This is the light weight method, Cycles is heavy due to the transparency samples required. Eevee avoids this my stacking all alphas onto one layer but will get heavy if you require sampled (or dithered alpha) for depth effects

I'm very sorry to hear that but I cannot see you blender file to know what is wrong. I suggest that you ask for help at blender stackexchange. Good luck. I'm sure you can get it going as others have

Thankyou

We recently moved from Avid to Edius. Could you tell me what the point of the Focus Track is?

Let me know if there are any other oddities about edius you'd like explained 😊

@@davidmcsween Hello again David. Your videos were well received at out station here in Atlanta. Can you share a contact email? My manager is looking to hire someone with your skills for a remote training session to get our editors up to speed.

@erichurst2496 sure id love to help. I'll have to ask my supervisor for permission as I'm technically on an exclusive contract them

@@erichurst2496 here's a disposable email that will forward to work, I can reply from work then [email protected]

Sadly I don't get to use blender for this kind of work anymore. The NLE I use at work is more than capable for this stuff. Although i do use blender to film photos and laptops when there is no camera crew available.

@@davidmcsween I’ll have to check out some of your other work. The concepts are pretty much the same across the board anyway. I started out in C4D like a decade ago and started using Blender when they finally gave it the much needed ui facelift, so I just use it instead, but I still think cinema’s mograph tools are far superior.

@KowProdMedia that's true they are but geometry nodes let's you build tools now. So it'll be just as good before to long

Oh thanks Matt. I miss your fire wood and whiskey(?) Videos on insta. Yeah I'm still at abc. Still banging my head on the Edius. Still having fun with blender. I've got a heap of Edius tutorials now on KZbin mostly for abc peeps. How you doing?

Does anything appear in the viewport?

Are you using eevee or cycles? The material is not set up for cycles

@@davidmcsween everything looks perfect in the viewport, and even in the render result (I'm using eevee not cycles) but as soon as I save the render result (either an image for an animation frame) the resulting file is a blank image; I've tried with a diffuse plane background, a world background, and a transparent background. My handware is 64gb RAM and RTX 3090, pretty top end PC and I'm definitely no beginner with blender - I've checked all the render settings and updated my studio drivers and downloaded the latest version of blender. I'm at a loss

@jamesbarnardo7496 what format or codec do you use to save the image? What software do you open the image in to look at it?

​@@davidmcsween it looks fine and it reneder correct, when export and save it turn completely transparent, i tried png and exr

Hey I'm glad you found out useful and thanks for the tip. I'm sure others will encounter the same problem

I'm afraid that I don't have any idea about unity but I know that they do volumetric effects realtime and this is effectively a dense card stack with alpha so if you can do many layers of alpha in unity you should be able to make this too

@@davidmcsween Thanks for coming back to me - its so frustrating! I just followed your tutorial and have made something great (thanks again as I would have had no idea!). When importing into unity it just brings in the shape that would appear in the unrendered view in blender. So I presume there is no way to bring it all in, even if colours/textures are added later in unity - the effect itself is what I'm after. From what you are saying it may be easier to try to create it from scratch in unity?

Well if I had ever needed to use a game engine I might have some vague idea, sadly I have no idea. Other than it would depend on the engine's handling of a dense stack of Alpha chanels

Sorry this relies on the alpha handling in eevee, you can use cycles but it quickly hits the alpha depth limits causing black to be inserted into the transparent areas

Sorry. It's a pain because of the blur plus flash then mix. You could use sift focus effect in a mask which allows a dissolve but tou can't strexth it easily. Edius doesn't ha e adjustment layers only a super track. Or stackable per clip fx or horizontal transitions one at a time

You should be able to connect both ends of the curve object together, but you must make sure that the twist angle matches at each end

I'm not even sure this technique works on new blender versions

@@davidmcsween Hey, thanks!! I couldn't match anything with what I have. Kdenlive and shotcut were all I needed, I found. Each have slight variations but easy to figure out either one and not anything like Blender. Is Blender more complex because once mastered it offers greater graphics manipulating power or does it have more moving parts,...just because??

@@myloupman2097 it's complicated in Blender because the VSE or video editor, isn't designed to do this effect. I am using tools that were not intended to be used this way. If someone wanted to code a chromakey effect into blender then I'm sure it would be easy to use

@@davidmcsween Thank you so much for the reply. I started to think it had something to do creatively making a feature work that had never been developed but now I'm fully convinced. Good work on finding a way.

You're welcome