Preview question

[Santacarl]

Hey All,


Not sure if this is exactly the correct thread to ask about preview setup but I'll give it a shot...

I have 4 arches that I created in preview....when I set them up I created them as a group of 4. 

I would like to be able to place effects on individual arches in addition to the group.

I went back and created individual arches using the same channel numbers as those used in the arches group.  I moved these up to the top of the display and out of the way....

When I play a sequence back the individual arches show a few pixels lighting up even when no effects are placed on any arches.  The group arches show no lighting up of pixels.


So my question is.....by defining the individual arches am I breaking some sort of protocol to cause the random pixel firings.  Is there a better way to accomplish the ability to control individual arches that were initally created as a group?

Thanks for any thoughts.....

[Gilrock]

No creating an overlapping model should work fine if you got the channel mapping correct.

When you say you created them as a group of 4 I'm not sure what that means.  Did you create 1 arch model and tell it there were 4 arches or did you create 4 arches and an arch group that contains the 4?

[Santacarl]

When you say you created them as a group of 4 I'm not sure what that means.  Did you create 1 arch model and tell it there were 4 arches or did you create 4 arches and an arch group that contains the 4?

Thanks for the response Gil....

I created 1 arch model and told it there were 4 arches.

So, I went back and deleted the individual arches in preview..... saved exited the program.....started back up and created the individuals again.

This time it seems to be working fine...... I must have not been holding my mouth right the first time...

Thanks for confirming that I was on solid ground....