When you extract a soft effect, segments or other soft effects may also get extracted so that vertical editing from the timeline is maintained. Some of these scenarios are illustrated in the following examples.
If a clip contains only one segment and it is not part of a vertical edit, only the soft effect is extracted. Its corresponding node is automatically connected to the original clip.
Example 1: Extracting a Text soft effect from a segment not part of a vertical edit:
In the following example, the selected segment is not part of a vertical edit. The segment has a Text soft effect.
(a) Text soft effect indicator
The segment you selected is loaded as a clip in a Batch setup. All applied soft effects are brought in with the clip.
The Text soft effect is converted to a Text node. The node is automatically connected to the clip brought into the BFX setup.
If you enter a BFX level with all segments that make up the vertical edit and then extract soft effects, the corresponding segment becomes a new clip and is automatically connected to the extracted soft effects.
Only the selected soft effects get extracted if there are no other soft effects affecting the vertical edit.
Example 2: Extracting soft effects on segments that make up a complete vertical edit:
In the following example, the front layer on the timeline is keyed over a background layer with an Axis soft effect. The front layer also has a Text soft effect.
(a) Axis and Text soft effect indicators
Both segments are loaded in a Batch setup as a single clip with their soft effects.
The imported timeline layers and their soft effects are preserved.
The extracted soft effects are converted to nodes and their corresponding segment becomes a new clip. The nodes are connected together in the order of the soft effects pipeline.
If you extract a soft effect from a segment that is part of a vertical edit, everything above the extracted soft effect is also extracted so as to preserve the same visual result. In this workflow, you enter a BFX level with all segments that make up the vertical edit.
Example 3: Extracting soft effects on segments that are part of a vertical edit:
The segments you selected are loaded as a clip in a Batch setup. All applied soft effects are brought in with the clip.
All applied soft effects are preserved on the imported segments.
(a) Clip layers and soft effects