Old 02-27-2019, 09:08 PM   #1
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Can't quite figure this out. I have a background video underneath another with the chorma key preset showing only the object of the top track. I want to rotate the top object, but it seems to invariably rotate the entire frame of the video with it, including the background.

Is there a way to get the two tracks to behave separately on image placement and rotation?

As an aside, the new chroma key presets are a nice improvement. thanks.
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Old 02-28-2019, 02:21 AM   #2
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Hi Zlornik,

this is a bit tricky and not as obvious as one thinks.

You need a dedicated video processor to achieve your goal. You will find it in the action list. (Just filter "dedicated") This will create a video processor item which then can be dropped over your image item. (Maybe it only needs placed on the same track, so free item positioning could be allowed too. -> Just checked it! Works!)

Double clicking the dedicated video processor allows to choose presets which then only work on the track. Here is a short video of how to do it. I put a chroma key preset on the track and a opacity, zoom, pan preset per dedicated video processor over the image item.

https://mega.nz/#!X3p3ySwL!Ey_vKu9ci...vf1aOpAFpOHIOk

I personally think there should be an easier way to do this. wwwmaze and I were discussing this some month ago. Maybe a specific video folder could be the solution. A folder which creates a separate video stream with all inside and a those folder then build a true stack of videos. I don't know.

Hope, that helps a bit.

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Nice, I didn't know that! This I will look forward to play around with.

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Old 02-28-2019, 06:07 PM   #4
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Hi Zlornik,

this is a bit tricky and not as obvious as one thinks.

You need a dedicated video processor to achieve your goal. You will find it in the action list. (Just filter "dedicated") This will create a video processor item which then can be dropped over your image item. (Maybe it only needs placed on the same track, so free item positioning could be allowed too. -> Just checked it! Works!)

Double clicking the dedicated video processor allows to choose presets which then only work on the track. Here is a short video of how to do it. I put a chroma key preset on the track and a opacity, zoom, pan preset per dedicated video processor over the image item.

https://mega.nz/#!X3p3ySwL!Ey_vKu9ci...vf1aOpAFpOHIOk

I personally think there should be an easier way to do this. wwwmaze and I were discussing this some month ago. Maybe a specific video folder could be the solution. A folder which creates a separate video stream with all inside and a those folder then build a true stack of videos. I don't know.

Hope, that helps a bit.

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Interesting. That seems to work, although, maybe inconsistently. In an existing project with several layered video tracks, that worked and then didn't work. Opacity at 1 seemed to flip the background as well. Strange.

Another thing I tried just after posting this thread, was to create a separate video processor using the pan/zoom/opacity preset, and put it in FRONT of the chroma key processor... or on top in the list of plugins.

Seems like it could use some refinement.
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Old 03-01-2019, 01:37 AM   #5
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If you find such inconsistencies don't be to shy to post them here in a specific thread. In my opinion its a big problem that the whole video part of Reaper lives in the shadows. Jon from Reaper blog is actually the only person who spreads the message. But if you take a look back in time: Just 6 months ago there were no separate video forum, playback optimizations, audio driven video presets or any other requested presets like blur, kaleidoscope, alpha blend etc. So there is already a lot going on in comparison to the many years of unanswered requests. That's why we have to put inconsistencies in relation. Patience is needed.

There is also a big movement against anything video depending in Reaper which shows up in this forum. So in Germany we say: "Es ist weder Fisch noch Fleisch" Its whether fish nor meat. And it means you can't get grip on something which isn't really defined. Reaper acts like a DAW. But in my opinion it actually is more of an Amazing Audio/Media Tool Box. How much focus the video section gets in the future also depends on how many people discuss and request video things.
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Thanks for this pointer! The dedicated video processor item helped me to get one step forward, but then I realized you cannot apply automation to it.

My goal was to add a little alpha mapped icon (a face) on top of a video and have it shake a bit up and down according to an audio input. But I was only able to get the icon to map and size properly by using a Pan/Zoom video processor as a take FX, and that won't listen to audio on the track so that I could use a sidechain.

Now I could use a looping automation item to emulate the shake, because while you can add automation envelopes to the item, you cannot use automation items with them - the envelopes are confined within the item.

Nice step forward, but oh well.

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Thanks for this pointer! The dedicated video processor item helped me to get one step forward, but then I realized you cannot apply automation to it.

My goal was to add a little alpha mapped icon (a face) on top of a video and have it shake a bit up and down according to an audio input. But I was only able to get the icon to map and size properly by using a Pan/Zoom video processor as a take FX, and that won't listen to audio on the track so that I could use a sidechain.

Now I could use a looping automation item to emulate the shake, because while you can add automation envelopes to the item, you cannot use automation items with them - the envelopes are confined within the item.

Nice step forward, but oh well.
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....59#post2111659

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