Advanced effects(scenarist)

[joacim]

What is with the advanced effects: scroll, wipe, fade, and stop. I am have trouble dragging the green timeline from left to right after highlighting the one of the effect icons. Thus far I've only been able to successfully put in a stop effect, It would seem that the stop effect is the only effect that will take on my subpic. Is there a problem with my subpic? Am I not doing something right here?

Also what are the Line 21 switch1, file1, switch2. and file2 functions for under the video tab in similation mode?

Joacim

[jel]

line 21 is for closed captions, a NTSC only phenomena as far as i know.

as for the advanced effects, i do not know why they are not working. the only limitation i know of is that they can not be present on a track with a highlight layer, eg. with buttons (and even this limitation can be overcome)
try reading the section in the scenarist manual that deals with advanced effects.

good luck
j

[joacim]

Thanks Jel,

The menu's that I was trying to place the advanced effects had a highlight layer, so I will try and figure out how to overcome this.

Thanks for your help

[jel]

this thread might help:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=37074&highlight=animated+subpics

in particular, the sublooper program avaliable here:
http://www.mindtrap.co.uk/

i also have some batch files lying around the place somewhere that RB wrote for adding the fade in/fade out effect as used in the spiderman subpics.

cheers
j