Black area

derek-williams wrote on 7/26/2020, 2:40 PM

Hi. I sectioned similar video scenes into one. It looks fine during the editing process.

But when I upload it and view it, there is a black box where the sectioned video was placed. Here is what I did.

1. Checked to make sure the video wasn't on mute

2. Made sure both videos were on the highest visability

3. Played around with the settings in the "section" section.

Here is another example. The black spot is at the bottom this time.

Am I doing something wrong, and/or how can I do it correctly.

Back to post

Comments

CubeAce wrote on 7/31/2020, 3:47 PM

@johnebaker

Hi John.

I thought that was John CBs first video. The second video showed the use of a png mask but I've only just realised your enquiry for images related to the first video, not the second and got confused when you asked if there was anything going on in the higher track numbers.

My mix up.

derek-williams wrote on 7/31/2020, 7:50 PM

@CubeAce,

I don't know what it was. I had my computer completely redone about 18 months ago and had to reinstall everything. So I guess it was just an old version I had. My screen now looks like everyone else's, which it didn't before but I didn't want to say anything to annoy you guys any further. It was 3 updates though. Every time I opened the program, it told me to update it again for 3 times. It looks like I'm up to date for this version anyhow. Thanks again for your time.

BTW - That last video was very details and awesome, and will help with future projects.

CubeAce wrote on 8/1/2020, 2:30 AM

@derek-williams

Hi Derek.

Never be worried about your version of MEP not looking the same. There are certain parts of the window views that can be changed around and some people prefer the look of MEP one way and other people use the program in different ways. John CB for instance is heavily into keyboard shortcuts. Not everyone works the same way and we are used to that.

I've had to rebuild my system twice in the last six months and having to update MEP 3 times sounds about right.

Thanks for the compliment on the video. That was my first try at that type of explanatory video and I pretty much just tried to explain what I had got wrong when I shot it by just not thinking about the problem and planning ahead. Sometimes a small bit of planning saves a lot of work. I will keep that video up for future reference. I will also later today try the same shot again but with the corrections in camera (using the same camera) to see if my tips actually give the result I expect from planning it better. I'll put the result up for better or worse in this thread later.

Ray.

CubeAce wrote on 8/1/2020, 11:16 AM

@derek-williams

Hi Derek.

I would like to thank you for posting this problem.

It has made me think about the problem a lot and I'm still learning from trying it out for myself. This time a clip divided into three parts and locking off the focus, white balance and exposure times to see if my advice held up.

Still using the New Blue split screen effect as the controls are really easy to get to grips with and relatively versatile. Still using the same techniques I laid out in the exoplanetary video I did before.

I may well use this in future as it's so much fun.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Ray.