New Video Effect

chwood01

I have the need to mirror a video clip (Flip it horizontally). Thus in the original scene, car drives from left to right. In flipped scene, car drives from right to left.

Thank you.

Charles

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Put the clip on the sequence track.

Click the FX button on the thumbnail

Choose the Rotate effect

Set Vertical to 180

Set Rotation to 180

Click Apply

The clip should now be reversed

Nat

c_major_2

In v4.10, you can right click on the clip, select Flip->Horizontal.

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Ah!.........Right click the clip in the Media list window!

That option does not appear if you right click the clip when it's on the sequence line.

Horizontal effect 180 does the same....It's the inverse of what I suggested above. (But they all work!)

Nat

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Hi Sam

"In v4.10, you can right click on the clip, select Flip->Horizontal."

As noted above, this option is only available in the Media list window. Nevertheless the flip effect transfers to the timeline thumbnail as well as the timeline clip if it has been added. But why has it been incorporated in the Media list menu and not the timeline clip right click menu, as now we have a conflict?

Imagine you want to invert a clip....No problem...You can do it as you suggest and Flip the thumbnail vertically in the media list.

Sure enough the thumbnail and your clip if added to the sequence line does the same, (or you can drag and drop it in its inverted state from the media list.)

Now, let's say, a little later during editing and you want to add the same clip again but this time the correct way up...You can't re-flip the media list thumbnail as that will re-flip the clip that you initially inverted and placed on the timeline!

Your only option now is that you will have to add it again but this time in its inverted state and then reflip it....Ah!....But...that means using the rotate effect on the inverted clip since the menu flip option doesn't appear for clips on the timeline.

So why not make it a rule that Effects can only be added to clips already on the timeline? Or if that's not possible -- I personally think it is more logical -- , why not incorporate the flip option in the timeline clip right click menu?

Nat

c_major_2

Hi Nat,

Operations from the right click menu form media clips are recently added. They are designed for apply correction (e.g. crop, flip, rotate etc.) to the media clips therefore they will effect all existing and later copies.

These operations are not Effects, let's call them Corrections.

We didn't make Corrections available for time line clips because we wanted to avoid the confusion with Effects.

I think it would be more confusing if Corrections are not applied for later clips.

If you want some copies from a media clip have the effect but some are not, you should use Effects instead - they do the same job.

Hope that make sense.

Best regards,