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Ale_Zakko
Inspiring
January 9, 2019
Question

wrong timecode essential graphic when i upgrade to master graphic

  • January 9, 2019
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Hi guys! i found an issue when i simply do the "upgrade to master graphic" on my text animation. Here's my workflow:

On my timeline i start to write text and shapes. Then i start to animate it. When i'm ready i save it to my personal library as backup. Everything works well. But, if i need to upgrade this essential graphic to master graphic on my project, i found a big issue on timecode: for example, my essential graphic it's five 5 seconds long. When i upgrade to master graphic, this new "shape" clip it's 12 hours long, and my animation starts at 1 hour following timecode. This is the first issue, and last but not least, if i do double click to this new clip on my project, it open correctly to the preview monitor with IN OUT points from 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 seconds. After that if i put this to my timeline, the timecode clip portion starts to 2 hours, so my clip it's black. If i re-do this drag and drop, the shape's timecode starts at 3 hours.

If if delete from my preview monitor IN OUT points and i put only my OUT point at 5 seconds from start, from 00.00.00.00, on my preview monitor i see nothing, all black screen, but if do drag and drop on my timeline, i see correctly my good animation. What's wrong? Is it a bug or i have to ceck some preferences on graphic essentils panel?

Many thanks!!!

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 9, 2019

The timecode shows hours:minutes:seconds:frames

So that's showing say 1 minute, 35 seconds, and 18 frames in one of your examples. Not hours.

Not quit sure I understand the rest of it though.

Neil

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Ale_Zakko
Ale_ZakkoAuthor
Inspiring
January 9, 2019

Hi Neil! No, the timecode that you say it's the sequence timecode. I speak about the essential graphic's timecode. When you create a new essential graphic or when you import a new essential graphic, it timecode starts always from 01.00.00.00 so one hour (you can ceck it it you enable the metadata as overlays on program monitor), not at 00.00.00.00 and this will create an issue when you update to master graphic.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 9, 2019

Yea, if I drag some stock ones, I get the same thing in the monitor overlay timecode. I see what you mean ... but the ones I've created in my Library come in at zero's. Weird.

All of the ones I just 'elevated' to Master Graphics lost all animations, and several became just black boxes.

I've never understood using mogrts as Master Graphics ... haven't seen the use. So this is something I probably can't help with. jstrawn​ might be able to pop in ...

Neil

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