How do I set up Follow Actions A then B no chance?

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:15 am

How do I get follow actions to always do A and then B? In this case I want the clip, and actually all the clips in a scene, Follow Action A to play again and then I want them to go straight to B - NEXT. I set up the chance percentages in different ways from 1 -999, but I don't want CHANCE because I want it to occur every time i this manner. But the performance aways varies.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:20 am

page 144 of the manual

The Chance A and Chance B controls set the likelihood of each of the two
Follow Actions occurring. If a clip has Chance A set to 1 and Chance B set to
0, Follow Action A will occur every time the clip is launched. As we can see
from this example, a Chance setting of 0 means that an action will never happen.
Changing Chance B to 10 in this scenario makes Follow Action A occur much
less often - approximately once out of every ten clip launches.

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:58 am

Yeah thanks. I know that. I need to make it so it's 100% "likely" every time. So A occurs and then B occurs with no possibility of chance. So if I have it on A 999 then it won't go to B. If I put them both on the same number it's a crap shoot.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:17 am

you could set that up as a loop in arrangement view, render/join it and have it all as a single clip couldn't you?

edit - it's a bit more work if you've got a bunch of scenes to do it to i guess, but doable....

you could set up something similar using follow actions with a duplicate of the first clip and using a single follow action (eg ClipA>ClipB>ClipA>ClipC>back to first clip...)

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:24 am

yeah, i think to do this you'd have two copies of clip a followed by clip b, each with follow actions to the next

Henry Robinett · Post by **Henry Robinett** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:39 am

Thanks. Well there's nothing like trying to do something that it's not designed to do. Just wanted to know whether it could. So I can do it another way.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:54 am

I don't get what you mean, you want A A B from two scenes? As in verse verse chorus?

Make 2 copies of A and have them play sequentially, A (original), A (copy) B. Maybe I still don't get what you're saying.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:59 am

I got it...

Under where it says "Follow Action" set that length to twice the loop length of A.

I've never actually used that feature before, verry cool.