crossfade A/B as two separate "stacks"

[twitchdoktor]

I am hoping that the processing order of the crossfader can be moved to after the processing of the blend modes of each layer respective of A/B assignment. In essence what I want is for the crossfader to treat A and B as two separate stacks of Avenue output. For example: "A" and "B" could each include a layer of video with blend mode "Add" and a black and white layer with blend mode "50 mask", all at 100%;the black and white layer of B being an inverted duplicate of the other black and white. Each of these (A and B) would be processed separately before being sent to the crossfader, as if the crossfader was a hardware solution between two separate machines running Avenue, one with the total output of "A" and the other with the total output of "B". (Whew! anyone else dizzy?) As it is now, this only achieves crossfading the total opacity across these four layers as one unified output, which if you try using the above example looks quite messy and washed out, and as a result I don't find the crossfader very useful at all; this suggestion would make it a very powerful and useful item!

Final thought: could the crossfader be assigned different blend modes as layers are?

[bart]

Final thought: could the crossfader be assigned different blend modes as layers are?

If the crossfader would work as two separate "stacks" as you describe then yes, but we have no immediate plans to change the crossfader's behavior at the moment.