Hi John,

Never tried any of those Effect Fades before. Darned if I can get Circles working. Am I doing this correctly?

1. Arrange on two tracks, with no transitions on either.

2, Drag the Circles template to each one, no particular order?

BTW, with Blobs, Brushes and Sonar I just got a plain fade (and a sound effect).

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi,

Obviously a built-in fade would be better, but it's not too difficult to roll your own:

Here's the result: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/CircleZoomDemo.mp4

Or from YouTube:

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi Terry

That is the sequence I used.

You do have to be careful where on the objects you drop the transition - get in the wrong place and you get the fade at both ends of the object !!!

Your method is better for a perfect circular fade in/out - the Circular fade template does it as a series of concentric rings of differing transparency.

You can achieve the same effect with only one mask image placed as shown below.

The 1st and 4th keyframes have the same settings and the 2nd and 3rd the same settings

Cheers

John

Hi John,

In fact most of those effects seem very eccentric. The normal approach of dropping the effect on the join rarely works. Very odd.

And deleting the (usually annoying) sound effect resets the video effect too! I have to reduce its voume to zero.

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Agreed, more elegant to use just one mask object!

But the problem with placing the mask below its target as you've done is that you get this result:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/CircleZoom2.mp4

You won't see it on playback unless you switch mode from H/W Accel to something else, such as Alternative mode 1. But the export will be wrong regardless.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

In 2012 I upgraded my Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 to the 2013 version. I now cannot find a fade which I used regularly in the earlier version. This fade was a simple round fade out from the full picture to nothing and then zoomed back in to the next full picture. The duration could be varied.
Does anyone know where to find this in the 2013 Version?
 

Are you sure? I've dusted off my MEP 15 Plus and cannot find that effect. The closest I can get are these two:

Fades > Iris > Round
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP15-Fades-Iris-Round.mp4

Fades > Iris > Circle 1
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP15-Fades-Iris-Circle1.mp4

The latter can be matched from the MEP 2013 buit in effect
Fades > Movement > Circular Fade
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP2013-Fades-Movement-CircularFade.mp4

The former, Round, and all the others in the Iris category, can be matched assuming you still have MEP 15 by copying the Iris folder across. On my XP PC that was from
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_15_Plus\Plugins\Iris
to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2013 Premium\Plugins\Iris

You can then use the Import tab to open that folder, which then automatically offers you the MEP 15 choices under the Fades tab, including Round.

That leaves the 'circle zoom out to all black plus circle zoom in from all black' effect unavailable as a built-in effect. If you do still have MEP 15 please let me know where it is!

Looking forward to some feedback.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK