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- Real Name: Noah Erickson
I've created an animated lower third I want to reuse in the Fusion tab in Resolve 18.1.4 Build 9. I've done this before without issue, but for some reason this time when I create and save a macro (.settings file) in (Windows 11 here) %appdata%\roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Fusion\Templates\Edit\Titles the lower third shows up in the Edit tab, but when I drop it on my timeline, only the first half of the 509 frames are there. If I drag out the end, I can get the whole thing, but it defaults to half the duration. I'm pretty sure I know why:
Rather than being a smarty and starting the new Fusion comp with a background with the alpha turned down, I decieded to be a dummy and start with a Media In of a portion of the lower third I had animated in After Effects a couple of years ago when I still used Premiere. That animation is one way, so I duplicated it and time-reversed the copy with a Timespeed node. It seems that the exported macro is set to the duration of the first node I dropped in. When I created the empty Fusion comp back on the Edit tab I specified 17 seconds, but it doesn't seem to care.
So, I'm not sure how much of this is a bug and how much is me being ignorant, but I can't seem to find a way to set that duration after the fact, and it seems odd that the duration specified when creating the new Fusion comp is overridden by the first node dropped in, but that's where I am. The full duration shows up in Keyframes and Splines. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong, and if there's any way to fix it without starting over?
Rather than being a smarty and starting the new Fusion comp with a background with the alpha turned down, I decieded to be a dummy and start with a Media In of a portion of the lower third I had animated in After Effects a couple of years ago when I still used Premiere. That animation is one way, so I duplicated it and time-reversed the copy with a Timespeed node. It seems that the exported macro is set to the duration of the first node I dropped in. When I created the empty Fusion comp back on the Edit tab I specified 17 seconds, but it doesn't seem to care.
So, I'm not sure how much of this is a bug and how much is me being ignorant, but I can't seem to find a way to set that duration after the fact, and it seems odd that the duration specified when creating the new Fusion comp is overridden by the first node dropped in, but that's where I am. The full duration shows up in Keyframes and Splines. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong, and if there's any way to fix it without starting over?
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