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A Loop event is always a parent event with a
single child. The child itself can be a parent with
children. Any type of event can be the child of a
Loop event, including another Loop event.
TheLoopevent’srangebardisplaystheoriginal
duration of the child event ’s playback in color
andtherangeofloopedeventsingray.Youcan
change the duration of the child event’s playback
by dragging the child’s fr ame range or the child’s
original range in the Loop event’s t r ack, but you
can adjust the full leng th of the lo op (the gray part
of the range bar) only by changing the Number of
Times par ameter in the Edit Loop Event dialog.
Inter face
Order group
Label—Lets you edit the event name.
Loop—Repeats the child event by starting it over
when the child event reaches the end of its range.
This is the default.
Ping Pong—Repeats the child event by playing it
first forward, then backward, then for ward, and
so on. The last frame of the child event is not
repeated.
Number of Times group
Specifies the number of times to repeat the loop
or ping pong, in addition to the first time that the
child event is play ed.
Video Post Parameters group
V P S tart Time/End Time—Sets the starting and
ending frames for the selected event within the
overal l Video Po st queue. Video Post renders the
event over the number of frames specified here.
Enabled—Enables or disables the event. When
this box is clear, the event is d isabled and Video
Post ignores it when rendering the queue. Each
event must be disabled individually. For example,
disabling a composite layer event does not disable
the composited image events. The range bars of
disabled events are unavailable in the event track
area.
Editing Filter Events
Edit Contrast Filter
Rendering menu > Video Post > Video Post window
> Select a Contrast Filter. > Video Post toolbar > Edit
Current Event > Setup
Allows you to adjust the cont rast and brig htness
of an image.