. So I disconnected them. I could then resize the event in the Keyframe editor. I reconnected and I then I could still resize.

So, if you can't resize a duration for a node, try disconnecting some of them.

Regards,
--Doug