Premiere Elements 9 Videomerge No "Invert Selection" Option

Robert J Johnston

Thank you for your reply. But, I am not sure if you misintrepreted what I have written or if I am missing something in your reply or if both.

There is no "Invert Selection" option in the Videomerge Panel properties in the Premiere Elements 9 Properties Palette for a clip to which has been applied the Videomerge effect. Based on versions 7 and 8 Videomerge which do have this option in that location and the version 9 situation, that is the ONLY place where you can actually Invert Selection. Yes, like 7 and 8, in 9 you can right click the clip on the Timeline, select Show Clip Keyframes/Videomerge/Invert Selection, but all that is going to do is show the keyframes IF you keyframe the Invert Selection option which you can only be activated in the Videomerge Panel of the Properties Panel if it is there.

So, it would appear to me that, when "Invert Selection" disappeared in Premiere Elements 9 from the Properties Palette/Videomerge Panel, someone forgot to remove the then useless Show Clip Keyframes/Videomerge/Invert Selection (from right clicking the clip on the Timeline).

I have admired your work for a long time. You have been an innovator in the Premiere Elements community. So, I apologize if I have missed what you have been saying works in this situation.

Looking forward to further details on how you achieved an Invert Selection for the Videomerge effect in Premiere Elements 9.

Thank you.

ATR

Robert J Johnston

I was and am fully aware of keyframing/keyframing effects et al, Show Clip Keyframes and track content yellow line and typically all that goes with that. What I was unfamiliar with was your term "envelope" that you used to describe a Premiere Elements track  feature that I had seen previously here and elsewhere for Premiere Elements only as yellow band, yellow rubberband, Opacity yellow band (for video track), or Volume yellow band (for audio track).

Your last response motivated me to look deeper into what you could be referring to as envelope and therein evolved the amazing situation to which you referred. Typically if you click drag that Opacity "yellow band" to different positions, you can adjust the Opacity of the highlighted video clip between 0 to 100% to see the value at the track level as well as in Properties Panel/Opacity Panel, That is the case even after you have applied the Videomerge effect to that clip without going near the Show Clip Keyframes/Videomerge/Invert Selection. But once you do select Invert Selection via Show Clip Keyframes/Video Merge, then, when you move the Opacity "yellow band", that Opacity "yellow band" targets at its lowest level "Invert Selection" OFF and the upper level "Invert Selection ON. Now the "Opacity" adjust (classic role of the yellow band of video track) is not doable at the track level or is it reflected in any changes in Propertes Palette/Opacity Panel for this highlighted clip.

Exploration and experimentation follows after you discover this unexpected and previously undocumented situation. And, for me, there are a lot of what if I do this or that to look into here,

I need to do the exploration and experimentation. I think I got your message fully now. If I have further misinterpreted it, please let me know.

Many thanks for posting this interesting information.

ATR