Fade In and Out Issues

[CameronYeary]

I am using Smode Station to try and create some Cues that will allow me to jump around my comps in random order. What I find that is if I drag a comp/scenes into the Main Cue list and assign a Fadeout Render animation that animation runs not matter what the current state of that comp is. So if the current state is faded to 0 and I hit the cue that fades it to zero again it pops up to full first and then fades down.

What I desire is a way to only effect comps/scenes that have full intensity. Is there a way to do this? Would my only work around be that I need to deactivate or Unload a comp/scene?

[francis]

Hello Cameron,

There are different possible approaches:
- either keep using the cuelist and use the "launch with intensity" launch mode inside your target cues. Note: the launch with intensity will start playing the animation as soon as the opacity is strictly > 0%.
- or, put everything in a main timeline and separate all pieces with pausing time markers. You can then trig the "Goto Marker" triggers in order to switch to another piece

Note: a Fade cue indeed only impacts the opacity of the compo/scene. Instead of this you can also use "Footage Cues" that act consistently on loading, opacity and transport. (Drag and drop a compo/Scene in the cuelist and select for example "Play Once").

Best,

Francis.