First off... Thank you
VERY MUCH for the help btw! Very appreciated.
And I've had some success, but wonder why it's not working as I'd expect... But first....
I tested your macro, and it works just like mine does. The animation at the very beginning of the clip will play, but the mask won't finish to the right at the end of the clip. And when I apply the same effect to any clip later in the same video, the mask just stays in the center with no animation at all.
When you say you are dropping onto other clips, are you dropping it directly on the clip or onto an Adjustment Clip?
I'm dropping the effect directly on video clips in the timeline. I haven't used an adjustment clip ever in my life, until you mentioned it.
Concerning audio, I facepalmed. There was no sound underneath cause I started on the edit page with nothing but a fusion comp as you said.
If you try to make a macro and then reuse it on another part of the timeline, the animation will only occur during the original keyframe numbers, if you place it later on in the timeline, the animation won't work right. I would start out with an Adjustment Clip before switching to the Fusion Page, that way the MediaIn is automatically added and it is designed to work anywhere on the timeline.
Here's where I had success.... From the edit page, I put a video clip on the timeline, and an adjustment clip above that
(same length), then right clicked the adjustment clip, added the nodes and animation there, and saved it as a macro. Now whenever I put an adjustment clip above ANY clip, and add my macro to it, it works as I want. It will stretch properly, and work anywhere on any video clip.
But it won't work properly when I put the macro directly on a video clip, anywhere. It only works when putting an adjustment clip above the original clip, and adding the effect to the adjustment clip.
I was hoping I could put a drag/drop effect directly on any clip, at any point in any video, instead of having to take an extra step by adding an adjustment clip, with the effect added to that. That's only 1 step, but you seem knowledgeable enough with fusion that I bet you know extra steps add up and can be very tedious.
But do you know how to make it work as I want? So it will work by adding the effect directly to any clip, anywhere, with NO adjustment clip above it?