Solid color fade up fade down on a RGB channel

[Paul Roberson]

What is the easiest way to do a 100% red fade up-on-fade down across several RGB channels?

I can do it fairly easy on one RGB channel by expanding it then doing the fade up-on-fade down on the red channel, but not very efficient for several RGB channels.

Any ideas? What am I missing?

[cenote]

Use the color fade tool on the first RGB channel, than select that from Recent Tools menu, and just keep clicking on the RGB cell you want.

Is that what you are asking?

[Paul Roberson]

The color fade tool does not allow a fade up from 0 to 100% of the same color. Using the color fade tool starting with red and ending in red gets you a 100% "on" red.

[Don]

Set the Color Fade Tool Black -> Red and apply your "fade up across the RGB area."
Set the Color Fade Tool Red -> Red and apply your "on" acacross the RGB area.
Set the Color Fade Tool Red -> Black and apply your "fade down" acacross the RGB area.

That would give you Off -> Fade up in Red -> Solid Red -> Fade down in red to nothing.

[Paul Roberson]

Thanks Don,

That will work. Did not think of 'black' as off.

[bob]

A couple other options:

(1) Click on the "Chase" tool. Select the entire area with the effects you want duplicated, and no more, in the first channel, and select down through all the channels you want it copied to.

Since you're telling it to chase the entire thing, and telling it to chase it through its own time range and no more, it will "chase" straight down. That is, it won't be offset by some amount of time with every passing channel; it will just be as if you had copied it and then pasted straight below it.

(2) Select the area with the effects you want duplicated. Right-click on its top left corner. Select "Paste Multiple". Tell it to paste horizontally once, and vertically ten times (or whatever).