Ignore Column Trigger

[James927]

New guy question that reading and re-reading manual as well as forum search hasn't answered for me.

I have a very basic setup of one looping video clip by itself on layer 3 in one column as a background I want to play continuously.
On other columns in layer one 1 have titles (with alpha) I want to select (one at a time) to play over the looping video. Nothing else is in the columns that have titles.

I start the looping video and then right click and select 'ignore Column Trigger' - all good.

But when I click on another column the looping video clip stops being output and only the title plays.

It seems like this is what ignore column trigger is made for. Am I misunderstanding the manual?

Thanks for your advice and I hope this is just a case of a new guy missing something simple and obvious.
I'm on a windows 7 PC.

BTW, I'm really amazed by this software.

James

[Oaktown]

If you set a background clip to keep playing on a loop & ignore column trigger and play something on top of it that is not set to be transparent then the clip will keep on playing but you won't see it.

Can you give us the order of your layers including blend mode and % opacity?

[James927]

Thanks for taking the time to answer me.

Background clip on layer 3 in it's own column. 100% opacity.
Title clips on layer 1 each on a different column. Straight (unmatted) alpha 100% opacity.

When I have the title clip in the same column as the BG clip both show fine. But I need to play different titles so I've placed the alpha titles on layer 1 of separate columns with the intention of clicking on each title's column trigger when I want it to play over the background (with BG clip set to Ignore Column Trigger) that is in it's own column on layer 3.

Thanks again for any help!
James

[Joris]

The background clip in layer 3 is ignoring the column trigger just fine. When you trigger its column ( column 1 ), the clip ignores this like you told it to and keeps on playing like nothing happened. If you hadn't told it to ignore the column trigger, it would have restarted.

Buuuuuuut, you haven't told the other (empty) clips in layer 3 to ignore their column triggers. So when you trigger their respective columns, they will start playing in layer 3 and replace your background clip. If they are empty, they will just eject the background clip.

What you want, is for the entire *layer* to ignore all column triggers. Right click on layer 3 and you will find the option there as well.

The difference is subtle, but substantial

[James927]

Ahhh I see, thanks for helping me to understand.

Makes total sense (after you spelled it out for me!).

Thanks so much,
James