Overlay Preview Issue

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Hi,

I’m having an issue were my overlays won’t show up in the preview.

Here is my script. I tried adding the zone 1 and a few ‘‘pause for a beat’’, I don’t know. I’m trying anything here.

EXT. TRAILER PARK CLOSE UP FLIPPED - DAY with OVERLAY NAME 1 with OVERLAY NAME 2
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 1 shifts to -110 -307 in zone 1
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 1 scales to 1.000 1. in zone 1
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 1 opacity 0
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 2 shifts to -110 -334 in zone 1
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 2 scales to 1.000 1.000 in zone 1
&overlay OVERLAY NAME 2 opacity 0
&CHARACTER spot 0.794 -97 242 in zone 1 AND CHARACTER faces right
@transition fade in 3
&overlay &overlay OVERLAY NAME 1 1 in 2
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
&overlay &overlay OVERLAY NAME 2 opacity 1 in 2
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
&overlay &overlay OVERLAY NAME 1 opacity 0 in 1
@pause for a beat
&overlay &overlay OVERLAY NAME 2 0 in 1
@pause for a beat

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Confusion with “&overlay &overlay” buddy. I think thats the problem that u used the & again.

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Actually, it isn’t.

I changed that in the hope to make it more clear, but I guess I accidentally mucked that up and it didn’t work.

The real script.

EXT. TRAILER PARK CLOSE UP FLIPPED - DAY with DYERSVILLE IA with 3 YEARS AGO
&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA shifts to -110 -307 in zone 1
&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA scales to 1.000 1. in zone 1
&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA opacity 0
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO shifts to -110 -334 in zone 1
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO scales to 1.000 1.000 in zone 1
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO opacity 0
&KADY spot 0.794 -97 242 in zone 1 AND KADY faces right
@transition fade in 3
&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA 1 in 2
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO opacity 1 in 2
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA opacity 0 in 1
@pause for a beat
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO 0 in 1
@pause for a beat

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Or it might be that your own overlay glitches sometimes in the previewer I went back and tested for myself once, if you have a phone download the episode app and preview it on there. If it shows there then your good.

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You need to write opacity for it to show

&overlay 4777159825948672_DYERSVILLE IA opacity 1 in 2
&overlay 4777159825948672_3 YEARS AGO opacity 0 in 1

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or that works

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