garageCube

Can I apply the "trace" effect to the video input signal? I want to create motion trails of lights/fire waiving....The "trace" is perfect, but I cannot seem to get it to apply to th elive video feed from mu usb camera.

Can you help me?

Thanks

Matt CRawford

. if you mean the 'global trace' (the knob is in the bottom right of the main window') then yes you can.

. if you have trace on and aren't seeing anything, you probably need to turn on 'luma key' so everything 'black' is transparent, and you should see your traces then.

. good luck!

Thanks for your reply. I have trace functioning for the pre-built media that came with the DEMO i am using...I can load the pre-packaged videos and images and get trace to work, but I still cannot get the same effect with the live video input OR with Jpegs I load myself....

If I adjust the Alpha channel it helps a bit, but still no where near what trace should do at 100%

I am trying to get a person to draw in the air and have the hdv camera get it and apply trace in real time so we can then see the pic that was drawn...

But I just cannot figure out how to do this in Modul8...?

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Matt

I just tried loading a jpeg and Trace would not work on it even though it is working with the pre-packed media.....?

I just tested this out in the demo version. It is working and it definitely works in the full version.

Are you dragging the layer around? You understand that the trace function does not work within the area of the media itself only on the edges of it?