full name in DVE

[joaodiminas]

Hi,
I am an FFI user, and now I am working with Smoke and I have some problems during replace footage in DVE. Opposite to FFI, I can´t see the full name of the layer inside DVE front, matte or back box.
How can I see the full name of the layer inside DVE????
Thanks
Joao Mineiro

[floke]

And also...

when smoke cant find the clips in the library, the layer names space in the dve is blank ... How can I replace old layers by the new ones if I dont know wich one is wich ??

There should be a "center" field... at least for globals...

Beign able to manipulate animation channels when in shcematic view would be appreciated too...

smoke 6.0.4


Floke

[BKM]

As far as the DVD name space not being big enough... it's been discussed as a problem. Hopefully something will be addressed.

As as far missing layers not having names. Yea, that's a bummer.

But you can adjust animations while in any view with multiview. But I think it came around in 6.5. Try hitting ALT-2 while in DVE. It will bring up a split view and you can select what you want in either side. ALt-3 gives you 3 and ALt 4 gives 4. ALt-1 returns to normal single view.

BKM

[joaodiminas]

The problem isnt using the animation channel. Instead, the problem is use the DVE to repleace images that has complex names. Someone knows how see this layers name??

[raoni]

When you import a seq. into dve you can give the layer a name (can be diferent or not than the one that appears on the front/mate clip name . This layer name is saved with the dve info ( usualy appear as "layer1","layer2" and so on ) , so when you open the dve again the layer name is there , even when the file is missing .
The animation channel can be displayed at the same time as the schematic as long as you go to schematic view before you acces the animation channel.

Hope to do any good .
Raoni

[floke]

I know we can access and view the animation channel while in schemetic view, but you cannot select a specific channel or keyframe to edit it... well, not in 6.0.4 can you do it in latest versions ?

[raoni]

In smoke 6.5.3 you can edit the animation channel viewing the schematic and select the layer to be edited using the schematic veiw also .

[thelibran]

And also...

when smoke cant find the clips in the library, the layer names space in the dve is blank ... How can I replace old layers by the new ones if I dont know wich one is wich ??

I save myself by naming the clips according to the layer... real pain in the @ss..

sometimes when i save the dve and load it again, lots of clips just go white showing blank .. but if i drop the rendered clip in timeline and use history and open dve, its all there... back to dve button and load the same setup, clips are missing... been giving me hard time during last mt changes...

[BKM]

And also...

when smoke cant find the clips in the library, the layer names space in the dve is blank ... How can I replace old layers by the new ones if I dont know wich one is wich ??

I save myself by naming the clips according to the layer... real pain in the @ss..

sometimes when i save the dve and load it again, lots of clips just go white showing blank .. but if i drop the rendered clip in timeline and use history and open dve, its all there... back to dve button and load the same setup, clips are missing... been giving me hard time during last mt changes...

Are these clips WIRED at all? I find that you can wire a clip with history and you can edit that history on the second machine but the actual clips are hidden... buried in history but not in the library.

BKM