Animatic with video layer

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brucealcock
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Animatic with video layer

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I'm making an animatic for animation to go on top of live action. I need to add a video layer as background, just the same as if I were to work with a sound track (except it's video). Possible? Please help!
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Hello, videos are imported from the Open/Import option in the File menu.
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Yes, clearly videos are imported that way. My question is different: I am looking to add a video layer below the storyboard drawings while I time them to make an animatic. I see no way to do this in the interface: the only visible option is to add a soundtrack. Since the soundtrack timing is independent of the storyboard frame timing, I am hoping that I can import a video that behaves the same as the soundtrack (continuous, independent timing) WITHIN an animatic. Possible?
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Not now, but this seems to be an interesting feature request. "Link reference video" would be a good term.
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For sure! Please let me know when it happens.
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Yes this would be a really useful feature. It would make project files smaller and more manageable, I assume.
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It's possible to imported images with file link instead of include project,
but it's inconvenient that the length of the movie file import works lightly in TVPaint is actually about a few seconds.
I think it would be convenient if there was a video layer that could specify In / Out and was read-only and operated lightly like the guideline.
(I can't guess if that's easily possible)
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