Brand new to Scratch, so many questions right off the bat =D

[Rinaldi Ambiroa]

Brand new to the forum and to Scratch. On the free trial and started with that Introduction tutorial series by Kevin. My main tool is Resolve, so the UI is a bit of a challenge, a nice one though, but somehow I keep feeling that I'm missing half of it, but not sure which half 😉

Anyway, the questions so far:

1. According to my hotkeys, when I'm in the Edit and Color tabs, hitting the Home key or clicking on the actual button, will show my footage as a fit in the available space. Mine however will go full black. Is this a bug? The other buttons work as advertised though, so 1:1 will show me the footage in source res, etc.

2. None of my different footages are grainy or super contrasted, yet regardless of what footage I import, it shows it grainy/jagged. Or maybe a better description would be lowres? I have no clue how to describe it, as in Resolve the default quality is 100% and it looks smooth/great. Where can I change the quality of how the footage is displayed? Or is there something else?

3. In the color tab, is there a way to play the clip and have it looped?

Let's start with these three haha, I'm sure I have many more along the way. Cheers all.

 

[Mazze]

Hi Rinaldi,

on 1)
Not sure - it seems to work fine here. What resolution is your footage, what resolution is your timeline / main output node and which other tools (like e.g. scopes) do you have opened, if any?

on 2)
Note that the scaling in the viewport is not a high quality algorithm. Check the footage on a reference screen or display it 1:1 to judge edges and such. SCRATCH does not make things look nice without being asked - it rather shows what's actually there.

on 3)
To the left of the playback controls is a button to set playback to once/loop/bounce.
Shift + Enter does that as well. Control-clicking that button (or using Ctrl + up/down arrow keys) changes playback speed.
Hit "R" (or the Range button to the right of the playback controls) to set the playback range to the current clip.

 

Cheers,
Mazze