Ivan187 Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) From my point of view, the Waves video effect could really have some improvements, and it's been like this ever since I started using VideoPad on early 2014. How about making the waves vertical, how wide and dense (dense as in adding 2+ wave effects) should they be, and how fast should they move without changing clip speed? Surprisingly, no one has talked about this before. Edited October 17, 2015 by Ivan187 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Thanks for the suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianswilson Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I've tried using the wave effect on a text overlay and it definitely works, but the waves seem to reverse direction half way through the clip. I can't figure out how to control the wave direction. At first I thought it might be related to the speed going from positive to negative, but that doesn't seem to be the case. No matter what I do the wave effect seems to reverse direction. Does anyone know where I might find a tutorial or something that would explain how to use this effect successfully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalsolo Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Hi Just try various values for the horizontal wave. As an experiment use a centred line of alphabet size 18 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijkl This shouls just span the screen H Waves is the number of waves horizontally from 1-10 H Amplitude is obviously amplitude from 0 - 20. First set the V sliders to the left. If you try a setting of 10 waves at amplitude 10 and speed of 0 you will see that the line of text becomes a standing wave apparently not moving left or right. The speed setting governs the apparent wave direction. Negative values show a wave movement to the right Value of 0 No wave movement...Standing wave related to the number and amplitude settings. Positive values show a wave movement to the left. The speed of the wave being related to the degree of negativity or positivity. The same applies to the v values but a mixture can produce quite complicated movement effects. Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianswilson Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Thanks Nat. I tried restarting the effect and doing only a few manipulations at a time. I figured out the apparent visual wave direction reversal was related to the speed setting, but didn't understand why until after I had supper (probably a brain/blood sugar issue). Once I sat down and realized this was similar to what I see on an oscilloscope, and that changing the time domain would change the apparent direction of wave progression. I logged in and saw your excellent response and wanted to say thank you. Clearly picking the speed settings and wave count carefully can minimize this apparent visual anomaly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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